Northen provinces, cities to develop as a key economic hub
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Seven provinces and cities in the north of Vietnam discussed mechanisms to form the Northern Key Economic Region of the country (Photo: enternews.vn)
The first forum of the NKEC was organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), Business Forum Newspaper and the relating municipal departments of Planning and Investment in Hai Phong city on December 20.
Spanning more than 15,000 sq.km, the NKEC includes seven provinces and cities, Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Vinh Phuc and Bac Ninh.
As the NKEC’s three pillars, Hanoi, Quang Ninh and Hai Phong have three airports and 44 industrial parks that are home to many key industries such as cement, cars, electricity.
Nguyen Hong Long, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Enterprise Innovation and Development told the forum: "NKEC contributed nearly 32 percent of GDP and 31 percent of the national budget.”
Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said together with maintaining the role of a political, economic, cultural and scientific centre for Vietnam, the NKEC should develop as an another economic hub with breakthroughs that helps restructure the economy and foster growth.
The PM told the NKEC to become the country’s hub of processing and manufacturing industries; hi-tech agriculture; information technology, tourism and other services and later become a trading centre of the region and the world.
Attracting the private sector, the NKEC still needs much improvement
Most recently, the city of Hai Phong agreed an investment project with VinFast manufacturing and trading complex in Van Phong and Nghia Lo communes, Cat Hai district.
Nguyen Van Thanh, Vice Chairman of the Hai Phong People's Committee, said private groups such as Vingroup, Sungroup, Geleximco, FLC had so far invested 200 trillion VND (8.6 billion USD) in the city.
Next Hai Phong, Hai Duong province also received an investment project for an automobile assembly and manufacturing factory of Ford Vietnam Co., Ltd.
Hung Yen province also has been receiving huge capital inflows from real estate companies such as Vingroup, T&T Group, Hoa Phat.
In Quang Ninh, Sungroup has built and operated the first private airport of Vietnam, Van Don International Airport at the total investment of 7.4 trillion VND.
Seeing the potential of the NKEC, Long said: “It still relies mainly on the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector.”
He also added the remaining problem of the economic region included uneven development among localities in the region with low index of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI).
“There are two provinces in the top ten and five in the top 20 but there are also two provinces at the bottom of the list.”
According to the Planning and Investment Ministry, the growth rate of the service industry which is the motivation of the NKEC’s development, was not sustainable.
It increased by 9.05 percent in 2016 but only 7.54 percent last year. Export growth in 2018 only increased by 20 percent, lower than the rate of 31.2 percent in 2017.
The forum aims to receive contributions, analysis and policy recommendations from leading economic experts, investment organisations, and the business community to develop solutions to strengthen the investment resources for the NKEC.
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