Southern Industrial Zones of the Province - Driving Force for Local Economic Development

In recent times, the southern communes of the province, under the old Hoa Binh province, have been promoting investment attraction for industrial development. The formation and development of the industrial park system not only contributes to promoting economic growth in the region but also creates jobs for tens of thousands of workers, creating a clear change in the appearance of the countryside and people's lives.

Workers in Luong Son Industrial Park (Luong Son commune) produce solar panels for export.

At the beginning of 2025, Hoa Phu - Hoa Binh Company Limited (under Phu My Group) officially started the project "Investment in infrastructure construction of Nhuan Trach Industrial Park" in Luong Son commune, an area adjacent to Hanoi capital. This is a multi-industry industrial park, aiming at the criteria of "Green - Clean - Beautiful", oriented as a "Successful Destination" for domestic and foreign investors.

The project covers an area of over 213 hectares, with a total investment of nearly VND2,400 billion. When put into operation, Nhuan Trach Industrial Park is expected to create about 30,000 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs through related trade and service chains. In addition to contributing to the annual budget, the Industrial Park also promises to become a driving force for economic development and rapidly change the face of the area towards modernity, gradually integrating with the whole province.

Following this investment wave, in early 2025, An Viet Hoa Binh Joint Stock Company - the investor of Yen Quang Industrial Park infrastructure, Thinh Minh commune, held a ceremony to grant Investment Registration Certificates to 4 pioneering investors. This is a positive sign showing the strong attraction of this industrial park right from the time it had a clean land.

With a scale of over 180 hectares and a total investment of over VND1,600 billion, Yen Quang Industrial Park is expected to become a strategic destination for secondary investors. After completion, the Industrial Park will contribute to the budget, create jobs for nearly 10,000 workers and contribute to the economic restructuring of the locality towards industrialization.

According to statistics, the southern region of the province currently has 16 planned industrial parks, of which 5 are operating effectively: Luong Son Industrial Park, Da River Left Bank Industrial Park (Hoa Binh Ward), Yen Quang Industrial Park, Binh Phu Industrial Park and Thanh Ha Industrial Park. These industrial parks have created stable jobs for over 19,700 workers, becoming an important pillar in the socio-economic development of the communes and wards.

According to Mr. Nguyen Long, Manager at R Vietnam Technical Research Company Limited in the left bank of Song Da Industrial Park, Hoa Binh Ward, shared: "The company is attracting about 800 workers, most of whom are mountainous people with an average income of over 8 million VND/person/month."

The development of industrial parks also helps retain local workers, limiting the situation of leaving home. People can earn a living in their own homeland, in an increasingly professional working environment, with increasingly better treatment.

Up to now, the industrial parks in the southern region of the province have attracted about 115 investment projects, including 28 FDI projects with a total registered capital of over 432 million USD and 87 DDI projects with a total capital of over 16,067 billion VND.

Mr. Vo Van Truong, representative of the investor of Luong Son Industrial Park, said that the strong development of the Southern Industrial Parks not only creates tens of thousands of new jobs but also improves the quality of human resources through a professional working environment with better benefits.

It is known that in the past year, the entire Southern region has cleared nearly 100 hectares of land, creating conditions for Yen Quang Industrial Park to attract secondary investors from the end of 2024. Nhuan Trach Industrial Park is eligible to start construction early this year; Binh Phu Industrial Park has also basically completed site clearance and is implementing investment preparation procedures.

In the coming time, the province will continue to direct sectors and localities to accelerate the construction of industrial park infrastructure in the southern provinces of the province, increase selective investment attraction - prioritizing high-tech, environmentally friendly industries, creating many sustainable jobs for workers. In addition, training and improving skills for local workers are also focused on, in order to meet the increasing demands from businesses.

Overall, the southern industrial zones of the province are gradually affirming themselves as not only attractive “destinations” for domestic and foreign investment capital, but also becoming stable and quality places to settle down and work for tens of thousands of local workers. This is also an important step forward to help the southern region of the province rise strongly in the period of integration and development, especially in the context of the whole country merging provinces and implementing a two-level government.

However, according to investors, to promote the progress of industrial park development projects, the provincial departments and agencies need to accompany and build open mechanisms and policies, especially in the field of land and traffic infrastructure... In fact, when investors encounter difficulties, secondary enterprises are also affected, leading to stagnation in implementation or seeking investment from other provinces and cities. Therefore, minimizing the time to process procedures is an urgent requirement.

One of the key solutions is to continue to speed up site clearance progress, which is also a decisive factor in implementing projects on schedule.

Only when barriers regarding procedures, infrastructure and land are resolved synchronously, will the investment environment be truly attractive, creating a driving force to attract social resources, contributing to promoting socio-economic development in the southern part of the province.

Hong Trung

Source: https://baophutho.vn/cac-khu-cong-nghiep-phia-nam-cua-tinh-dong-luc-phat-trien-kinh-te-dia-phuong-237889.htm