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Ho Chi Minh City is intensifying its efforts to deepen its integration into global supply chains, aiming to attract investment and elevate Vietnamese businesses to higher-value segments of international networks. At the Vietnam-China seminar during the Autumn Economic Forum 2026, titled "Connecting Manufacturing, Logistics, and Global Value Chains," the city highlighted potential for growth in industry, seaports, and technology transfer.

Acting Chairman Yang Wen Bin of the Chinese Business Association in Vietnam noted that bilateral trade turnover had reached US$253.1 billion in the first nine months of 2026, underscoring the economic synergy between the two nations.

Yang emphasized the need for businesses to move from scale expansion to enhancing quality, efficiency, and added value, while promoting digitalization, improved customs processes, and reducing logistics costs. Ho Chi Minh City's strategic advantages, following the merger of financial and commercial centers with industrial parks and deep-water seaports, create a favorable environment for forming robust value chains and expanding production networks.

Acting Consul General Tu Zhou of China stressed the shift from goods trade to supply chain coordination, technology exchange, and knowledge sharing. He pointed to opportunities in smart manufacturing, process management, quality control, and workforce training, as well as in multimodal transportation, smart border gates, cold storage systems, and cross-border finance to mitigate transportation bottlenecks and enhance market connectivity.

For technology absorption, Director Le Truong Duy of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution stressed the importance of aligning technology transfer with enterprises' capacity to adopt and operate new technologies, prioritizing artificial intelligence, automation, smart logistics, and green logistics. He advocated for strengthening cooperation among government agencies, businesses, research institutions, and universities, and identified coordinating bodies to transform cooperation opportunities into tangible projects.

Permanent Vice Chairman Nguyen Loc Ha of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee stressed the need for stronger production linkages, industry development support, enhanced supplier capabilities, and greater technology adoption to deepen Vietnamese businesses' participation in high-value-added global supply chains. He encouraged the city to leverage infrastructure development, smart logistics, green logistics, the Cai Mep-Thi Vai port complex, technology transfer, workforce training, and enhanced collaboration among businesses, research institutes, and universities.

Nguyen Loc Ha stressed that cooperation success should be measured by the creation of business opportunities, partnerships, and implementable initiatives.