Part 3: Creative government - a lever for private economic development

Improve investment and business environment

Local authorities creating an open investment environment, being ready to accompany and support enterprises will be important solutions for private enterprises to develop strongly and sustainably. Provinces in the country in general and the Northern midland and mountainous region in particular have their own ways to attract investment and stimulate the development of the private economy .

Bac Giang is one of the provinces considered a "bright spot" in improving the investment and business environment. According to Mr. Mai Son, Permanent Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Giang province, thanks to efforts to improve the investment and business environment, from 2020 to now, except for 2021, Bac Giang has had the leading economic growth in the country every year. "The province's economic growth continues to grow rapidly and strongly," said Mr. Son. In 2024, Bac Giang's economic growth reached 13.85%, the highest in the country. In 2025, Bac Giang continues to set a high growth target, with 13.6%.

Mr. Mai Son said that in order to welcome private investors from all over the country to do business in Bac Giang, the province has had many attractive policies. Accordingly, Bac Giang has implemented the provincial planning very early, especially planning for land, transportation, electricity infrastructure, industrial parks and clusters. Once there is a general plan, specific projects will be implemented smoothly, not in a way that requires both implementation and adjustment of the planning. In addition, Bac Giang has prepared infrastructure, especially infrastructure for industrial parks, industrial clusters, transportation, construction, electricity, etc.

In particular, Bac Giang province soon established a steering committee to resolve administrative procedure (TTHC) difficulties, helping businesses quickly resolve procedures. Bac Giang province's leaders regularly dialogue with businesses to promptly grasp difficulties, thereby directing the removal of obstacles for businesses in the spirit of no difficulty being left unresolved.

In addition, according to the leader of the People's Committee of Bac Giang province, identifying the business investment environment as playing an important role in attracting investment and developing industry, Bac Giang province has recently actively implemented solutions to improve the investment environment and attract businesses to invest in the area. In particular, focusing on administrative reform, resolving "bottlenecks" in mechanisms and policies is the top priority of the province with many newly issued regulations as well as amendments, supplements and updates in accordance with current laws.

To improve the effectiveness of attracting investment of KTTN, in the coming time, Bac Giang province will continue to focus on directing, operating, and enhancing dialogue between provincial leaders, leaders of sectors and localities with enterprises to promptly handle difficulties and shortcomings, creating a favorable, open and transparent investment and business environment. Continue to consistently implement the policy of "accompanying enterprises", actively supporting investors and enterprises to remove difficulties and obstacles.

Mr. Ho Tien Thieu, Chairman of Lang Son Provincial People's Committee, said that Lang Son province has been actively improving the investment and business environment, creating the best conditions for businesses to operate effectively. Thanks to the active improvement of the investment and business environment, many large private enterprises have come to Lang Son to seek investment opportunities such as Sun Group, T&T Group, GP.Invest, Truong Thinh Phat, Flamingo ...

To continue improving the investment and business environment, Chairman of Lang Son Provincial People's Committee Ho Tien Thieu said that the province will continue to synchronously and drastically implement tasks and solutions to improve the investment and business environment, enhance provincial competitiveness, create a favorable investment environment, and attract investors. At the same time, create all conditions to quickly resolve investment procedures, difficulties and obstacles in investment and business activities, and encourage investment from all economic sectors, focusing on private enterprises.

Many infrastructure projects on transportation, electricity, industrial parks and clusters are continuing to be implemented and completed by Lang Son province, which will be a new growth driver for the economy, attracting investors. The province will also implement policies and regulations to overcome and handle the situation of shirking and avoiding responsibility in performing public duties, creating a creative space, encouraging and protecting cadres who dare to innovate, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for the common good; promote decentralization and delegation of power to respond to the implementation of the revolution in arranging the apparatus in the direction of being streamlined, compact, strong, efficient, effective and efficient.

Need to continue strong decentralization and delegation of power

Mr. Vu Lan, Deputy Director of Lao Cai Province Department of Finance, said that in recent years, attracting investors, especially large investors to Lao Cai, is due to investment promotion activities that have created a widespread and effective impact. Lao Cai Province has resolutely implemented administrative reforms, improved the investment and business environment, and provided maximum support and facilitation for businesses to exploit the potential and strengths of the province.

