Removing difficulties and obstacles, promoting investment attraction

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of October 28, 2013, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting to evaluate the results of investment attraction in the period 2011-2013.orientation to attract investment in the coming time. Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired.

Meeting scene.

According to the report of the Department of Planning and Investment, in the period of 2011-2013, the whole province has attracted 196 investment projects with a total registered capital of 37,770 billion VND, including a number of large projects such as: BSE electronic components factory, canned fish processing of Thailand, garment projects of Korea, Japan, Muong Thanh Song Lam hotel... In the first 10 months of 2013, the total newly registered and adjusted investment capital to date is 12,271 billion VND (of which newly granted is 5,770 billion VND for 64 projects, adjusted to increase is 1 project/6,501 billion VND), an increase of 18 projects compared to 2012.

Specifically, domestic investment projects: 60 projects/11,849.72 billion VND registered capital. Projects with foreign investment capital: 5 projects/21.081 million USD registered capital. By sector: trade, tourism: 17 projects; education, health: 2 projects; agriculture: 2 projects; minerals: 18 projects; processing industry: 2 projects; textile and garment: 2 projects; hydropower: 1 project; other industries: 14 projects.

Up to now, the province still has 484 projects / 146,900 billion VND of registered capital in effect, of which there are 452 domestic investment projects and 32 FDI projects.

The province has developed a document introducing an overview of Nghe An in four languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese, and Korean; reviewed and supplemented the list of projects calling for investment in Nghe An province in the 2011-2015 period. The investment promotion website on the Nghe An province's electronic information portal in four languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese, and Korean has been put into operation.

The province has welcomed many delegations of domestic and foreign investors to visit and explore investment opportunities in Nghe An such as: Korean Embassy delegation, Kotra, Samsung Group and Korean enterprises; JETRO leadership delegation, Pacific Group and Japanese enterprises; Mitsumishi Group, Shizuoka province leadership delegation, Saitama Province Representative Office (Japan); QWERT Group and PURO Klima Group (Czech Republic), SCL (USA), Thai and Hong Kong enterprises... to survey and explore investment opportunities in Nghe An.

At the conference, leaders of departments, branches and localities enthusiastically discussed the investment attraction situation, found solutions to attract investment more effectively, and overcome difficulties in geographical location, infrastructure...

Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded: The conference aims to re-evaluate investment attraction activities, overcome shortcomings, and find solutions to attract large projects. Initially, the entire political system has taken part and achieved many results. Many projects are promoting investment in Nghe An, but are stuck in terms of clean land. Nghe An has Resolution 26 of the Politburo creating a foundation for the province to develop, all levels and sectors must take part more strongly, promote dynamic projects, and accompany investors from start to finish to attract effective investment. Focus on handling obstacles in investment projects, creating favorable conditions for land prices. The province will allocate a part of the investment promotion budget to districts and sectors, and at the same time encourage districts to attract projects that use a lot of labor. Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien also assigned specific tasks to sectors and districts in promoting and attracting investment.

Chau Lan