Prime Minister surveys high-tech agricultural projects in Nghe An

Thanh Duy• DNUM_CDZAHZCACC 15:30

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of July 23, continuing the working program in Nghe An, Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister and the working delegation visited and surveyed a number of projects invested by TH Group in Nghia Dan district.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chatted with TH Group workers. Photo: Thanh Duy

Accompanying him were comrade Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Party Central Committee's Internal Affairs Commission; comrades of the Party Central Committee: Ho Duc Phoc - Minister of Finance; Le Minh Hoan - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; Nguyen Van Hung - Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien - Member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense; and leaders of a number of ministries and branches.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and leaders of a number of departments, branches and localities.

Hero of Labor Thai Huong - founder of TH Group, General Director of Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank introduced to the Prime Minister the scale of investment projects in Nghe An. Photo: Thanh Duy

Over the past years, TH Group has invested in more than 20 projects in Nghe An. Most of the projects are located along the Ho Chi Minh Highway in the West of Nghe An, creating an economic development belt in areas with many difficulties and special significance for national defense and security.

TH's projects are mostly in the agricultural sector such as: Livestock and Milk Processing Project on a concentrated industrial scale, with an investment capital of 1.2 billion USD; Greenhouse Vegetable and Flower Growing Project, with an investment capital of 2,423 billion VND, and an area of 520 hectares (FVF); Nghe An Wood Factory Project (MDF), with an investment capital of 1,896 billion VND; Project on Conservation and Development of High-Quality Medicinal Materials Associated with Sustainable Forest Development in Nghe An, with an investment capital of 2,743 billion VND in phase 1 (total investment capital for the next phases is expected to be 19,512 billion VND); Raw material area for Wood Processing Factory, with an investment capital of 1,211 billion VND; Nui Tien Pure Water, Herbs and Fruit Factory, with an investment capital of 1,176 billion VND; High-tech Animal Feed Processing Factory Project, with an investment capital of 326.4 billion VND, etc.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his delegation listened to an introduction to the production process on TH Group's high-tech fields. Photo: Thanh Duy

These projects have been changing the face of the Western Nghe An region with typical examples of high-tech application, creating a chain of projects from production, processing to consumption markets according to the circular economic model; promoting the greening of the agricultural economy in Nghia Dan district in particular and Nghe An province in general. In addition, the projects create many jobs and improve the lives of local workers, contribute to the provincial budget, contribute to the transformation of the local socio-economic structure, and at the same time, create a premise to attract many other projects to invest in the province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits workers' health, working life and production. Photo: Thanh Duy

Visiting TH Group's high-tech fields, after hearing an introduction to the production process, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized: To achieve high efficiency in agriculture, there must be enterprises, science and technology, seeds, and large land funds. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the combination between farmers and enterprises, between enterprises and scientists, between enterprises - farmers and the market, between cultivation and livestock, between small production and upgrading to large production.

Here, the Prime Minister's delegation met and talked with farmer Hoang Van Thanh in Phu Loi hamlet, Nghia Phu commune (Nghia Dan). Mr. Thanh said that his family is currently growing 2 hectares of corn, the agricultural products are guaranteed by TH Group for output, supported with seeds, fertilizers, scientific and technical guidance, so his family in particular and local people in general are very confident in production. In social security work, the Group also takes close care of and cares for the people.

The Prime Minister met and talked with farmer Hoang Van Thanh in Phu Loi hamlet, Nghia Phu commune (Nghia Dan). Photo: Thanh Duy

Talking with farmer Hoang Van Thanh, the Prime Minister warmly asked about his family's working and production life and listened to his family's thoughts and aspirations. Expressing his joy at the fact that local households have improved their lives, the Prime Minister concluded that this is the result of 35 years of renovation, based on three main pillars: Eliminating bureaucracy and subsidies, multi-sector economy, and integration; with the foundation of building socialist democracy to maximize collective intelligence, great national unity, combining national strength with the strength of the times, building a socialist rule-of-law state, and a socialist-oriented market economy.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the market economy must comply with the laws of supply and demand, competition, and social security, without sacrificing social security and the environment to pursue growth alone. Throughout, people must be the center, the subject, the goal, the resource and the driving force for development.

The Prime Minister and his delegation visited a cluster of concentrated dairy farms. Photo: Thanh Duy

Next, the Prime Minister visited the concentrated dairy farm cluster and worked with TH Group. The Prime Minister shared and warmly welcomed the achievements and contributions of TH Group in recent years.

Recognizing the growth and role and mission of enterprises, including TH Group, towards the homeland and country, the Prime Minister affirmed the role and position of the private economy in the Vietnamese economy: “We do not discriminate, not only in social awareness but also in State mechanisms and policies. The private economy has grown strongly in the period of innovation, contributing more and more to the national budget, creating jobs for society and promoting the potential and available advantages of each locality as well as the whole country”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's delegation works with TH Group. Photo: Thanh Duy

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh warmly visited and talked with Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc - Hero of the People's Armed Forces. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, localities and enterprises to seriously implement the Party's guidelines on the private economy; continue to concretize and institutionalize the Party's guidelines and State laws so that the private economy continues to become an important driving force in the national economy.

Along with that, maximizing the intelligence and capacity of Vietnamese people in private enterprises and other individual economic sectors; building a healthy, pure, civilized, professional and equal culture in the private economy; promoting public-private cooperation, mobilizing all resources to develop the country; attracting private resources into scientific and technological innovation, digital transformation, applying achievements of the 4.0 industrial revolution in management, production, business, distribution, market expansion, etc. Enterprises also need to continue to pay attention to developing a green economy, a circular economy, a knowledge economy; participating in combating climate change, developing green energy, contributing to environmental protection.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, branches, localities and enterprises to seriously implement the Party's guidelines on the private economy. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition to the general development orientation, the Prime Minister requested that enterprises strictly implement the Party and State's guidelines and policies, and conduct business in accordance with the law. Enterprises must be bold in thinking and doing for the common good, while contributing to the fight against corruption and negativity.

Regarding TH Group, the Prime Minister hopes that the group will continue to promote the achievements it has made in the past time, continue to contribute to and build its homeland Nghe An and many other disadvantaged localities. The group needs to continue to make efforts to improve the spiritual and material life of its staff and workers along with the growth and development of the group.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission Phan Dinh Trac, on behalf of the working delegation, presented 1 billion VND to support the construction of gratitude houses for 20 families of war invalids and martyrs and 1.5 billion VND to support the construction of cultural houses for 30 communes in the mountainous area of Phu Quy.