Lâm Đồng is a province in the South of Central highlands with the different altitude of 300-1.500m above sea level, average temperature from 18-25oC with total land area of 9,773.54 km2; Lâm Đồng borders Bình thuận province to the south – south east, Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận provinces to the east, Đắk Lăk - Đắk Nông provinces to the north, Đồng Nai - Bình Phước provinces to the west – south west.
Lâm Đồng has 12 administrative units including 2 cities, and 10 districts. Đà Lạt is the economic and administrative center of the province. The population of the province is over 1.3 million people with 43 ethnic groups living together. Lâm Đồng is located in the key economic southern region - a dynamic region with high economic growth and a market with great potential.
Convenient transportation system
Road traffic: Lâm Đồng has a developed transportation system including National roads 20, 27, 27C, 28, 55 linking Lâm Đồng with other cities such as Hồ Chí Minh city, Biên Hòa, Nha Trang, Gia Nghĩa, Phan Thiết, Buôn Ma Thuột, Phan Rang Tháp Chàm, Cam Ranh and port clusters like Thị Vải, Cái Mép, Cam Ranh,Vĩnh Tân (Bình Thuận). Provincial roads 721, 722, 723, 724, 725 connect Lâm Đồng with the South Central, Southeast and Central Highlands provinces.
Air trafic: There is Liên Khương international airport, 30 km from Đà Lạt city to the south with daily domestic flights to Hà Nội capital, Hải Phòng,Vinh, Đà Nẵng, Hồ Chí Minh city,Cần Thơ, Phú Quốc; Thanh Hóa, Thừa thiên Huế and vice versa. Additionally, there are international flights to Wuhan - China; Bangkok - Thailand; Seoul - Korea; Kuala Lampur - Malaysia and vice versa.
DEFINITELY, LAM DONG IS THE LEADING PROVINCE IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS REGION WITH LEADING-EDGE ECONOMIC SECTIONS (TV announcer reads)
Potential for tourism development
Đà Lạt city is known as the Flower Festival city, for it has lots of diverse and rich varieties of indigenous and exotic flowers blooming all year round; particularly, the apricot-like blossoms bloom in the spring, creating a unique character for the city of flowers. Over 22,000 hectares of pine forests, dozens of waterfalls, large lakes with beautiful landscapes that are recognized as national landscapes, thousands of famous old palaces and mansions together with traditional flower villages have formed 35 tourist destinations, 60 free tourist attractions, 3 golf courses and Tuyền Lâm Lake National Tourist Area of over 3,000 ha.
Lâm Đồng has got over 2,500 accommodation establishments with more than 29,400 rooms, of which 40 high –class3-5 star hotels of over 3,900 rooms. There are 51 enterprises operating in travel-transportation, of which are 32 international travel enterprises, 19 domestic travel enterprises. In 2020 Lâm Đồng received 4 million tourist arrivals, in which international tourists account for 110,000 and transients reached 3.65 million.
Apart from this, the Central highlands gongs, Nguyen Dynesty woodwords, Langbiang world biosphere reserve and other traditional cultural activities of the ethnic minorities have created many unique tourism products.
Under the guidance of the Provincial Party Committee and the drastic and effective management of the Provincial People's Committee over the past time, along with the improvement of the facilities and types of services, many types of tourism in the province have been built and developed such as: agriculture tourism, adventure tourism, ecotourism, discovery tourism, educational tourism work as the new winds that have created potentials and opportunities to attract a large number of tourists coming to Đà Lạt - Lâm Đồng every year
Education & training: Lâm Đồng has 3 universities, 6 colleges, 5 middle schools and over 60 vocational establishments together with 3 research institutes: Biological research institute, Pasteur institute and the nuclear research institute which, besides training and research function, have contributed in the diversification of Lâm Đồng tourism.
Potential of agro-forestry development
Currently, Lâm Đồng is evaluated as the leading locality in the country in terms of hi-tech application areas and has become a "bright spot" for high-tech agricultural production of the country with an area of over 60,200 ha, accounting for 20 % of cultivated land. Together with high-tech agricultural models grown in greenhouses, net houses, with intelligent automatic irrigation systems, hydroponic farming methods and many new pre-eminent crop varieties, agro-forestry products together with the brand "Da Lat –a miracle from the good land" have gone further in the domestic and foreign markets.
The total cultivated area for the whole year 2020 has reached over 386,000 ha. The area specializing in vegetable cultivation is over 70,000 ha, with an output of 2.57 million tons; The area specializing in flower cultivation is over 9,300 ha, the output is over 3.65 billion cut flowers; Tea area is over 12,000 ha, with output over 174,000 tons. The coffee growing area is over 174,000 ha, the output is over 516,000 tons / year, of which over 17,000 hectares produce Arabica coffee, with output more than 50,000 tons and is put into worldwide distribution system of US Starbucks Corporation. ..
