Qui Nhon

Qui Nhơn (), also Quy Nhơn, is a coastal city in Binh Dinh province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and five communes with a total of 286 km². Quy Nhon is the capital of Bình Định province. As of 2009 its population was 280,900.^[1] Historically, the commercial activities of the city focused on agriculture and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been a significant shift towards service industries and tourism. There is also a substantial manufacturing sector.

Overview

Quy Nhon was officially founded more than 100 years ago, although its origins stretch back much further to the 11th-century Champa culture, the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the 18th century seaport of Thị Nại. The city is renowned as the birthplace of 18th century Vietnamese emperor Nguyen Hue^[2] and, more recently, had a large American military presence during the Vietnam War.

Quy Nhon today is recognized as a first grade city with a geo-economic priority and an urbanized infrastructure. The government describes it as one of the three commercial and tourism centres of the central southern coastal region (with Đà Nẵng and Nha Trang).

Quy Nhon has a varied topography, being extremely diversified with mountains and forests, hills, fields, salt marshes, plains, lagoons, lakes, rivers, shorelines, peninsulas and islands. Quy Nhon's coastline is 42 km long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources and other natural products of economic value. The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism.

The economic trend, at present, is increasingly service-based at the expense of agriculture, forestry and pisciculture. The GDP breakdown in percentage terms for 1998 is: construction industry 28.40%, service 55.58%, agriculture, forestry and pisciculture 16.02%.

Quy Nhon's goal for the near future is to become a dominant seaport as well as an international industrial, commercial and service-based trading center with a strong and active role in the regional economy

Transportation

Quy Nhon is served by Vietnam Airlines through Phu Cat Airport, with daily flights to Đà Nẵng and Ho Chi Minh City.^[3]

Quy Nhon Railway Station is reached by a branch off the main line of the North–South Railway.^[4] Reunification express trains stop only in Dieu Tri Railway Station, which is around 10km west of Quy Nhon. The administrative unit

The city has 16 wards: Tran Hung Dao, Le Loi, Le Hong Phong, Tran Phu, Ly Thuong Kiet, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Thi Nai, Hai Cang, Ngo, Ghenh Rang, Quang Trung, Nhon Binh Nhon Phu Bui Thi Xuan, Tran Quang Dieu

And 5 communes of Nhon Ly, Nhon Hoi, Nhon Chau, Hai and Phuoc Nhon America (which was spun off from American Phuoc Tuy Phuoc District and merged into Quy Nhon in 2006) with a total area of ​​284.28 km ² and a population of about 284,000 people [1] [].

Bui Thi Xuan Ward and Tran Quang Dieu ward was established on 12.03.1987 from Phuoc Long (of the Tuy Phuoc district) in the process of expanding the city west of Qui Nhon - Vietnam.

Climate

Economy

Quy Nhon is one of the main industrial centres of the South Central Coast, behind only Da Nang and Nha Trang.^[6] It is also the major industrial and service centre of Binh Dinh province, including its largest industrial facilities at Phu Tai Industrial Park and Nhon Hoi Economic Zone.

Cereals are cultivated on 2548ha of Quy Nhon's land with an output of 13,021 tons as of 2009, just 2% of the province's total.^[1] Other crops included 10,891 tons of vegetables, 2795 tons of sugar-cane, as well as smaller amounts of coconuts, peanuts, and cashew nuts.^[1]

Much of the city's industry is concentrated in and around Phu Tai Industrial Park in the west of the city along National Route 1A. Quy Nhon is a major centre of garden furniture manufacturing. It has traditionally been relying on access to wood from Binh Dinh's forests as well as the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even as far as Cambodia's Ratanakiri and Laos' Attapeu Province. Most of the furniture factories are located in Phu Tai Industrial Park. Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture and wood processing industry have been set up in the vicinity of the industrial park.^[7]

Other industries in Quy Nhon process agricultural and aquatic products, or produce construction materials and paper products.^[6] Bidiphar is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Quy Nhon that is an exception to the city's general focus on basic and wood processing industries. Nhon Hoi Economic Zone is central to the city's and province's industrial development plans. However, as of late 2010 it was still in the early stages of development, with few factories completed.

Quy Nhon has seen only limited foreign investment. As of 2008, 13 foreign companies employed 1119 people in the city.^[1]

Currently the economic structure of Quy Nhon is a shift towards increasing the proportion of service industries, reducing the rate of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in GDP. The shares of agriculture, forestry and fisheries - industrial and construction - services in GDP in 2006 reached: 36.7% - 28% - 35.3% (planned: 35% - 30% - 35% in 2005 : 38.4% - 26.7% - 34.9%).

• Income per capita in 2010 was 1625 USD / person

Education

Quy Nhon has two universities: Quy Nhon University and Quang Trung University. As of 2009 they had a total teaching staff of 601 and 23,383 students, 13,704 of whom were female.^[1] There were 19,900 primary school students and 28,500 secondary school students.^[1]

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