Quang Yen Town - a land rich in historical traditions and potential is entering an important development stage, on track to become a city in 2025. With the goal of building a smart urban model, Quang Yen is gradually affirming its position as the center of industry, seaport services and logistics of Quang Ninh province.
Economic and social development imprints
In implementing the tasks of 2024, Quang Yen Town has faced more difficulties and challenges than favorable factors. In particular, storm No. 3 (storm Yagi) occurred in early September with strong intensity and great destructive power, making landfall directly on Quang Yen Town, causing great damage to economic sectors and people's lives. The total estimated damage from storm No. 3 in Quang Yen Town is more than 2,300 billion VND. However, the Party Committees and the town government have closely followed the direction of the province, local practices and the theme of the year: "Improving the quality of economic growth; developing culture and people rich in Quang Ninh identity", promoting the will of self-reliance, focusing on leadership, direction, mobilizing the combined strength of the entire political system, persevering and making efforts to overcome difficulties and challenges, achieving important results in all fields.
By the end of 2024, Quang Yen Town achieved 13/13 set targets. Typically, the total production value reached 64,833 billion VND, an increase of 23.8% over the same period. The locality completed the state budget collection target assigned by the province 40 days in advance with a total collection of more than 1,374 billion VND, reaching 108.3% of the town's estimate, an increase of 47.9% over the same period (this is the largest collection ever). Quang Yen Town is a locality in the top of the province in terms of budget collection in 2024. The total estimated development investment capital is 24,000 billion VND, an increase of 19.8% over the same period.
Since the beginning of 2024, Quang Yen Town has focused on solutions to improve the investment and business environment, attract investment in industrial parks and resolve difficulties for businesses. This is the "key" to help businesses overcome difficulties, stabilize production activities, and contribute to the economic development of the locality. Mr. Nguyen Van Nhan, General Director of Amata Ha Long Urban Joint Stock Company, said: In 2024, we received a lot of support and assistance from the local government. Especially after storm No. 3 greatly affected the production of businesses in the industrial park, the locality actively joined in, resolved difficulties, and quickly restored stable production and business. In addition, the locality also actively supported businesses in administrative work and site clearance, training, and labor recruitment. Currently, we are continuing to closely coordinate with government agencies to speed up the progress of site handover and infrastructure completion, ready to welcome FDI enterprises to invest in Song Khoai Industrial Park.
In addition, social indicators such as the near-poor household rate of Quang Yen in 2024 have decreased to 0.77% (reduced by 270 near-poor households, exceeding the plan by 45 households); the rate of trained workers is estimated at 89%; the rate of cultural families is over 92%; the rate of people participating in health insurance is 97%; the rate of people using clean water is 96.5%; the rate of waste collection is 98%. In the fields of culture, sports, education, and health, attention continues to be paid and there are steps of development; the quality of mass education, key education, mass sports movements, and high-performance sports have achieved many outstanding results. National defense, security, and social order and safety are maintained, contributing to creating a stable and favorable environment for socio-economic development. Notably, on December 15, the town successfully organized the election of village and ward chiefs for the 2025-2027 term with a voter turnout of 99.93%. This result demonstrates the great efforts of the entire political system, especially the consensus of the town's people.
In particular, to realize the goal of building Quang Yen into a city by 2025, a type II urban area before 2030, in 2024, Quang Yen Town has focused on planning, planning management and completing a synchronous infrastructure system. In particular, 2024 is considered a pivotal year for Quang Yen to invest in building synchronous urban infrastructure, gradually approaching the criteria for becoming a city according to the roadmap. In particular, the town's traffic infrastructure has made great strides with many projects to upgrade and expand highways and provincial roads, connecting Quang Yen with important economic centers such as: Ben Rung Bridge connecting road project; Ha Long Xanh intersection; Dam Nha Mac intersection; riverside road connecting Ha Long - Hai Phong highway to Dong Trieu city.
