In the first six months of 2025, Dong Nai’s economy expanded by 8.21%, much higher than the 6.8% growth rate seen during the same period in 2024.
With strong political determination and high consensus of the people and business community, Dong Nai is confident that it will achieve double-digit growth in all of 2025, contributing to the rapid and sustainable development of the southeastern region and the whole country.
Clearly defined responsibilities, visible products
All policies and measures taken by Dong Nai authorities since the start of the year are all oriented towards the overall goal of 10% economic growth.
The provincial government has constructed detailed growth scenarios, formulated an action plan, and assigned specific responsibilities for each sector. Along with establishing a steering committee for implementing tasks aimed at promoting economic growth, the province has also taken various breakthrough measures in order to create visible changes.
First of all, the province quickly reorganised and streamlined its apparatus, reducing the number of departments from 21 to 14 and downsizing the workforce by at least 20%.
This move, along with stepped-up efforts in administrative procedure reform aimed at creating an open, transparent and conducive environment for enterprises, are creating a dynamic apparatus serving common development.
The province placed a particular emphasis on mobilising all financial resources for development, especially measures to expand the tax base, prevent the loss of tax revenue, and facilitate land use conversion to increase revenue. As a result, Dong Nai’s state budget revenue in the first six months reached 36.6 trillion VND (1.4 billion USD), equivalent to 61% of the full-year target.
Determining 2025 as the year for investment in infrastructure to lay the strong foundation for double-digit growth, Dong Nai has focused on addressing bottlenecks in public investment disbursement and site clearance for key projects.
An outstanding example is that the province completed site clearance for the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Expressway in April following an unprecedented campaign. This spirit is continuing with the site clearance to repurpose the Bien Hoa I Industrial Park and build the Ma Da Bridge linking with Binh Phuoc Province.
As of June 18, the province had disbursed over 3.2 trillion VND (122.6 million USD) worth of public investment, equivalent to 19% of the yearly target. The total disbursed fund is expected to reach 5.8 trillion VND (222.3 million USD) at the end of June.
With a total allocated budget of nearly 16.6 trillion VND (636.1 million USD) for 2025, the province is working hard to become one of the ten provinces and centrally-governed cities with the fastest public investment disbursement rates.
Currently, contractors are working around the clock to accelerate key projects such as the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3; the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Expressway; and roads linking with Long Thanh International Airport, Cai Mep-Thi Vai Port, and industrial parks and urban areas.
Speaking at a recent meeting, Dong Nai Vice Chairman Ho Van Ha noted that those whose work are delayed are going against the province’s development.
All such efforts have resulted in the province’s economic growth of 8.21% in the first half of the year, of which agriculture increased by 3.55%, industry and construction grew by 8.97%, and services climbed 8.66%.
As of June 18, foreign direct investment in Dong Nai reached 1.349 billion USD, up 46% year on year.
Data as of May showed that Dong Nai’s export revenue in 2025 reached 10.8 billion USD, up 16.3%, while imports rose 14.2% to 7.5 billion USD, resulting in a trade surplus of 3.3 billion USD.
Proactive spirit, well-thought action
Achieving an economic growth rate of 10% following the merger of the two provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc into the new Dong Nai Province requires the entire political system, business community, and people to accelerate, innovate, and coordinate more effectively in the remainder of the year.
Recently Dong Nai established a socio-economic advisory group to promptly identify the bottlenecks that could affect the province’s economic growth and propose solutions to overcome the challenges.
According to Dong Nai Chairman Vo Tan Duc, with the motto of “forward only, no step back”, the provincial leaders have assigned the Department of Home Affairs to monitor and hold each individual and organisations accountable if there are delays.
Dong Nai will change its growth model, enhance productivity, promote green growth and digital transformation, and restructure the economy in the direction of increasing of the proportion of high-tech industries, high-quality services, and high-tech agriculture.
The province is aiming for breakthroughs in industrial growth, especially in manufacturing industries and power generation, while working to develop production linkage chains and economic clusters with competitive edge to increase domestic value and reduce reliance on assemble and raw exports.
Other measures to be taken will include strong devolution of construction management, promotion of consumption, export and tourism, as well as advancing scientific and technological breakthroughs and digital transformation.
The planning system will also be promptly finalised as an important basis for attract investment and organising development space effectively and sustainably.
Leaders of the current Dong Nai Province are joining hands to enhance the development space so as to maximise the advantages, potential, and prospects of the new Dong Nai Province, regarding it as a golden opportunity for this land to rise up and become one of the country’s leading economic, industrial, and logistic centres.
