Hoa Lac hi-tech park aims to improve facilities

The Hanoi-based Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park will focus on improving facilities and its investment climate in 2014, heard a meeting in Hanoi on January 3.
The Hanoi-based Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park will focus on improving facilitiesand its investment climate in 2014, heard a meeting in Hanoi onJanuary 3.

Head of the zone’s management board Pham DaiDuong underlined the tasks at a meeting to review last year’s investmentattraction and deploy the work for 2014.

Accordingly, theboard will continue to take the second adjustment of overallconstruction planning and build new roads in the zone.

Theboard is expected to clear and hand over a space of 65 hectares to theUniversity of Science and Technology of Hanoi this year and putinto operation a hi-tech business incubation centre that covers morethan 6,600 square metres.

Addressing the event, Minister ofScience and Technology Nguyen Quan applauded the management board’sefforts in attracting hi-tech projects with large investment capital.

Quan said the park should quicken ground clearance and workclosely with the Hanoi People’s Committee to complete the constructionof resettlement areas as planned.

Last year, the boardgranted investment licences to three new projects, raising the totalnumber of investment projects in the zone to 70, with registeredinvestment totalling 54 trillion VND (2.53 billion USD).

Onthe occasion, it presented investment licences to two projects valued atmore than two trillion VND (94 million USD), invested by the Bac A Bankand the Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel).-VNA

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