Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee: Strengthening coordination to attract investment, gradually forming industry clusters

On the morning of December 10, in Cua Lo town (Nghe An), a conference was held to evaluate the results of 1 year of implementing the Memorandum of Understanding on development cooperation between the three provinces of Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh in 2023.

Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province; Do Trong Hung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council of Thanh Hoa province; Hoang Trung Dung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Ha Tinh province co-chaired the Conference.

At the Conference, comrade Do Minh Tuan - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province presented a speech with the topic:“The solution to promote development linkages and build the Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh region into a major center of energy industry, processing and manufacturing in the region and the whole country”.

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IS THE CORE ELEMENT

Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee Do Minh Tuan emphasized that the three provinces of Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh are "spiritual lands with talented people", with a rich cultural, historical and revolutionary tradition, always playing an important role in politics, military and economy.

With a convenient transportation system, with all types of transportation and important national traffic axes passing through, it can connect with localities, regions in the country and countries in the region as well as in the world, which is a condition for linking and developing into a network of large-scale manufacturing industries.

In its development orientation, Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh always determines that industrial development, especially energy, processing and manufacturing industries, plays an important role and position in the socio-economic development of each locality.

Since then, the provinces have focused resources, proposed many programs, projects, mechanisms and policies to develop industry. In particular, focusing on developing industries and fields with strengths such as: Petrochemical industry, steel production, cement, electricity industry, electronic components production, textile and garment industry, leather shoes...

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province said that in the three provinces, there are many important, large-scale industrial projects that have been invested in and put into effective operation, changing the industrial landscape of the region; many industrial products have output in the leading group of the country such as: petrochemical products, cement, steel, electricity production, etc.

Along with focusing on developing the strong industries of each province, we have built and strengthened the relationship of association, cooperation and mutual development in the industrial sector. Many industrial products in Thanh Hoa province have used products, raw materials and input fuels of Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces and vice versa. From there, industry linkages in production have been formed.

Delighted with the results achieved; however, comrade Do Minh Tuan also said that the exploitation of potentials and strengths of each locality in development cooperation for the industrial sector is still quite modest, there are not many coordination and collaboration activities between the three localities to promote the strengths of the North Central sub-region in supporting businesses and investors; leading to a lack of basis and foundation to form industry clusters and linkages in industry-goods chains.

The head of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province emphasized that Resolution No. 81 of the National Assembly on the national master plan for the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2050, has set out the orientation of "Building the coastal area of ​​Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh to become the industrial development center of the region and the whole country".

Resolution No. 58 of the Politburo on building and developing Thanh Hoa province to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Planning of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 all determine the development orientation and goals of the three provinces on the basis of industrial development as the core factor.

STEP BY STEP FORMING INDUSTRY CLUSTERS AND PRODUCT GROUPSSPECIALIZATION

In order to realize the above goal, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province Do Minh Tuan proposed a number of key tasks and solutions that need to continue to be focused on and effectively implemented in the coming time.

First of all, the three provinces need to agree that cooperation and association for mutual development is an inevitable trend, thereby jointly creating a new development space with cohesion, especially allowing localities to optimize results thanks to the advantage of economic scale in conditions of limited resources.

It can be affirmed that promoting the connection between the three localities is completely consistent with the development trend, but it needs to be placed in the general context of the whole country and the North Central region. Solutions for developing regional connections need to arouse and promote the potential and advantages of each province in particular and the strengths of the region in general.

Promote the role and voice of the three provinces in the Coordination Council of the North Central and Central Coast regions, especially in solving important, inter-sectoral tasks on regional connectivity and sustainable development; turn difficulties and challenges into driving forces, creativity and mutual support for development.

In addition, the three provinces need to increase their initiative and continue to closely coordinate with ministries, branches and the Central Government in organizing and effectively implementing Resolution No. 26 of the Politburo on "Socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the North Central and Central Coast regions; Resolution No. 58 of the Politburo on building and developing Thanh Hoa province to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo on building and developing Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces; Resolution No. 81 of the National Assembly on the National Master Plan for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 and regional planning, national sector planning, provincial planning... to establish and promote the role, position and strengths of each province, creating the basis for forming regional and sectoral linkages between the three localities, focusing on energy, processing and manufacturing industries, bringing about new impetus for the development of each province.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province also said that the three provinces need to diversify methods and forms of investment promotion coordination, strengthen on-site investment promotion, prioritize resources to remove difficulties and obstacles for investors; focus on attracting investment from large industrial corporations with leading technology in value chains, production, partners with high technology, new technology such as: the United States, Japan, Korea, European countries...

Strengthening coordination in attracting investment, gradually forming industry clusters, specialized product groups and creating large-scale industrial complexes, focusing on attracting investment in post-petrochemical projects, forming clusters of post-petrochemical product industries; clusters of marine economic sectors with two bridgeheads being Nghi Son Economic Zone and Vung Ang Economic Zone linked to Nghi Son deep-water port and Son Duong - Vung Ang.

Developing renewable energy aims to create a complete renewable energy industrial ecosystem, linked to production, manufacturing and ancillary services... Along with that, it is necessary to continue to speed up the progress of selecting investors to soon implement gas and wind power projects.

Regarding planning and infrastructure connection, comrade Do Minh Tuan said that the three provinces need to strengthen research coordination right from the planning implementation step in economic zones and industrial parks of each province to ensure effective mutual support and synchronous infrastructure to optimize resources and promote investment efficiency.

In particular, it is necessary to focus on prioritizing resources to promote the connection of transport infrastructure in the region, complete the coastal road, facilitate the circulation of goods, and expand the development space. Pay attention to investing and developing infrastructure connections of industrial parks, coastal economic zones, Nghi Son Port, Cua Lo Port, Son Duong - Vung Ang Port and logistics services, creating favorable conditions for businesses of the three provinces and neighboring provinces to trade goods and import and export.

Continue to coordinate the restructuring of the industrial sector, allocate industrial space along the economic corridors of South Thanh Hoa - North Nghe An and South Nghe An - North Ha Tinh. Strengthen information exchange, share experiences in state management; resolve difficulties and shortcomings in attracting investment. Speed ​​up the investment progress of infrastructure projects in industrial parks and industrial clusters, meet the infrastructure needs of secondary projects, and be ready to welcome domestic and international investors.

The final issue, according to the Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee, the three provinces need to coordinate in training and improving the quality of human resources, focusing on coordinating resource development in association with the development orientation of the three provinces in general and the investment attraction orientation of each region and industry in particular, prioritizing specialized and quality training in industries and occupations associated with the strengths of each province.

Besides, localities need to proactively coordinate and create conditions in attracting and using each other's human resources, especially human resources working in economic zones and industrial parks; and allocate resources to invest in social housing projects in economic zones and industrial parks.