In the first 6 months, the provincial departments, agencies, districts and cities have made great efforts in supporting enterprises and investors in dealing with the administrative procedures. 

Collaboration among the competent agencies in charge of evaluating documentation submitted for approval of investment policies have been dramatically changed contributing to investment attraction in the province especially foreign direct investment (FDI).

PPC Chairman Nguyen Van Linh voices at the meeting.

Particularly, the province has given a nod to 54 domestic investment projects with total registered capital of some 970 billion VND (42 million USD) and granted investment license to 45 FDI projects valued at 450 million USD by the end of 31 July.

To date, the province has attracted a total FDI capital of 650 million USD (from new projects and added capital) reaching nearly 93 percent of the plan for FDI attraction this year. Besides, 811 enterprises were granted business registration certificates.

According to many opinions at the discussion, a number of projects are facing difficulties in land clearance and land rent causing slow progress such as some investment projects in infrastructure of the industrial zones and clusters.

In addition, many enterprises were punished for violation against environment protection and construction regulations. Strikes and go-slows still happened in some enterprises especially FDI companies.

In his conclusion, PPC Chairman Nguyen Van Linh requested the members of the Steering Board from the related departments and agencies, districts and city to continue removing obstacles for enterprises and investors.

It is necessary to conduct solutions to better land clearance for the projects particularly the projects in Quang Chau and Hoa Phu industrial parks to create land for industrial development of the province in coming years.

The Department of Planning and Investment was required to promptly complete the action plan to improve the provincial competitive index (PCI) while accelerating the slow projects and handling the projects operating for wrong purposes.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment was requested to properly conducting appraisal of land use plan of the investment projects and support investors to complete environmental impact assessment procedures.

Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Tran Quang Tan discusses about the solutions for industrial cluster development to attract investors.

The Department of Finance was asked to evaluate financial capacity of the investors, funding progress and capital mobilization.

The Department of Construction was required to evaluate construction planning and investigate construction of the items in accordance with the construction license.

The Department of Industry and Trade was requested to review the established industrial cluster and accelerate construction investment progress of the industrial clusters to lure investment.

The related departments and agencies need to highly concentrate on improving quality of the dialogues with enterprises while handling obstacles after the dialogues. Besides, they need to enhance management against the investment projects to timely detect and handle violation and revoke the slow or uninvested projects.

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