(VOVworld)- A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday to honor outstanding Export Processing Zones and High-Tech Industrial Zones of 2014. Among 52 honorees, 14 are foreign invested companies.

Do Thanh Hung is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Viet Trung Paper Packaging Company, which was honored at the ceremony: “We will try to promote our achievements and create more products with social benefits and contribute further to the state budget. Workers are our great asset. Despite numerous difficulties, we manage to ensure stable jobs for our workers”.

Over the past few years, more than 1,000 companies in Ho Chi Minh City’s EPZs and IZs have earned an export value of more than 5 billion USD, generated tens of trillions VND worth of GDP and stable jobs for more than 270,000 workers.