The Prime Minister surveyed a number of major works and projects in Thai Binh

Accompanying the Prime Minister were comrades: Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh; National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh; Minister, Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son; Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien; Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha, Chairman of the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises Nguyen Hoang Anh; Secretary of Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee Ngo Dong Hai; representatives of leaders of ministries, branches and central agencies.

The Prime Minister and his delegation surveyed and examined the investment, construction and operation of Thai Binh Economic Zone, Thai Thuy district, Thai Binh province.

The Prime Minister also heard a report on the transport planning plan of Thai Binh province to 2030, the plan to encroach on the sea…; survey Lien Ha Thai industrial zone in this economic zone.

Answering the Prime Minister’s question about difficulties and problems, Secretary of the Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee Ngo Dong Hai said that the big difficulty is that the province has no experience in implementing economic zones (EZs), so it has been very demanding. learn and learn from the experiences of other provinces. The province is also interested in building a contingent of staff to do this work. Mr. Ngo Dong Hai also said some difficulties in current regulations; difficulties in site clearance when the land is crowded with people. “Without the participation of the people, within 6-8 months, it is impossible to clear more than 500 hectares of land.”

He also said that Lien Ha Thai Industrial Park currently has 4 big foreign investors and many other investors are interested in…

The Prime Minister said that the Central Government is very interested in the development of Thai Binh EZ and this mission and survey aims to “listen to the breath of life” to learn about life, listen to difficulties, obstacles and problems experience and lessons learned.

This is a very important economic zone for Thai Binh, a province with narrow land and a large population, helping the province develop towards the sea, exploiting marine space. The Prime Minister suggested that in the past, ancestors explored Tien Hai district of Thai Binh province. Up to now, Thai Binh Economic Zone has mainly developed on land, it is necessary to develop in the direction of exploiting marine space.

Experience is that the work of site clearance and resettlement must go first. Close coordination between the political system, people and investors is required to do well on site clearance; security must take the lead; and infrastructure must be synchronized.

The Prime Minister emphasized that in order to develop this economic zone, it is necessary to build a complete, interconnected and synchronous infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, electricity and water infrastructure and social infrastructure such as worker housing, environmental infrastructure. .

Analyzing more closely the requirements for infrastructure development, the Prime Minister asked the province to use public investment capital to complete the infrastructure connecting the economic zone, first of which is the coastal road project to connect as soon as possible. as possible with Cat Bi airport, Lach Huyen port of Hai Phong. The Prime Minister emphasized the spirit of not expecting and relying on the Central Government.

The Prime Minister also suggested options for implementing the construction of the EZ, including the public-private governance model. Public governance is about institutional building, planning, strategy, infrastructure construction to the foot of the fence of an economic zone, etc., while private governance is assigning large investors to operate, call for and promote other investors. . Many provinces have done well this model.

In particular, the Prime Minister asked Thai Binh province to determine that people must benefit from the economic zone but not be affected, ensuring that the lives of people who have given way to the project in their new place of residence must be good. than the old residence, the next year is better than the previous year.

The Prime Minister requested the province to well implement the construction of Thai Binh EZ to learn from and expand this model.

Regarding difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of projects, the Prime Minister emphasized that the spirit of which level belongs to the authority must be resolved, while all levels, branches and agencies do not replace each other’s work. … In which, related to the mines of common construction materials, the Prime Minister said that this is a problem with many projects across the country.

“Resources are owned by the entire people, but due to the lack of strict regulations, they are assigned to the private sector. If they like it, they sell it, if they don’t like it, they stick it back to push up the price, affecting investment projects. This problem has been resolved in the Government’s resolutions, but it has not been thoroughly solved, it must be solved thoroughly in the coming time,” the Prime Minister said.

Receiving directions and suggestions from the Prime Minister, Thai Binh Secretary Ngo Dong Hai said that the province is determined to open a coastal route through the province with a budget of more than 3,000 billion VND by May 2023. He also affirmed his high determination in developing this EZ.

Thai Binh Economic Zone has an area of ​​over 30,000 hectares, of which the area for industry, urban areas and services is over 8,000 hectares. This is a great advantage for Thai Binh to develop its industry.

The economic zone is built according to the model of an integrated, multi-sectoral, dynamic, efficient and sustainable economic zone associated with green growth, conservation and promotion of the value of marine ecosystems, historical relics, cultural. The place is expected to become the driving force and key economic development of the province and the South Red River Delta.

In order to successfully implement the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress, from 2021 to 2025, Thai Binh will strive to basically improve the infrastructure of the economic zone, ensure a relatively uniformity and promote the attraction of new projects. the industry has advanced and modern technology, causing less environmental pollution; shaping the development of modern and civilized coastal urban areas, associated with production and business functional zones.

The province strives to attract about 25 large projects by 2025 with a total investment of about 500,000 billion VND; economic structure by sectors: industry – construction accounted for 55 – 60%, trade – service accounted for 28 – 30%, agriculture, forestry and fishery accounted for 10 – 17%; create new jobs for 30,000 – 40,000 employees; per capita income is 1.5-2 times higher than the provincial average.

In addition to 2 thermal power projects that have been completed and are being completed for commercial power generation, there are a number of investors who have registered to research and develop wind power, in which one investor has been granted an investment certificate for this project. Tien Hai Wind Power Plant project phase I with a capacity of 40 MW, total investment capital of nearly 2,000 billion VND.

A number of large and key projects (Thai Binh 1 and 2 Thermal Power Plants, Amonium Nitrate Plant, Ham Rong gas project…) have been facilitated by the province to deploy; a number of projects have been completed and put into production and business operations stably, bringing high economic efficiency, creating a breakthrough in growth and economic restructuring of the province.

Lien Ha Thai Industrial Park is the first industrial park established in the EZ and this industrial park was assigned a pioneering mission by the province, laying the foundation for promoting the development of Thai Binh Economic Zone.

(According to Government Newspaper)