Long An: Industrial parks attract 147 new projects

Labor in leather shoes, textile and garment industry accounts for 65 percent of total labors in industrial parks

To date, industrial parks in operation have attracted 1,514 projects, including 731 FDI projects and 783 DDI projects. Total investment capital of enterprises in industrial parks is 4,144 million USD and 84,385 billion VND.

In the first 10 months of 2019, the province has 15 more new businesses going into operation, bringing the total number of operating enterprises to 887 projects (or enterprises), of which 397 FDI projects are operating with total accumulated investment capital of 1.87 billion USD and 490 DDI enterprises with total accumulated investment capital of 18,104 billion VND. In addition, there are 34 warehouse projects, 46 factory leasing projects in operation.

Up to now, industrial parks across the province have created jobs for about 143,222 laborers, of which female workers account for 56 percent, foreign workers have over 3,000 people, workers in the leather, footwear and textile industries account for 65 percent of the total number of employees./.

By Mai Huong – Translated by Duc Tam

Source: http://baolongan.vn/long-an-cac-khu-cong-nghiep-thu-hut-them-147-du-an-moi-a86026.html