A corner of Ly Son island district (Source: Internet)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee has agreed for alocal investor to do a feasibility study on a resort project in Ly Son islanddistrict.
The study was proposed by the VietnamInfrastructure Investment and Development Joint Stock Company (VIID) in adocument dated March 13, 2017.
ThePeople’s Committee asked the Department of Construction and the Ly Son DistrictPeople’s Committee to guide, support and create favourable conditions for thecompany to conduct the survey and find suitable locations for the aboveproject.
Locatedto the north-east of Quang Ngai province, 27km from the mainland, Ly Son districthas two islands, Big Island and Small Island. The island covers an area of over10sq.km, with the three communes of An Vinh, An Hai and An Binh and totalpopulation of some 22,000, of whom 60 percent live mainly on fishing, 30 percentlive on agriculture and the rest have other means of livelihood.
Bythe end of 2014, the island district began to get access to the national grid.Since then, infrastructure and accommodation services have started to develop butmostly in motels, homestays and mini hotels. Muong Thanh is the first four-starhotel to be built in Ly Son, which opened in May 2016 with 92 standard rooms.-VNA
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A corner of Ly Son island district (Source: Internet) 
