1. Ho Chi Minh City – The 5th of Top 50
Emerging Outsourcing Cities
Dang Nguyen
Business Development Manager
at TMA Solutions

2. Content
1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview
2. Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing

3. 1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview (1/5)
The economic center of Vietnam
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Natural area: 2,095,239 km2
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Coastal length: 15 km
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Population: 7,750,900 (2012) –
the most populous city in Vietnam

4. 1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview (2/5)
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Workforce:
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2,676,000+ laborers (2009)
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Education expenditure accounted for
27.66% of frequent expenditure and
9.63% of total expenditure of the city
(2010)
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80+ universities/colleges, with 400,000+
students, accounting for 20% of all
universities and colleges in the country
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3,000+ Ph. D academics and 5,000+
master degree holders

5. 1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview (3/5)
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Economic sector structure (2012)
Economic structure
1%
Service
41%
Industry and construction
58%
Agriculture and others
• Total trade (export and import) reached $47.7 billion, with export at
$21.57 billion and import at $26.14 billion (2012)

6. 1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview (4/5)
GDP: around $28.59 billion, about $3,700 per capita (2012); up 9.2 percent from
2011
Average GDP growth of 9.5% from 2011-2013, 1.8 times higher than the national
average (5.5%)
GDP Growth Rate
15
10
%
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Ho Chi Minh city
Vietnam
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7. 1. Ho Chi Minh city Overview (5/5)
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Modern transport system
The important transportation center of the country with growing transportation
system (roadway, waterway, railway and airline, etc.)
Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the largest airport in Vietnam in terms of passengers handled
(with an estimated number of over 15.5 million passengers per year in 2010, accounting for more
than half of Vietnam's air passenger traffic

8. 2.
Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing (1/5)
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16th among top 25 most attractive software outsourcing cities (Tholons, 2013)
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5th on the list of Top 50 Emerging Outsourcing Cities (Tholons, 2009)
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One of the Top Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities for Application Development &
Management (ADM) and Animation/Game Development (Tholons, 2009)
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9th in the Top 10 Outsourcing Cities for software testing (Tholons, 2009)
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Ho Chi Minh City on KPMG 'locations to watch' for next outsourcing boom (KPMG
Advisory , 2009)
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The most attractive non-Indian destination for offshoring (NeoIT, 2006)

9. 2.
Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing (2/5)
• Accommodating top prestigious IT universities: The University of
Science, HCMC University of Technology, Posts and Telecommunications
Institute of Technology, University of Technical Education Ho Chi Minh City, etc.
• 5,500+ IT companies
• 1,800 software export companies (2011)
• Located by the largest Vietnam software development and testing companies
• Software export revenue: $175.5 million (2011)

10. 2.
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Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing (3/5)
Strong government support for the software industry
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Tax:
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Free VAT for software products
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Free Export Tax for software products
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Free Enterprise Income Tax within the first 4 years of business
establishment, free 50% of enterprise income tax in the following 9
years

11. 2.
Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing (4/5)
• Many large software parks:
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Quang Trung Software Park (QTSC)
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Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP)
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Saigon Software Park (SSP)
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Etown

12. 2.
Ho Chi Minh city – Destination for Software
Outsourcing (5/5)
Leading global companies that have outsourced to Ho Chi Minh City

13. Thank you!
For more information, please contact
Dang Nguyen
Business Development Manager at TMA Solutions
• Skype: anhdanglucky
• LinkedIn: http://vn.linkedin.com/in/dangnguyenhcm