(HBO) - Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province Bui Van Khanh and representatives of provincial departments and agencies have recently held a working session with the People’s Committee of Luong Son district on the implementation of a plan to improve its business environment and competitiveness capacity.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s
Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the working session.
In
recent years, Luong Son district has directed administrations at all levels and
sectors to well implement administrative procedure reform, thus creating favourable
conditions for enterprises and local people to invest in business and
production.
A report delivered at the working session showed
that in 2016 and the first half of 2017, the local "one-stop-shop” unit
processed 636 administrative procedure documents of firms and investors. All of
the documents were handled on schedule, of which 44 percent were processed
ahead of schedule.
Administrative
procedures, investment and businesses policy regulations and planning
information were uploaded onto the district’s e-portal and publicly posted at
the "one-stop-shop” unit to help businesses, investors and local residents get
easy access to the necessary information.
In
2016, Luong Son district welcomed 33 projects and carried out site clearance
for 19 projects with the total compensation mounting up to 16.4 billion VND.
In the first six months of 2017, the district continued with site clearance
for the 19 projects and had completed the work for six projects by June 30 with
compensation of 12 billion VND. It also received eight new projects, of which seven
projects have seen site clearance implemented.
Concluding the working session, Vice Chairman of
the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh spoke highly of the district’s
efforts in improving its business environment and competitiveness capacity,
especially promptly handling administrative procedures for individuals and
organisations.
However,
the district should speed up site clearance so that the projects could be deployed
as scheduled, he stressed.
Regarding the task in
the coming time, Khanh asked Luong Son district
to soon put the Public Administration Centre in operation while continuing the acceleration
of administrative reform.
The district was also requested to make greater efforts to attract
more investment with careful selection and assessment, improve the quality of
human resources and mobilise investment to develop local socio-economic
infrastructure systems.
According to data from the Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee, the industrial production index for the first six months of 2025 is estimated to have increased by 20% compared to the same period last year. This marks the highest year-on-year growth rate for this period since 2020.
In the first six months of 2025, Hoa Binh province’s export turnover was estimated at 1.145 billion USD, marking an 18.11% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Import turnover was estimated at $ 804 million, a 17.15% increase, which helped the province maintain a positive trade balance.
The lives of the ethnic minority farmers in Tan Lac district have gradually improved thanks to the new directions in agricultural production. This is a testament to the collective strength fostered through the professional associations and groups implemented by various levels of the district’s Farmers’ Union.
With the motto the "product quality comes first,” after nearly one year of establishment and operation, Muong village’s Clean Food Agricultural and Commercial Cooperative, located in Cau Hamlet, Hung Son Commune (Kim Boi district), has launched reputable, high-quality agricultural products to the market that are well-received by consumers. The products such as Muong village’s pork sausage, salt-cured chicken, and salt-cured pork hocks have gradually carved out a place in the market and they are on the path to obtaining the OCOP certification.
In the past, the phrase "bumper harvest, rock-bottom prices" was a familiar refrain for Vietnamese farmers engaged in fragmented, small-scale agriculture. But today, a new spirit is emerging across rural areas of Hoa Binh province - one of collaboration, organisation, and collective economic models that provide a stable foundation for production.
Maintaining growing area codes and packing facility codes in accordance with regulations is a mandatory requirement for agricultural products to be eligible for export. Recently, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hoa Binh province has intensified technical supervision of designated farming areas and packing facilities to safeguard the "green passport" that enables its products to access international markets.
