In recent years, the development of economic zones and industrial zones in Quang Ninh province become an important factor in exploiting all potential of the province, and contributed to the successful implementation of maritime strategy in the province.
This includes a comprehensive target to develop economic zones, as well as industrial zones, especially: Van Don industrial zone, Hai Ha industrial zone, Dam Nha Mac industrial zone, Cai Lan, Viet Hung, and Hai Yen. Recently, Quang Ninh Economy Zone Authority has cooperated closely with relevant local authorities and mobilised resources to carry out comprehensive solutions, such as: Guaranteeing to support investors by insuring good infrastructure inside and outside industrial zones; offering concessional and attractive policies, easy procedures for investment certificates with “one-stop” mechanism; and working out timely solutions for investors during project implementation. Furthermore, industrial zones are planned to be situated in favourable areas so they can exploit the advantages of the province, and comprehensively develop the connections between areas. By now, Cai Lan industrial zone has attracted 58 investment projects, including 18 Foreign Direct Investment projects and 40 domestic projects; Viet Hung industrial zone has 5 secondary investment projects; Hai Yen industrial zone with the total planned area of 182.4 ha has implemented land acquisition of 55.3 ha, finished clearance activities of 55.3 ha and constructed the infrastructure of 18 ha.
Along with that, Van Don economic zone has been planned in order to call for investments and promote implementation. Besides that, 22 infrastructure projects have been constructed with total investment cost of VND 4,587 billion, and actual infrastructure cost has reached VND 187 billion. Projects of transport infrastructure, power system to islands and infrastructure for resettlement also have been constructed. However, shortage of financial resources has made early implementation, for attracting investors, more difficult. To attract investors, Van Don economic zone has started to construct several important infrastructure investment projects, such as: Van Don Airport, Van Tien Bridge, harbour, main transportation lines, entertainment projects, resorts, farming projects, and fishing projects. Now, Van Don industrial zone has 79 investment projects with overall registered cost of VND 9,800 billion, in which there are 75 domestic projects with the cost of VND 7,875 billion and 5 Foreign Direct Investment projects with the cost of US$ 120.5 million.
In recent times, the development of economic zones and industrial zones in Quang Ninh province has shown some success, but it is necessary to repair shortcomings in land acquisition activities for site clearance and to carry solutions for human resources.
Dinh Le
Vietnamese
