Building regional linkages
(Baonghean) - After more than a year of implementing Resolution 26 of the Politburo specifically for Nghe An, the Party Committee, military, and people of Nghe An province have strived to turn opportunities into reality and achieved encouraging results in many fields; creating momentum for the successful implementation of important goals set for the coming years.
To continue implementing Resolution 26 effectively in the future, some suggest that Nghe An should become a service center for key economic regions in both the South and the North. This is a good suggestion. It aligns with the goal of transforming Nghe An into a fundamentally industrial province by 2020; a center for finance, trade, tourism, education and training, science and technology, healthcare, culture, sports, and high-tech industries in the North Central region; with a synchronized and progressively modernized infrastructure system; an advanced culture rich in identity; and strong national defense and security... It's crucial to recognize that without becoming the "hub" providing everything for the North Central region, without being the driving force behind the overall development of the entire area, it's impossible to achieve such a "center."
But good ideas need good, appropriate methods to be effective. To become a regional center, it is necessary to design and build harmonious and close links with other localities in the region, with interactive relationships and mutual support for development. In short, it is necessary to build regional linkages to create an attractive production and business environment and market. This is a necessary condition. Because each region, each locality, whether small or large, has certain outstanding natural, economic, and social characteristics compared to other regions and localities. The differences between regions themselves mean that each region has its own strengths and weaknesses, creating certain absolute and relative advantages in the social division of labor.
Regional linkages aim to leverage existing strengths and advantages to compensate for and supplement the gaps and shortcomings that the province has yet to address. Simultaneously, it's a way to conserve resources, avoiding investment in areas where surrounding provinces have greater potential and advantages, allowing for the focus on exploiting the province's own unique strengths. More importantly, regional linkages prevent overlapping in certain areas, avoiding an excessive rush to build infrastructure (ports, airports, etc.), urban areas, industrial parks, and certain products with similar economic structures across provinces. This prevents underutilization in some sectors, leading to oversupply, wasted resources, and hindering each other's competitiveness.
On the other hand, regional linkages will create synergy in institutional frameworks, consistency in mechanisms and policies, and transparency in governance practices across regions, connecting infrastructure systems in a synchronized and modern manner without requiring excessive provincial budget expenditures. Looking deeper, it becomes clear that Resolution 26 of the Politburo, specifically for Nghe An, aims to give the province a new position in the region. This is accompanied by policies that create momentum for socio-economic development. A strategy is needed to attract and consolidate strengths and resources within the province and in neighboring localities to achieve this goal.
Therefore, it is essential to build and strengthen regional linkages to achieve breakthroughs in human resource development and infrastructure development, creating new attractiveness to attract investment capital for development.
Duy Huong
