Find out the "bright spots" that attract investors
Announcer (Investors): As one of the "young cities" with rapid and positive changes, Song Cong city has become one of the cities with many bright spots to attract investment of Thai Nguyen province. So can you tell us more about the advantages and highlights of the city's investment attraction?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: As one of the "young cities" with rapid and positive changes, Song Cong city has become one of the cities with many bright spots to attract investment of Thai Nguyen province.
Song Cong city is one of the cities with the advantage of economic development when it is located in the industrial area around Hanoi capital. As a hinge city for goods exchange between Thai Nguyen province and surrounding cities, especially in the northern key economic region. At the same time, it is a place with a temperate climate, almost no drought or flood.
With its existing advantages, Song Cong has created more advantages for itself by building technical and social infrastructure, building and upgrading urban transport systems, roads, etc. Seamless traffic in the northern key economic region.
To build residential areas, new urban areas and develop a network of urban centers and concentrated residential areas, contributing to speeding up the process of bright - green - clean - beautiful urbanization. In addition, the city is also interested in investing strongly in industrial zones and clusters (with a total land area for industrial use of over 1.000 hectares), it can be said that this is also one of the "bright spots" to help Song Cong attracts investors.
Chairman of Song Cong City People's Committee Vu Duy Nghia.
In recent times, the promotion of site clearance compensation (clearance) to soon create clean ground and hand over to investors is also considered one of the bright spots in attracting investment and development of the city. .
The city drastically implemented compensation for site clearance, propagated in many forms to the people to comply with the provisions of the law on land recovery; resolutely implement coercive measures against households and individuals who deliberately do not comply.
At the same time, administrative reform and digital transformation have also actively contributed to creating a favorable environment for investors to work and work in the area, through which by 2021 Song Cong city ranked first on the DDCI District Competitiveness Index.
Investors: To attract investment, it is necessary to have effective solutions, create breakthroughs in industry, urban areas, services, improve the business environment of investors, accompany businesses throughout the process. So how has the city implemented this issue and what new plans do you have in the future?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: In order to concretize the goals and tasks of attracting investment, developing the city's economy and society, contributing to improving the business investment environment and enhancing competitiveness, the City People's Committee has directed the relevant agencies to: , units, departments and agencies focused on promoting reform of administrative procedures; digital transformation, increasing the application of information technology to administrative procedures to ensure convenience, accuracy and shorten the time to carry out administrative procedures for individuals, organizations and enterprises.
In addition, the City People's Committee has strengthened coordination with the provincial departments and branches, the Management Board of Thai Nguyen Industrial Parks and investors to do well in planning, compensation for site clearance, creating all favorable conditions for procedures. administrative procedures, land allocation, ensuring security and order... to attract investors to invest in the area.
Investors: In addition to policies to attract investors, retaining them is also a difficult problem, so what formula does the city have to solve this problem over the years and in the future?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: Identifying investment attraction development, business development is the focus in the process of socio-economic development in the city. Every year, the City People's Committee has well organized dialogue conferences to work directly with businesses and investors to grasp and solve difficulties for businesses in the area.
Especially at the beginning of the year and on the occasion of Vietnam Entrepreneurs Day (October 13 every year), the City Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee of the city have held seminars to meet and exchange information between leaders and leaders. local leaders with businesses and honor enterprises that have achieved many achievements in production and business activities.
On the other hand, the City People's Committee has directed the Tax Department to strengthen tax guidance, organize training conferences, dialogues, and timely praise enterprises with good production and business achievements, fully complying with the obligations of the tax authorities. tax service with the state and listen to the dialogues of businesses about tax work as well as solving difficulties in the area.
Highly concentrated on site clearance of key projects
Investor: It is known that one of the breakthrough solutions that Song Cong city focuses on implementing is prioritizing site clearance, creating a clean land fund to attract many large investors. So what has the city done to ensure the harmonization of the interests of the parties to successfully carry out land clearance?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: The compensation and clearance work of the city has always received the attention of the Party committees and authorities from the city to the grassroots level, especially the people's consensus in the implementation of the Land Law and compensation policy. usually, support site clearance when the state recovers land.
The Center for Land Fund Development has closely coordinated with organizations and mass organizations of the city, Party Committees, People's Committees of communes and wards and investors to focus highly on compensation and support for site clearance of important projects. points, outstanding projects, and new projects to be implemented in 2023. Resolutely coerce those who are inactive and do not comply with the state's regulations in compensation for site clearance.
