An Giang dialogue to remove hurdles for local investors
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang held a dialogue on August 9 with 100 investors in the locality to look into the situation and seek measures to remove difficulties facing them.
An Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of AnGiang held a dialogue on August 9 with 100 investors in the locality to lookinto the situation and seek measures to remove difficulties facing them.
The event was a chance for the province to adjust mechanismsand policies and issue new ones to create optimal conditions for localbusinesses and investors.
At the dialogue, investors proposed that the provincial People’sCommittee focus on major areas of land, environment, ground clearance,planning, construction, industry and investing in industrial parks, capital,credit, interest rate, trade promotion, transport, tax, insurance and labour.
Addressing the event, Nguyen Thanh Binh, Chairman of the provincialcommittee, highly valued the investors’ interest in An Giang over the years,contributing to improving the locality’s provincial competitiveness index.
He asked departments, sectors and localities across theprovince to focus on removing barriers to facilitate businesses’ production andoperation.
Binh pledged that the province will give favourableconditions for investors and enterprises to access land resources, whilereducing investment licence issuing time, thus speeding up the implementationof projects.
An Giang will support investors in human resources trainingand giving incentives for them to encourage them to invest more in theprovince, vowed the provincial leader.
At the event, provincial authorities also provided investorswith information of incentives that An Giang offers to businesses andinvestors.
According to theDepartment of Planning and Investment, in the first quarter of 2019, the province saw 177 new enterprises witha combined registered capital of nearly 1.45 trillion VND (62.35 million USD),up 5.98 percent in the number of businesses but down 0.27 percent in terms ofcapital against Q1 in 2018.-VNA
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