At aninvestment promotion conference, jointly held by the provincial People’sCommittee and the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Quang Ninh onFeb. 24, PM Dung said that Quang Ninh plays a leading role in regionaldevelopment as it has both geographical and economic advantages alongwith mineral resources and popular cultural and natural heritages.
Dung asked the province to proactively integrate into the world,effectively implementing the “Two corridors, one Vietnam – Chinaeconomic belt” cooperative programme and paying attention to developingborder trade.
He also requested the province to turnMong Cai into a modern international border gate to develop the coastaleconomic belt linking Quang Ninh and Red River Delta provinces andChina’s Guangxi province, as well as strongly promote trade, investmentand tourism between Vietnam and China, and between Vietnam and ASEANcountries for mutual benefit and development.
TheVietnamese Government will continue improving the investmentenvironment, especially maintaining macroeconomic stability and areasonable growth rate, bringing inflation under 10 percent this yearand lower in the following years, and create favourable conditions forinvestors to work long-term in Vietnam, Dung said.
At the event, participants sought investment opportunities in theprovince and put forward policies for inter-provincial development,contributing to drawing maximum resources for the nationalsocio-economic development effort.
The province alsointroduced investors to nearly 20 FDI projects in the fields of tourismand entertainment services, seaport, logistic system, wholesale trade,infrastructure and training.
Noteworthy amonginfrastructure projects was Hai Ha seaport industrial zone, worth over 3billion USD, a non-tariff area and green industrial park in Van Doneconomic zone worth nearly 1.5 billion USD and Van Dong internationalairport worth about 1.2 billion USD.
Concluding theevent, the provincial People’s Committee signed cooperative agreementswith domestic and foreign businesses in the fields of transportinfrastructure, seaport construction, tourism and healthcare.
The provincial leader also presented investment licenses to a wheatflour mill worth 47 million USD, Hoanh Bo industrial zone worth 182million USD and a tourism complex worth 42 million USD.-VNA