Hai Phong pledges optimal conditions for investors
Hai Phong will always accompany with and create optimal conditions for investors, vowed Nguyen Trung Kien, head of the Economic Zone Management Board of the northern port city, during a meeting with foreign-invested businesses in the city on January 31.
Le Trung Kien, Head of Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board presents gifts to representatives of Nomura-Haiphong Industrial Zone Development Corporation (investor of Nomura Hai Phong Industrial Park) (Photo: VNA)
Hai Phong(VNA) – Hai Phong will always accompany with and create optimal conditions forinvestors, vowed Nguyen Trung Kien, head of the Economic Zone Management Board ofthe northern port city, during a meeting with foreign-invested businesses in thecity on January 31.
Kien thanked the firmsfor choosing Hai Phong as their long-term investment destination, expressing his hope that the partnership between the two sides will continue to bestrengthened, benefiting both sides.
He said that 2023 ispredicted to be a tough year, but local authorities will support and give bestconditions for businesses to overcome common difficulties of the world economy.
In following years,Hai Phong will continue to expand industrial parks and clusters, whileimproving administrative procedures and completing transport infrastructure toattract more investors, he said.
Last year, Hai Phongranked fourth among the localities nationwide in FDI attraction with nearly 2.5billion USD injected into 48 new and 37 underway projects. To date, localindustrial parks and clusters have lured 458 FDI projects worth over 23 billionUSD, along with 202 domestically-invested projects with a total capital of nearly300 trillion VND (12.8 billion USD).
In 2022, Hai Phong ledlocalities nationwide in terms of administrative reform, while showing strongperformance in enhancing its provincial competitiveness index (PCI).
Kien said that this year, Hai Phong will speed up the infrastructureconstruction of a number of industrial parks and ports, while finalisingprocedures to set up four new industrial parks.
At the same time, thecity will focus on investing in its transport infrastructure system to connect industrialparks and clusters, thus expanding the development space of the city./.
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Le Trung Kien, Head of Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board presents gifts to representatives of Nomura-Haiphong Industrial Zone Development Corporation (investor of Nomura Hai Phong Industrial Park) (Photo: VNA) 
