After 20 years of successful transformation from an agricultural province to an industrial hub, in 2015, Binh Duong province - Vietnam started research on innovation strategies to continue to break out to a high-tech industry and service, raising socio-economic levels, and gradually laying the foundations for a knowledge and digital economy. This requires a comprehensive, synchronous, sustainable approach in development both socially and economically, not only in Binh Duong, but also in connection with its surroundings, promoting international cooperation, attracting resources for breakthroughs, and that aspiration has formed the Binh Duong Smart City project. With this goal, Binh Duong adopted a unique approach in developing a smart city that is suitable to the local context, adopting via the localization of the Eindhoven city model from The Netherlands. The paper will analyze (A) Realities and aspirations of Binh Duong, (B) The development model of Eindhoven city that Binh Duong is learning from, (C) Binh Duong Smart City project, (D) Step by step planning, (E) Binh Duong’s international repositioning.