The Rang Dong textile industrial park on design (Photo: rangdongip.com.vn)Nam Dinh (VNA) – Construction on Rang Dong textileindustrial park – the largest of its kind in Vietnam – began in Nghia Hungdistrict in the northern province of Nam Dinh on April 18.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Ngo GiaTu said that the industrial park plays an important role in the province’s sea-basedeconomic development strategy, contributing to transferring local economicstructure.
Nam Dinh is home to more than 480 textile businesses withover 70,000 workers. The sector’s revenue accounts for 40 percent of theprovince’s total industrial production value.
Therefore, once operational, the industrial park will serveas a driving force for the locality’s socio-economic development, he stated,asking investors to mobilise resources to build infrastructure facilitiessynchronously to ensure the progress of the project.
According to Tran Minh Hoan, head of the province’sindustrial park management board, the project covers a total area of over2,000ha and is divided into three phases.
The Rang Dong industrial park aims to attract investors to thegarment and textile field towards the goal of 1 billion metres of fabric in2020 and 1.5 billion metres by 2025.
To meet environmental regulations, a wastewater treatmentstation with a capacity of 110,000 cu.m per day will be built.
In 2016, Vietnam imported 5.5 billion metres of fabric. It seta target of increasing the domestic fabric output from 2.85 billion metres in2016 to nearly 18 billion metres in 2025. To fulfill the goal, the Government hasallowed the establishment of several major textile industrial parks in certain localitieswith Nam Dinh planned to become a garment and textile centre of the north.-VNA
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