Southern of Vietnam in the context of international integration era

Abstract

The Southern part of the country is located directly in the Mekong sub-region with 3-side sea-contact. The location of the area can be considered the “heartland” of Southeast Asia which is very convenient for international trading activities of different countries, especially those from ASEAN including main land and maritime countries. The potentials of the area mentioned above have shown that the Southern part of Vietnam embraces strong geographical, biological and human resources as important conditions for the development of the country. The Southern part has long become great commodity economy area of the country which strongly focusing on exporting as well as contacting and integrating internationally at very early era. In the first decade of the 21st century, the Southern part of Vietnam still plays an important role in the context of international integration and development of the country in the era of industrializing and modernizing. This paper focuses on describing the process of integration of the Southern part of Vietnam in the context of industrialization and modernization era in Vietnam. Consequently, the paper concludes particular traits and foreseen issues regarding the development of the Southern part of Vietnam. Moreover, the role and contribution of this Southern part will be clarified during the common process of industrialization, modernization nation-wide in the new era.