PM attends ground-breaking ceremony for Hon Thom marine entertainment complex
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the Hon Thom marine tourism, resort and entertainment complex in Phu Quoc city, the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on March 30.
Kien Giang (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended theground-breaking ceremony for the Hon Thom marine tourism, resort andentertainment complex in Phu Quoc city, the Mekong Delta province of KienGiang on March 30.
The 310-hectare complex will be built with total investment of some 50 trillion VND by Sun Group, featuring a water park,a theme park, an aquarium, an opera house, and an ecological resort. It will bedeveloped into a tropical paradise with various kinds of tropical trees to beplanted.
Speaking at the ceremony, PM Chinh hailed Phu Quoc’s robust development in the past years, asking the province to pen suitable policies to mobilise resources to ensure the island’s sustainable development, socialsecurity and security-defence.
He recognised Sun Group’s contributions to making tourism an economic spearheadof the island, and expressed his hope that the group will continue its effortsand develop its projects in line with the Party’s policies and State’s regulations,giving a helping hand to assure social welfare and branch out the country’scultural industry./.
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At the ground-breaking ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
