Tay Ninh aims for green growth

Reception scene

At the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Lam emphasized that Tay Ninh is a locality with a strategic position in the Southern key economic region, with strong potential in industry, high-tech agriculture and tourism. In addition to economic development, the province always identifies environmental protection and waste management towards a circular economy as key tasks. The implementation of the project funded by KOICA and KECO as a consultant is an important step to help Tay Ninh optimize its capacity for integrated waste management, promote classification, collection, recycling and raise public awareness about turning waste into resources.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Lam spoke at the meeting

The project "Piloting the classification of domestic waste at source and promoting resource circulation in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam" has a total investment of 10.83 million USD from KOICA, along with more than 56 billion VND of counterpart capital from the province, including 3 main components: propaganda , raising public awareness of waste classification at source . Investing in infrastructure and equipment, building two waste treatment plants in Hiep Hoa commune: an organic composting plant with a capacity of 65 tons/day and a secondary waste sorting plant with a capacity of 20 tons/day. Site clearance and investment in technical infrastructure to serve the project. Upon completion, the project will help increase the rate of waste classification at source, increase resource recovery, reduce pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of people's living environment.

Mr. Cha Kwang Myoung - Vice President of KECO spoke at the meeting

At the meeting, Mr. Cha Kwang Myoung - Vice President of KECO said that this is an important opportunity for KECO and Tay Ninh province to exchange and share experiences, and identify appropriate solutions to ensure the project is implemented effectively and sustainably. We are committed to closely accompanying, from technical consulting, human resource training, to monitoring the operation model of the classification - collection - recycling system.

He believes that with close coordination between Tay Ninh province, KOICA and KECO, the project will not only bring practical benefits to local people but also be a model for replication in other provinces and cities of Vietnam in the future.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Lam presented souvenirs to the delegation.

In addition, KECO wishes to expand cooperation with Tay Ninh province in many other areas such as green urban development, industrial waste treatment and recycling, renewable energy promotion and programs to raise public awareness of environmental protection. We are willing to share experiences, technologies and successful models in Korea to support Tay Ninh to develop in a sustainable and environmentally friendly direction.

Delegates take souvenir photos

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh Lam expressed his pleasure to welcome Mr. Cha Kwang Myoung and the KECO delegation to visit and work within the framework of the project "Piloting the classification of domestic waste at source and promoting resource circulation in Tay Ninh province", sponsored by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). This is one of the important projects aiming at sustainable development and implementing the green growth strategy of the province. The province affirmed that Tay Ninh is committed to closely coordinating with KECO and KOICA to implement the project on schedule and achieve high efficiency; at the same time, he wishes to expand cooperation with KECO in many other fields such as solid waste treatment, renewable energy development, ecological urban construction and promoting circular economy./.

Source: https://www.tayninh.gov.vn/thoi-su-chinh-tri/tay-ninh-huong-den-tang-truong-xanh-1029927