Nghia Dan district integrates resources for economic and infrastructure development

Production efficiency at Nghia Long Industrial Park

Viethome Stone VHS Joint Stock Company under Nhat Huy Group is one of the first enterprises to invest in building factories and organizing production in Nghia Long Industrial Park, Nghia Dan District. Officially operating since 2019, there was a period when the company attracted 350 workers, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, for many reasons, this company had to stop production and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

Comrade Pham Chi Kien - Secretary of Nghia Dan District Party Committee (2nd left), visited Viethome Stone Export Stone Factory in Nghia Long Industrial Park. Photo: Nguyen Nguyen

Facing that difficulty, with the determination to support Nhat Huy Group and the companionship of the Party Committee and the government of Nghia Dan district, Viethome Stone Joint Stock Company has restructured, invested in modern production lines, and produced decorative stone products. Up to now, the company's products have been exported to many European countries, especially the demanding US market.

Mr. Tran Viet Huu - Director of Viethome Stone Joint Stock Company shared: "There was a time when the company's production was weak, within more than 1 year, it changed 6 "generations" of directors. When I came to take up the task, some brothers in the commune joked that if I "lasted" for 1 year, they would save my phone number. Up to now, after more than 2 years of working with the company and this land, we have gradually affirmed our production efficiency, coordinated with local authorities to strengthen social security activities. Currently, the company creates jobs for 150 workers, mainly local people, with an average income of 7 million VND/person/month".

Activities at Viethome Stone Export Stone Factory in Nghia Long Industrial Park. Photo: Nguyen Nguyen

Up to now, Nghia Long Industrial Park has 7 factories in operation and 1 enterprise is completing land and construction procedures to be eligible to start construction. The occupancy rate of the Industrial Park has reached 80%.

According to the planning orientation of Nghia Dan district and the Provincial Planning, Nghia Long Industrial Cluster is expected to expand from 37.5 hectares to 75 hectares in the period of 2021 - 2025. Currently, factories in the industrial cluster provide regular jobs for 847 workers (mainly local workers) with an average salary of 6.5 - 8 million VND/person/month and contribute over 10 billion VND to the state budget annually.

A corner of Nghia Long Industrial Park. Photo: Minh Thai

Integrating resources to build infrastructure

Nghia Dan district actively mobilized and combined resources with tens of billions of dong in investment, gradually completing the transportation, irrigation, school, and healthcare systems to meet the production and living needs of the people.

Typically, the flood rescue route, ensuring national security and defense in communes from Nghia Lam to Nghia Binh; Traffic route serving economic development in the Western Nghe An region from the center of Nghia Dan district to Ho Chi Minh road; Inter-commune traffic route Nghia Duc to Nghia Hieu, Nghia Hung; Project to upgrade the road to the raw material area of ​​the TH dairy cow industrial project; Construction of cultural facilities in Nghia Dan district; Renovation and upgrading of Duc Trung reservoirs in Nghia Duc commune, irrigation canal in Nghia Khanh commune...

Inter-district route from Nghia Dan to Thai Hoa town. Photo: Document

At the same time, communes and towns mobilized resources to pour concrete on rural and intra-field roads, creating favorable conditions for production, harvesting and transportation of agricultural products and developing services and trade.

Nghia Binh commune is the first unit of Nghia Dan district to be recognized by Nghe An province.recognized as meeting new rural standardsin 2015. By 2022, Nghia Binh will continue to be the first commune in the district to meet advanced new rural standards and is aiming to build a model new rural area.

To achieve that result, the Party Committee, government, organizations and people of Nghia Binh commune actively transformed the economic structure towards diversified production, applied scientific advances and promoted mechanization in production, built production models in the direction of VietGAP, safe biological livestock farming...

Model of applying technical advances in agricultural production at Cooperative 1-5, Nghia Binh Commune (Nghia Dan). Photo: Nguyen Nguyen

In particular, the commune mobilized resources to build convenient infrastructure connections, planned garden and hill areas with wide concrete roads to serve agricultural mechanization and commodity production. In the period of 2020 - 2022 alone, Nghia Binh mobilized nearly 79 billion VND to build advanced new rural areas, of which more than 68 billion VND was contributed by the people and socialized.

The results of attracting investment and building infrastructure have created a great driving force to promote socio-economic development in Nghia Dan district. To continue mobilizing investment resources for socio-economic development, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee has issued the Project "Improving the effectiveness of investment attraction in Nghia Dan district in the period of 2021-2025 and the following years" and deployed it to all levels, sectors and localities.

New rural construction movement in Nghia Dan district. Photo: Minh Thai

The issuance of the project with a list of priority projects to attract investment in the period of 2021 - 2030 serves as a basis for orienting investment attraction and creating favorable conditions for businesses and investors to learn about investment in Nghia Dan. The District Party Committee also strengthened the direction of the People's Committee, departments, branches and localities to actively accompany and promptly handle difficulties and problems of investors to soon implement projects and promote practical efficiency.

Nghia Dan Town. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Nguyen Nguyen