Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee Ho Quang Huy said Mong Cai is working to carry out the announcedstrategies and plans to gradually modernise infrastructure, especially incoastal areas.
Among those strategies and plans, the city will boost the development of renewable energy to switch from traditionalenergy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas to green and safer ones likewind, solar, hydrological, and biological energy in line with the common orientationsset up by central and provincial agencies, he noted.
According to an adjusted generalplanning for the Mong Cai Border Gate Economic Zone approved by the PrimeMinister, the zone has a total area of about 121,197 hectares, including 66,197hectares on land and 55,000 hectares on water that includes such islands asVinh Trung and Vinh Thuc of Mong Cai city and Cai Chien of Hai Ha district.
Mong Cai city and the Mong Cai BorderGate Economic Zone boast a long coastline, favourable weather conditions fordeveloping renewable energy like solar and wind power, as well as resilience tostorms, making them ideal places for long-term and stable power generation.
Huy said municipal authorities are movingto adjust the planning of Division D1 in the vicinity of Vinh Trung and Vinh Thucislands to suit the clean and renewable energy development directions issued by theQuang Ninh administration and central agencies.
After the planning is finalised, MongCai will invite capable and experienced investors to develop a wind powersystem, the official went on, adding that the development of clean andrenewable energy will help create an impulse for the local economy to grow, naturalvalues to be upheld, the city’s standing in the common development trend to beelevated, and related policies and resolutions of central and provincialadministrations to be implemented.
He added that his city will maximise maritimepotential while enhancing the monitoring and protection of the marineenvironment to help sustainably develop sea-based economic activities.
As a coastal city with rich potentialfor economic development, Mong Cai holds a strategic position in Quang Ninhprovince and Vietnam as a whole. Over the past years, it has always attached importanceto preserving and bringing into play natural values and promoting renewableenergy, Huy said.
In March this year, the Quang Ninh People’sCommittee issued a document on studying the potential of offshore and land-basedwind power in the province. It assigned the provincial Department of Industryand Trade to coordinate with some units to survey areas for wind powerdevelopment, including Vinh Trung and Vinh Thuc islands.
Meanwhile, in a draft planning ofQuang Ninh by 2030 submitted to the Prime Minister, the province identifiedseveral focuses, including developing an environmentally friendly energyindustry, maintaining its role as an energy centre of Vietnam and a wind andLNG-fired power centre in the northern region, gradually switching to clean andrenewable energy, and developing land-based, inshore, and offshore wind powerwith total initial capacity of about 2,500 MW.
On February 11, 2020, the Politburoissued Resolution No 55-NQ/TW on orientations for the national energydevelopment strategy by 2030, with a vision to 2045, which gives priority to thecapitalisation of renewable, new, and clean energy sources. On October 2 thesame year, the Government released Resolution No 140/NQ-CP on an action planfor implementing the Politburo’s resolution./.
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