By 2025, the Southeast Economic Zone strives to attract about 25,000 billion VND in investment capital.

The conference was chaired by comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and leaders of the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board.

Also attending were representatives of provincial departments, agencies, commercial banks, universities, vocational colleges; leaders of districts, cities and towns in the Southeast Economic Zone; infrastructure investors and some typical FDI enterprises.

Contribute significantly to the province's investment attraction results
Entering the implementation of the 2024 tasks in the context of a complex and unpredictable world and regional situation, thanks to closely following the province's instructions and the determination and consensus of the people, businesses and investors, the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board has successfully completed the set goals and tasks. Along with continuing to develop programs, projects, and policy mechanisms to advise the province, the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board has well implemented the planning and management steps for planning, environmental resources as well as key tasks in 2024.

Specifically, the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board continues to invest and complete the infrastructure of the economic zone and industrial park as completed and put into use 2 projects; started 2 projects, completed investment policy approval procedures, adjusted 9 projects, and proposed new investment policies for 5 projects.

In addition, the Economic Zone Management Board also supports infrastructure investors to deploy industrial parks at VSIP Nghe An 1 and WHA Nghe An 1 and Hoang Mai I Industrial Park; at the same time, supports investors to deploy Tho Loc Industrial Park phase 1, submits to the Prime Minister for approval of investment policy of WHA Industrial Zone 2 - Nghe An and Hoang Mai II Industrial Park...

To date, Nghe An has 7 industrial parks with a total area of ​​2,388 hectares, with an occupancy rate of 56.36%. The total newly granted and adjusted capital is estimated at 1.648 billion USD, reaching 235.4% and is expected to reach over 1.69 billion USD in 2024, making it the third consecutive year in the top 10 provinces attracting the largest FDI in the country.

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In 2024, with 16 new enterprises coming into operation, up to now, there are 157 enterprises operating in production and business in many industries; estimated revenue of 77,219 billion VND, budget contribution of 2,208 billion VND; creating jobs for nearly 46,500 workers, of which 8,392 new jobs were created compared to 2023, average income of workers reached 8.2 million VND/person/month.

At the conference, in order to share experiences in investing and implementing projects in Nghe An as well as the upcoming plans and projects of their enterprises, representatives of a number of FDI enterprises spoke and acknowledged the support of the province in the past, and made recommendations and proposals for the coming time. At the conference, the Management Board of the Southeast Economic Zone set a target of attracting from 20,000 to 25,000 billion VND to the Economic Zone.

Continue to adhere to the "5 ready" principle
Speaking at the conference, Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reviewed the advantages of 2024. Accordingly, although there are still difficulties, compared to the period of 2022-2023, enterprises in the Southeast Economic Zone have basically overcome the most difficult time and achieved many results.

Based on the review of the province's outstanding socio-economic results in 2024, typically the province's budget revenue is estimated at 24,000 billion VND, the province's FDI attraction continues to be in the top 10 nationwide for the third year, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged the active advisory role of the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board, departments, branches and localities.

He acknowledged 8 outstanding results such as the Committee together with the province developed policies for the National Assembly to issue Resolution No. 37 on a number of specific policies for Nghe An; continued to advise on the Project to expand the Southeast Economic Zone to create a premise for implementing the goal of attracting investment in the following years; promoted the achieved results and persistently prepared well the "5 ready" to have a clean land for the province to call for and attract investment; proactively and actively connected to meet the labor supply and demand needs of enterprises; invested in technical infrastructure...

On behalf of the provincial leaders, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also pointed out a number of existing problems and limitations.

2025 is a pivotal year for assessing the targets for the 2020-2025 period, so on the basis of agreeing with the 7 groups of solutions proposed by the Economic Zone Management Board, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested to continue to persevere in the motto and principle of "5 readiness" with a new mindset and vision; pay special attention to social infrastructure and electricity supply infrastructure for production; request the Board as well as departments and branches to continue to pay attention to investing and improving the quality of logistics and connecting infrastructure; businesses and investors, together with the province, will work together to remove social infrastructure, social housing, and social security for workers; improve income regimes and working conditions for workers to gradually remove the bottleneck of labor supply and demand.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the units to review the implementation results, goals, targets, especially key infrastructure projects and items compared to the set targets to build and plan for the next term. The Party committees and authorities of localities, departments and branches actively review and concretize the investment attraction and industrial development targets into the targets of the resolutions of the Party congresses at all levels in the next period.

On this occasion, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded excellent emulation flags and certificates of merit to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in 2024./.