Mr. Phan Huu Thang, Chairman of the Vietnam Industrial Park’s Finance Association and former Director of the Foreign Investment Agency, previously under the Ministry of Planning and Investment and now under the Ministry of Finance, spoke with Vietnam Economic Times / VnEconomy’s Khanh Vy about the necessity of a set of criteria issued recently on appraising, evaluating, and screening foreign investment to attract high-quality projects essential for Vietnam’s growth.

The upgrading of Vietnam’s stock market has become simply a matter of time, but it is still necessary to create a transparent, efficient market and protect the interests of investors as much as possible. The gap between laws on paper and in practice also needs to be bridged.