On January 19, 2024, with the aim of creating favorable conditions for attracting the semiconductor industry, Long An province solemnly organized a working program with a delegation of US and Taiwanese enterprises under the Green Alliance SAIGONTEL. The theme of the program was 'Collaboration to Enhance Long An's Position in Green Growth and Global Semiconductor Supply Chain.' The objective was to call for resources to support the local area in promoting investment attraction in the high-tech sector and developing the semiconductor industry ecosystem, as well as preparing infrastructure to welcome investors in this field.

The People's Committee of Long An Province and SAIGONTEL signed a memorandum of understanding to promote and invite investment projects in the province's green growth sector.

Participating in the program, representing Long An Province were Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Nguyen Van Ut - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Huynh Van Son - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, along with departments and local authorities. On the participant's side, with the support and connection of Saigontel, the program attracted the attention of representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam, Consulting Companies, Investment Funds, and Enterprises in the field of clean energy infrastructure and semiconductor workforce development from the United States, Taiwan, and Korea.

At the working session, on behalf of the province, the Deputy Director of the Department of Planning and Investment of Long An introduced the orientation of attracting local support resources in the green growth sector, especially in high-tech investment, particularly semiconductor technology. Currently, Long An's economic scale ranks 13th in the country and leads the Mekong Delta region. Looking towards 2030, Long An province continues to vigorously develop infrastructure, including transportation and clean energy infrastructure. Identifying potential projects that can generate carbon credit funds, with a strong emphasis on training and developing a high-quality workforce, aiming for green growth, innovation, and establishing green industrial parks with a goal of 'Zero' Carbon by 2050, following the Government's roadmap.

At the program, the investor group from the SAIGONTEL Green Growth Alliance also provided advice and proposed solutions to help the locality establish a carbon reduction roadmap in the province, as well as methods to attract green credit capital. They discussed practical solutions for the development of clean energy in local industrial parks, addressing the carbon tax in the import and export of goods to the US and Europe markets. The investors emphasized the importance of building a semiconductor microchip ecosystem, training and developing human resources. Additionally, they suggested piloting a specialized industrial park model for high-tech and semiconductor industries.

Representatives of the investors

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council - Nguyen Van Duoc expresses the desire for supporting units to assist the locality in conducting statistics, inventory, and planning the development of clean energy, carbon targets that the province may have, and a mechanism for offsetting carbon credits to attract investment from high-tech businesses in a reasonable and effective manner. In addition, the shortage of skilled labor in the high-tech field is one of the barriers that the locality needs the active cooperation of partners to balance the resources.

Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council had a speech

In the concluding remarks at the working session, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen Van Ut affirmed that Long An with the spirit of integration, development, and towards sustainable growth goals is always committed to accompanying and supporting units in the process of coordinating the implementation of the above-mentioned project.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen Van had a speech

Representatives of the U.S. Departments expressed their commitment to actively support Long An in building a roadmap for emission reduction and energy planning in industrial parks. They also pledged to promote technology transfer and be ready to attract green credits to help the locality quickly realize its goals. Regarding Taiwanese partners, they proposed promoting the development of human resources through short and long-term training programs for the province's workforce in the semiconductor industry. In the long term, the parties will move towards proposing investment in the Vietnam-Taiwan-USA industrial park to pilot the model.

At the conclusion of the program, the parties reached an agreement and signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the discussed collaboration points.

The Department of Labor, war Invalids, and Social Affairs and Saigontel

have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the support for workforce training.

Investment Promotion Department.