Long An: Action Program on Socio-Economic Development Plan 2020 urgently advised by Department of Planning and Investment

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut, leaders of some related departments such as Departments of Home Affairs, Finance, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, Health and Culture - Sports and Tourism attended the meeting.

Director of Department of Planning and Investment - Huynh Van Son informed that the Department performed well in the planning, socio-economic and collective economy plans; Public investment management and many other tasks in 2019.

Especially, in 2019, the Department of Planning and Investment coordinated with other branches and localities to appraise and submit to the provincial People's Committee for investment policy decision for 142 domestic investment projects with a total registered capital of over 14,345 billion VND; issued 11 investment certificates for 11 foreign investment projects with a total registered capital of 5.1 million USD. Up to date, the province has had 1,016 foreign investment projects, registered capital of 6.18 billion USD; there have been 1,927 domestic investment projects with registered capital of 222,315 billion VND.

Up to now, there have been 1,016 foreign investment projects, registered capital of 6.18 billion USD in Long An province

In addition, the Department of Planning and Investment coordinated with other branches and localities to conduct inspections and reviews of off-budget investment projects in the province. Thereby, the Department advised the Provincial People's Committee to withdraw 35 projects with a total area of nearly 2,500 hectares. These projects were mainly slow to deploy due to subjective reasons of investors. In addition, the Department also advised the Provincial People's Committee to consider extending and lengthening the investment schedule for 130 projects for objective reasons from many sides.

The Department also presided and coordinated branches and localities to submit to the provincial People's Committee for the policy to make construction planning of 51 projects with a total area of 26,087 hectares.

In addition, the reception of foreign non-governmental projects; the inspection and testing; business registration; the investment promotion, businesses support, improvement of competitiveness index; personnel organization, emulation and commendation, and so on were carried out smoothly.

However, during the implementation of the assigned task, Department of Planning and Investment faced many difficulties. In particular, the nationwide planning work for period 2021 - 2030 that needed to comply with the Planning Law is very large, including national planning, regional planning, planning of 63 provinces and cities in the country and specialized technical plans. Therefore, it is necessary to have a large number of consulting units to implement and it is difficult to choose a qualified consulting unit to implement the planning. This is also a common difficulty of provinces and cities across the country and will be gradually removed during implementation.

Regarding the off-budget investment sector according to Decree 30/2015/ND-CP detailing the implementation of the Bidding Law on investor selection taking effect from May 15, 2015, to 2018, the province developed. However, the list of projects that needed to be bidded and implement bidding for investor selection have not been issued. Problems in implementing this Decree also took place in other provinces and cities. For this problem, the Department proposed the solutions to implement in Long An.

Through the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Tran Van Can said that in the process of implementing the task, the Department of Planning and Investment promoted the role of advisory on the socio-economic development plan of the province but there were still many limitations. Certainly, it is necessary to find solutions to remove difficulties.

The Chairman of the provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to quickly coordinate with some departments, branches and localities to urgently advise the Provincial People's Committee to deploy the planning of Long An province in period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2045 with quality and efficiency; Action Program for implementation of Socio-Economic Development Plan 2020; deploy and monitor the implementation of socio-economic targets in 2020; inform and implement the public investment activities in 2020 and develop the medium-term public investment plan in 2021 - 2025 to ensure compliance with the provisions of law; well implement investment promotion and trade promotion; organize dialogues with enterprises to solve difficulties and problems; well implement solutions to improve Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) maintained in the "Good" to "Very good" level./.

By Mai Huong –Translated by Duc Tam

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