Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern coastalprovince of Quang Ninh has given top priority to develop the manufacturing andprocessing industry, making it one of the three key pillars in the industrysector.

The industry is envisioned to account for 15percent of the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) by 2025, and 20 percentby 2030. 

According to statistics from competentauthorities, Quang Ninh province housed 291 manufacturing and processing firmsin 2010, and the figure rises to 841 in 2020, accounting for 81.8 percent ofthe locality’s total industrial enterprises.

Nearly 69 trillion VND (2.98 billion USD atcurrent exchange rate) was injected into the industry during 2010-2020, or13.29 percent of the province’s total investment.

Manufacturing and processing firms generate morethan 54,000 jobs every year.

Having well-developed infrastructure like ports,industrial parks, roads and international border gates with China, togetherwith excellent logistics services, Quang Ninh province has huge advantages todevelop a strong manufacturing and processing industry, economists havesaid. 

The provincial Department of Industry and Tradesaid investment in the industry increases by an average 6.9 trillion VND eachyear during 2010-2020. It is truly a bright spot in the local economy in thecontext of the global economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strong growth of the manufacturing andprocessing industry has served as a driver for the industrial sector in thepast time. 

The first meeting of the 15th provincial PartyCommittee in the 2020-2025 tenure focused on socio-economic tasks and solutionsin the tenure, with one of the focuses being a draft resolution on makingmanufacturing and processing one of the three key pillars in its industrialsector, along with mining and power and gas production and distribution. 

According to the Secretary of the Quang NinhParty Committee, Nguyen Xuan Ky, in the 2020-2025 period Quang Ninh targets makingthree breakthrough steps in the expansion of the processing-manufacturingsector, including in investment attraction and growth in added value, as wellas breakthroughs in the proportion of processing-manufacturing in theprovince’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) and its budget collections,and another breakthrough in the attraction of high-quality human resources.

To this end, Quang Ninh will focus on four majorsolutions in the period: the planning of production areas; the development ofsynchronised social infrastructure networks; the expansion of human resources;and the reform of administrative procedures and the improvement of the businessand investment environment, as well as the building of a safe, civilised, andfriendly living environment.

The leader said that Quang Ninh aims for rapidand sustainable growth in the processing-manufacturing sector on the basis ofpromoting the potential and advantages of the province and its localities,economic zones, and industrial parks, and especially by introducingpreferential policies at economic zones, to develop processing-manufacturingprojects.

He said the province will prioritisehigh-technology projects that use high-quality human resources, are friendly onthe environment, have high added value, and save natural resources.

Quang Ninh will closely coordinate the rapid andsustainable development of processing-manufacturing with the attraction ofhigh-quality and skilled human resources, he said.

Expansion of the sector will be conducted inparallel with the development of industry-urban-service areas with synchronisedtechnical and social infrastructure networks, providing a modern, safe, andcivilised living and working environment to residents.

Ky said that Quang Ninh is designing mechanismsand policies that are sufficiently strong to attract better human resources tomeet demand for the expansion of processing-manufacturing, in line withimprovements through the development of the Ha Long University and theVietnam-Korea Vocational College, as well as other high-quality vocationalfacilities.

The province will also pay more attention to thefields of automobiles, electronics, information technology, medicine andpharmaceuticals, the fashion industry, and wood and fisheries processing, hesaid./.