Demonstrate a burning desire to attract investment; strongly improve infrastructure and logistics

Mr. Ho Duc Phoc - Member of the Party Central Committee, State Auditor General:

Nghe An needs to show a burning desire to attract investment.

In the immediate future, the province needs to strongly reform administrative procedures, create a favorable investment environment, and create strong confidence for investors; innovate investment attraction methods, not wait for investors to come but proactively seek investors to introduce potentials, strengths, and convince them of the benefits that investors will receive to attract and strongly attract investment; create confidence for investors through the introduction of previously successful investors as "decoys" calling you. Prepare well the infrastructure, roads, airports, international seaports; electricity, post offices, banks, schools, etc. and the investment service environment.

Another issue is the need to develop and improve abundant, professional, highly qualified human resources. I am confident that with the potential of land, human resources, raw material areas, infrastructure and other favorable conditions, combined with the great determination and aspiration of the Party Committee and the people of the province, the work of attracting investment will be very good, Nghe An will quickly develop.

Mr. Phan Duy Hung - VCCI Nghe An Branch:

Further improve the public service awareness of a number of civil servants

The investment promotion conference held continuously over the past 10 years to introduce and promote the potentials, advantages, and preferential investment policies of Nghe An province to the domestic and foreign business community continues to be one of the most effective activities, attracting special attention from the business community and highly appreciated by many domestic and international investors. The economic growth rate, investment attraction and budget collection in 2018 of the province have demonstrated the efforts of the government.

The improvement of Nghe An's Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) ranking in recent years has had many clear changes. PCI in 2017 increased 04 ranks, ranked 21st, the highest ever and ranked first in the North Central provinces. I think this is very meaningful in attracting investment and developing businesses in the following years.

2019 is an important year for Nghe An province in implementing the 5-year socio-economic development plan 2016 - 2020 and Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the direction and tasks for developing Nghe An province until 2020. I think that, in order to achieve better results, the Party Committee and the provincial government need to end the harassment and extortion of some civil servants, strengthen disciplinary work... as a crucial solution to attract investment, improve the business environment effectively; focus on maximum support and development of enterprises with specific actions that benefit enterprises in the spirit of Resolution 35/NQ-CP so that by 2020 there will be 20,000 enterprises operating effectively.

Mr. David Nardone - CEO of WHA Industrial Development PLC (Thailand):

Hope Nghe An invests in improving logistics infrastructure system

I think Nghe An's investment environment is really attractive.

The first,Nghe An has great investment incentives to encourage investors to come here.

Monday,Nghe An provincial government has many cooperation programs in many fields at local and central levels.

Tuesday,Many investment-related factors have been improved recently such as infrastructure, logistics, especially Nghe An is known for its abundant labor force, well-trained from colleges and universities in the province.

We hope Nghe An will invest more to improve its logistics and transportation infrastructure system, especially the North-South expressway connecting Nghe An with Hai Phong port, which plays a particularly important role.

We hope that all investment procedures will be carried out under the one-stop mechanism at the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board, creating conditions for procedures to be processed and approved in the shortest time, saving time for businesses.

Currently, we have also welcomed the first secondary investors from Thailand and Japan and there will be about 6-10 more investors coming to invest in WHA 1 Industrial Park, Nghe An in the next 3 to 6 months.

The Spring Ky Hoi Investor Meeting organized by Nghe An province will take place on the afternoon of February 23 in Cua Lo town. This is the 11th conference organized, an opportunity for Nghe An to meet and express gratitude to investors, and at the same time an opportunity to connect and call on domestic and foreign investors and enterprises to continue to pay attention to learning, surveying and implementing investment activities in the province.

Since the 2014 Investor Meeting, Nghe An has attracted 150 projects with investment capital of over 100 billion VND/project with a total investment capital of 89,141 billion VND, of which the number of completed and operational projects, or projects being implemented, accounts for the majority of the total number of projects approved in principle or granted investment licenses (129 projects, total capital accounting for 87%).