Developing island communes along with completing transport infrastructure
Long Son is an island commune located in the North of Vung Tau city (formerly belonging to Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, now Ho Chi Minh City). Decades ago, Long Son was a fairly pristine area, living separately because there was no bridge connecting to the mainland. At this time, only a few people live in this area, mainly by salt making and fishing.
After that, Long Son commune gradually developed and became an area focused on aquaculture, with oyster rafts, fish rafts, shrimp farming bunds and salt fields and gradually became famous for Long Son oyster specialty. After many years of construction and development, Long Son island commune has completed traffic connections with the mainland; with Hoang Sa route connecting to the intersection of National Highway 51 and National Highway 56; Truong Sa route connecting to Vo Nguyen Giap street; with a quite complete internal traffic system throughout the island commune.
At the same time, many large projects in Long Son commune have been implemented and put into operation such as: Southern Petrochemical Complex with a total investment capital of more than 5.5 billion USD, Long Son international port with a total investment capital of about 2,000 billion VND... with positive impacts on the socio-economic development of the locality and the lives of the people.
From July 1, 2025, Long Son commune under Ho Chi Minh City after the merger, on the basis of maintaining the status quo with an area of 56.7km2, a total population of more than 17,000 people. During the 2025-2030 term, key traffic axes in Long Son commune will be fully invested, creating a synchronous connection between the island commune and neighboring functional centers in the area. Thereby contributing to improving competitiveness and attracting investment; opening up space for development of industrial, urban, service and tourism sectors in the area.
In the coming time, Long Son commune will continue to promote the potential of the aquaculture industry; harmoniously combining production farming with ecotourism development, community tourism... to become one of the economic spearheads for the island commune, increasing the income of local people.
Developing into a national petrochemical refining center
At the same time, with the development of the agricultural and tourism sectors, Long Son continues to affirm its role as an important industrial center of the region. Currently, Long Son oil and gas industrial park is being implemented, which will promote the growth of the industry in general and supporting industries in the oil and gas sector in particular.
Recently, the Southern Petrochemical Complex project (Long Son Petrochemical Company Limited - abbreviated as LSP) has resumed commercial operation and is continuing to invest according to plan. When fully operational, the project can contribute more than 150 million USD in taxes and more than 800 million USD in annual export revenue to the Vietnamese economy. Currently, this enterprise is implementing additional investment steps to become a green factory, contributing to the NetZero goal in the coming time.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc commented that through a preliminary survey, the petrochemical project in Long Son has been invested in very methodically, modernly and impressively; the operation process has created more than 1,000 jobs for workers. In the coming time, it is hoped that LSP will continue to implement production and business activities as best as possible, expanding investment in production and business to fill the granted area. If there are areas that need to expand investment not only in Long Son but also in other places, Ho Chi Minh City will always support.
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc, Long Son is an ideal investment location for the refinery and the city will invite potential investors. This is also a great wish of Ho Chi Minh City and is in line with the planning of 3 regions of Ho Chi Minh City. In particular, Ho Chi Minh City is the financial center; the Binh Duong region will become a high-tech industrial zone and the Ba Ria - Vung Tau area was formerly a marine economic zone, with the core being seaports, a free trade economy, including petrochemical refining.
According to the leader of Long Son commune, when Long Son Petroleum Industrial Park comes into operation along with the expansion of production investment in the Southern Petrochemical Complex, it will contribute to developing the locality into a leading modern petrochemical refining industrial center. With determination and potential advantages, Long Son is gradually rising to affirm its position, making an important contribution to the sustainable and modern development of Ho Chi Minh City in the new period.
