Despite
difficulties, province-based industrial parks (Ips) last year continued gaining
positive results in terms of infrastructure investment, investment
attraction…This will be an important premise for them to achieve better results
in 2013, according to provincial Ips Management Board. 
A glance of Bau Bang industrial park
Achievements in difficult period
Provincial Ips Management Board now controls over 24 Ips with 7,187 hectares in total, including 23 Ips of nearly 7,000 hectares in operation. In 2012, investors of the Ips spent VND649bln on infrastructure investment. The figure contributed to bringing the total investment capital of infrastructure at the IPs so far to nearly VND8.88trillion. Dong An 2, Binh Duong, Binh An, My Phuoc 2 reached a high ratio about infrastructure investment capital.
Investors of the Ips also coordinated with provincial Ips Management Board to strengthen investment promotion from enterprises in potential countries such as Japan, South Korea, Canada…Thus, Ips under provincial Ips Management Board last year absorbed nearly US$434mln in FDI capital, a two-fold increase compared to 2011. The province granted investment licenses to 68 projects with total registered capital of more than US$149mln and allowed 53 others to increase their capital by US$284.3mln. In addition, the above Ips lured additional 6 domestic investment projects with total registered capital of nearly VND1.12trillion. The results lifted the total number of valid investment projects at the local Ips up 1,208, including 837 FDI projects with total registered capital of more than US$5.5bln and 372 domestic ones with total registered capital of VND23.94trillion.
There were also additional 40 enterprises in operation at Ips under provincial Ips Management Board, bringing the total number of enterprises herein to 903, including 582 FDI projects and 321 domestic ones. Thanks to their efforts, enterprises at the Ips took fruits in production and business activities with total revenue amounting to US$5.4bln, up 8.99% compared to the previous year. Of the total figure, export turnover reached US$2.6bln while import value was VND2.9bln. They also paid nearly US$136mln for State budget, up 8.74% compared to 2011.
Measures for 2013
Tran Van Lieu, Head of provincial Ips Management Board said that the above results came from the Government’s measures to curb inflation, remove difficulties and support enterprises plus the local authorities’ drastic instruction. The local authorities also attached special importance to reforming administrative procedures, tightening control over legal implementation of enterprises.
To raise the effectiveness of Ips and improve their hurdles in 2013, provincial Ips Management Board will ask for Ips infrastructure development companies to hasten the progress of the construction of projects approved in terms of traffic, water drainage- supply and electricity; strengthen investment promotion; deliberate housing projects for workers; encourage investors of the IPs to build workshops for rent to absorb small and medium-sized investment projects…
Provincial Ips Management Board has also set 2013’s targets of getting 60 hectares or 80 hectares of Ips covered by enterprises; drawing around US$400mln in FDI capital; spending VND500bln-VND600bln on infrastructure investment; reaching VND900mln-VND1trillion on enterprises’ capital for investment and construction…
Reported by T.Minh-Translated by K.T
