Many investors plan to pour hundreds of millions of USD into projects in Nghe An.

On the afternoon of July 1, the Provincial People's Committee held a working session to listen to reports on the implementation of a number of key investment attraction projects in the province.

Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting; also attending were leaders of departments, branches, People's Committees of relevant districts, cities and towns and representatives of investors. Photo: Thanh Duy

Investors' concerns

At the meeting, the provincial leaders listened to progress reports and recommendations from investors implementing projects including: VSIP Nghe An Industrial, Urban and Service Park; WHA Industrial Zone 1 - Nghe An infrastructure construction and business; projects proposed and implemented by Vingroup Joint Stock Company, FLC Group Joint Stock Company; projects implemented by Song Lam Cement Joint Stock Company; investment project to build a deep-water port in the North of Cua Lo Port Area of ​​TH Group; MDF Wood Processing Factory Project - MDF Wood Joint Stock Company Nghe An and Traffic route project to Tri Le Industrial Park, Anh Son district; projects at Vinh International Airport proposed and implemented by Vietnam Airports Corporation.

Comrade Le Tien Tri - Director of the Provincial Investment Support and Promotion Center reported on the implementation of a number of key investment attraction projects. Photo: Thanh Duy

Up to now, VSIP Nghe An has attracted 24 companies to sign investment commitments, on a total land area of ​​about 129 hectares with an estimated registered investment capital of about 267 million USD, including 12 foreign-invested companies, of which 8 companies have come into operation and 3 companies are building factories, 1 project has just signed an investment commitment, expected to attract about 20,000 - 25,000 workers.

Meanwhile, WHA Hemaraj Nghe An Industrial Park has attracted two foreign-invested projects, with an area of ​​5.13 hectares and registered investment capital of nearly 10.7 million USD.

Song Lam Cement Plant Project Phase 1 has operated 2 production lines, with a capacity of over 12,000 tons of clinker/day and is currently operating stably. Currently, the investor is coordinating with the Department of Construction to review and evaluate the reserves of raw stone mines as a basis for considering the implementation of Phase 2...

Representatives of investors attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, investors made specific recommendations for the projects, focusing mainly on compensation and site clearance at VSIP and Hemaraj industrial and urban projects; mobilizing people in Quang Trung B area (Vinh City) to agree with the temporary resettlement support plan and site clearance for 73 households; the MDF wood panel factory project area in Tri Le and Anh Son Industrial Parks does not have a connecting road from National Highway 7 and Ho Chi Minh Road to Tri Le Industrial Park;...

Focus on site clearance for key projects

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa requested relevant departments, branches and localities to focus on supporting investors to carry out procedures in accordance with regulations; at the same time, some investors also coordinate more effectively with the province to implement the project.

People clean up their houses and hand over the site for the Quang Trung Area B renovation project. Photo courtesy of Quang An.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy said that the work of attracting investment into industrial parks in Nghe An is currently very active, with large investors, with projects of hundreds of millions of USD in the fields of manufacturing phone components, cold rolling steel... approaching industrial parks such as: VSIP, WHA Hemaraj Nghe An;... When these projects are invested and put into operation, they will create jobs for many workers and can pull in a chain of other supporting industrial projects.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

To receive investment capital, completing infrastructure projects of industrial parks to attract secondary investors is extremely important. Therefore, the Provincial People's Committee needs to soon establish a provincial working group with a Vice Chairman as the team leader to regularly grasp and direct the timely resolution of current problems and difficulties for industrial park infrastructure investment projects including: VSIP Nghe An Industrial, Urban and Service Park; WHA Industrial Zone 1 - Nghe An infrastructure construction and business project and industrial park projects of Hoang Thinh Dat Joint Stock Company in Hoang Mai town.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also clearly stated the direction to resolve specific problems for key projects attracting investment from 8 investors, in which the relevant localities focused on developing plans to clear the land for the remaining areas at the VSIP Nghe An Industrial, Urban and Service Park project in Hung Nguyen and the WHA Industrial Zone 1 - Nghe An infrastructure construction and business project in Nghi Loc district; while Vinh City completed the temporary resettlement and site clearance work at Quang Trung B area by the end of July 2019.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also agreed with the proposal of VSIP Nghe An Company Limited to expand the project with VSIP Nghe An Industrial Park and assigned relevant departments and branches to coordinate with investors to carry out the necessary procedures for implementation.