On March 24, Comrade Le Thi Thuy, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council and the delegation of Ha Nam province visited and worked with the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan. Receiving and working with the delegation was Mr. Ngo Trinh Ha, Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan.
At the meeting, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council sincerely thanked the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan and all the officers and staff of the Consulate General for their active support to Ha Nam province in calling on Japanese enterprises in general and enterprises in Osaka in particular to invest in Ha Nam as well as support Ha Nam province.
The Provincial Party Secretary introduced the advantages of Ha Nam in economic development, as the province is located right at the southern gateway of Hanoi Capital; is a traffic hub connecting with many provinces in the Capital Region and the Red River Delta with a system of expressways, national highways to Noi Bai Airport, Hai Phong International Port; along with the North-South railway system, waterways on the Red River are very convenient for travel, production - business development and trade of goods. At the same time, he emphasized that Ha Nam focuses on promoting socio-economic development with an average growth rate of over 10% per year in recent years. Ha Nam has invested in building 12 industrial parks with an area of 3,474 hectares (of which 8 industrial parks have been put into operation), 14 industrial clusters with an area of nearly 400 hectares with synchronous and modern infrastructure, ensuring full services of electricity, water, healthcare, banking, telecommunications, hotels, restaurants, golf courses to meet the requirements of investors.
Currently, Ha Nam province is carrying out procedures to submit to the Prime Minister for approval the Project to establish Ha Nam High-Tech Park with an area of over 660 hectares to prioritize attracting the fields of artificial intelligence, electronics - semiconductors, automation, biotechnology and medicine, and new materials technology. With a favorable investment environment, Ha Nam province is a destination for many domestic and foreign investors. To date, the province has had 384 FDI projects with a total registered capital of over 5.8 billion USD, including 111 Japanese investment projects with a registered capital of over 1.3 billion USD, ranking second in terms of the number of projects and capital of FDI investors registered to invest in the province.
Although in 2023, in the context of the complicated and unpredictable developments in the world and the region; economic recovery after the pandemic faced many difficulties, the economic growth rate of Ha Nam province still reached 9.41%, ranking 5th in the Red River Delta and 8th nationwide. Industrial production, export and import of goods and consumer services increased quite well; agricultural production developed stably. In 2023, Ha Nam was honored by the World Tourism Awards as "The World's Leading Local Cultural Destination". The award affirmed the love, recognition and honor of the international community for the unique cultural and historical values of Ha Nam, contributing to increasing the total number of tourists to Ha Nam in 2023 to 4.3 million, an increase of 38.8% compared to 2022.
Also in 2023, Ha Nam will organize many activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vietnam - Japan relations. The Provincial Party Secretary highly appreciated the important role of Japanese enterprises in Ha Nam; especially in complying with legal regulations, attracting workers, paying attention to improving workers' income and contributing to the provincial budget.
Provincial Party Secretary Le Thi Thuy presented a souvenir to the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka (Japan).
At the conference, the Provincial Party Secretary believed that with the efforts of Ha Nam province, the support and assistance of the Consul General himself and all the staff of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan, the investment promotion and attraction work of Ha Nam province will have many positive changes, there will be more large investors, high-tech content, environmentally friendly from Japan in general and from the Kansai region in particular will come to learn and invest in Ha Nam province; focusing on 3 areas: Logistics, high-tech agriculture and healthcare.
Mr. Ngo Trinh Ha, Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan and officers in charge of each field of the Consulate General discussed the socio-economic situation of the Kansai region, with 3 outstanding features: Important economic center of Japan; Center of science and technology; capital of small and medium enterprises; information about some Japanese enterprises in general and the Kansai region in particular investing in Ha Nam, very excited about the province's interest and the favorable production and business situation; highly appreciated the investment attraction environment of Ha Nam province in recent times, congratulated the achievements in socio-economic development, investment attraction of the province and affirmed that in the coming time, they will continue to actively coordinate to support the province in introducing and calling for businesses in the Kansai region in particular and Japanese businesses in general to study investment in Ha Nam, especially in some fields: healthcare, high-tech agriculture, agricultural machinery manufacturing, environmental pollution treatment, semiconductor industry, etc.
Following the working program in Japan, on March 25, the Provincial Party Secretary, Chairman of the People's Council of Ha Nam province and the working delegation will visit and work with the Governor of Hyogo province and Mayor of Kobe city, Japan.
Minh Thu (Synthesis)
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