Dong Nai starts the building of link roads into and announces the operations of the Center for Applied Biotechnology, as well

Officials present at the groundbreaking ceremony

DCAB will be built on an area of 207.8 hectares in Xuan Duong commune, Cam My district.

The site on which DCAB is situated is a central point where major roads meet according to the development strategy of the southern key economic region.

This site is also within the radius of explicit influence from Ho Chi Minh city to its adjacent areas.

DCAB is the first step for the building of a hi-tech biotechonology park.

DCAB is required to satisfy the nucleus function of a hi-tech biotechonology park and of a scientific town in the future.

DCAB is a place to conduct research into and apply advanced biotechnology to agriculture, food, health and environment.

DCAB will be developed on a basis of mobilizing scientific resources at home and abroad.

Guests invited to the ceremony

DCAB is established according to an open policy under which a range of resources from inside and outside the province are attracted and used appropriately and in which the rights and responsibilities of the parties go together.

The DCAB project is broken down into two phases:

Phase 1 (2010-2015): complete the initial infrastructure: transport systems, communications, electrical systems, administrative buildings and wards for biotech product research, application and manufacturing; apply biotech to creating crop plants and raising domestic animals; apply advanced biotech achievements to protecting environment and fighting environmental pollution; focus on human resource training and attraction.

Mr. Tran Dinh Thanh is addressing the ceremony

Phase 2 (2015-2020): complete the building of all functional wards meeting the standards of a hitech biotechnology park; widely apply biotech to agriculture, food, medicine and environment; cooperate with domestic and foreign organizations in increasing the proportion of research and implementation activities to satisfy research and technology transfer needs in the region.

Mr. Tran Dinh Thanh is planting a memorial tree at DCA

Up to now, DCAB has organized a core human resource team including four masters and more than twenty others who are following postgraduate programmes.

DCAB also completed site clearance work and compensation payment.

Many DCAB sub-projects have been carried out and are calling for investment. Particularly, all the procedures for the building of six-kilometer link roads into DCAB including internal roads of two kilometers were finished.

That these roads are made is a prerequisite for the construction of the essential infrastructure for the start of the establishment of an biotech application model in agriculture and for calling for investment into the biotech industry.

Attending and addressing the ceremony, Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee, Tran Dinh Thanh, commended the DCAB Construction Board for its efforts and prudent management.

“DCAB is a large project. It is a rather new model in the world in need of professional and technical skills and technology. DCAB project requires the estimates and assessment by ministries and central and local sectors”, Thanh emphasized.

“Departments, committees, sectors and local governments need a collaboration to help increase the effectiveness of the project, to call for investment, to seek for sources of sponsorship as well as the professional assistance from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the institutions inside and outside the province, to pay a special attention to environmental protection and life, to attract the participation of local laborers in the project and to strive to reach an advanced level of biotech application in the Southeast Asian region in 2020," continued he.

Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh