Building a solid foundation for a new development phase - Part 2: The key to 'focus and key points'
Since the beginning of the 2020-2025 term, Nghe An has been steadfast in its leadership stance: “Focus, key points” in all decisions. This is a new, breakthrough approach, aiming to optimize the mobilization and allocation of resources to areas and fields with outstanding potential, thereby creating a driving force for development and spreading strongly throughout the province.
Duc Chuyen - Thanh Duy • October 3, 2024
Since the beginning of the 2020-2025 term, Nghe An has been steadfast in its leadership stance: “Focus, key points” in all decisions. This is a new, breakthrough approach, aiming to optimize the mobilization and allocation of resources to areas and fields with outstanding potential, thereby creating a driving force for development and spreading strongly throughout the province.
Quynh Loc is a purely agricultural commune in the Northeast of Hoang Mai town, the livelihood of the people mainly depends on agriculture. However, in the past 2 years, when FDI projects worth hundreds of millions of USD were invested in Hoang Mai I Industrial Park located in the area, the development trajectory of the commune is turning around. Secretary of the commune Party Committee Nguyen Huu Tuy said: The projects of Ju Teng electronic product and auto parts factory of Ju Teng International Group; Monocrystalline silicon bar and semiconductor wafer factory of Runergy PV Technology Co., Ltd. have started, contributing to changing the economic structure of the land at the head of Nghe An. In particular, the service and trade sectors have developed, reducing the proportion of agricultural production.
Service and commercial activities in the area have been expanded, with new private lodgings and restaurants serving workers in the industrial park. Human resource supply services have increased rapidly, mainly supplying labor to the industrial park. Many workers who previously worked far away have now returned to their hometowns to work. "In the first 9 months of 2024 alone, the entire Quynh Loc commune created new jobs for 175 people," Mr. Nguyen Huu Tuy excitedly said.
The economy is developing, people's lives are increasing rapidly. If in 2020, the average added value per capita was only 46.88 million VND, by the end of 2023 it had reached 63.65 million VND and is aiming for 79 million VND by 2025. The budget revenue of Quynh Loc commune has reached an impressive figure, this year it is striving to reach nearly 20 billion VND, which is almost equivalent to some districts in the West of the province; this figure also makes the commune a self-balancing budget unit. Secretary of the Commune Party Committee Nguyen Huu Tuy said: Currently, Quynh Loc commune is focusing on improving the quality of new rural criteria, striving to become a ward.
The story of Quynh Loc commune's turnaround is also a common picture of 10 wards and communes of Hoang Mai town. Recently, during a working trip of provincial leaders to the town, comrade Le Duc Cuong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Organization Committee and also former leader of Quynh Luu district recalled: Previously, Hoang Mai town was considered a "remote area" of Quynh Luu district, with economic and social difficulties compared to the general level, but now there has been a new step of development, clearly showing the urban appearance.
In its strategic vision, Nghe An province identifies Hoang Mai town as the northern gateway of the province, belonging to the key economic zone of Nam Thanh - Bac Nghe, as the "northern growth pole" of the province. Officially established in 2013, in the first 7 years, the young town faced many difficulties, its real growth was not clear. Entering the 2020-2025 term, Nghe An has focused on attracting investment to the town through the revival of Hoang Mai I Industrial Park, when changing the investor to the infrastructure developer of Hoang Thinh Dat Industrial Park. The new investor has brought a "new wind", Hoang Mai I Industrial Park of nearly 265 hectares quickly welcomed large "eagles" to nest.
Currently, the town is continuing to implement Hoang Mai II Industrial Park of nearly 335 hectares, one of the two key industrial park infrastructure projects. The province is urgently directing the early handover of land to investors to welcome 490 million USD of FDI capital this year. Secretary of the Town Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Hoang Mai Town Le Truong Giang said: Attracting investment into the area has improved with many projects of a driving nature, in line with the orientation. The total registered FDI capital in the town reached 715 million USD.
The young town of Hoang Mai has risen to become one of the three largest economies of Nghe An province, a high-tech industrial center, with a production value of 22,448 billion VND in 2023. The average growth rate in the period 2020 - 2023 is high, 13.69%. The economic structure has shifted in the right direction, the proportion of industry and services has shifted quite quickly, currently reaching 83.04%. The average income per capita has also reached 81.4 million VND/year, higher than the provincial average. Budget revenue has continuously increased, reaching 597.2 billion VND in 2023. The appearance of a dynamic and modern "along the river, towards the sea" industrial and service urban area in the far North of Nghe An is gradually taking shape.
The strong development of the land at the "headland of Nghe An" in a short time is considered a vivid example proving the correctness in changing the development mindset from "arranging horizontally to progress together" to choosing "priority coordinates" for investment and development according to the motto "focus, key points" of Nghe An province.
Right from the beginning of the term, in order to outline the development picture of the province in the next 10 years, 30 years, as a basis for stable and long-term implementation; eliminating "term thinking", Nghe An attaches great importance and determines that planning must be one step ahead, so it immediately started building the Provincial Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, and is one of the earliest localities in the country to be approved by the Prime Minister. The content of the planning has demonstrated innovative thinking, strategic vision, opened up development spaces, promoted distinct potentials, outstanding opportunities, competitive advantages of the province, of each region, locality, with a breakthrough according to the model of "two growth engine areas; three strategic breakthroughs; four economic corridors; five pillar industries and fields and six urban centers".
Dr., architect Tran Ngoc Chinh - former Deputy Minister of Construction, Chairman of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, Provincial Planning Review Committee member of the Nghe An Provincial Planning Appraisal Council for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, commented: “Nghe An Provincial Planning is of great significance for the socio-economic development of the province. The planning content focuses very comprehensively on the study of the current state of the socio-economy, environmental resources as well as the current status, advantages, opportunities, and challenges in order to best exploit the socio-economic potential of the province”.
Establishing a quality plan is one thing, then organizing the implementation of the plan is ten times more important. The province's new viewpoint is to prioritize the development of the East to lead and pull the West to develop; taking the development of the East as the driving force, the West in a sustainable direction. On that basis, Nghe An prioritizes focusing on two growth engine areas (the expanded Vinh city and the expanded Southeast Nghe An Economic Zone) and developing the coastal economic corridor to promote the strength of completed connecting infrastructure, especially National Highway 1A, the North-South Expressway in the East, coastal roads, national railways and sea routes. Agreeing with this viewpoint, former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Xuan Hung - Chairman of the Vietnam General Association of Agriculture and Rural Development, member of the province's Socio-Economic Advisory Group, said that it is impossible to develop everything at the same time, but it is necessary to choose what to do. "The areas that develop and create the most widespread momentum need to be prioritized and highly focused on," he emphasized.
Along with completing the province's master plan, during the 2020-2025 term, Nghe An has approved and issued important resolutions and projects to promote the potential and outstanding strengths of localities in the province such as: Project to expand the Southeast Economic Zone; Resolution on building and developing Vinh city until 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution on building and developing Do Luong district until 2030, with a vision to 2045; Project on planning the construction of Dien Chau district, Nghe An province for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050 and Project on planning the construction of Phu Dien expanded urban area, striving to build the district to achieve type III urban status and become a town before 2030... and will soon issue a resolution on "building and developing Dien Chau district until 2030, with a vision to 2045".
In 2024, the Provincial Party Standing Committee will review 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 11-NQ/TU dated September 18, 2014 on the construction and development of Hoang Mai town to 2020 and the following years; at the same time, a new resolution will be issued to create new momentum for the acceleration to soon become a worthy "riverside, sea-facing" urban area in the far North of Nghe An.
In August 2024, Vinh - Cua Lo Boulevard, the widest avenue in Nghe An, was officially opened to traffic and put into use, bringing excitement to the people and tourists when coming to Cua Lo. The completion of the province's key project created a modern, spacious and airy traffic axis, connecting and upgrading the expanded Vinh urban area, including the merger of Cua Lo town and 4 communes of Nghi Loc district.
Before its inauguration and use, Nghe An's widest avenue had a rather difficult "fate" when the implementation period lasted nearly 13 years. The main reason was still the lack of capital! So the project was approved in 2010, started in 2011, and was suspended in 2015, until November 2017 when construction restarted. In 2021, the province's key avenue completed phase 1, with 2 lanes in each direction and 9m wide. Entering the 2020-2025 term, Nghe An is determined to mobilize and allocate capital of 1,415 billion VND to complete phase 2. Therefore, instead of being implemented slowly, lasting 10 years like phase 1, phase 2 of the project was constructed at lightning speed. Construction started in July 2022, with the contract completion date set for July 2025, but by August 2024, the entire 12-lane route, including 8 two-way lanes for cars in phase 2, had been opened to traffic. This is also evidence of the effectiveness of the province's allocation of key public investment capital during this term.
The total estimated demand for social development investment capital in the 2021-2025 period of Nghe An province is about 560 trillion VND (state budget capital, ODA capital, foreign direct investment (FDI), investment capital of enterprises, investment capital of residential areas). Of which, the total investment capital from the state budget of Nghe An province is assigned 39,154.4 billion VND (excluding capital allocated for key projects, inter-provincial and inter-regional projects and national target programs). However, due to the large demand, the capital allocation plan in the public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period only meets about 25% of the demand for new projects starting construction of sectors and localities in the province.
"Many children, difficult assets", requiring the province to "measure rice according to fish sauce" appropriately, cannot just "keep peace", allocate a little to each locality, the result is that the number of projects started is large but the construction is sluggish, slow to put into use, causing waste. Changing the mindset of allocating capital "focus, key", taking internal resources as the foundation, external resources as important, closely combining internal resources with external resources, using public investment to lead private investment, the province has created optimal comprehensive resources for development, truly a "revolution" from awareness to action, from theory to practice.
In that spirit, right from the beginning of the 19th term of the Provincial Party Committee, the resolution on the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period of the Provincial People's Council has concretized the above viewpoint of the congress document, demonstrating a new mindset of focusing on allocating capital to complete projects in the medium-term public investment plan for the 2016-2020 period, transitioning to the 2021-2025 period to put them into effective use soon; and for newly started projects, focusing on investment with focus and key points in key sectors and fields of the economy; transport projects with regional connectivity and spillover effects.
Talking about the focus and key points in public investment, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy said: If in the period 2016 - 2020, the whole province had more than 1,275 public investment projects, then in the period 2021 - 2025 there will be only more than 126 new investment projects left.
During the implementation process, the province has closely directed, considering the disbursement of public investment capital as an important and urgent task that needs to be focused on, directed, and mobilized by the entire political system, first of all the responsibility of Party committees and authorities at all levels and sectors; especially promoting the role and responsibility of leaders of Party committees and authorities at all levels in directing and implementing the disbursement of public investment capital; assigning and assigning tasks to leaders in charge of each project and project group; especially in units with large capital plans. In addition, the province requires the establishment of detailed disbursement plans for each project on a monthly and quarterly basis; closely following and grasping the implementation of each project, promptly detecting and removing difficulties and obstacles; transferring projects with slow disbursement to projects with better disbursement progress.
It can be said that promoting the motto of "focus, focus" in choosing "priority coordinates" for development when specifying the provincial planning and in allocating public investment resources since the beginning of the term has brought about very clear results, especially in key transport infrastructure, contributing to the completion of strategic infrastructure to serve economic and social development, attracting other economic sectors and attracting investment. Public investment capital has truly become a source of "seed capital" to maximize the exploitation of capital sources of other economic sectors.
Along with the completion of infrastructure, the Eastern Nghe An economic corridor is becoming a very vibrant industrial corridor, with large industrial parks such as: VSIP 1 (367.6ha); VSIP 2 (500ha); WHA (498ha); Nam Cam (371.15ha); Bac Vinh (60.16ha); Hoang Mai I (264.77ha); Hoang Mai II (334.79ha); Dong Hoi (457.07ha) ... stretching from Hung Nguyen, Vinh City, Nghi Loc, Dien Chau and Hoang Mai. The above localities are all progressing rapidly on the path of industrialization, all in the top group with large economic scale of the province, contributing greatly to the scale of GRDP of Nghe An.
(To be continued)
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