Quang Ninh aims to mobilise all resources to create development breakthroughs

Nhan Dan interviews Vice Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Cao Tuong Huy on the measures to sustain the province’s socio-economic performance in the coming time.

Vice Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Cao Tuong Huy
Vice Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Cao Tuong Huy

Q: Vietnam was severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters in 2020. As one of the provinces in a critical position, what measures did Quang Ninh take and what were the notable results?

A: Last year, Quang Ninh gave the highest priority to preventing and fighting the epidemic. With the concerted efforts of the political system, the business community and the people, the provincial economy expanded by 10.05% to about VND220 trillion (US$9.5 billion), an increase of 1.86 times compared with 2015, ranking third in the northern region.

The province launched various measures to revive and restructure tourism, by focusing on the domestic market and stepping up regional connection in tourism development. Total domestic arrivals in 2020 reached more than 8.8 million and safety was guaranteed at local destinations.

Quang Ninh also promoted the development of wholesale and retail, services and e-commerce and facilitated the development of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Coal mining continued to play an important part in economic growth, accounting for 17.7% of the provincial economy and contributing 39% of the province’s domestic revenue.

Difficulties facing the manufacturing sector were resolved while public investment was restructured and streamlined. The province kicked off the construction of nine projects in 2020, with a total investment of over VND32.3 trillion (US$1.4 billion), which are strategically significant to the province’s long-term development.

Quang Ninh was able to achieve such results because the province tapped into the experience learned from the previous years, particularly the maintenance of solidarity, democracy and consensus in leadership and administration.

The province also took advantage of the central government’s support, accurately identified the bottlenecks to its development and correctly selected the development priorities.
Maintaining discipline while encouraging innovation and protecting reform-minded officials also played their part in Quang Ninh’s development.

Q: What are the major measures to maintain the results that Quang Ninh has achieved?

A: In 2021, the province will focus on mobilising all resources and diversifying forms of investment in order to accelerate the construction of socio-economic infrastructure, especially the infrastructure for transport, information technology, telecommunications, economic zones and sea ports.

Quang Ninh aims to further increase the quality of administrative reform and policy implementation, improve the business and investment climate and bolster the development of the private sector. We will proactively address the difficulties facing enterprises and investors, step up economic restructuring and growth model renewal and maintain the policy to boost tourism demand.

The province will also concentrate on developing economic zones and industrial parks, create new breakthroughs in manufacturing growth by stepping up the effort to attract to high-tech manufacturing projects, clean industrial projects and smart industrial projects, among other measures.

Thank you very much!