Bau Bang district was established and officially put into operation on April 1 with 7 communes, including Long Nguyen, Lai Hung, Lai Uyen, Tan Hung, Hung Hoa, Tru Van Tho and Cay Truong II. On July 11, 2018, the National Assembly Standing Committee approved the Resolution on the establishment of Lai Uyen township under Bau Bang district and Tan Thanh township under North Tan Uyen district in Binh Duong province.
New vitality of the heroic land
As of Q2, 2018, Bau Bang absorbed 663 projects, comprising of 559 domestic projects with a total registered capital of more than VND25billion and 104 FDI ones with a total registered capital of more than US$2.4million. In Lai Uyen township only, there were 114 businesses operating in the fields of construction, trade-service, woodwork processing…and 1,496 trade-service facilities.
According to the assessment of Bau Bang district’s People’s Committee, Lai Uyen township has so far reached major achievements in socio-economic development. The township’s economic orientation is to increase the proportion of industry-construction-services and decrease the proportion of agriculture. The recognition of Lai Uyen as the township of the district will be the vital premise for the establishment of the model on urban management, contributing to raising the efficiency and effectiveness of
Nguyen Xuan Le, a resident in the township said that the township has till now gained robust growth with modern factories. The section of the highway 13 through the township has been upgraded speciously with 6 lanes, facilitating locals and businesses’ traveling and goods transportation.
Building up a model industrial-urban park
With orientations in terms of industry, service and urban development, from 2012, provincial People’s Committee approved an overall project on Bau Bang district’s urban development to 2020 and vision to 2030. Accordingly, Lai Uyen is defined as the political-industrial, trade-service hub of the district and is also the gate for trade activities of the province’s northern region.
Over the past time, the province focused on developing the township’s infrastructure facilities through building and upgrading the highway 13, the My Phuoc-Bau Bang expressway…The district also upgraded inter-communal streets, facilitating locals’ traveling and trade activities.
Le Khac Tri, Chairman of the district’s People’s Committee said that since being established, the district has obtained rapid development in terms of industrial manufacture and investment attraction. The district has sufficiently prepared necessary conditions at investors’ needs in the
“As planned, till 2020, Lai Uyen township will strive to get standards of a fourth-class urban area. The plan is in line with the set target of the district’s Party congress for the 2015-2020 tenure on developing Bau Bang into an industrial-urban hub in the northern region of the province”, said Mr.Tri.
Reported by Hoang Pham-Viet Thang-Translated by K.T
