Nghe An organizes workshop to find solutions to improve PCI

Attending the workshop at Vinh City, on the side of Nghe An province were comrades: Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council.

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and Mr. Hoang Quang Phong - Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) co-chaired the workshop.

Also attending were representatives of provincial departments, agencies, and branches, representatives of business associations and entrepreneurs of the province; Quang Ninh Provincial Investment Promotion Support Board, VCCI Nghe An branch and delegates at the People's Committees of 21 districts, cities, and towns.

High determination to improve the investment environment

Based on the review of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) results so far, especially the PCI results in 2023 of the province, Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized the view that Nghe An will have a specific plan and roadmap to improve the investment environment and enhance competitiveness.

Nghe An is also determined and receptive to receiving opinions and assessments to improve PCI to serve investment attraction and socio-economic development of the province. Departments, branches and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns need to seriously receive, on the basis of research and exchange, opinions and presentations to clarify and find solutions to improve the PCI index in the coming time...

Mr. Hoang Quang Phong - Vice President of Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry also highly appreciated Nghe An's efforts in improving the investment environment and raising the PCI index.

Currently, according to the representative of the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry, PCI index assessment has become an annual activity of VCCI, the result of cooperation between VCCI and USAID (USA) and is highly appreciated by the Government, recognized as an information channel to improve policies, business investment environment and enhance national competitiveness.

At the workshop, a representative of the VCCI Legal Department briefly reported on the process of distributing PCI index assessment forms in 2023 in provinces and cities across the country and the PCI index results of Nghe An.

Based on a clear analysis of the increase and decrease in scores between the provinces and Nghe An, the expert also pointed out the difficulties of 2023 and the next two years; the trend of absorbing and competing to improve the investment environment of the provinces. The gap in scores between the provinces is not large, so even though it is low this year, it can be overcome next year if the locality and businesses make efforts together.

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According to the assessment and ranking of VCCI, in 2023, Nghe An's PCI index reached 65.72 points, ranking 44th in the country, ranking 3rd in the North Central region. Compared to 2022, Nghe An's PCI index decreased by 0.88 points, down 21 places.

Among the 10 PCI component indexes, 3 indexes increased in score and rank, 1 index increased in score and maintained its rank; 1 index increased in score and decreased in rank; 5 indexes decreased in score and decreased in rank.

Continue to improve component indicators

Also according to the VCCI representative, although Nghe An's PCI results in 2023 are outside the top 30 provinces and cities, Nghe An has a number of strong indicators such as training, labor recruitment, digital transformation, administrative procedure reform; the province has policies to support businesses but needs to do better...

However, based on the analysis of the indicators that still have many limitations and are bottlenecks of the province, especially those with median scores lower than the national average, the VCCI representative also gave warnings and recommendations that the province needs to make more efforts to achieve good results.

Besides, one of the new requirements is the growth index, green transformation PGI province also needs more attention, because the Government has committed to the international community and the implementation roadmap.

Contributing to the workshop, representatives of the Departments of Home Affairs, Planning and Investment, representatives of the People's Committee of Vinh city, Nghi Loc district and representatives of the business community gave speeches stating the PCI assessment results for their localities, the indexes that increased and decreased in score and the reasons.

On the basis of stating the causes of the remaining limitations, the departments, branches and localities also presented the roadmap, solutions and commitments for implementation; at the same time, through stating the difficulties at the grassroots level and business practices, they made recommendations to the Provincial People's Committee and the central ministries and branches to improve the provincial competitiveness index in the coming time.

Attending the workshop, Mr. Nguyen Manh Cuong - Deputy Head of the Investment Promotion and Support Department of Quang Ninh province, the unit that continuously leads the PCI rankings of 63 provinces and cities nationwide, also gave a speech sharing experiences in maintaining and sustaining component indexes.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Comrade Bui Thanh An - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee received comments from departments, branches and especially the business community; Investment Promotion and Support Board of Quang Ninh province.

Frankly pointing out the shortcomings, limitations and reasons for the province's PCI index falling in 2023, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized the requirements and goals of improving the province's PCI component indexes in the coming time.

Specifically, the Provincial People's Committee plans to have 6 groups of solutions and tasks assigned to departments, branches and local authorities to implement, in which, it requires the chairing of departments, branches and localities to adhere to the indicators for implementation, consider them as criteria for year-end emulation assessment, actively propagate the province's policies before promulgation so that the community and people can understand and grasp.

Nghe An also hopes that business associations and entrepreneurs will continue to accompany the province, cooperate, strive to overcome difficulties, and contribute to improving the PCI index in the coming time./.