Conference on announcement of Planning and Investment Promotion for Bac Ninh province in 2024 held

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents the Decision approving the Bac Ninh Provincial Planning for the 2021-2023 period, with a vision to 2050, to the leaders of Bac Ninh province.

Attending the conference were members of the Party Central Committee: Huynh Thanh Dat, Minister of Science and Technology; Dao Hong Lan, Minister of Health; Nguyen Dinh Khang, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor; Lieutenant General Nguyen Hong Thai, Commander of Military Region I; leaders of central ministries, departments and branches; representatives from diplomatic agencies, international organizations, provinces and cities.

Bac Ninh leaders at the conference were Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, member of the Party Central Committee (PCC), Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee (PPC), Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies; Ms. Nguyen Huong Giang, Standing Deputy Secretary of the PPC and Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Vuong Quoc Tuan, alternate member of the PPC, Deputy Secretary of the PPC and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; former standing members of the Provincial Party Committee, members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent People's Council, People's Committee, Fatherland Front Committee, Delegation of National Assembly Deputies; leaders of departments, branches, sectors and localities; enterprises inside and outside the province; infrastructure investors in the province.

The conference was held in-person and online to foreign localities that have friendly and cooperative relations with Bac Ninh province; large international corporations are exploring the province’s investment environment and FDI enterprises operating in Vietnam.

At the conference, PM Pham Minh Chinh handed over Decision No. 1589/QD-TTg dated December 8, 2023 of the Prime Minister approving the Planning of Bac Ninh province for the period 2021 - 2023, with a vision to 2050 to the leaders of Bac Ninh province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the conference to announce the Planning and Investment Promotion of Bac Ninh province in 2024.

According to the plan, by 2030, Bac Ninh will be a centrally-run city, a dynamic economic and cultural center of the Northern region, one of the Red River Delta's development poles, closely connected to Hanoi, with a synchronous and modern socio-economic infrastructure system. National defense, security, order, and social safety are ensured.

By 2050, Bac Ninh will be a centrally-run city, ranking among the top localities in the country in terms of economic scale; one of Asia's and the world's leading high-tech industrial, research and development, and smart manufacturing centers; and a green, smart, modern, livable city with a high level of development, imbued with Bac Ninh-Kinh Bac's cultural identity.

The key task of Bac Ninh in the coming time is to focus on investment resources for industry and services, development of industries with development potential, and transformation and attraction of investment in new industry groups.

By 2030, Bac Ninh province strives to have 04 cities: Bac Ninh, Tu Son, Tien Du, Yen Phong; 02 towns: Que Vo, Thuan Thanh; 02 districts: Luong Tai, Gia Binh. Bac Ninh province meets the criteria of a type I urban area and becomes a centrally-run city…

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits the exhibition of Planning, advertisement of typical products and Kinh Bac cultural space.

Regarding the development direction of important industries, Bac Ninh will focus on developing high-tech and green industries, forming a leading electronics center in Vietnam associated with smart technology, accelerating the progress of large industrial projects, promoting the development of high-tech manufacturing industries, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, etc. to enhance the position of Bac Ninh province's industry in the global value chain.

Building Bac Ninh into a shopping, commercial, and consumption center of the Capital region; promoting commercial development associated with green and sustainable urban development to create an ideal living space to attract high-quality human resources; promoting e-commerce development; developing services in a diverse and sustainable direction; focusing on high-value service industries with potential and advantages such as information technology services, telecommunications, logistics, finance, and other support services.

On the other hand, Bac Ninh will focus on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector, prioritizing the development of craft village ecotourism, historical and time-experience tourism, and unique and attractive tourism products associated with the cultural values of Bac Ninh-Kinh Bac people; enhancing the role of promoting and introducing the image of Bac Ninh province to domestic and international friends.

Delegates attend the conference.

On this occasion, provincial leaders presented the zoning planning decision to localities and the investment policy decision, investment registration certificate, memorandum of understanding, and agreement in principle for large-scale investment projects in the province with a total investment capital of USD 5.5 billion.

