Nghe An aims to attract 130,000 - 150,000 billion VND in investment capital within 5 years.

On the morning of December 29, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee approved the policy of promulgating the Project to improve the investment and business environment, and enhance the efficiency of attracting investment in Nghe An province, for the period 2021 - 2025.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Also attending were Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of leaders of a number of Central Party Committees, members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and leaders of a number of relevant sectors and localities.

Overview of the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The objective of the Project is to continue to strongly improve the investment and business environment by focusing on removing bottlenecks in infrastructure, administrative reform, and human resource quality; creating a favorable, equal, open, transparent, and friendly investment and business environment to attract investment and develop businesses.

Along with that is to create a strong change and further improve the PCI, PAPI, PAR Index in a sustainable direction. Promote and improve the efficiency of attracting investment projects in the province, especially large projects, which are of a driving force to promote socio-economic development in order to successfully implement the goals set out in the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress.

Nghe An strives to have PCI, PAPI, and PAR Indexes in the top 15 nationwide by 2025; and the readiness index for information technology development and application (ICT index) in the top 10 nationwide.

The province also aims to attract about 550 - 600 projects in the 2021 - 2025 period with a total investment of VND130,000 - 150,000 billion, of which foreign direct investment (FDI) is about 3 to 3.5 billion USD.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

To achieve the set goals, the Project has 2 main groups of solutions including: a group of solutions on improving the investment and business environment including 5 solutions and a group of solutions on improving the efficiency of investment attraction including 5 solutions.

At the meeting, the comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee expressed concerns to further improve the competitiveness in attracting investment as well as the efficiency of attracting investment in the province.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee frankly admitted that although the investment and business environment has changed, it has not yet met requirements.

On that basis, in 2022, Nghe An chose the theme of digital transformation, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested departments and branches to urgently transform digitally and digitize. With the determination to improve more substantially the settlement of investment and business procedures, during the period of digital transformation, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung requested the heads of departments and branches to report every weekend how many documents and proposals from businesses related to the industry and field under their charge, and how many have been resolved.

“Investors need publicity, transparency, clarity, and the sectors need support to carry out procedures quickly and effectively,” the head of Nghe An province government pointed out.

Panorama of VSIP Nghe An Industrial Park. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Also with a very drastic viewpoint to improve the investment and business environment, entering 2022, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung asked the Provincial Party Standing Committee to support the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee when he proposed to review and handle the personnel work of the heads of departments and branches if there was a lack of responsibility and delay in implementing investment and business procedures.

Speaking on this content, Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Agencies Party Committee said that in 2022, the theme and task of the Party Committee of the block in 2022 is to strengthen administrative reform, closely linking the responsibilities of cadres and party members, especially the leaders. On that basis, she discussed a number of solutions that the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the block will lead and direct in the coming year; especially reviewing the regulations of the Party and the State so that if there are any violations, they will serve as a basis for consideration of warnings, deterrence, reprimands and discipline.

Concluding this content, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy requested the Provincial Party Standing Committee to support the viewpoint of the head of the provincial government; at the same time, he said that he would propose to the Standing Committee and the Provincial Party Standing Committee, according to their authority, to strengthen thematic inspection and supervision work related to two contents: administrative procedures and land in order to create more substantial changes.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee delivered a concluding speech on the Project to improve the investment and business environment and enhance the efficiency of attracting investment in Nghe An province, period 2021 - 2025. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee also needs to study projects with a total investment scale and land use area of ​​​​a certain amount or more, then carry out procedures from top to bottom; that is, the person responsible for unifying the policy and assigning relevant departments and branches to commit to the progress of implementing procedures for investors.

Along with that, the province also needs to focus on digital transformation, thoroughly applying information technology to handle procedures; at the same time, it is a tool for leaders to manage the progress of processing documents and procedures.

At the end of the discussion on this content, the Provincial Party Standing Committee highly agreed on the issuance of the Project, especially the contents emphasized by the provincial leaders to change the substance of the problem, change the situation of administrative reform, and improve the investment and business environment of the province.

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