The
Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) this year will work to complete its
technical infrastructure and service system, targeting to attract more
investors, delegates told a seminar yesterday in HCM City.
Chu
Tien Dung, chairman of the QTSC Development Company, said "The park has
pledged to improve its management and services quality to make it more
professional and transparent," he said.
In
addition, it will support IT firms so they can expand their market,
including trade promotions in Myanmar and other countries, he added.
The
park also plans to work with localities like Lam Dong and Nam Dinh
provinces to help them develop the IT industry and establish more
software parks in the country, he said.
Speaking
at the seminar, Le Manh Ha, deputy chairman of the HCM City People's
Committee, said the software park had attracted substantial investments
from leading firms in the industry and become a model that could be
expanded elsewhere in the country.
Le
Quoc Cuong, deputy director of the City Department of Information and
Technology, said the park had spurred economic restructuring in the city
by promoting the role of the knowledge-based economy with high-quality
and added-value products and services.
Cuong
said his department would co-operate with the park to hold more
dialogues between IT firms and agencies to help businesses solve
operating difficulties.
At
the seminar, a representative of the Ministry of Information and
Technology discussed the Government's Decree No154/2013/ND-CP regulating
incentives for investment in centralised IT zones, which went into
effect in January. —VNS
The
centralised IT Zone focuses on research and development, training,
production and sales of IT products and services, providing IT services
to organisations, businesses, and other activities related to IT.
Under
the decree, organisations and enterprises in the centralised IT Zone
will receive preferential tax, investment credit and customs procedures.
"For
example, the new projects in the zone will enjoy corporate tax
exemption for four years and a 50 per cent deduction in payable tax over
the next nine years," said Nguyen Anh Tuan of the IT Department under
the Ministry of Information and Communication.
In addition, businesses will be exempt from import duties on goods used as fixed assets and for production activities.
According
to Lam Nguyen Hai Long, QTSC's deputy director, 108 companies are
located in the park. They are involved in software, IT services and
human resource training, including global IT giants like IBM and HP.
The
total revenue of IT companies in the park reached US$130 million last
year, a year-on-year increase of more than 20 per cent, with software
exports going up strongly last year to top $78 million, he said.
It had also created jobs for more than 17,000 workers and become the country's biggest software training centre, he said.
The seminar is part of a series of activities to mark the 13th anniversary of QTSC.
Currently,
besides QTSC, there are two other centralsied IT zones in Viet Nam -Da
Nang Software Park and Ha Noi's Cau Giay IT Park .
Source VietNamNews.vn