Chu Lai to become high-quality agro-forestry processing hub: PM

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he wishes that Chu Lai would strive to become a high-quality agro-forestry processing hub of the country to be able to meet huge demand in ASEAN, northeastern Asia, G7 and G20 countries.
Chu Lai to become high-quality agro-forestry processing hub: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (middle) at the event (Source: VNA)
QuangNam (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he wishes that ChuLai would strive to become a high-quality agro-forestry processing hub of thecountry to be able to meet huge demand in ASEAN, northeastern Asia, G7 and G20countries.

He expects Chu Lai would help turn Vietnam into one of the world’s woodeninterior production centres, while addressing a groundbreaking ceremony for ChuLai agro-forestry industrial park at the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone in thecentral province of Quang Nam on March 24.

Theleader suggested Chu Lai (Quang Nam) team up with Dung Quat (Quang Ngai) and DaNang city to form growth poles and required close coordination in policymakingand pooling resources for development.

Heurged provinces to submit breakthrough mechanisms and policies to the PartyCentral Committee to improve competitiveness of key economic area in thecentral and Central Highlands, including Da Nang, Quang Nam and Dung Quat –Quang Ngai.

The 450ha agro-forestry industrial park will develop a materials farming areafor the central, Central Highlands and neighbouring Laos and Cambodia. It willbe built from 2019 to 2022 at a total cost of over 8.1 trillion VND (352million USD).

Itwill also double as a research centre for seedlings, agricultural materials,biotechnology, harvest, preservation and processing. Model farms will growgrapefruit, mango, jackfruit and forestry trees using modern technology.

Onceoperational, it is expected to attract domestic and foreign investors to createa value production chain, add more revenue to the local State budget andgenerate jobs to 20,000 workers.

Onthe occasion, automaker Thaco Truong Hai began construction of an expandedautomotive mechanical industrial zone on a total area of 115ha. Costing over1.6 trillion VND, the work is expected to increase locally-made items forautomobiles to more than 40 percent, thus meeting demand for export to ASEANmember states by 2020.

Themanagement board of Chu Lai Open Economic Zone also granted an investmentlicense to Thadi industrial, agricultural, forestry park. Thaco Truong Hai alsosigned strategic contracts with domestic and foreign firms to supply clean farmproduce.

Build in 2003, the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone is the first coastal economiczone in Vietnam. It is strategically located midwaybetween Vietnam’s northern and southern regions, and connected to NationalHighway 1A, national coastal routes, the trans-national railway, Ky Ha seaport,Chu Lai airport, and the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway.

In the morning the same day, the PM laid wreaths at the monumentdedicated to heroic Vietnamese mothers and martyrs’ cemetery in Quang Nam onthe occasion of its 44th anniversary of liberation.-VNA

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