Quang Ninh (VNA) - With its advantage as a southwestern coastal urbanarea of Quang Ninh province, Quang Yen town has attracted many large projects invarious fields. The town is exerting every effort to become a motivator helpingQuang Ninh achieve the goal of double-digit growth in 2021 amidst complicateddevelopments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, Quang Yen set a target of clearing ground for nineprojects, including four transport infrastructureprojects, four industrial parks and the Ha Long Xanh urban complex, with atotal area of 4,470ha and more than 6,700 households affected.

One of the projects with a large area to be cleared is the HaLong Xanh urban complex invested by VinGroup with a total capital of over 232.3trillion VND (10 billion USD). The project covers about 4,110ha, with 3,186ha belonging to the territory of Quang Yen town. The number ofaffected households is 2,054.

To date, around 2,800ha of Quang Yen have been checked. Thetown is accelerating the work, with a hope to hand over the ground to the investorby the end of this year.

In order to ensure the goal of handing over the ground ontime, the Centre for Land Fund Development is working with relevant localities toquickly complete land surveying. Pham Minh Ha, Deputy Director of the Centre,said that the unit has arranged its staff to work on Saturdays, Sundays and overtimeto ensure the work and make compensation plans.

To achieve a double-digit growth rate and budget revenue of51 trillion VND (over 2.2 billion USD) this year, the northern province ofQuang Ninh is working to sustain the productivity of its economic pillars.

Authorities are taking actions to address market-relateddifficulties and the increase in unsold inventory so as to encourage the coalindustry, a major sector in Quang Ninh, to maximise the mining output, thuscontributing to the gross regional domestic product (GRDP), the State budget,and social security.

The province looks to raise the clean coal output in 2021 by2.82 million tonnes compared to the target set at the start of the year. Itwill work to secure 10.2 billion kWh of electricity produced in the fourthquarter and 38.5 billion kWh in the whole year.

Local authorities are tackling difficulties and creatingoptimal conditions for the processing and manufacturing industry, especiallyflour, plant oil, textile - garment, electronics, and mechanical factories, tomaximise capacity and output so that this sector can serve a true growthimpulse.

Some projects in local industrial parks will be sped up soas to partly or wholly become operational in Q4, thereby creating new productsand subsequently a new impulse for growth.

Quang Ninh is also accelerating procedures so that work onfour key projects worth over 283.2 trillion VND in total will begin thisOctober. They consist of the Ha Long urban area complex, the Quang NinhLNG-fired power plant, Phase 1 of the Van Ninh general port, and the Dong Trieugolf course.

With total investment of more than 17 trillion VND, threekey projects expected to act as driving forces for the province’s developmentare scheduled to be completed by December 31, namely Van Don - Mong CaiExpressway, the coastal road linking Ha Long and Cam Pha cities, and Cua Luc 1Bridge.

Infrastructure construction is being hastened at the NamTien Phong, Bac Tien Phong, and Dam Nha Mac industrial parks, Hai Ha Seaport,and Van Ninh Port. Relevant agencies are also making efforts to attractstrategic investors to developing seaport infrastructure and logistics servicesat Hon Net - Con Ong Port in Cam Pha city.

Quang Ninh recorded an estimated GRDP growth rate of 8.2 percent in the first nine months of 2021./.