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DONG NAI (Biz Hub) — The southern province of Dong Nai is looking to attract US$2.4 billion in manufacturing engineering investments by 2025, the provincial Department of Industry and Trade stated.

According to the director of the department, Le Van Danh, under a recently-adopted development master plan for the sector until 2020, and continuing with a vision to 2025, Dong Nai will prioritise highly-competitive industries, such as electrical appliances, boilers and farming machinery.

Simultaneously, it will also ramp up its ancillary industries to increase the local content of domestically-made machines and equipment.

The mechanical engineering sector in Dong Nai has so far attracted 319 investment projects, in which 270 projects worth over $3.2 billion, saw investments by foreign companies, accounting for 22.2 per cent of the flow of total foreign direct investments into the province.

Meanwhile, domestic enterprises poured more than VND5.6 trillion ($266 million) into 49 projects, which was more than investments in other sectors. — VNS