Developing infrastructure of industrial parks: Creating room to promote growth

According to the Thai Nguyen Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, the province has 11 industrial parks and 1 concentrated information technology park. In order to realize the Planning and create room for industrial development, promote growth, in recent times, departments, branches and localities in the province have always focused on developing infrastructure of industrial parks.

Awarding the investment registration certificate for the Yen Binh 3 Industrial Park infrastructure construction and business project. Photo: TL

Accordingly, the province focuses on investing in completing traffic infrastructure outside the fences of industrial parks (IPs), in order to create a traffic network linking and connecting IPs in the area.

In the past 2 years alone, Thai Nguyen has implemented 5 concentrated transport projects to develop industrial parks, with a total investment of over 5,000 billion VND. To date, many projects have been completed and put into use as planned.

A typical example is the project of the road connecting the new National Highway 3 (Hanoi - Thai Nguyen) to Yen Binh Industrial Park, the section from Km3+516.9 to Km5+434.18 and provincial road (DT) 261 - phase II, invested by the Provincial Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board, with a length of 1.9km, going to Hong Tien ward (Pho Yen city), designed with a roadbed width of 23.5m, combined with the road surface constructed from phase I to become a road with a surface width of 47m. The project started in September 2023, completed and put into use from January 2024.

According to Mr. Nguyen Cong Thinh, Chairman of Pho Yen City People's Committee: The project has been completed and put into use, contributing to the completion of the traffic infrastructure according to the planning of Yen Binh Industrial Service Urban Area; meeting the needs of circulation and transportation of goods in Yen Binh Industrial Park, serving socio-economic development. In particular, the route also helps attract investment, fill up industrial parks, relieve traffic congestion during rush hours, making Pho Yen a modern and civilized urban area.

Along with investment in building transport infrastructure, the province also focuses on completing the power grid infrastructure to ensure stable and safe power supply for production and business of enterprises. For example, at Yen Binh Industrial Park (Pho Yen City), since its operation (2014), Thai Nguyen Electricity Company has invested in installing 3 110kV transformer stations (TBA) Yen Binh I, II, III with a total capacity of 250-280MW/year. In 2023, the Electricity industry will continue to invest in installing and putting into use the 110kV Yen Binh 8 transformer station in this Industrial Park.

A corner of Diem Thuy Industrial Park. Photo: MH

Song Cong I, II Industrial Parks (Song Cong City) and Diem Thuy Industrial Park (Phu Binh) have also invested in the 110kV Song Cong 2 Substation with 2 110kV transformers, with a total capacity of 126MVA. These substations have basically met the increased load demand at Song Cong I and II Industrial Parks, ensuring power supply support for Diem Thuy Industrial Park and household loads in neighboring areas in the period of 2021-2025.

Mr. Tran Ho Nam, Director of Thai Nguyen Electricity Company, said: Thai Nguyen province's planning has increased the industrial land area to 4,245 hectares (nearly 3 times the area of ​​the currently established industrial parks). This leads to the demand for electricity load in 2025 in the province being 1,380MW, and in 2030 being 2,030MW. To meet the demand for load development in the industrial parks of the entire 110kV power grid in the South of Thai Nguyen province and neighboring areas in general, in 2024, the Electricity industry invested in the Phu Binh 2 220kV Substation Project and the Phu Binh 2 220kV line branching from Thai Nguyen to Bac Giang; the 110kV feeders are synchronized with the Phu Binh 2 220kV Substation. We are speeding up the implementation progress to ensure energization as planned (end of March 2025).

Along with prioritizing resources for investment in building transport infrastructure and power systems in industrial parks, recently, the province has also paid attention to calling for and attracting businesses to invest in building modern and synchronous industrial park infrastructure.

Outstanding is Yen Binh Industrial Park, invested and developed by Yen Binh Investment and Development Joint Stock Company. In this Industrial Park, the investor has built a separate Yen Binh clean water treatment plant with Japanese treatment technology (treatment capacity and supply of 150,000m3/day and night for production activities); all wastewater produced in the Industrial Park after being locally treated at the factory will be collected and treated at the centralized wastewater treatment system of the industrial park with a capacity of 80,000m3/day and night to standard A before being discharged into the environment; the main road of the industrial park has a cross-section width of 47m, the branch roads have a cross-section width of 21.5m along with a system of sidewalks, trees on both sides and median strips along with a lighting system...

Up to now, the whole province has 5/6 industrial parks with completed technical infrastructure and put into operation, with an occupancy rate of nearly 72%.

Thanks to the attention to developing the infrastructure of industrial parks, up to now, the whole province has established 6 industrial parks with a total planning area of ​​over 1,624 hectares. Of which, 5/6 industrial parks have been put into stable operation and attracted many investment projects with an occupancy rate of nearly 72%. In particular, there are 3 industrial parks with an occupancy rate of 100%: Diem Thuy, Song Cong II and Yen Binh.

Mr. Ahn Hui Sun, Deputy Director of Korean Aluminum Company in Diem Thuy Industrial Park, shared: The reason Korean Aluminum chose to invest in Diem Thuy Industrial Park is because this place has synchronous infrastructure, convenient traffic connection with Hanoi Capital. In particular, the unit always receives active support from local authorities in implementing investment and business procedures, environment...

In fact, the results achieved in attracting investment into industrial parks show positive effects in the planning and infrastructure development of the province's industrial parks. This is an advantage for Thai Nguyen to "take a shortcut" in attracting investment, raising the value of industrial production to over 2 million billion VND, thereby contributing to realizing the goal of becoming one of the modern and smart industrial economic centers of the Northern Midlands and Mountains region and the Hanoi Capital region.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/kinh-te/202502/phat-trien-ha-tang-cac-khu-cong-nghiep-tao-du-dia-thuc-day-tang-truong-847209a/