Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi plans to grant investment licences to severallarge projects throughout the rest of this year, according to the municipalPeople’s Committee.
The projects include a 220 million USD solid waste treatment project inTa Thanh Oai, a 319 million USD waste-to-power plant in Soc Son and a 420million USD horse racing track.
To be more attractive to investors, the capital city has employedmeasures to improve its investment and business environment, while talkingwith enterprises to remove their difficulties.
At the same time, the city has enhanced the use of informationtechnology in business registration and tax payment processes, creating optimalconditions for enterprises. So far, 98 percent of local firms have used onlinetax declaration.
At an October meeting of the municipal People’s Committee, Chairman ofthe committee Nguyen Duc Chung asked the Department of Information andCommunications to work with the Department of Home Affairs to reviewadministrative reform to simplify all processes and provide online publicservices.
So far, the city has received 128 projects in public-privatepartnership, eight of which have been finished worth 13.68 trillion VND and 12underway ones worth 28.5 billion VND.
It has also issued business licences to 25,160 companies worth 240trillion VND, up 11 percent and 4 percent respectively, raising the totalnumber of firms in the city to 231,922.-VNA
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