The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will apply comprehensive measures to attract more investors, including increasing the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) and creating a smooth and favourable business environment.
Tra Vinh (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of TraVinh will apply comprehensive measures to attract more investors, includingincreasing the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) and creating a smooth andfavourable business environment.
This is among major tasks that the provincial People’sCommittee set during a conference on April 26 to review the localsocio-economic performance in April.
Chairman of the committee Dong Van Lam asked sectors and departments with low andfallen component indexes in PCI to find out the reasons for timely improvement.
Meanwhile, the province will also continue speeding upadministrative reform and strengthening support to businesses and removingdifficulties and obstacles facing them, he requested.
The provincial leader also asked for a close coordinationamong local agencies in applying the “one-stop-shop” mechanism, while focusingon building the public administrative centre to enhance the effectiveness ofthe government system in renovating and simplifying administrative procedures,thus saving time for locals and enterprises.
According to Lam, leaders of the province have assisted investorsand businesses, and listened to their opinions in order to improve the investmentenvironment and create motivation to attract investment.
Currently, the province host 181 projects, including 31foreign-invested ones totaling nearly 3 billion USD, along with 146domestic-invested ones worth over 98 trillion VND (4.3 million USD).
So far, Tra Vinh has had 1,900 enterprises with totalcapital of nearly 25 trillion VND (1.09 million USD), employing more than 85,000labourers.-VNA
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