Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has attended the opening of a Samsung mobile phone factory in Yen Phong industrial park in the northern province of Bac Ninh.
At the opening ceremony on October 28, the PM praised the Samsung electronics company and the province of Bac Ninh for working together to put a mobile phone factory into operation. He expressed his belief that the factory will contribute to the socioeconomic development of Bac Ninh in particular and the country in general.
Mr. Dung said the government will create good conditions for the company in their business operations in Vietnam. He also asked the company to increase the proportion of local content in their products as they had previously committed.
The mobile factory in Yen Phong is one of Samsung’s seven most modern factories in the world with a capacity to produce 1.5 million products per month. There are now 2.500 employees working at the factory.
It plans to raise its monthly capacity to six million products by 2010 and to nine million by 2011, creating 8,000 – 12,000 jobs for local people.
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