Hai Duong temporarily stops attracting investment for many projects in the area.

At the meeting, the Department of Planning and Investment of Hai Duong province reported on the promulgation of the List of projects attracting investment and temporarily suspending investment attraction in Hai Duong province for the period 2023-2030.

Accordingly, in the period of 2023-2030, the list of investment attraction projects in the province includes 129 projects, including 1 specialized economic zone project, 1 transport infrastructure project, 40 infrastructure projects of industrial parks and clusters; 44 socialized projects (including 13 projects in the health sector, 7 projects in the education sector, 6 projects in the culture sector, 15 projects in the sports sector (9 golf course projects; 3 projects in the environment sector); 9 social housing projects; 5 industrial production projects using high technology, environmentally friendly and supporting industry projects; 19 trade, service, tourism, logistics projects; 9 agriculture, forestry, fishery projects and 1 energy project.

The Department of Planning and Investment proposes to add a number of projects to the list of projects temporarily suspended from attracting investment in Hai Duong province according to Decision No. 390/QD-UBND dated February 2, 2021 of the Provincial People's Committee, in addition to the list of projects temporarily suspended from attracting investment, such as: Animal feed production projects or production projects that generate characteristic odors; projects in industries, occupations, and fields that use technology on the list of restricted technologies, prohibited from transfer issued in Appendix II and III of Decree No. 76/ND-CP dated May 15, 2018 of the Government on detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Technology Transfer; Projects in industries and occupations with outdated technology, potential risks of causing environmental pollution, resource-intensive; Projects in production and business of wharves and yards (coal, ash, slag) in Kinh Mon town.

Through discussion, the leaders and members of the Provincial People's Committee agreed on the content of the proposed report of the Department of Planning and Investment. Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Luu Van Ban requested the Department of Planning and Investment to receive opinions from departments and branches, coordinate with the Provincial People's Committee Office to complete the report of the Provincial People's Committee Party Committee to report to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee for comments next week.

To complete the report, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the District People's Committee to review investment attraction projects and temporarily suspend investment attraction in the locality in each field for the Department of Planning and Investment to synthesize.

The Department of Industry and Trade reviews industrial clusters, considers the list of projects that continue to attract investment, and removes projects that have temporarily stopped attracting investment. Especially in the fields of logistics, processing industry associated with agriculture, coal ports, energy, etc., it is necessary to assess and forecast demand to make appropriate investment attraction proposals. In addition, it is necessary to assess the market in the field of manufacturing, assembly, and components in the industry groups that are attractive to the market to attract investment in industrial parks and industrial clusters.

For the garment manufacturing industry, the province agreed to temporarily stop attracting investment to gradually shift the workforce towards qualified and skilled workers for supporting industries and high-tech industries, gradually keeping up with the development trends of the country and the world.

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