Hai Phong promotes investment: High efficiency from innovating ways of thinking and doing
The presence of leaders of the largest corporations and businesses in Vietnam and foreign countries with a total committed investment capital of up to 12.85 billion USD is considered a success beyond expectations of the Hai Phong City Investment Promotion Conference in 2016. This is the clearest evidence of innovation in the way of thinking, working, calling for investment and especially the city's preparation to receive investment capital flows in recent times, truly bringing The flowers are fragrant and the fruit is sweet.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders of ministries, branches and Hai Phong city attended the ceremony to announce the opening of international flights to and from Cat Bi International Airport by VietJetAir.com at the 2016 Hai Phong Investment Promotion Conference.
Investor-centered
This is a guiding viewpoint and has been seriously implemented in the city in recent times. Investors coming to Hai Phong now do not have to run around everywhere anymore but are cared for, welcomed, and enthusiastically served. If they are eligible for preferential policies, they will be enthusiastically guided. It can be affirmed that this is the most important shift in thinking, awareness and action of governments at all levels, the first step in the process of building a constructive, serving government. Comrade Le Van Thanh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council repeatedly affirmed: will resolutely eliminate from the team those officials and civil servants with weak capacity, who have harassing behavior, making it difficult for businesses and investors; set out at the same timeHigher requirements for the public apparatus, promoting initiative, flexibility, creativity, ability to propose, advise, dare to do, dare to take responsibility. With those clear moves at all levels and industries, the majority of investors coming to Hai Phong feel satisfied and want to invest.
Today's fragrant flowers and sweet fruits originate from the city's thoughtful and long-term preparation over the past many years, enlisting the help of the Central Government, mobilizing all resources, and investing quickly and effectively to create synchronous and modern transport infrastructure, urban areas, industrial parks, and economic zones, with clean land funds ready to welcome investment. Putting 7 Hai Phong industrial parks within the Dinh Vu - Cat Hai Economic Zone is also thoughtful preparation with foresight and understanding of investors' requirements. LG Display's investment story in Trang Due Industrial Park is typical of the skillful combination of factors so that going from the investor's idea to the project takes place in just 1-2 months (with a clean land fund ready, with mechanisms in place).preferential policies, with the attention and drastic action of the entire political system, especially the city leaders; Licensing time is reduced to the shortest possible level; Committed to ensuring requirements for electricity, water, and transportation infrastructure; flexible with the proposal to build worker housing right in the industrial park...). Thanks to that, this project worth 1.5 billion USD quickly entered the city and was built at a very fast speed, starting in May 2016 and being able to operate in the first quarter of 2017. What's more remarkable is that from here, many other large projects rushed into Trang Due, leaving 400 hectares of land in the two phases almost filled.
It is also impossible not to mention the particularly important position of Hai Phong, the largest gateway to the sea in the north, the economic engine of the whole region, the leading city in international integration and the future will soon become an international city, meeting 5 types of traffic, considered a natural attraction for investors. When coming to Hai Phong, they want to invest because of the clearly visible potential; invested and then wanted to quickly expand further such as Trang Due Industrial Park, Dinh Vu Industrial Park and many secondary investors.
Opening a new era of development
As commented by comrade Le Van Thanh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council, what has been happening in attracting investment and developing the city's socio-economic development in recent times confirms: Hai Phong city is entering a new period of development with many bright prospects. In the past 9 months, there have been more than 2.7 billion USD of FDI capital registered to invest in Hai Phong and more than 6,800 billion VND of total domestic investment capital, making Hai Phong the leading locality in the country in attracting investment. Up to this point, the fact that Hai Phong has attracted 13.6 billion USD of FDI capital and hundreds of trillions of dong of domestic investment capital speaks to Hai Phong's attractiveness.
With what happened and the outstanding success at the 2016 Investment Promotion Conference, Hai Phong people have more grounds to firmly believe that the city will continue to have new developments faster, stronger, more vibrant and busier. 12.85 billion USD of committed investment capital, most of which will be invested in port development, port services, industry, tourism, services, entertainment, urban areas, hotels and 5-star ecological resorts, high-tech agriculture..., most of which will start construction in 2017 - 2018, showing that a new wave of investment in Hai Phong is truly booming. Happily, besides attracting FDI capital, Hai Phong has become a convergence of leading economic corporations in the country. Only projects of Vingroup vHim Lam is investing in Hai Phong with a financial value of more than 30,000 billion VND and will be followed by Xuan Truong, Bitexco, Saigon New Port, Xuan Thanh, BRG, FLC, Phuc Loc... Many forms of investment are being chosen by the city and proposed by investors such as BT, BOT, PPP, ODA loans, government bond capital..., creating an abundance of resources mobilized from the city's own resources. Initially reduce the investment burden from the budget. Not only that, all projects are selectively attracted, high technology, clean technology, without much impact on the environment. Every investor coming to Hai Phong is full of optimism and hope for success on the port's land.
(Hong Thanh, Hai Phong Newspaper)
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