The province is also refining a master plan on urban areasfor the 2021-2030 period to attract investment.
It built a project on supporting start-ups in the locality,towards strongly developing private economy, and issued a list of projects inneed of investment in the fields of agriculture and rural development.
The locality considered building mechanisms to supportinvestment in hotel construction projects and hi-end services.
In particular, Bac Giang will step up administrative reform,improve the provincial competitiveness index, pool resources to build keysocio-economic infrastructure while enhancing the quality of human resources andState management on projects.
The province will actively assist investors and businessesin tackling difficulties and accelerating projects, especially those regardinginfrastructure construction and business in IPs.
From 2016 to the end of 2020, the province drew 909 projectsworth over 5.88 billion USD, marking a 3.5-fold rise from 2011-2015, 616 ofthem were domestic ones with total registered capital of over 55.7 trillion VND(2.42 billion USD), and 3.84 billion USD were foreign direct investment.
It is now home to 1,786 valid projects, including 1,311domestic ones worth more than 92.2 trillion VND and 475 foreign-invested onesvalued at over 6.2 billion USD. Projects are mostly in industry with 54.3percent, trade and services 40.5 percent, and agriculture 5.6 percent.
Since 2016, Bac Giang has granted licenses to over 6,000enterprises and 705 branches and representative offices, with a combinedregistered capital of more than 64.3 trillion VND. Its gross regional domesticproduct has expanded by 14 percent annually.
Cumulatively, there have been 10,837 businesses so far inthe province, including 466 foreign ones with a registered capital of 3.542billion USD and more than 10,300 others with over 84.9 trillion VND./.