Good land for investors!

(Baonghean) - It has become a tradition that every full moon of January, Nghe An province organizes a conference to meet businesses that have, are and have the potential to invest in Nghe An - an opportunity to look back at the achievements, resolve difficulties and move towards more effective and long-term cooperation. The success of past conferences - 663 investment projects in Nghe An with a total registered capital of nearly 230 trillion VND, including 626 domestic investment projects and 37 foreign direct investment projects - is evidence of the growing influence of this annual activity. From the first conference in 2009 following the model of 3 houses: managers - investors - banks with nearly 200 investors attending, now the conference has reached the stature of a regional and international scale forum with nearly 1,000 domestic and foreign enterprises.

The Binh Than Spring Investor Meeting attracted nearly 1,000 delegates.

On the afternoon of February 21, nearly 1,000 delegates, including leaders from all levels from central to local levels, guests from domestic and foreign investors, international agencies and organizations in Vietnam, and press agencies, gathered in Vinh city to attend the Spring Meeting with Investors 2016.

Speaking at the conference, Comrade Nguyen Sinh Hung - Chairman of the National Assembly highly appreciated the achievements that Nghe An province has achieved in investment promotion in recent times and commented that the Spring Meeting with Investors is a good way that the province needs to continue to promote and constantly improve. He also expressed his excitement at the new prospects opening up for Nghe An in the context of favorable general political and foreign objective conditions, improved quality of infrastructure and human resources.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung acknowledged the results of the eight conferences.

Responding to the call of the National Assembly Chairman, many investors present at the conference gave many suggestions to make the investment and business environment in Nghe An more healthy, attractive and professional. These enthusiastic opinions show that the conference is truly an open dialogue forum between the State and enterprises in finding common denominators for mutual benefits.

Among them, we can mention the sharing of representatives of Hoa Sen Group and VSIP Nghe An Company Limited - 2 of the investors who have made a prominent mark in the socio-economic picture of the province in recent times. For Mr. Le Phuoc Vu - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hoa Sen Group, the biggest impression for him through the process of cooperation and operation in Nghe An province is the respect, openness and goodwill of the provincial leaders. It is the close attention and creation of all conditions of the provincial leaders that has helped investors have a smooth and favorable business environment. Currently, Hoa Sen Group is urgently constructing the second factory in Nghe An. It is expected that when both factories are in operation, they will create jobs for about 1,000 workers, contributing positively to the socio-economic development of the province. In particular, Hoa Sen Group is also an enterprise with influence and large scale of operation at home and abroad, with 2 main foreign markets being Laos and Thailand. In its strategy towards these markets, Hoa Sen Group strongly supports the vision of transport infrastructure planning of Nghe An province and proposes ideas to promote the value of the Western transport network.

Mr. Le Phuoc Vu - Chairman of Hoa Sen Group spoke at the conference.

Mr. Anthony Tan - General Director of VSIP Nghe An Co., Ltd. also highly appreciated the enthusiastic spirit of cooperation and the facilitation of Nghe An provincial leaders for enterprises. As a new project "setting foot" in this land and in the first steps of construction, he said he completely believes that the project will be implemented smoothly and on schedule. With the unique characteristics of the project, this investor promises to attract more new investment opportunities and new enterprises to Nghe An to "cover" the picture of industrialized economy. He also expects further innovation of the locality in the coming time, both in terms of infrastructure and mechanisms and policies to become more and more attractive in the eyes of domestic and foreign investors...

Attending the conference, witnessing the impressive achievements in investment promotion of Nghe An and listening to the opinions of businesses, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc - Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister affirmed that the reform of the investment and business environment, mechanism and administrative reform of Nghe An has been and is going in the right direction. The Deputy Prime Minister also pointed out that Nghe An still has many advantages that have not been exploited to their full potential such as marine economy, tourism economy, agriculture, deep mineral processing, etc. On the part of the managers, it is necessary to be very open, pay attention to creating favorable conditions for businesses to come and operate smoothly in the area. Both sides must join hands, together remove obstacles, maximize the potential of the locality and make optimal use of the potential of investors.

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation mechanism between Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry VCCI and Nghe An province.

On behalf of the leaders of Nghe An province, comrade Ho Duc Phoc - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council received the instructions of the Party and State leaders, expressed thanks for the presence of the Central and local leaders, businesses, and experts from domestic and foreign organizations. He affirmed that the comments and exchanges of the delegates at the conference were both encouragement and motivation for the province, and also opened up solutions that the province is in dire need of to strongly reform the investment and business environment; committed that Nghe An will continue to focus on investing in infrastructure, human resources, mechanisms and policies to better meet the requirements and aspirations of businesses seeking investment and business opportunities in Nghe An. Aiming to become the economic, cultural and social center of the North Central region as the goal set out in Resolution 26 of the Politburo is not only for the internal benefit of the province but also to bring a land of opportunity for success to businesses - the driving forces of the general economic development.

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