Also attending were Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc; State Auditor General Ngo Van Tuan; Secretary of Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long; leaders of central ministries, branches and Hoa Binh province; especially more than 400 representatives of domestic and foreign enterprises, economic groups, and business associations.
* Special incentive mechanisms and policies to attract investment
Introducing the investment potential of Hoa Binh province, Secretary of the Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long said that as a province located at the gateway to the Northwest region, over 70km from Hanoi, with unique advantages in climate and geography, Hoa Binh province has been developing agriculture in a safe and effective direction; closely linking processing industry, tourism, environmental protection, ecology, and adaptation to climate change. Hoa Binh has strong agricultural products and brands on the market such as: Cao Phong oranges, Tan Lac red grapefruit, fish, Ho Song Da shrimp, etc.
Hoa Binh has been decided by the Prime Minister to establish 8 industrial parks with a total area of over 1,500 hectares; is proposing to expand Lac Thinh Industrial Park to about 1,000 hectares, add 3 new industrial parks with an area of over 1,260 hectares and 21 industrial clusters with an area of over 800 hectares; strives to have the land area of industrial parks and clusters account for about 1% of the province's natural land area by 2025.
Regarding culture and tourism, along with the famous Hoa Binh culture, the province has great potential to develop various types of eco-tourism, resort tourism, cultural and spiritual tourism. The province has Kim Boi Mineral Water Tourism Area, Quy Hoa Lac Son, Bao Hieu Yen Thuy; Tien Lac Thuy Pagoda Spiritual Tourism Area, De Bo, Dong Thac Bo Hoa Binh Lake; Ban Lac Mai Chau Cultural Tourism Area... especially Hoa Binh Lake Tourism Area which has been planned as one of 12 national tourism areas in the region.
Regarding policy mechanisms, in addition to general incentive policies, Hoa Binh also has a number of incentive policies such as corporate income tax exemption for the first 4 years, 50% reduction for the next 9 years; exemption and reduction of land and water surface rent; exemption and reduction of import and export taxes...
Hoa Binh focuses on attracting investment in high-tech agriculture, manufacturing industry, and processing of agricultural and food products; in trade and services, the province prioritizes developing supply chains and consuming goods. In tourism, the province prioritizes attracting investment in building national tourist areas, tourist areas, points, and connecting tourist routes...
At the conference, domestic and foreign enterprises and investors spoke about the potential, investment attraction policies as well as investment efficiency in Hoa Binh province. Delegates shared experiences and made recommendations to attract more investment in Hoa Binh province; said to continue to invest stably and expand investment in high-tech, tourism, clean agriculture, etc.
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that after the Investment Promotion Conference of 6 socio-economic regions across the country, Hoa Binh is the first locality to organize the Investment Promotion Conference in 2023.
According to the Prime Minister, in recent times, implementing the Party and State's guidelines, policies and guidelines, the Government has issued and directed the drastic and synchronous implementation of programs, action plans, tasks and specific solutions in various fields. The Government and the Prime Minister have organized many national online conferences to remove difficulties and promote the development of important economic sectors. Thereby, timely decisions have been made, creating many appropriate and practical solutions to remove difficulties, promote production and business, attract investment and promote growth.
The head of the Government pointed out the potentials, strengths, outstanding opportunities and competitive advantages of Hoa Binh province. The Prime Minister said that in recent years, despite many difficulties and challenges, thanks to the efforts of the Party Committee, government, army and people of all ethnic groups in the province, Hoa Binh has achieved important and quite comprehensive achievements in many fields, completing and surpassing most of the main goals set by the 16th Provincial Party Congress.
In 2022, the province had 75 domestic investment projects approved in principle and granted investment licenses with a total registered capital of about 35 trillion VND. By the end of 2022, the province had a total of 729 projects in operation; of which, there were 37 foreign direct investment projects with a total registered capital of about 608 million USD and 692 domestic projects with a total registered investment capital of about 183 trillion VND.
The Prime Minister warmly commended and congratulated the efforts of the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in Hoa Binh province and the achievements and results of socio-economic development and investment attraction of the province, contributing significantly to the overall achievements of the whole country.
* Create conditions for people to "leave farming but not their homeland"
Along with analyzing the domestic and international situation, the Prime Minister suggested a number of key tasks and solutions for Hoa Binh to increase investment attraction, promote the highest efficiency of potentials and advantages, strive to have an economy reaching the national average by 2025, and by 2030 become a leading developed province in the midland and mountainous region of the North.
The Prime Minister emphasized that Hoa Binh province must focus on implementing three strategic breakthroughs, including developing and creating breakthroughs in infrastructure, including transport infrastructure; promoting administrative procedure reform, perfecting institutions; and improving the quality of human resources. The province focuses on developing industries in a sustainable manner, promoting distinct potentials, competitive advantages, and resolving limitations and challenges, focusing on emerging areas such as digital economy, green economy, circular economy, based on innovation and creativity. Hoa Binh must continue to build a clean and strong political system and cadres; maintain political stability, social order and safety, and create favorable conditions for investors; provincial leaders must be receptive, listen, and resolve difficulties of people and businesses, in the spirit of "harmonizing interests, sharing risks and difficulties; ensuring harmony of interests between the State, people, and businesses".
