Continue to improve the investment environment for sustainable development

Long An focuses on completing traffic infrastructure, promoting stable and sustainable socio-economic development, contributing to attracting investment (In photo: Provincial Road 830E, the section through Ben Luc district is being urgently constructed)

Healthy and effective investment environment

According to Director of the Department of Planning and Investment - Truong Van Liep, the assessment and comments of domestic and foreign enterprises when investing in the province are that there is a transparent and safe investment environment , the provincial leaders are friendly, sincere and always accompany enterprises in production and business.

In particular, all enterprises investing in the province are equal, receive timely support and enjoy full policies according to regulations, without discrimination between domestic and foreign enterprises.

Representative of Tan Kim Industrial Park Expansion Management Board (Can Giuoc District) - Huynh Van Banh said: When investing in Long An, enterprises carefully study related mechanisms and policies. It is worth mentioning that in recent times, the difficulties, obstacles and recommendations of enterprises, including secondary enterprises, have been recognized and promptly resolved by provincial leaders.

Provincial leaders regularly meet with businesses to learn about their production and business activities (In photo: Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation - Nguyen Thanh Hai and provincial leaders visit and work at the Tan Kim Industrial Park Expansion)

Representative of Viet Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company (Thu Thua district) - Pham Quoc Khanh shared: After more than 15 years of investing in the province, the Company has found the investment environment to be truly attractive, safe and effective. Long An borders Ho Chi Minh City, traffic infrastructure is constantly invested and upgraded; policies are fully implemented, administrative procedures are increasingly streamlined; difficulties and problems are listened to and resolved promptly.

The company is proactive in production, takes good care of customers, conducts market research; at the same time, researches and converts production models, prioritizes automation to suit and serve production in the current and upcoming stages.

Continue to improve the investment environment

According to the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, the province sets the goal that by 2030, Long An will become a dynamic, effective, and sustainable economic center of the Southern region, a gateway to the economic, urban, and industrial corridor closely connecting Ho Chi Minh City and the Southeast with the Mekong Delta.

The province will focus on effectively exploiting competitive advantages, promoting the role of regional connectivity, upgrading infrastructure, administrative reform, innovating thinking and working methods in investment promotion, proactively contacting and providing information to large and potential investors; digitizing and publicizing information documents about the province;...

The synchronous solutions identified by the province are strategic breakthroughs to strongly improve the business investment environment, helping the province get closer to domestic and foreign investors.

According to Head of the Provincial Economic Zone Management Board - Le Truong Chinh, in order to continue improving the investment environment, the unit closely coordinates with provincial departments, branches and sectors as well as industrial park investors to grasp information, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles of enterprises, contributing to creating favorable conditions to attract investment in industrial parks as well as in the area.

The Board requests that industrial park investors deploy, implement, and fully inform about policies, guidelines, and strategies; publicly and transparently announce procedures; fully and accurately support and guide procedures; promote and advertise investment in many appropriate and effective forms,... to attract investment with the highest results.

At the same time, the Board promotes administrative procedure reform, maintains the operation of the Investment Promotion Portal in Industrial Parks and Economic Zones (ipinvietnam.vn) with 5 available languages ​​(Vietnamese, English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese); provides information to press agencies, radio stations, associations, etc. to produce articles and reports on Industrial Parks and Economic Zones in the province.

Currently, the province has nearly 19,000 registered businesses (In photo: Workers of Viet Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company are completing products to hand over to partners)

In addition, the Board continues to closely coordinate with departments and branches to respond to and resolve recommendations, difficulties and problems of enterprises; provide full and accurate information on industrial parks, pre-built factory areas, and investment incentives for domestic and foreign investors according to demand; provide information support for investors who come to survey and research investment in industrial parks in the province. The Board coordinates with news agencies and newspapers to produce special reports on the province's economic achievements;...

Mr. Truong Van Liep informed: Inheriting the achieved results and identifying opportunities and challenges in the coming period, the province maximizes its potential and advantages in attracting investment with breakthrough and focused strategies. The province effectively implements the Action Program to implement the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050; effectively implements the Investment Promotion Program in 2024, strengthens coordination with central investment promotion agencies; develops a plan to welcome business delegations to explore investment opportunities in the province, completes infrastructure to prepare conditions for receiving investment.

In addition, the province selectively attracts investment with the goal of ensuring harmony between socio-economic development and protection of natural resources and environment, associated with the development of green economy and circular economy; continuing to implement solutions to improve the business environment, enhance the province's competitiveness to ensure sustainability.

To successfully implement the goal of renewing the growth model, the province will focus on training and improving the quality of human resources to create a competitive advantage in the province's long-term strategy. It is expected that the province will continue to affirm itself as a profitable and successful investment destination for investors.

To date, the province has nearly 19,000 registered enterprises with a total registered capital of VND386,470 billion. The province has 2,254 domestic projects with a registered capital of VND491,574 billion. The province has attracted 1,388 FDI projects with a capital of over USD11.8 billion; of which, 635 projects are in operation with a total investment capital of over USD4.2 billion.

With a consistent viewpoint in implementing policies of the Central and the province, and synchronous implementation of the entire political system from the province to the locality, Long An will focus all resources to accelerate the development of traffic, urban and economic infrastructure systems to contribute to improving the investment environment.

The province is focusing on allocating capital to key, widespread transport projects with regional connectivity such as Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4 of Ho Chi Minh City, Provincial Road 830E, Provincial Road 823D, etc.

These projects help to remove traffic bottlenecks, open up new development space, increase investment attraction, and reduce costs and time for investors.

Along with that, the province has increased the publicity of planning and land use plans according to the planning; supported and guided investors to speed up compensation, site clearance, land handover, land lease, and issuance of land use right certificates in accordance with the prescribed procedures, saving time and costs for enterprises.

In addition to resolving proposals and recommendations from businesses, the province will increase support for legal procedures for businesses related to investment and business operations. The investment promotion and support agency will provide free consultation on procedures for establishing businesses and administrative procedures for investment and business.

At the same time, the province provides information on planning and socio-economic development orientation of the province, connects and introduces locations and accompanies investors in surveying investment locations suitable for planning, creating favorable conditions for investors to soon deploy projects in the province.

“In addition, the province proactively coordinates closely with ministries, central branches, provinces and cities in the region to connect and share common resources, focus on investing in completing strategic and dynamic transport infrastructure projects, and create new development corridors. Thereby, unblocking and connecting the province's development resources; creating advantages in the long-term investment attraction strategy; helping enterprises participate deeply and widely in the global value chain; developing a comprehensive, modern and comprehensive economy, promoting economic restructuring associated with green growth model innovation, improving productivity, quality and efficiency; the economy develops stably and sustainably" - Mr. Truong Van Liep emphasized./.

Chau Son

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