Quang Ninh grants investment registration certificate to silicon wafer project
Quang Ninh (VNA) – Authorities in the northern province
of Quang Ninh on September 19 to present an investment registration certificate to
a 365.6 million USD project of Jinko Solar Vietnam Co. Ltd., an affiliate of the Jinko Solar Holding Co. Ltd.
Construction of the
project will start in late September and it will produce its first silicon wafers in
December.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen
Tuong Van said it is the second project by Jinko Solar in Song Khoai industrial
park in Quang Yen township over the past six months.
Covering
an area of 20.1 ha, the project is the highest worth in the province with an
aim to manufacture, install and sell single-crystal silicon ingots and wafers,
as well as study science and develop technologies.
It has a designed capacity of nearly 1.43 million silicon wafers each year.
Once operatioal, the project is expected to attract 2,188 workers,
including 1,946 domestic workers and 242 foreign experts and technicians.
Van asked the management board of Quang Ninh IPs, authorities of Quang Yen
township, departments and agencies concerned to offer all possible support to the
investor in line with the law.
Quang
Ninh is expected to licence new projects and adjust capital in existing
projects at a total value of some 1.2 billion USD by the year-end, more than
doubling the figure in 2020. In the first nine months of this year, the province drew 1.067
billion USD in new and existing projects, compared to 398 million USD in the
same period last year./.