Mr. Son: New motivation, new prospects

(Baonghean) - Anh Son district has great potential for industrial and handicraft development, meeting domestic consumption and export demands. In recent years, thanks to the focus on two breakthroughs: attracting investment and developing production, increasing people's income, it has created important changes in the local socio-economic development...

Prospects for attracting investment

At the end of the year, the production atmosphere at the clean charcoal factory of Khai Son Commune Clean Fuel Company Limited (Anh Son) is quite bustling. Mr. Nguyen Nhu Long - Director of the clean charcoal project, said: Thanks to the attention of Anh Son district and Khai Son commune, after 3 months of investment promotion, the factory has been handed over the site and put into production. Currently, the production line has completed 40% of the workload with a total investment of nearly 40 billion VND, creating jobs for nearly 60 workers with an average salary of 4 million VND/person/month. When the production line is 100% completed, it will create stable jobs for 400 local workers. The clean charcoal project is contributing to solving the output of raw wood products of farmers with products including: wood chips, pellets providing fuel for thermal power plants and households, individuals in European countries and Japan.

Workers work at the clean charcoal factory in Khai Son commune.

After a period of difficulties, up to now, Khai Hoan Garment and Embroidery Company Limited (Anh Son Town) has stabilized production, paying much attention to policies for workers. In 2014, the company produced more than 455 thousand garment products, exported to Eastern Europe, Korea, Spain, with revenue of nearly 50 billion VND, up 6% over the same period; is creating stable jobs for 450 workers, over 80% of contract workers are participating in social insurance according to regulations. Meanwhile, Tay Nghe Brick and Tile Joint Stock Company (Cam Son) produces over 10 million brick and tile products of all kinds, with revenue of 13 billion VND/year, creating jobs for over 100 local workers.

With the potential of construction materials, diverse land suitable for many types of crops, convenient traffic routes, abundant and hard-working local labor resources... in recent years, with the attention of the province, Anh Son district has focused on producing many industrial products such as construction materials, sugar, tea buds, welding, sawing, bricks and tiles, construction stone production. Notably, from the beginning of 2014 to now, in Anh Son district, 12/20 enterprises have registered to invest with a total capital of nearly 1,000 billion VND. Notably, there is Clean Fuel Company Limited investing nearly 300 billion VND; Viet Phat Trading Joint Stock Company investing 5 billion VND in a production line, processing high-quality green tea for export to Japan (Youth Volunteers Team 1); Cassava Starch Factory Project (Hoa Son) with a scale of 15 hectares; Truong Son Trading Joint Stock Company investing 45 billion VND to open a mechanical production workshop (Block 2, town); Nghe An Food Joint Stock Company has invested in many new commodity crop models with 66 hectares of gac (10 communes), 15 hectares of chili peppers for export (Hoa Son, Tuong Son). Currently, the district has been coordinating with 11/12 investment enterprises to implement the work of handing over the land. It is expected that in 2015, after stable production, the factories will create jobs for thousands of local workers.

Ms. Vo Thi Hong Lam - Chairman of Anh Son District People's Committee, said: The district focuses on allocating land for industrial and handicraft development planning, accompanying businesses in handing over clean land, environment, fire prevention and fighting; directing the expansion of raw material areas to Con Cuong and Tuong Duong districts. On the side of businesses, it requires a commitment to ensure rights and create trust for the people. Positive investment attraction policies have created a good effect on the economy. As of December 2014, the total value of industrial and handicraft production reached nearly 900 billion VND, up 7% over the same period. Some products have increased quite well such as: Tea export reached 2,963 tons, up 6% over the same period; sawn timber reached over 6,439m3, up 3% over the same period; wood reached over 2,670m3, up 3% over the same period; Garment exports reached 455 thousand products, up 6% over the same period.

Increase people's income

As a mountainous district with many difficulties, to achieve the common goal of building new rural areas, the district focuses on increasing people's income through many specific and practical methods.

Firstly, focus on building essential infrastructure for new rural areas. In 2014, the total mobilized capital for new rural construction reached 73 billion VND, of which 30 billion VND was contributed by the people. The whole district has built and upgraded 103.8 km of grade A and B rural roads. Hundreds of kilometers of roads and intra-field roads have been upgraded and graded. 4.2 km of various types of canals and ditches for irrigation, worth more than 6 billion VND, and 2 rural markets in Thanh Son and Linh Son have been put into use very effectively.

Second, focus on speeding up the implementation of the "Project to mobilize farmers to consolidate land, exchange plots, and convert land".

Up to now, the communes have consolidated over 3,862.1 ha/4,567.3 ha, reaching 84.6% of the plan, of which: Rice land reached over 1,800 ha, color land reached over 2,000 ha. The average land use has decreased from 5-7 plots/household to 1-2 plots/household. The whole district has put into use 300 multi-function plows; 700 industrial tea picking machines, 200 rice harvesting machines of all kinds to intensify production. In 2014, the district implemented 3 high-income models from production development support sources under the NTM program, which are 2 models of planting and intensive cultivation of green squash (Tao Son and Cam Son); 1 model of densely planted corn (Hung Son) with an income of 3-7 million VND/sao, 3 times higher than before the conversion. Gac growing model, commercial cattle raising model (13 models with over 20 cattle/model), chili growing model for export on nearly 10 hectares, increasing economic efficiency from 2 to 4 times.

Thanks to the implementation of breakthrough solutions, the district's new rural appearance has improved a lot. The whole district has 2 communes (Cam Son, Hung Son) achieving 15 criteria, 4 communes achieving 11-14 criteria (Tao Son, Linh Son, Hoi Son, Vinh Son), 8 communes achieving 10 criteria and 4 communes achieving 6 criteria. In 2014, the whole district increased 30 criteria, an average of 1.5 criteria/commune. The added income value of the people reached over 18.3 million VND/person/year, an increase of 1 million VND/person/year compared to 2013.

Strategic solutions

In 2015, Anh Son focused all resources on achieving the set targets: Growth rate reached 6 - 7%, industrial proportion increased 0.1 - 0.2%, trade and service proportion increased 0.6 - 0.7%, agricultural proportion decreased 0.5 - 0.6%, striving for average added value per capita to reach over 19.9 million VND.

To achieve the goal in 2015, Ms. Vo Thi Hong Lam - Chairman of the District People's Committee said that the locality will focus on key groups of orientational solutions. Specifically: Focus on reviewing the targets of the District Party Congress for the 2011-2016 term. Speed ​​up the progress of new rural construction, each commune increases 2-4 criteria, strive for 2 communes to complete 19/19 criteria to reach the NTM target, namely Hung Son and Cam Son, 5 communes to achieve less than 10 criteria. With this content, the District People's Committee will work with 5 communes that meet the most criteria, review each criterion, build a roadmap to complete the remaining criteria; strive to have 20% of communes reach the NTM target by 2020. In addition, strengthen the management of land planning and raw material areas of sugarcane, cassava, rubber, and tea to serve the processing industry. Proactively develop high-income economic models for the people. In particular, do a good job of attracting investment, creating favorable conditions for enterprises to invest in production and business in the area. Strive for 4-5 enterprises to come into operation in 2015 to create more jobs for workers.

Luong Mai