Regarding specific tasks, the Prime Minister requested Hoa Binh province to urgently complete the provincial planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050; at the same time, effectively implement it, using the planning as a basis for managing socio-economic development in the area. The province needs to mobilize and effectively use State, private and other legal resources to focus on investing in developing the infrastructure system, focusing on implementing the investment in the Hoa Binh - Moc Chau (Son La) expressway; expanding the Hoa Lac - Hoa Binh expressway to connect the Northwestern provinces with the capital Hanoi and the Northern Delta provinces.
The head of the Government requested the province to focus on building priority policy mechanisms and allocating reasonable resources for the development of dynamic regions; strengthening cooperation and linking regional economic development with neighboring provinces and cities and the whole country; first of all with Hanoi city to promote investment attraction, consumption of agricultural products and effectively exploit the potential for tourism, service and processing industry development.
Hoa Binh needs to continue to strongly and substantially improve the business investment environment; promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles for businesses and investors; perform well the task of site clearance, creating clean land for investors; research and develop appropriate specific policies, creating favorable conditions for breakthroughs; strongly develop high-quality human resources to serve development.
The Prime Minister emphasized that Hoa Binh province must strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities at all levels; innovate working style and manners, tighten administrative discipline and order; focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, creating favorable conditions for production, business and investment development; proactively and actively promote deep, comprehensive, substantive and effective international economic integration; focus on directing the effective implementation of the Central Resolution on private economic development; resolutely fight against negativity, corruption and group interests...
“Hoa Binh must reserve favorable land for production and business development. Because only with production and business development can there be jobs; only with jobs can there be people working; only with people working can there be people living; only with people living can there be people buying houses; only with people buying houses can there be urban development; only with urban development can there be real estate business development,” the Prime Minister reminded.
For the business community and investors, the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude for their affection, confidence, investment and contribution to the development of Hoa Binh province and Vietnam in general; at the same time, he requested that businesses need to properly implement investment commitments, remember investments, disburse investment capital quickly; implement good business culture, and say no to negativity.
“Investors and businesses must continue to review and ensure that registered projects are effective and feasible, eliminating unfeasible and ineffective projects; at the same time, focus on developing projects, producing and doing business effectively and having a long-term, healthy and sustainable business strategy in Hoa Binh province,” the Prime Minister noted.
The Prime Minister also requested investors to raise awareness and responsibility in environmental protection; responsibility towards society and the community, preserving and promoting national cultural identity, joining hands with local authorities and organizations to help families with meritorious services, policy beneficiaries, the poor, ethnic minorities and disadvantaged people; well implement policies and regimes for workers; pay attention to building a safe, friendly and harmonious working environment; and develop sustainably.
In addition, enterprises closely coordinate with localities to promptly resolve problems arising during the implementation process; ensure the harmony of interests of the State, investors and people; create conditions for Hoa Binh people to "leave agriculture but not their homeland", eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; propose and recommend to ministries, branches and the Government to resolve issues beyond their authority.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the Ministry of Planning and Investment, relevant ministries and sectors to closely coordinate with Hoa Binh province and localities nationwide to continue assessing the current situation, reviewing and finding solutions to improve the investment and business environment and create favorable conditions, reduce costs for enterprises and investors to develop investment projects, promote production and business. In addition, promptly and effectively resolve recommendations and proposals from the province, people and enterprises; promptly complete relevant legal regulations, mechanisms and policies.
The Prime Minister believes that more and more domestic and foreign investors and international organizations will be interested in, choose and decide to invest in Hoa Binh to get rich, contributing to the development of the province and Vietnam.
The Prime Minister said that the Government will direct relevant ministries and branches to continue researching to have appropriate mechanisms and policies, creating favorable conditions for Hoa Binh to mobilize the highest resources, strongly improve the investment and business environment, effectively take advantage of cooperation and support from domestic and foreign sponsors and investors to help Hoa Binh accelerate development.
On this occasion, on behalf of the Vietnamese Government, the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude and hoped to continue receiving valuable cooperation and support from development partners, international organizations, and foreign investors who have shown interest in and chosen Vietnam in general and Hoa Binh province in particular as an effective, long-term, and sustainable investment destination.
At the conference, the Prime Minister and leaders of ministries and branches witnessed the ceremony of handing over investment approval decisions to 16 investors representing the implementation of 15 projects in the province with a total investment capital of nearly 47 trillion VND (equivalent to over 2 billion USD) in the fields of tourism, food processing, cement industry, industrial park infrastructure, urban development.../.
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