Lorries carry goods from the inland container depot in Mong Cai city of Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA) At a recent meeting with a delegation from theMinistry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Secretary of the Quang Ninh ProvincialParty Committee Nguyen Xuan Ky said the province has identified industrialdevelopment as a task of leading importance that helps guarantee nationalenergy security. It is also working to boost economic development based onscience and technology so secure cleaner production.
Open-cast coal mines will be gradually shut downwhile stone mines and cement factories located near Ha Long Bay, a worldnatural heritage site, will also be closed.
Paying special attention to trade and services,Quang Ninh is moving to capitalise on the local airport, expressways, seaports,and international border gates to foster cross-border trading, Ky said.
He added that apart from the State-investedborder gates, many businesses have poured money into developing bondedwarehouses and temporary cross-border bridges, thus attracting a large numberof enterprises to export and import activities.
Dien affirmed the MoIT’s support for theprovince’s viewpoint of green and sustainable development based on naturalresources, humans, and culture.
Highlighting six tasks for Quang Ninh in thetime ahead, he recommended that firstly, the province should build anindustrial and trade development strategy which needs to base on the localpotential and advantages, Vietnam’s development trend, and especially thenational strategies.
During the current and following tenures, itshould work hard to develop the industries that serve as the foundation fornational industrialisation and modernisation.
The second task is to accelerate the making andsubmission of the provincial planning for approval, Dien said, noting that thisplanning must match the sectoral, regional, and national planning schemes.
Thirdly, Quang Ninh needs to promptly seekcompetent agencies’ permission to develop infrastructure in border economiczones in Mong Cai city, form a wholesale farm produce market in the vicinity ofthe inland container depot, build a night market in the Bac Luan 1 area,develop tourism and maritime services in Tra Co ward and Cape Sa Vi of thecity. Besides, urban development must match the population, industrial, andservice growth.
Fourthly, Dien recommended the province tofurther use capital sourced from the State budget to attract private investmentto building socio-economic infrastructure. It should also continue applying thenew governance methods it has experienced in such as public investment -private governance, and private investment - public governance.
The fifth task is paying attention to thedomestic market, which has sometimes been neglected when it comes toagricultural products, he said, adding that when the MoIT adopted the policy ofboosting domestic sale of farm produce via traditional markets and supermarketsnationwide, the sales have doubled compared to the previous years.
The minister also underlined the need tocontinue developing e-commerce and digital economy, facilitate cross-bordertrading based on importers’ demand and the signed free trade agreements, issueincentives to attract domestic investment, and create a road map for assistingVietnamese businesses to join production and supply chains.
The last but not least task is related to marketsurveillance as Quang Ninh boasts long borderlines, both on land and at sea.Its administration need to create favourable conditions for market surveillanceunits to coordinate with other forces like public security, customs, taxation,and especially, authorities of border localities.
Sharing more than 118km of land border and 191kmof sea border with China, Quang Ninh is located at the start of the countries’“Two Corridors, One Belt” economic cooperation zone, in the Nanning -Singapore Economic Corridor, and the expanded Gulf of Tonkin inter-regionalcooperation area within the ASEAN - China Free Trade Area./.
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