Bright spot in the economic picture

After 21 years since the first industrial park (IP) was established and put into operation, up to now, Ha Nam has had 16 IPs approved by the Prime Minister with a total area of over 4,600 hectares. At this time, 8 IPs of the province have come into operation with an area of over 2,500 hectares, attracting over 600 investment projects. The IPs of the province are basically highly appreciated for the quality of infrastructure, services, geographical location, and convenient traffic for business operations. With a rapid growth rate, over the past many years, industrial production activities in IPs have always been a bright spot in the economic picture of the province.

Industrial park infrastructure system is invested in synchronous and modern construction.

Recognizing the important role of industrial parks in attracting investment and promoting economic growth, the province has focused resources on investing and developing industrial parks. Accordingly, in 2003, Dong Van I Industrial Park - the first industrial park in Ha Nam was established, marking the beginning of the development of industrial parks in the area. With the issuance of many preferential policies to attract investment, along with advantages in transportation, geographical location, infrastructure, human resources, and the province's efforts in reforming administrative procedures and dynamism in investment promotion, Ha Nam has quickly entered the stage of strong industrial park development. A series of industrial parks have been established, attracting a large number of investors who are large domestic and foreign enterprises and corporations. To date, Ha Nam has had 8 industrial parks in operation with an area of over 2,500 hectares, achieving an occupancy rate of over 82%. Many industrial parks have reached an occupancy rate of nearly 100% of their area: such as Dong Van I Industrial Park (old area of over 221 hectares); Dong Van II Industrial Park; Dong Van IV Industrial Park; Chau Son Industrial Park; Hoa Mac Industrial Park.

Industrial production activities in industrial parks: Bright spots in the economic picture — **A corner of Dong Van II Industrial Park.** Photo: PV

To create clean land to attract investors, the infrastructure of industrial parks is still being deployed and gradually completed. For example, at Dong Van I Industrial Park, the expanded area of over 149 hectares to the northeast of Vuc Vong intersection, the investor has basically completed the site clearance, synchronously invested in infrastructure for area A and is investing in infrastructure for area B, with an occupancy rate of approximately 66%. For the expanded area of 223 hectares located to the east of Cau Gie - Ninh Binh highway, Dong Van III Industrial Park has also basically completed the site clearance to carry out infrastructure investment. At Thai Ha Industrial Park (Ly Nhan), phase I with an area of 100 hectares has been synchronously invested in infrastructure; phase II with an area of 100 hectares has basically completed the site clearance and is investing in infrastructure on an area of 74 hectares of land, with the occupancy rate of both phases reaching nearly 50%...

In addition to the industrial parks that have been put into operation, Ha Nam currently has 4 industrial parks that have been approved by the Prime Minister for investment policy and accepted investors, including Dong Van V Industrial Park, Dong Van VI Industrial Park, Kim Bang I Industrial Park, Thanh Binh II Industrial Park with a total area of over 900 hectares. Mr. Luu Tran Son, Head of the Provincial Industrial Park Management Board, affirmed: The infrastructure of the industrial parks has been invested in, expanded and completed, increasing their attractiveness to investors. Implementing the province's 10 "golden" commitments to investors, in recent times, the Provincial Industrial Park Management Board has directed infrastructure business units and service providers in the industrial parks to synchronously implement solutions to improve service quality, meeting the requirements of businesses. Up to now, services for businesses in industrial parks are basically synchronized, including internal traffic systems, drainage systems, centralized wastewater treatment plants, lighting systems, water supply systems combined with fire prevention and fighting, sports grounds, green tree systems, fire prevention and fighting systems, etc.

With the expansion of industrial parks, Ha Nam has always maintained a high industrial growth rate, ranking among the leading localities in the country in attracting FDI capital, creating an important driving force to promote economic growth in the area.

Affirming the important role in socio-economic development

With attractive investment attraction policies, the industrial parks have attracted many large projects from countries with developed industries and the world's leading economic groups such as: Seoul Group (Korea); Sumi Group, YKK Group (Japan); Wistron Group, Qisda Group (Taiwan, China); Gentherm Group (USA)... In 2024, in the context of economic difficulties, investors "poured" capital heavily into Ha Nam's industrial parks. From the beginning of 2024 to December 15, 2024, the province's industrial parks attracted 67 new investment projects, bringing the total number of investment projects in the industrial parks to 629 projects, including 371 FDI projects and 258 domestic projects, with a total investment capital of nearly 6.4 billion USD and nearly 52,500 billion VND. Most of the projects attracted to the industrial park are in the fields of electronics, telecommunications and supporting industries for these industries.

The actual operation of enterprises in industrial zones in recent years shows that Ha Nam does not attract investors en masse but selects investors with capacity and high technology content, in line with the new investment attraction orientation, in which priority is given to supporting industry, processing and manufacturing projects (currently accounting for over 80% of the total number of projects being invested in the province's industrial zones). Supporting industry, processing and manufacturing projects with high technology content have been making positive contributions, creating jobs and stable income for workers. Typical examples include Sumi Vietnam Wiring System Co., Ltd.; YKK Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Dong Van III Industrial Zone, Duy Tien); Seoul Semiconductor Vina Co., Ltd. (Dong Van I Industrial Zone, Duy Tien); Friesland Campina Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Chau Son Industrial Park, Phu Ly City)... During the investment process, these enterprises all had strong growth in revenue and consumption output with an increase of 15%/year and continuously expanded their scale of operations.

Mr. Tsai, Shang - Jan, General Director of Wistron Infocomm (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. at Dong Van III Industrial Park (Duy Tien) said: Operating in the field of manufacturing electronic products with main products being laptops, desktops, monitors, keyboards, webcams, and docking stations used in computers, during the investment process in Ha Nam, Wistron Infocomm has received the attention and support of authorities at all levels, functional sectors, especially the Provincial Industrial Park Management Board. Thanks to that, immediately after coming into operation (in 2022), Wistron Infocomm has rapidly accelerated its development with the number of employees increasing from 300 to over 3,000 people. Revenue in 2024 is estimated to increase 8 times compared to the first year of operation. Phase 2 of the factory will go into production in early 2025, the company will need about 1,000 more workers and in the future, Wistron Infocomm plans to increase the scale of operations, creating jobs for about 20,000 workers.

With the attention and support of the province, along with the proactiveness, flexibility and efforts to overcome difficulties of enterprises, in 2024, in the context of general difficulties of the world and domestic economy, production activities in the province's industrial parks still achieved positive results. The value of industrial production in industrial parks is estimated at 202,500 billion VND (equal to 106.86% of the annual plan target); the value of goods exports is estimated at 8.05 billion USD (equal to 116.15% of the annual plan target). Enterprises in industrial parks contribute to the state budget an estimated 5,500 billion VND (an increase of over 5.7% compared to 2023).

Ha Nam has been and is an ideal investment destination attracting FDI capital with the highlight being the system of interconnected and synchronous industrial parks, meeting the needs of land, infrastructure and services of domestic and foreign enterprises. Contributing about 80% of the industrial production value in the whole province and achieving an average industrial production value growth rate of over 15%/year in recent years, the industrial parks have been and are affirming their important role in socio-economic development, contributing to making Ha Nam a province with fast and sustainable industrial development.

Nguyen Oanh

Source: https://baohanam.com.vn/kinh-te/cong-nghiep/hoat-dong-san-xuat-cong-nghiep-tai-cac-kcn-diem-sang-trong-buc-tranh-kinh-te-142754.html