On 15 August, Chairman of the Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Nguyen Van Linh chaired the conference on reviewing activities of the provincial Steering Committee for Investment Support and Business Development of Bac Giang province (the Steering Committee) since May 2018.
PPC Chairman Nguyen Van Linh chairs the conference
According to the report of the Bac Giang provincial Department of Planning and Investment (DPI), investment attraction and business development have been positively changed since early this year. The province has approved for 79 new domestic investment (DI) projects with a total registered capital of more than 1,000 billion VND (43 million USD) and 42 FDI projects valued at 127.5 million USD. Besides, the local authority has given a nod to increase the capital for 32 FDI projects up to 313.9 million USD.
To date, the province is home to nearly 1,500 valid investment projects, including 1,100 DI projects with total registered capital of more than 79.4 billion VND (3.4 billion USD) and 358 FDI projects worth approx 4.2 million USD.
However, there are a large number of dissolved or suspended enterprises. Only 4,700 enterprises out of 7,900 registering ones are in operation. Besides, some companies face obstacles in accession to land use due to the lack of consensus with local residents.
At the event, the participants discussed to seek solutions for removing obstacles facing enterprises in land leasing procedures and environmental impact assessment. Particularly, difficulties and obstacles in site clearance of Hoa Phu industrial park and some projects in Bac Giang city were raised at the conference.
Addressing at the conference, PPC Chairman Linh stressed, removing obstacles and facilitating enterprises in investment, production development and goods consumption are important tasks of the local governments and sectors.
He requested the member agencies of the Steering Committee to highly concentrate on supporting enterprises to remove obstacles in investment procedures and land accession while offering an equal playground among enterprises.
In line with giving priority to and facilitating potential enterprises who strictly obey Vietnam’s regulations and make considerable contributions to the local socio-economic development, it is necessary to have sanctions against enterprises making bad use of mechanism and policies or violating laws for their private benefits.
PPC Chairman assigned DPI to properly carry out post-inspection upon the projects while pointing out the obstacles in those projects and suggest PPC Chairman plans to assign leaders of competent agencies detailed tasks to accompany enterprises in handling difficulties.
The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment was requested to study the scheme on the adjustment of land use planning by 2020 and submit the PPC for approval. Besides, they take the initiative to guide and speed up site clearance progress of the projects especially the key projects.
They should ask the related agencies to speed up environment impact assessment on investment projects. They are directed not to grant investment certificates to or offer sanctions against the projects breaching regulations on environment protection, discharging waste into the environment.
The provincial Industrial Zones Authority was required to speed up the progress of the projects building the infrastructure of Hoa Phu and Quang Chau industrial parks.
Source: Bac Giang online newspapers
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