For the past time, Ninh Binh Industry and Trade has seen strong growth and asserted its position in local development. In the run-up to the coming Ninh Binh Investment Promotion Conference 2012, Vietnam Business Forum interviewed Director Pham Thi Hong – Ninh Binh Department of Industry and Trade. Hoang Tinh reports.
Can you share some of the industrial, commercial – service results Ninh Binh has gained in the past time?
For the past time, Ninh Binh has built and implemented industrial development planning, with the focus on infrastructure of industrial zones to attract investment in order to exploit the provincial strengths, concentrating on promoting its products with competitiveness. At present, there are 3 industrial zones starting to draw investment with total planned area of 707.17 ha; rental industrial land area of 495.26 ha, rented industrial area of 450.3 ha; occupancy rate of 91 percent, 61 investment projects including 17 foreign funded ones. Two industrial zones with investment licenses (Phuc Son and Tam Diep phase 2) but without investment have total planned area of 235 ha; rental industrial land area of 193 ha; their land acquisition and site clearance not conducted and infrastructure is not built.
The typical enterprises in the building material sector include Cement Factories of Tam Diep, Huong Duong, Duyen Ha, and The Vissai. The local factories’ production of cement and clinker in 2011 was 8.8 million tonnes, 674 times as much as in 1991. The products were consumed in many localities across the country; even Hoang Phat Corporation had their products exported. Tam Diep Steel Factory with yield of 360,000 tonnes/year, despite difficulties caused by the world economy to the steel sector in 2011, still kept their production and consumption of over 830,000 tonnes. The automobile assembling industry has been implemented. Thanh Cong automobile assembling factory with yield 13,000 vehicles/year remained its production of nearly 2,600 units in 2011.
Enterprises in garment and textile, footwear also saw growth, with 2011 production nearly 8 times that in 1991; helping to create jobs for tens of thousands of labourers. The typical businesses are textile factories of Taiwan, Niensheng, Excel, Levis, and ADORA shoe.
For the past time, provincial businesses have seen increase in both quantity and quality, promoting industrial production development, which has been reflected in the following achievements: Total provincial industrial production value in 2011 (at fixed price 94) was VND 12,991 billion, up by 50.04 percent against 2010, and in first 7 months of 2012, was estimated VND 7,921.2 billion, up by 14.2 percent year on year. Processing industrial value accounted for over 90 percent of provincial industrial production value.
Ninh Binh Industry and Trade has made efforts to consult Provincial People Committee in planning activities, linking Ninh Binh industry with the whole country, hasn’t it?
Given the assigned tasks, the Department of Industry and Trade, in association with related agencies, has actively consulted the Provincial People's Committee and Ministry of Industry and Trade to approve and implement planning on industrial development, electricity, trading village promotion and trading village providing tourism services.
Provincial industrial development planning has set out the objectives, industrial development tasks for each period, and is prepared to promote local strengths and suit industrial planning across the country, creating links in Red River Basin and nationwide regions.
What are the potentials of industry and trade for the coming time, and what reforms in investment attraction have been taken to earn a core position in provincial economic development?
Following the Resolution in Ninh Binh Provincial Party Committee 20th Meeting and the 5 year Social-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), the department particularly targets increasing annual average industrial production value to over 16 percent, and the proportion of Industry-Construction in GDP (at current price) to about 48 percent by 2015. Industry is developed in a sustainable direction to create conditions and optimize previous projects’ benefits (projects of Cement Factory, steel rolling, protein manufacturing, and Thanh Cong Automobile Assembling Factory). Investment projects in high tech, clean technology, and supporting industries for the sectors of electricity, electronics, mechanics, brewery and agricultural product processing will be fostered.
We hope that Ninh Binh will reach the targets of industrial development in the 2011-2015 period mentioned in the Resolution of Ninh Binh Provincial Party Committee's 20th Meeting. The focus will be sustainable industrial development and creating preferential conditions for Ninh Binh tourism.
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