Expert Truong Dinh Tuyen: There is no reason why Nghe An is not in the PCI top group.

(Baonghean.vn) - As a son of Nghe An, having held many important positions and contributed much to the development of the province as well as the country, former Provincial Party Secretary Truong Dinh Tuyen has made many heartfelt contributions for the further development of his homeland.

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Nghe An Newspaper quoted Mr. Truong Dinh Tuyen's speech at the Dialogue Workshop with FDI enterprises on investment policy in Nghe An held last weekend.

Mr. Truong Dinh Tuyen: "There is no reason why Nghe An cannot be in the top group in terms of provincial competitiveness index of the whole country". Photo: Document.

“… I am very pleased to see that foreign investors, including the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, have given very positive assessments of the attitude of the People’s Committee of Nghe An province and the attitude of Nghe An departments and branches towards investors. The wishes and recommendations of investors have also been clearly explained by the leaders of Nghe An province and the Foreign Investment Agency, Ministry of Planning and Investment at the dialogue with FDI enterprises.

I would like to point out some advantages of Vietnam in general, Nghe An in particular and the issues that Nghe An needs to invest in. Vietnam is a developing country, with abundant human resources and hard-working workers. Nghe An, like Vietnam, is integrating very deeply and has the most free trade agreements in Southeast Asia. A country with the freest economy like Singapore does not have as many free trade agreements signed with foreign countries as Vietnam. Singapore does not have an agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union - a very large market of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Uzbekistan... Vietnam has everything, we are also negotiating RCEP - a comprehensive regional partnership agreement of 16 countries. The Vietnamese government has strongly declared its intention to build a constructive and developing government.

… Nghe An also has many outstanding advantages, is a land of studiousness, always ranked second in the number of excellent students at the national level. Nghe An is also the province with the most overseas workers in Vietnam. The idea of ​​FDI enterprises is to connect those who have worked abroad with foreign investors in Nghe An is very good, because Vietnamese workers abroad such as in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. have very good labor discipline, high skill level, trained in industrial and corporate environments. I suggest that the province soon implement this idea systematically, monitor where they study, what jobs they do, when they return home to be able to introduce them to foreign enterprises.

A group of Japanese experts surveyed and learned about the tea growing area in Thanh Lam commune, Thanh Chuong. Photo courtesy.

… Nghe An is a province with a wide variety of agricultural products. It can be said that this is the province with the most diverse position in the richest agriculture. Up to now, I personally still suggest that Nghe An should solve two things better. First, it is necessary to improve the business environment even more strongly. There is no reason why Nghe An cannot be in the top of the provincial competitiveness index of the whole country. This does not cost much money for the province, and certainly does not cost money for businesses. I suggest that in the coming time, we must strive to be the top of the North Central region, then move up to the top 10 of the whole country. When talking to foreign investors, they mainly praise them. Of course, I also admit that Nghe An has made progress, but it is also possible that people do not want to displease the province.

The second thing that I am very interested in is related to investment projects in agriculture. Mavin Group has the concept of how to clean from fields, farms to dining tables, clean from raw materials to seeds, production, processing, distribution, consumption... Like food production for example, we have to find a way to exploit local raw materials, reduce import costs, and also improve people's lives... I suggest that Nghe An must pay great attention to restructuring agriculture in the direction of creating large-scale production, high technology, linking value chains,... This is a trend that is developing quite strongly in Vietnam and Nghe An has a lot of potential, diverse products.

Enterprises should not worry about investment protection and intellectual property protection. In the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the requirements for investors to protect intellectual products are extremely high... We believe that reform, investment protection, and intellectual product protection are the main requirements of the Vietnamese State, not just the TPP Agreement... The Vietnamese Government commits to protecting and defending investors, protecting intellectual property rights, including fighting against counterfeit and pirated goods.

I hope that the leaders of Nghe An province and the departments and branches will fulfill their commitments to investors. Finally, I wish our Nghe An province, my beloved homeland, to always develop and realize Uncle Ho's wish of striving to make Nghe An a model province. I wish foreign investors as well as investors in general success when implementing investment and business projects in Nghe An."

Hoai Thu - Thu Giang