Currently, the Mekong Delta city has 198 projects valued at nearly US$1.6 billion.

These projects operate in the fields of processing food, agriculture, forestry, seafood, footwear, fertilizers, chemicals, iron and steel and automobile assembly.

The city’s IZs have created jobs for 34,000 local labourers and earned US$380.7 million in revenue over the past four months, up 72.4 percent against the same period last year, export turnover rose by 63 percent to US$133.4 million.    

There is a plan afoot to expand four IZs near the Hau river to over 1,000 hectares to build two 320-hectare resettlement areas in O Mon district.