Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Vũ Đại Thắng visited the Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd in the Thạch Thất–Quốc Oai Industrial Park on February 25. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội is finalising special mechanisms and policies, including piloting a regulatory “sandbox” framework for sci-tech development, aimed at creating a favourable environment for high-tech projects, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Vũ Đại Thắng on Wednesday.

Leading a delegation to visit and extend Lunar New Year greetings to several high-tech and manufacturing enterprises in the capital at the beginning of the Year of the Horse 2026, the leader stressed that Hà Nội identifies science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation as key growth drivers in the new development phase.

The city is accelerating infrastructure completion at the Hoà Lạc High-Tech Park, developing software parks and digital technology zones, and improving the quality of high-skilled human resource training, he noted.

At Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd in the Thạch Thất–Quốc Oai Industrial Park, Tây Phượng Commune, its general director, Tsuchibashi Akito, said the company currently employs more than 6,000 staff and has operated in Việ tNam for nearly two decades. It specialises in designing and manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCB), assembling components and producing complete electronic manufacturing services (EMS). The factory in Thạch Thất–Quốc Oai was Meiko’s first facility in the country, beginning mass production in 2011. The company has since expanded its investments to Thăng Long and Quang Minh industrial parks, as well as to Hải Dương and Hoà Bình provinces.

In 2025, the firm recorded total revenue of US$704 million, contributed approximately $42 million to the State budget cumulatively, and maintained an average monthly income of around VNĐ13 million ($498) per employee.

Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Vũ Đại Thắng with the leadership of the Samsung Vietnam R&D centre in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo

At the Samsung Vietnam R&D centre in the West Tây Hồ urban area, Xuân Đỉnh Ward, Samsung Vietnam General Director Na Ki Hong said the centre, inaugurated in December 2022, employs about 2,600 staff, including only 10 Korean experts.

He said the centre focuses on mobile phone software development, laptop hardware development, and research and verification of 4G/5G network equipment for global telecom operators. Vietnamese engineers have made significant contributions to developing and validating AI technologies integrated into new smartphone models, as well as to Vietnamese-language software development. — VNA/VNS