Attracting investment in large projects with spillover effects and high added value

Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has just issued Official Dispatch No. 153/CTr-UBND on the program to promote investment, trade and tourism in Nghe An province in 2024.

Accordingly, the programs are implemented with the aim of enhancing and promoting the effectiveness of advertising, promoting and introducing products, promoting the potential and strengths of Nghe An province; focusing on effectively implementing mechanisms and policies on calling for investment; creating a friendly investment environment to attract strategic investors.

Expand international cooperation relationships, develop production, improve product quality, promote the development of key industry chains of the province and tourism service products, industrial products (including typical rural industrial products), handicraft products, OCOP products, specialty products, other characteristics of the province...

The Provincial People's Committee requires that investment, trade and tourism promotion activities must be organized safely, effectively, with focus and key points, in a flexible manner to continue to maintain and consolidate traditional markets, while expanding new markets and partners in line with the viewpoint and orientation of attracting investment, developing trade and tourism associated with the socio-economic development goals of the province.

Effectively use funding from the central and local budgets in investment, trade and tourism promotion; Strengthen regional linkages, linkages with key economic and tourism localities (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang City, etc.) in investment, trade and tourism promotion activities to take advantage of resources and advantages between localities, forming a supply chain of typical goods and tourism products; in which, promote investment promotion activities in branded, classy, ​​high-quality, and distinctive tourism products, etc. in key tourist areas according to Nghe An tourism development strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2035.

Develop a focused and key investment promotion program; innovate and diversify the contents of investment promotion activities. Improve the quality of on-site investment promotion activities along with strengthening activities to support business development and improve the investment and business environment, enhance provincial competitiveness. Create a favorable, open and attractive investment environment for investors.

Specifically, for the activityInvestment Promotion:

Proactively approach and connect with major investors and foreign direct investors (FDI) leading the supply chains to promptly attract new investment flows; focus on attracting investment in industrial development in both breadth and depth, attracting investment in large projects (in the fields of electronic component manufacturing, information technology, processing and manufacturing, etc.) with quality, spillover effects, high added value, using modern, environmentally friendly technology in economic zones, industrial parks, and industrial clusters, ensuring the participation of local enterprises in the value chain; create the premise to shift accompanying supporting industrial projects from abroad to Nghe An.

Strengthen support and accompany existing infrastructure investors (VSIP Nghe An Co., Ltd., WHA Industrial Zone Nghe An Joint Stock Company, Hoang Thinh Dat Joint Stock Company,...) to prepare infrastructure and clean land to welcome secondary investors from the new investment wave. At the same time, proactively approach strategic investors to attract infrastructure investment, especially infrastructure for industrial parks and industrial clusters.

Focus on building, mobilizing and prioritizing resources to build essential infrastructure projects such as: Cua Lo deep-water port; Investing in upgrading and expanding Vinh International Airport; Traffic road connecting Vinh - Cua Lo (phase 2); Traffic road connecting from National Highway 7C (Do Luong) to Ho Chi Minh Road (Tan Ky); Coastal road from Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa) - Cua Lo (Nghe An),...; coordinate with the Ministry of Transport to soon complete the North - South Expressway Project through Nghe An province.

Strongly innovate and improve the quality and effectiveness of investment promotion activities in the area, change the method of conducting investment promotion activities from passive to proactive; focus on on-site investment promotion activities, proactively approach local investors and exploit the ability to increase investment capital of the project; promote the application of digital technology in investment promotion.

Participate in national and international events at home and abroad on investment promotion organized by ministries, departments and central agencies in conjunction with trade and tourism promotion activities to directly contact investors and visually promote the image and business and investment environment of the province. Integrate investment promotion activities with diplomatic activities, trade and tourism promotion; strengthen training programs for officials carrying out investment promotion work, especially updating new policies, free trade agreements and new world situations, improving foreign language and professional skills for officials.

For activitiesTourism Promotion

Promote investment promotion activities in the tourism sector to diversify branded, classy, ​​high-quality, and distinctive tourism products,... to attract tourists to Nghe An province.

Focus on exploiting the domestic tourist market in the Northern provinces, focusing on Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Lao Cai, and actively promoting expansion to the Southern provinces and the Central Highlands by Ho Chi Minh Road and by air to visit Uncle Ho's hometown. Expand the exploitation of the Thai, Lao and ASEAN tourist markets by air, while continuing to maintain tourism programs by road, especially caravan tourism programs; promote cooperation with Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Phu Quoc, etc. to attract international visitors to Nghe An and the North Central provinces by air, gradually approaching the international tourist market with high spending levels such as: Japan, Korea, Russia, France, etc.

Organize surveys, build and develop typical tourism tour products of each locality and key tourist areas and destinations, diversify products and enhance the tourism image of Nghe An province. Build new seasonal tourism products associated with green and safe tourism, welcome Famtrip groups from provinces and cities to survey intra-provincial and inter-regional tourism; organize Roadshows associated with surveys connecting Nghe An tourism with tourist centers nationwide; organize resort tourism programs combined with sports competitions,...

Build a program to promote Nghe An tourism in the new situation and new period in accordance with the needs, trends, and tourism markets of the region, domestically and internationally.

Strengthening linkages and promoting cooperation between tourist destinations, tourism linkage regions and tourism localities to support and enhance the value of tourist destinations.

Encourage businesses to improve the effectiveness of linkages and cooperation to build complementary product and service chains; innovate and add added value to destinations, products and services.

For activitiesTrade Promotion

Organize and participate in trade promotion and association programs with provinces and cities nationwide; seek support from central agencies and units for national trade promotion programs, especially trade connection activities between enterprises and domestic and foreign distributors and importers.

Strengthen support for connecting supply and demand for goods consumption, focus on exploiting the domestic market; promote propaganda and guide businesses to promote advantages from new-generation free trade agreements, to expand import and export markets, diversify partners and goods sources.

Implement activities to support the building and development of product brands for businesses to bring some typical products of the province such as OCOP products, typical rural industrial products, scientific and technological products,... with commercial value into consumption at the system of supermarkets and commercial centers in the province.

Improve the quality of market information, use many types of product promotion of the province to find, maintain and expand the product consumption market, and at the same time attract investors to Nghe An. Promote the application of information technology and digital transformation in trade promotion activities, such as: Effectively deploy Business Support Applications, E-commerce Websites to introduce and provide key products, typical products of Nghe An province. Provide support services for businesses to find and develop product consumption markets associated with regional linkages.