An industrial zone in Phu Binh district, Thai Nguyen province. (Source: baothainguyen.com.vn)Thai Nguyen (VNA) – Thenorthern province of Thai Nguyen aims to attract at least 10 projects to local industrialzones with total registered capital of 200 million USD in 2017.
Measures Thai Nguyen plans toimplement to achieve the goal include administrative reform, completing infrastructurein industrial zones, assisting enterprises and increasing promotion activities.
Phan Manh Cuong, head of theThai Nguyen province’s Management Board of Industrial Zones, said it wouldboost dialogue with investors to discover difficulties facing them.
The board also plans to boostsupervision of total discharge and treatment of industrial zones and speed upland clearance for new industrial zones, Cuong said.
According to the managementboard, in 2016 industrial zones in Thai Nguyen attracted 30 new projects,including 22 foreign direct investment projects with total capital of 126.84million USD and eight domestic projects with combined capital of more than 1 trillionVND (45 million USD).
The industrial zones now house atotal of 164 projects in total, 83 of which are foreign direct investmentprojects worth seven billion USD and 81 domestic projects worth 11.9 trillionVND (545 million USD).
Enterprises in industrial zoneshave provided 90,000 jobs.
The combined revenue of firms inindustrial zones in Thai Nguyen in 2016 amounted to 20.157 billion USD, with combinedexport value hitting 19 billion USD.-VNA
