Dong Nai plans a biotech centre

Dong Nai Province has unveiled a project to build a centre for biotechnology applications with an aim to bolster high-tech development and attract $500 million investment in the next ten years.

The province will spend around one trillion dong in developing infrastructure for the centre covering 208 hectares in Cam My District in the first stage, from 2010 to 2015, said Pham Van Sang, director of the provincial Department of Science and Technology, Sang said.

The centre will be a multi-function complex for research and development, training, technology transfer, and production of bio-products for use in the areas of agriculture, medicine, pharmaceutics and environment.

The mission of the centre is to mobilise the research and educational resources in biotechnology to facilitate discovery and commercialisation of new technologies; Sang told reporters on Monday, a day before the province started work on a road linking different sections of the biotech centre.

He also noted that the province was going to complete the procedures for the second stage, targeting to develop the centre into a high-tech park specialising in biotechnology of the region, and later as a science city.

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