Hung Nguyen is a plain district, adjacent to Vinh city, connected to trade with full traffic infrastructure. "First near the market, second near the river" - refers to the convenience for trade, business, work and living activities. Hung Nguyen district has both: adjacent to the first-class urban area of Vinh and running along the Lam river from Hung Loi, Hung Thanh, Xuan Lam, then through Long Xa, Hung Linh. In the 2020-2025 term, Hung Nguyen district aims to build itself into a fairly developed district, associated with new rural construction and a satellite city of Vinh city. Assessing all the advantages and potentials of Hung Nguyen, it can be affirmed that the above goal is close and correct.
More than half of the 2020-2025 term has passed, the district is striving for that goal and has achieved positive results. Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Nguyen district, Le Pham Hung, said that the district's growth rate in 2023 reached 16.5%, in the first quarter of 2024 it reached 14.9%; GRDP per capita reached 52 million VND/year, an increase of 2 million VND compared to 2022; the poverty rate in 2023 was 1.33%. Currently, in the district, all 17/17 communes have met the new rural standards and 4/17 communes have met the advanced new rural standards, 1 commune has met the model new rural standards. Hung Nguyen is striving to submit to the province for review of the district meeting the new rural standards in the second quarter of 2024.
Identifying the advantage of being close to Vinh city, Hung Nguyen district has "taken a shortcut and taken the lead" in building the district's regional planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, to submit to the province for approval. According to the Department of Construction's assessment, Hung Nguyen is a locality that has done a good job in planning, with the highest coverage rate in the province, from regional planning, general planning to detailed planning. Currently, the district has planned 6 towns including: Hung Phuc, Hung Thong, Hung Chau, Hung Yen, Hung Tan, Long Xa.
Specifically, the Northern urban area chooses Hung Yen Bac commune to build an urban area to serve the connection of the Southeast Economic Zone in general and the VSIP planning in particular. The central urban area, Hung Nguyen town will still be the core urban area, playing the role and function of a district capital that is meaningful to the entire Hung Nguyen district and the planning direction, expanding the urban space to the North, including a part of the VSIP Industrial Park to National Highway 1 and National Highway 46 avoiding Vinh city. The Southern urban area includes 2 urban areas: Hung Thong - Long Xa urban area and Hung Phuc urban area.
In recent years, investment attraction in Hung Nguyen district has achieved many remarkable results. Hung Nguyen has made an important contribution to attracting projects to VSIP Industrial Park and up to now, the occupancy rate of this industrial park has reached over 97%. Currently, the district is seeking opinions from departments and branches on the detailed construction planning documents at a scale of 1/500 of Hung Yen Industrial Cluster in Hung Yen Nam commune with an area of 30 hectares in phase 1, with a total investment capital of about 265 billion VND; implementing procedures to establish Hung My - Hung Nghia Industrial Cluster.
Besides the advantages, being “near Vinh” is also creating certain pressures for Hung Nguyen district. Currently, in addition to VSIP Industrial Park, Hung Nguyen district is facing difficulties in attracting investment. Hung Nguyen’s service and trade infrastructure is not yet vibrant, if not quite poor. Besides, the district’s area is already small and now has to “bear” many projects, causing the area to be divided, creating certain difficulties for the district’s development. Therefore, the use of the district’s land fund needs to be economical, ensuring convenience for the production and service chain; prioritizing projects, production and business activities using high technology, supporting industries, further increasing the value obtained per unit of cultivated area.
At the recent working session with the leaders of Hung Nguyen district, the leaders of the provincial departments and branches suggested important solutions and tasks to the district. Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Cao Minh Tu said that in order to attract investment in many projects, Hung Nguyen district needs to speed up the direction of land acquisition, compensation and site clearance for the Hung Yen Nam Industrial Cluster to create favorable conditions for contractors to carry out construction work; promptly carry out the procedures for establishing the approved Hung My - Hung Nghia Industrial Cluster. According to the proposed plan to integrate the Provincial Planning, the district plans to build 4 markets, 4 trade centers and supermarkets. Therefore, it is recommended that the district coordinate with departments and branches to strengthen the work of attracting investment to develop commercial infrastructure in the area.
Hung Nguyen district has 126 historical and cultural relics, including 12 national relics and 25 provincial relics. However, the important issue is how to promote the values of those historical relics in association with service and tourism activities. Guiding the district on this issue, Director of the Department of Culture and Sports Tran Thi My Hanh suggested that Hung Nguyen district should develop a project to develop heritage economy associated with tourism, focusing on Lam Thanh mountain relics, Ong Hoang Muoi temple, forming tours and tourist routes along Lam river. Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung also suggested that the district should promote the relics well, develop services, especially services associated with eco-tourism, historical tourism, and spiritual tourism.
Sharing the difficulties that Hung Nguyen district is facing, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung suggested that Hung Nguyen district continue to promote its cultural traditions and revolutionary history; promote the spirit of solidarity, perseverance, dynamism, creativity and innovation to lead, direct and successfully implement the set goals, targets and tasks; strive to complete the task of building new rural areas in 2024. "Hung Nguyen needs to overcome difficulties, promote more advantages of its location near Vinh city to shift the economic structure towards taking industry - services and urban development as development priorities; promote the advantage of having VSIP Industrial Park to call for industrial development; develop industrial clusters to call for investment attraction, in which attention should be paid to developing supporting industries", Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said.
In addition to industry, services and urban areas, Hung Nguyen district needs to promote its advantages to form a commodity agriculture to serve the Vinh city market. The whole district has nearly 1,000 hectares of alluvial land along the Lam River suitable for many types of crops, especially developing high-tech agricultural models. Therefore, Hung Nguyen needs to continue maintaining agricultural production in the direction of converting the structure of crops and livestock associated with the plan to build new rural areas, gradually creating organic, clean and sustainable agriculture; enhancing the application of science and technology, gradually converting to a green economy, a circular economy, exploiting the advantages of the alluvial land along the Lam River with strong crops.