Further analyzing Lao Cai's improvement of the business investment environment, Mr. Vu Lan said that Lao Cai has drastically reformed administrative procedures, enhanced digital transformation and information application in management, creating maximum convenience for businesses, aiming to build a favorable and transparent investment ecosystem. Focusing on directing and supporting postal, telecommunications and information technology enterprises in the area to increase investment in digital infrastructure.

Lao Cai also focuses on improving the quality of planning work, especially the publicity and transparency of planning, land use plans, and unused land funds in the area to attract investors' attention and investment. In order to have land funds to attract investors, in recent years, the province has planned to build more industrial parks and industrial clusters, forming industrial production chains in a green and sustainable direction; making efforts to attract investment in developing logistics, tourism, services, and night-time economy; promoting import and export of goods through border gates through the construction and effective operation of digital border gates, moving towards smart border gates; piloting the construction of cross-border economic cooperation zones.

According to the Deputy Director of the Lao Cai Provincial Department of Finance, in order to increase its attractiveness to investors, in recent years, Lao Cai has focused on strongly improving its infrastructure index (transportation, industrial parks, electricity and urban areas), including the Noi Bai - Lao Cai expressway expansion phase, the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong standard gauge railway project, Sa Pa Airport... These are important projects that help strengthen the capacity to connect Lao Cai with major economic centers, seaports and airports, helping to improve production capacity, facilitating trade, tourism and services.

In addition, the province is accelerating investment in infrastructure of Vo Lao Industrial Park - Van Ban district, Thong Nhat 1 Industrial Cluster, speeding up the progress of other infrastructure such as Ban Vuoc bridge, Kim Thanh - Ngoi Phat road, increasing investment in power supply, water supply, environmental treatment systems in industrial parks; speeding up the investment in construction of new urban areas of Lao Cai city, Sa Pa, Bac Ha...

“With the above policies and solutions, in recent years, Lao Cai province has been the destination of many economic groups and large strategic investors coming to the province such as Sun Group, T&T Group, Geleximco, Bitexco, TNG, Phu Hung Import-Export Production Joint Stock Company, KOSY Joint Stock Company... With the achieved results and development motivations in the coming time, Lao Cai is striving to become a growth pole, a connecting center, an economic, political, cultural and foreign affairs center of the Northern midland and mountainous region”, Mr. Vu Lan shared.

Mr. Lan assessed that the private sector is playing an increasingly important role in the socio-economic development of our country in general, and Lao Cai is no exception. “Although it has developed very quickly and in many areas, there are still some limitations,” Mr. Vu Lan assessed and said that it is necessary to decentralize and delegate more power, and at the same time reduce administrative procedures to create conditions for the private sector to develop. “For the private sector to truly become an important driving force of the economy, there must be a clear mechanism for decentralization and delegation of power, this will be the “key” to solving institutional “bottlenecks,” Mr. Vu Lan emphasized.

Accordingly, the leader of the Department of Finance of Lao Cai province said that it is necessary to continue to perfect the decentralization and decentralization system more thoroughly. The Central Government needs to have separate regulations on the development of the private economic sector, creating motivation for the private economic sector to develop and become a leading force in the economy.

Regarding investment and land procedures, according to Mr. Vu Lan, the reform of administrative procedures must be substantive; it is necessary to eliminate intermediary steps in the procedure settlement process. The implementation of administrative procedures in the fields of investment and land must be carried out in an objective, public, transparent manner and with close, timely and accurate coordination between competent investment and land agencies in the process of settling administrative procedures. The implementation method must be simple, easy to understand and easy to implement. "In addition, it is necessary to drastically reduce the number of focal points and reduce the time in the process of settling administrative procedures," said Mr. Vu Lan.

Create the best conditions for businesses to feel secure in production and business

Mr. Mai Son - Permanent Vice Chairman of Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee.

“When knowing that a business is having difficulties with administrative procedures, the provincial leaders are willing to arrange time, work directly with the business, listen to the difficulties and problems. Once understanding the causes of difficulties for businesses, the provincial leaders will request and direct specialized agencies to promptly overcome those “bottlenecks”, creating the fastest and best conditions for businesses to operate, and feel secure in production and business”, said Mai Son, Standing Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee.

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