Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern coastalprovince of Quang Ninh has set a goal to have modern industry and servicesectors and become one of the region’s comprehensive and dynamic developmenthubs by 2025.

The goal is part of growth targets of the province for 2020– 2025, which outlined in the resolution of the recent 15th Party congress ofthe province, which took place from September 25 – 27. The other goals includedbuilding strong and transparent Party and political apparatus; promoting unity,democracy, discipline, and innovation; mobilizing concerted efforts forsustainable socio-economic development; and ensuring defence and security.

Regarding economic growth, the province aims to increase itsgross regional domestic product (GRDP) by 10 percent on an annual averageduring the period, and the per capita GRDP to over 10,000 USD by 2025. The urbanisationrate is expected to surpass 75 percent, while the rate of poor households to godown to below 1 percent. Quang Ninh will work to maintain its leading positionnationwide concerning the provincial competitive index (PCI), publicadministration reform (PAR) index, Satisfaction Index of Public AdministrationServices (SIPAS), and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI). By theend of 2030, the province targets to complete the new-style rural building task.

To realise such goals, apart from Party building work, QuangNinh will implement socio-economic development solutions, which includerestructuring the local economy with step-by-step development of the digitaleconomy and developing services and tourism to make it a spearheaded sector.

Quang Ninh will focus on increasing the proportion ofprocessing – manufacturing industry in its economic structure, industriesapplying high-tech environmentally friendly technologies and smart industrieswith high value added. The development of economic zones, coastal industrialindustrial parks, as well as coastal urban areas and economic corridors arealso prioritised.

The province will spare no effort to diverse investmentforms, accelerate growth speed, and complete its synchronised infrastructure.Specifically, resources will be focused on completing the Van Don – Mong Caihighway in 2021, the Ha Long-Cam Pha coastal route, the Cua Luc No 1,2 and 3and other key infrastructure works in Ha Long city. The province will work withthe northern coastal city of Hai Phong to get the Rung and Lai Xuan bridgesprojects to be done as soon as possible.

The congress identified three strategic breakthroughs of theprovince in the period. They are developing high quality human resources inassociation with increasing population scale and quality; speeding up thedevelopment of synchronised and modern strategic infrastructure; and promoting thelocal cultural identities while shortening income gaps.

Concluding the congress, the re-elected Secretary of theprovincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Ky highlighted such important factors tothe local sustainable and fast growth in the future as strong and transparentParty and political apparatus, anti-corruption work, loss of public assetprevention, and solidarity within the community.


Quang Ninh is viewed as a strategic destination in northernVietnam and an important link in the northern economic growth triangle of Hanoi- Hai Phong - Quang Ninh.

The province possesses major advantages from Van Dondistrict planning to become a multi-sectoral maritime economic zone and entertainmentcentre with a casino and high-end sea-island tourism and services. It is also agateway for international trade, creating unique, modern, and high-qualityproducts that are internationally competitive.

Over the past five years, Quang Ninh has experienced highand sustainable growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10.7 percent.Average GRDP per capita is estimated at 6,700 USD in 2020, two times higherthan the country’s average figure.

It topped the PCI rankings for the third year in a row in2019, according to the PCI 2019 report from the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce andIndustry.

In addition to the PCI, Quang Ninh also led the country inthe PAR Index for three consecutive years, in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Theprovince has also been among the best performers in the SIPAS for many yearsand rose to the top in 2019.

It has also made great strides forward in improvinggovernance and public administration capacity, moving from 62nd place in 2016to third last year in Vietnam’s PAPI./.