Hai Phong city is continuing to push administrative reform and improve its business environment, aiming to retain its No. 1 position in the 2025 Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) rankings.
Trusted destination
Hai Phong rose to the top of the PCI rankings for the first time in 2024 with 74.84 points. The merger of Hai Phong city and Hai Duong province will further optimize the administrative reform task, enhance the investment and business environment, and improve competitiveness in the coming time. This serves as a “springboard” for the new Hai Phong city to maintain its leading PCI position in 2025.
At the 2025 Hai Phong Investment Promotion Conference, many businesses highly praised the city’s investment and business climate and its companionship and support for enterprises. This is evident as numerous large companies and corporations continue to choose Hai Phong as their destination or expand investment.
For instance, USI Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Deep C industrial park completed and put into operation workshop B of phase 2 in June 2025. The company is now rushing to install two production lines in the new facility to be ready for the peak production season at the end of the year.
“With the expansion of workshop B, we believe we can meet our 2025 targets. Our company has 2,000 employees and plans to hire an additional 500 by year-end,” said Liu Hui Min, General Director of USI Vietnam.
At the same conference, Choi In Kwan, General Director of LG Display Vietnam Hai Phong Co., Ltd., stated: “Since deciding to invest in Trang Due industrial park, LG has received tremendous support from Hai Phong’s leadership. The city offers many advantages in transportation, location, and connectivity. In addition, Hai Phong has an abundant, high-quality labor force. I highly appreciate the city leadership’s openness and dedication, and I believe Hai Phong will continue to grow strongly in the future.”
Further improving the business environment
Thanks to efforts to reform administrative procedures and enhance competitiveness, Hai Phong has maintained double-digit GRDP growth for 10 consecutive years. Following the merger, the new Hai Phong has become Vietnam’s third-largest economy, with major strengths in seaports, industrial parks, and economic zones.
To further improve public service quality, particularly in administrative reform and improvement of the business and investment environment, and to keep its top PCI ranking in 2025, the city plans to accelerate digital government development while ensuring the administrative system’s restructuring after the provincial-level merger does not disrupt public services.
Hai Phong will continue to innovate governance, improve management quality, build a digital government, and enhance PCI indicators.
It will also provide maximum support for investors through concrete mechanisms and policies in its industrial parks, economic zones, and free trade zone, striving to retain its PCI leadership in 2025.
Recently, the municipal People’s Committee has issued a directive requiring all departments and agencies to cut at least 50% of the processing time for administrative procedures related to business operations and public services at both city and commune levels.
Secretary of the city Party Committee Le Tien Chau affirmed: “In the coming period, the city will continue to advance administrative reform plans, strictly implement task assignments tied to individual accountability under the principle of ‘clear people, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear responsibilities, clear outputs, and clear authority.’ The city government will regularly hold dialogues with domestic and foreign business communities to listen, address challenges, and actively support enterprises in digital transformation.”
AN PHUC