Industrial Park in Song Cong City.
Investor: So how has the city's compensation and land clearance work up to the beginning of 2023, and what are the obstacles, sir?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: Up to the time of the report on March 10, 3, the City People's Committee has issued a decision approving the plan of compensation and support for site clearance to carry out the land recovery work for 2022 households and individuals with a total of 91 households and individuals. area of 4,09ha, total compensation value of 20,5 billion dong.
It is estimated that by the end of the first quarter, the plan of compensation and support for site clearance will be approved to carry out land recovery for 157 households and individuals with a total area of 7,9 ha, total compensation value of 37,7 billions dong.
Although many results have been achieved in the process of implementing compensation for site clearance, the city still faces many difficulties and obstacles such as some households and individuals whose land has been acquired do not cooperate and disagree. intends to declare land recovery, disagree with the compensation, support and resettlement plan, fail to carry out the procedures for division of inherited assets to have a basis for declaring and recovering land, not present at local authorities, do not agree to receive money and hand over the premises to implement the projects.
Some projects have approved the compensation plan for site clearance but the investor has not transferred the funds to the Land Fund Development Center to pay for the people such as Song Cong 2 Industrial Park project, Industrial Cluster Project, etc. Ba Xuyen (phases 1, 2, 3), project of Ecological Urban Area along Cong River, project of Bach Quang Residential Area, project of Kosy Urban Area.
Increase the resistance of the industrial city
Investor: Besides being an industrial city, Song Cong is also focusing on developing public spaces to create a landscape, green - clean - beautiful environment, contributing to "increasing resistance" to the city's urban areas. in the face of current climate change. So how will the construction of a complete city according to the green - clean - beautiful urban model be implemented in the future?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: In 2021, the city has invested in 2 green parks under the self-management model in Bach Quang and Mo Che wards.
The city is also focusing resources to develop the Song Cong city center park with an area of 21,2 hectares, which is expected to include a regulating lake, flower garden, and green trees. The central park project promises to become the "green lung" of the city, contributing to the construction of an increasingly green, clean and beautiful Song Cong city.
In addition, since 2015 the city has implemented the project of building civilized urban streets, after 8 years of implementation of the scheme, the city has 10 streets designated as urban civilized streets by workers. contributing to urban embellishment, raising people's awareness and awareness in sanitation, environmental protection, and urban landscape preservation.
In the coming time, the city will continue to complete infrastructure and technical works, urban embellishment, construction of civilized and modern space and landscape. meet the standards of urban civilization.
Investor: It is known that Song Cong city is currently trying to fulfill the criteria of class II urban areas, can you tell us more about the progress of this goal and the development program?
Mr. Vu Duy Nghia: Implementing the Resolution No. 04 of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee on building Song Cong city to become a grade II urban area, the city has developed a plan and specific tasks and goals such as completing the formulation of a general construction planning building Song Cong city by 2040, Regulation on management of urban planning and architecture; adjust and make new zoning planning for 9/10 communes, wards and Ghenh Che lake eco-sport urban area and Song Cong II Industrial Park (Phase 2). Implement detailed 1/500 planning for 54 urban areas, residential areas...
Continue to complete investment preparation procedures for 43 projects with a total estimated investment of 11.624 billion VND. In which: 30 public investment projects with a total investment of 3.180 billion VND and 13 non-budget projects with a total estimated investment of about 8.444 billion VND.
Concentrate on doing well planning, orienting the development of urban space, effectively mobilizing and using investment resources from the state budget and outside the state budget; deploy and attract investment projects in various forms in order to build infrastructure meeting the criteria and standards of grade II urban centers.
Up to now, it has invested over 1.929 billion VND, of which traffic projects are: 534 billion VND; residential projects, urban areas is: 1.395 billion VND (number of newly started projects is 18 projects). In which, projects using state budget are VND 348 billion, non-budget projects are VND 1.581 billion.
The economy continued to grow, most of the socio-economic and party building targets met and exceeded the set plan; administrative reform has been promoted, investment attraction has prospered; Socio-economic infrastructure is interested in investment, key construction projects are focused on implementation.
Up to now, the results of the review of the criteria for urban centers of grade II have basically met the set criteria. At the same time, the proposal to recognize Song Cong city as a grade II city is being submitted to the People's Council of Thai Nguyen province for approval in accordance with regulations..