Speaking at the conference, PM Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the province's groundbreaking of the project of Kenh Vang Bridge and the groundbreaking of a new social housing project. This is an urgent issue with long-term significance, especially for Bac Ninh, a province with strong industrial development.

The Prime Minister assessed that the Bac Ninh Provincial Planning was carefully and scientifically prepared on the basis of promoting distinct potentials, outstanding opportunities, competitive advantages, as well as overcoming the province's shortcomings and limitations.

The plan has provided viewpoints, visions, key development goals, development breakthroughs, development orientations and priorities of the province with 05 corridors, 01 dynamic region as well as plans, solutions, preferential policies and resources to implement the plan in the coming time.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivers a speech at the conference.

Bac Ninh Provincial Planning reflects the aspiration of the Party Committee, government and people of Bac Ninh in realizing the goal of becoming a centrally-run city by 2030, a dynamic economic and cultural center of the northern region.

To realize the plan, the Prime Minister emphasized that Bac Ninh province needs to focus on mobilizing and effectively using all reasonable resources to promote traditional growth drivers (investment, export, and consumption) and concentrate on new growth drivers (green economy, digital economy, circular economy, sharing economy, knowledge economy); increase investment and develop human factor; strengthen regional, national and international connectivity and so on.

In addition, the Prime Minister requested to focus on all resources to invest in industry and services; concentrate on developing potential industries, transform and attract investment in new industry groups; substantially and effectively implement  administrative reforms and digital transformation; promote strategic infrastructure investment development; foster key industries and high-tech industries; boost historical and cultural traditions; well-prepare projects to welcome large, potential investors and modern technology.

PPC’s Secretary Nguyen Anh Tuan speaks at the conference.

Regarding investment promotion, the Prime Minister highly appreciated Bac Ninh's outstanding achievements in the first 9 months of the year in terms of investment attraction (1^st in the country), export (2^nd) and industrial production value (1^st).

The Prime Minister highly appreciated and welcomed businesses and investors who chose Bac Ninh province to invest. He believed that the projects would be successfully implemented.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan (3rd from left) and Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dao Quang Khai (3rd from right) present the zoning planning decision to localities.

The Prime Minister urged the business community, investors, all ministries, branches and leaders at all levels of Bac Ninh province to prioritize listening, fulfilling commitments, achieving tangible results, and creating new opportunities and values for the locality and beneficiaries.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan presents the Investment Policy Decision and Investment Registration Certificate.

The Prime Minister requested central ministries and branches to continue to monitor and coordinate the effective implementation of the planning for Bac Ninh province; regularly summarize, learn from experience, supplement and adjust the planning accordingly; coordinate and support effectively and synchronously with Bac Ninh province, and localities in the whole region to promote the combined strength in effectively implementing the planning.

The Prime Minister suggested that localities in the Red River Delta region unite, be unanimous, support each other, jointly solve inter-provincial and inter-city issues, study the establishment of funds and mechanisms to support inter-provincial and inter-city projects in the region, ec.

The Prime Minister also requested the government and people of Bac Ninh province to orient their actions according to 16 words: "Exploiting potential, asserting oneself, remaining steadfast in goals, creating prosperity", towards the goal in 16 words: "Cultural Bac Ninh, Convergence of Elites, Solidarity, Resilience, Prosperity, Happiness".

On behalf of Bac Ninh leaders, Secretary Nguyen Anh Tuan seriously followed the Prime Minister's instructions to concretize them into tasks in the coming time with an aim to contributing to building Bac Ninh province to become more and more modern, prosperous, sustainable, and rich in Bac Ninh - Kinh Bac identity in the future. 

Speaking at the conference, the Secretary requested that all levels, sectors and localities to promote the dissemination, popularization and publicization of the core and basic contents of the Plan to the entire political system, business community and people of all walks of life; promote the role of heads of Party committees, authorities, agencies, units and localities; continue to perfect the urban planning framework, construction planning and specialized planning; focus on promoting and attracting investment in developing commercial and service urban areas, regional trade centers; Inland Container Depots (ICDs), Logistics; develop transport infrastructure and industrial parks; continue to innovate in Party building and a clean and strong political system; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of management and administration at all levels of government, moving towards implementing the urban government model...