Hai Duong continues to create breakthroughs in attracting investment

The northern province of Hai Duong this year will continue to attract large domestic and foreign investors who have sufficient financial and technological capacities and strong management skills, according to local authorities.
Hai Duong continues to create breakthroughs in attracting investment ảnh 1PM Pham Minh Chinh visits a Ford Vietnam automobile assembly plant in Hai Duong. (Photo: VNA)
Hai Duong (VNS/VNA) - The northern province of HaiDuong this year will continue to attract large domestic and foreign investorswho have sufficient financial and technological capacities and strongmanagement skills, according to local authorities.

The province would also complete the list of projects calling forinvestment between now and 2030, Chairman of the provincial People's CommitteeTrieu The Hung said, adding that projects that might have risks of causingenvironmental pollution would not be prioritised.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Tran Duc Thang said theprovince focused on luring foreign investment in the fields of high technology,smart technology, biological industry, new materials, processing industry,manufacturing and supporting industries.

In 2024, the locality would continue to improve the quality andefficiency of business support services, deploy solutions to restructure thelabour market, associated with bettering the quality of labour training andfacilitate the cooperation between businesses and training institutions,authorities said.

They added that accelerating investment promotion activities andperfecting the investment and business environment would also be included.

By the end of November 2023, Hai Duong had attracted more than 1.13billion USD worth of foreign investment, over three times higher than the sameperiod last year, statistics from the provincial Department of Planning andInvestment revealed.

The province is now home to 540 foreign-invested projects with atotal registered capital of over 10.16 billion USD. Of the sum, 289 projects,worth above 5.98 billion USD, have been invested in industrial parks./.
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