The Management Board of Hoa Binh Industrial Parks has defined the enhancement of quality of local industrial parks (IPs) as one of the key solutions to attract secondary investors. Currently, Hoa Binh has eight IPs with a total planned areas of over 1,507 hectares, two of which have had complete technical infrastructure system. Many IPs have seen high occupation rate, including Luong Son IP with 100%, Da River Left Bank IP 91.53%, and South Luong Son IP 60.08%.
Construction of the road connecting National Highway 6 to Nhuan Trach industrial park in Luong Son district is being sped up.
This year, along with investing in necessary infrastructure works in local IPs, the board has designed planning for the construction of five IPs and sped up construction and ground clearance for the projects.
In 2023, the total investment in the construction of infrastructure system in local IP has reached over 700 billion VND (28.83 million USD) including about 600 billion VND from investors.
According to leaders of the board, so far, many infrastructure works have been on good process. The Da River wastewater treatment plant has completed and will be put on testing operation, while the ground clearance for the construction of a road to Yen Quang IP has finished. A road connecting Hoa Lac – Hoa Binh Expressway with Yen Quang IP has accepted the payment volume of over 50% of the assigned capital plan. At the same time, a project to build intersections and feeder roads in Lac Thinh IP is on a right track.
The board has also worked on the planning of eight additional IPs in Yen Thuy, Luong Son, Lac Son, Da Bac, Tan Lac district and Hoa Binh city with a total area of nearly 2,238 hectares.
Currently, the rate of operating IPs with standardised concentrated wastewater treatment system has reached 75%. The cleared area for investors is over 119 hectares, exceeding the plan by 8.4%.
Along with infrastructure development, the board has concentrated on improving the business environment and strengthening administrative reform and investment attraction.
Director of the board Chu Van Thang said that it has held regular meetings with businesses in local IPs to deal with their difficulties and gather their opinions.
As of the end of October, the board had reported four new projects worth 89.5 billion VND in local IPs, while an additional 89.92 billion VND was poured into operating projects.
To date, local IPs have attracted 109 projects, including 25 FDI firms with combined capital of 519.33 million USD. Businesses in the IPs reported a revenue of over 22 trillion VND and export value of 775 million USD, paying 250 billion USD to the State budget and creating jobs for more than 1,700 labourers.
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.