As for forestry, Lâm Đồng has more than 597,000 ha of biodiversity forests, forming Bidoup Nui Ba National Park of over 700 km2 and Cat Tien National Park, nearly 273 km2 to be used for forestry economic development and tourism.
Potential for industrial development
There are 02 industrial parks in the province: Lộc Sơn and Phú Hội industrial parks and 06 industrial clusters. The 2 industrial parks have attracted 81 projects with total registered invested capital of 4,616 billion đồng and102.91 million USD, land use area is over 168 ha; occupancy rate at Lộc Sơn Industrial Park 80%, Phú Hội 100%, industrial clusters 52%.
A number of new projects and products have been formed such as: Sài Gòn - Lâm Đồng Brewery Factory with a capacity of 100 million liters / year, contributing to the national budget of about 1,000 billion VND / year; wool-spinning factory of about 1,000 billion VND, with capacity of 4,000 tons / year, exporting 50% of its output; the aluminum bauxite complex exceeding its designed capacity; Nanogen Pharmaceutical factory by European standards, designed capacity of 332 million products / year.
Total number of investment projects in the province is 977 projects (in which, domestic investment accounts for 871 projects, foreign investment 106 projects) with registered invested capital of over 129 trillion đồng, land area over 69,700 ha.
Achievements of socio-economic development of the province for 2015-2020 tenure
After 5 years implementing the 10th Resolution of Lam Dong Provincial Party Congress; Lam Dong Party Committee, provincial authorities and people of ethnic groups have united, strived to overcome difficulties, successfully implemented the objectives and tasks and attained many important achievements:
The 17/17 socio-economic targets were all met and exceeded the set plan; the economy continued to develop, the scale and quality of the economy improved; The GRDP economic growth rate is quite high, with an average increase of 8.0% in 5 years 2016-2020 in which, the agricultural sector increased by 5.0%, the industry and construction sector rose by 7.6%, and the service sector by 11.2%.
The scale of GRDP increased 1.6 times; labor productivity increased clearly, reaching 112.2 million VND / worker / year, 1.5 times higher than 2015; GRDP per capita has increased rapidly, from 46 million đồng in 2015 to 71.2 million đồng in 2020, reaching the set target and higher than the national average level.
The economic structure has shifted positively, the proportion of services increased from 33.1% in 2015 to 40.4% in 2020; agriculture, forestry and aquatic product decrease from 49.4% in 2015 to 40.3% in 2020; Industry - construction increased from 17.5% in 2015 to 19.3% in 2020
Development goals and orientations for the period 2021 - 2025
Continuing to promptly, comprehensively and sustainably develop to become a fairly developed province of the country. Stepping up economic restructuring, focusing on agricultural restructuring towards a comprehensive and modern agricultural sector, being a national and international high-tech agricultural research and production center. Developing high-quality tourism. Developing Selective industry . Strongly developing education and scientific technology; preserving and promoting the unique cultural identity of the ethnic groups; ensuring social security and welfare; Strengthening management of natural resources, the environment, and coping with climate change. Pushing up administrative reform and improving the investment and business environment. Here are some major development indicators of Lâm Đồng in the coming period:
- By 2025: Being a fairly-developed province of the country.
- By 2030: Being a fairly comprehensively developed province of the country; self-balancing the budget and regulating contribution to the central budget.
- By 2045: Lâm Đồng province becomes a city directly under the Central Government
- Continuing to invest in 08 key projects in the period 2016 - 2020, namely: Đan Kia - Suối Vàng tourist area; Dầu Giây - Liên Khương expressway; Tân Phú industrial - agricultural park; Hòa Bình Central Area; waste water supply, collection and treatment project in Bảo Lộc city; Đại Ninh Lake Tourist Area; Đông Thanh Lake, Lake Kazam.
- New investment in 09 projects: Prenn lake tourist area; Phú Bình Industrial Park; Building Đà Lạt into a smart city; Infrastructure improvement project for agricultural development in Lâm Đồng province; Sa Pung - Bảo Lộc mountain tourist area; Building Lien Khuong - Prenn urban area; Urban area South of Da Nhim river, Duc Trong district; Ta Hoét lake; investing in upgrading national roads 27 (the section of Phi Nom - K’Rông Nơ bridge), 27C, 28B, 55
- Investing in flower transaction center, trade center, supermarket system, central market….
- Strengthening the promotion of market expansion at home and abroad. Promoting exports, especially high-value goods of the province, using them as the driving force for economic growth.
We warmly welcome your valuable investment and business operations.
For further information, please contact: Lâm Đồng Investment, Trade & Tourism Promotion Center
No.36 Trần Phú street, Ward 4, Đà Lạt city, Lâm Đồng province.
Website: https://dalat-info.gov.vn,
Email: trungtamxuctien@gmail.com,
Tel: 02633.533167.
Fax: 02633.811656.
