The Vietnam Private Sector Forum 2026 - Gia Lai Local Dialogue Round with the theme "Vietnam Private Sector: Institutional Breakthrough - Public-Private Partnership" focused on identifying new growth drivers of the province after the merger; proposing solutions to improve the capacity of local businesses.
In the first 6 months of 2026, Gia Lai's GRDP increased by 8.11%, higher than the national average. The province sets a target to achieve a growth rate of 10.2% in the whole year of 2026 and maintain high growth momentum in the following years.
To achieve this goal, Gia Lai identifies 5 development pillars including processing industry associated with renewable energy; high-tech agriculture; tourism; logistics and urban development.
For the private economic sector, the province is selecting and working directly with 80 enterprises with leadership potential in areas suitable to local advantages to identify difficulties and obstacles and build specific support mechanisms.
Gia Lai promotes administrative procedure reform, shortening the time to resolve business establishment procedures from 3 days to about 3 hours.
Representative of technology startups, Mr. Le Duy Lan - Founder of X-Green Joint Stock Company - said that Gia Lai currently has more than 4,100MW of renewable energy capacity in operation, with an output of over 15 billion kWh/year.
According to Mr. Lan, the province needs to include the energy storage problem in the list of ordered science and technology tasks; connect operating data, testing locations and first customers for technology businesses; establish a regular connection mechanism between businesses, research institutes, universities and scientists.
The goal is to help Gia Lai not only produce renewable electricity but also research, test, master and commercialize clean energy technology.
Ms. Tran Thi Be - Director of Tran Lam Gia Phat Co., Ltd. - proposed to build a 12-month companion program instead of just supporting establishment procedures; develop a team of business consultants; support connecting OCOP products with tourism, festivals and trade promotion activities; and at the same time study a voucher mechanism for business households to use consulting services from capable units.
According to Mr. Vu Hong Quan - Chairman of the Gia Lai Provincial Young Entrepreneurs Association, the current bottleneck is not in policy but in implementation, how to bring policies and resources to the right businesses in need.
The Gia Lai Provincial Young Entrepreneurs Association wishes to participate more deeply in the province's private economic development program, CEO training programs, innovation and science - technology; and at the same time act as a focal point for grouping needs and monitoring the effectiveness of support.
According to Chairman of Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan, the province aims to mobilize about 650,000 billion VND of investment capital throughout the period, in which the private economic sector plays a leading role.
Mr. Pham Anh Tuan also pointed out many bottlenecks that need to be removed such as electricity transmission infrastructure not keeping up with renewable energy potential; large-scale raw material area development is still entangled with land, planning and forest protection; Gia Lai is still a "low-lying area" in attracting large-scale processing, manufacturing and high-tech projects...
Faced with these challenges, Gia Lai identifies enterprises as the main driving force of growth and is strongly shifting from administrative management thinking to constructive and serving thinking; considering enterprises as a component of the province's operating and development ecosystem.
The government has fundamentally changed and always closely follows businesses. Businesses need to be confident, proactively propose, identify opportunities and boldly implement projects in Gia Lai. The province is committed to accompanying and providing maximum support," Mr. Pham Anh Tuan emphasized.
