Continue to contribute ideas to complete the Nghe An Enterprise Development Project to 2025

In order to complete the policy to support the development of provincial enterprises from now until 2025, on the morning of September 14, in Vinh City, the Provincial People's Committee held a working session to collect additional opinions on the Project on developing provincial enterprises until 2025. Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee, relevant departments, agencies and branches; representatives of VCCI Nghe An branch, business associations, provincial entrepreneurs and Vinh City People's Committee.

Business development projectNghe An province to 2025 is one of the key projects for the province's socio-economic development, term 2021-2025. The project was commented on 5 times by departments and branches and the Provincial People's Committee held meetings to collect opinions 3 times and gradually completed before submitting to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Party Committee for approval.

Overview of the working session of the Provincial People's Committee with departments, branches and business associations on the Enterprise Development Project to 2025. Photo: Nguyen Hai

However, due to the importance of the project and its relation to many other business support policies, the Provincial People's Committee directed that it be discussed and deliberated carefully, the targets need to be clearer and more specific; the Government's new policies on business support and support should be updated.digital transformation businessencourage conversion from household businesses to enterprise establishment...

Representative of the Department of Planning and Investment presented the third revised Project. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Incorporating the opinions of the Provincial People's Committee, this draft project has been redesigned to be more concise, including 3 parts: assessing the current state of business development in the period of 2016-2020 (including performance results, shortcomings, limitations, results of improving the investment environment and lessons learned); goals, orientations and solutions to support business development in the period of 2021-2025 and the final part is solutions for implementation.

By the end of 2020, the province had 23,404 newly established enterprises, an increase of 61.4% compared to 2015; of which, 13,220 enterprises were operating, equal to 56.48% of the number of registered enterprises.

Comrade Le Truong Giang - Director of the Department of Construction made a speech proposing to shorten the time to handle administrative procedures for businesses. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Based on the assessment of the current situation and analysis of favorable factors, limitations and disadvantages, the province aims to have 34,000 - 35,000 enterprises by 2025, of which 21,000 are operating.

On average, each year, new jobs are created for about 20,000 - 25,000 workers and the business sector contributes about 65 - 67% of the budget revenue; capital mobilization from businesses accounts for 35 - 40% of total investment capital in the area; continue to innovate technology in the business sector at 20%/year.

Chart of the rate of newly registered enterprises and enterprises operating annually. Photo: NH

Accordingly, the province will support businesses through groups of solutions focusing on supporting businesses negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to recover, stabilize and develop production; tasks and solutions to improve the quality of business operations; implementing business support activities...

Commenting on the draft project this time, representatives of some departments, branches and business associations suggested continuing to shorten the time limit for handling administrative procedures, adding some departments and branches to the project to attach roles and responsibilities; suggesting the province to soon supplement planning and policies.development of industrial clustersin addition to large industrial parks to support enterprises in accessing land rental, infrastructure for production land rental; improving the capacity of seaport and logistics infrastructure; clarifying why the rate of enterprises operating in the province and contributing to the budget revenue is still low...

Port infrastructure capacity is one of the bottlenecks that prevents the province from strongly developing its logistics service economy. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Concluding the working session, Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged the spirit of working acceptance of the Drafting Team in accepting the comments of departments, branches and associations to build the most concise and quality project.

The goal of 34,000 - 35,000 enterprises being established this term, of which 21,000 are operating, is considered and feasible. Besides the focus on attracting large, dynamic projects, another priority is to focus on attracting projects to produce consumer goods, supporting industrial products, and develop light industries.

Along with expanding the industrial land area in the Southeast Economic Zone, the province will prioritize attracting projects to fill the industrial parks that have invested in infrastructure and planned to develop industrial clusters to meet the land access needs of enterprises. The Department of Planning and Investment is requested to cite relevant documents and policies in the appendix for easy comparison and monitoring; departments, branches and associations continue to contribute comments, promptly supplement comments of departments and branches into the implementation solutions section to submit to the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee as soon as possible./.