In the past 3 years, the town has focused resources and mobilized provincial capital support to renovate and upgrade provincial road 331B; extended provincial road 338; the road connecting provincial road 331 with provincial road 338; the road connecting from Cho Roc intersection to Phong Hai intersection... Along with that, the power supply, water supply and drainage, and wastewater treatment systems have also been invested in a systematic manner, meeting the needs of economic development and improving the quality of life. At the same time, Quang Yen pays special attention to developing new, modern, and environmentally friendly urban areas.
To continue to create breakthroughs in traffic infrastructure, Quang Yen Town is currently establishing a Project to develop key traffic infrastructure in the area until 2025, with a vision to 2030. According to the Project, the total number of proposed road traffic infrastructure projects to be invested in by the end of 2030 is 118 projects. Of which, the 2024-2025 period has 42 projects, the 2026-2030 period has 76 projects (road traffic projects and port, wharf, and waterway projects). The total investment capital demand is more than 11,000 billion VND. The above key traffic projects not only connect synchronous traffic, expand development space, and socio-economic trade between Quang Yen and other regions, but also create technical infrastructure for people in the region to promote internal strength, develop the economy, and improve the quality of life.
Existing smart city model
Aiming to become a city by 2025, Quang Yen is gradually building smart urban platforms. Technology applications in traffic, energy, environment and public service management have been deployed, improving management efficiency and people's lives. Quang Yen is oriented to develop smart urban areas associated with modern industrial parks, creating a harmonious ecosystem between production and life. Sustainable development planning projects such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy are also being implemented. In addition to economic development, Quang Yen will continue to focus on the fields of education, health and culture. The system of schools, hospitals and sports facilities are invested synchronously, ensuring good service to the needs of the people. Poverty reduction programs and improving the quality of life are implemented effectively, creating comprehensive development for the town.
By 2030, Quang Yen strives to become a type II urban area. The city will develop according to the model of a "smart city", a center for high-tech processing and manufacturing industry, and logistics seaport services of the province and the whole region. The spatial development orientation is multi-center - multi-line; multi-center includes a focus on the central city and 5 satellites which are dynamic clusters associated with industry, seaports; multi-industry high-tech industry; sea tourism, mountain tourism, cultural relic tourism of craft villages. Multi-line includes the expressway corridor - riverside corridor - provincial road 338 corridor connecting Lach Huyen port (Hai Phong city) associated with regional economic corridors.
To achieve this goal, in the immediate period of 2024-2025, Quang Yen will mobilize more than 1,800 billion VND to invest in many key traffic works, urban works, health care, and education. The locality will promote calling for investment in economic development, firmly pursuing development goals associated with preserving the landscape and environment and preserving cultural values; continue to improve the efficiency of investment attraction, especially attracting FDI capital, rapidly increasing the occupancy rate of industrial parks; improve and enhance the quality of infrastructure, administrative reform, improve the investment and business environment, and improve the quality of human resources.
In particular, Quang Yen Coastal Economic Zone is considered the core of economic growth in Quang Ninh province, with a scale of up to 13,303 hectares, which is the foundation for developing a smart city model. This will be the place where modern industrial parks, seaports and services are concentrated, contributing to Quang Ninh's goal of becoming a centrally-run city by 2030. Currently, Quang Yen Coastal Economic Zone is developing 5 industrial parks, including: Dong Mai, Song Khoai, Nam Tien Phong, Bac Tien Phong and Bach Dang. Quang Yen town is currently the locality in the province with the most industrial parks. Currently, the above 5 industrial parks have attracted 60 secondary projects, including 54 FDI projects with a total investment capital of more than 3.6 billion USD; 6 domestic investment projects with an investment capital of over 42,500 billion VND.
With the outstanding results of socio-economic development in 2024, it has been creating a strong driving force for the town to develop in the coming period. Thereby, creating a breakthrough momentum for Quang Yen town to set higher goals in 2025. On the journey of the new year, Quang Yen is continuing to promote the spirit of self-reliance, self-reliance, realizing the strategic vision, joining the whole country in entering a new era - the era of national development; building Quang Yen as a center of industry, seaport services and logistics, becoming a type II urban area before 2030.
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