(VEN) – Located in a favorable geographical position for trade activities at the Northwestern gateway of Quang Nam Province and acting as a corridor for the province’s eastern region with the Highway 14B, Dai Loc District has targeted to become an industrial center for Quang Nam by 2020.
Carton packing factory of Prime Dai Quang with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes a year
Over the past few years, the socio-economic development of Dai Loc District has seen positive changes with an increased proportion of industrial value and a declining proportion of agricultural value.
With a favorable geographical position, quite high quality and abundant human resources, along with open investment attraction policies, so far Dai Loc District has attracted 46 domestic and foreign projects with total investment capital of more than VND4 trillion and created stable jobs for 4,500 workers. The district will continue to attract investment to further boost industrial development, improve local people’s livelihoods and promote the provincial socio-economic development with an aim to become a synthetic service center of the north and northeastern region of Quang Nam Province.
In the 2011-2015 period, Dai Loc District will boost the local economic development with a high and sustainable growth and maintain an annual economic growth at 15.5 percent. It will shift its economic structure towards a higher value added industry-oriented economy and develop industry-service as key sectors. It will boost industrial development focusing on calling for investment into industrial clusters along the 14B Highway and Dai Tan Industrial Park and developing traditional craft villages and fine arts products.
It will also encourage and offer preferential treatments to investors who invest in high added value and high tech industries using environmentally friendly technologies, focusing on support industries, garment and textiles, engineering, footwear and construction materials.
In addition, the district will cut down investment in land and natural resource-consuming sectors, low technology and polluting projects. It will strive to gradually increase the total industry – construction value by 18 percent per year, of which the industrial value will increase by 21 percent per year. By 2015, the provincial economic structure will be as follows: industry – construction 69.3 percent, trade and services 19.7 percent and agro-forestry and fisheries 11 percent, raising the average income per capita to VND22 million per year.
In 2013, Dai Loc will focus on upgrading some key roads to facilitate trade activities, upgrading and expanding Ai Nghia Water Supply Plant, building Dong Ha Song Water Supply Plant (Dai Dong) to supply water to the local industrial clusters and households. It will also accelerate construction and complete some urban area projects such as Hoa An Urban Area, the urban areas in Eastern and Western Ai Nghia Town and draft plans for some towns like Lam Tam – Vinh Phuoc, Ha Tan and Dong Gia. Other measures the district plans to take include improving efficiency of administrative reforms, compensations for site clearance to hand over land to investors, encouraging establishment of traditional craft villages, privatizing industry promotion, investment promotion, vocational training, advertising products and maintaining direct dialogues with enterprises and work together with them to remove difficulties./.
By Hao & Hanh
Đăng ký: VietNam News
