Ha Nam province pledges more support for FDI firms
Leaders of northern Ha Nam province had a meeting with nearly 300 foreign direct investment (FDI) businesses on January 9 to inform them about local development achievements and listen to their opinions to facilitate the firms’ operations.
Chairman of the Ha Nam provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Xuan Dong speaks at the meeting with FDI businesses on January 9 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Leadersof northern Ha Nam province had a meeting with nearly 300 foreign directinvestment (FDI) businesses on January 9 to inform them about local developmentachievements and listen to their opinions to facilitate the firms’ operations.
Chairman of the provincial People’s CommitteeNguyen Xuan Dong appreciated FDI companies’ contributions to localsocio-economic development in 2019, noting that the gross regional domesticproduct of Ha Nam grew 10.5 percent, industrial production value increased 14.9percent, and exports rose 13.5 percent. Notably, FDI attraction continued toimprove strongly in terms of both quantity and quality.
Last year, the province attracted 57 FDIprojects and nearly 830 million USD in newly registered and additional FDIcapital, the biggest project number and capital value attracted in a year sofar. Those figures raised the total number of such projects in Ha Nam to 295worth almost 3.6 billion USD, he said.
At the meeting, businesses asked localauthorities to give more support in terms of building housing for workers,training human resources, ensuring traffic safety and electricity supply,improving water quality, and treating wastewater.
Dong affirmed that the provincial authoritieswill press on with implementing the Government’s resolutions on supportingenterprises, improving the business environment and promoting the nationalcompetitiveness.
It will also step up support policies thattarget small- and medium-sized enterprises so as to create the best possibleconditions for them to accelerate investment projects and develop productionand business activities, thereby helping to enhance the province’scompetitiveness, the official added./.
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Chairman of the Ha Nam provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Xuan Dong speaks at the meeting with FDI businesses on January 9 (Photo: VNA) 
