Recently, the state management of industrial parks and economic zones at the Nghi Son Economic Zone Authority has achieved good results, the first situation of infrastructure development and production and business activities in the zone. Nghi Son economy has made a breakthrough development, creating an important driving force to attract investment projects with a large total capital. This created a great motivation and became a driving force to turn Nghi Son into the most successful economic zone in the country, with an annual budget of over VND 20,000 billion.
"A stepping stone" for "billion dollar" projects in Nghi Son economic zone
In recent years, Nghi Son economic zone has attracted a lot of big projects such as petrochemical project, solar power plant project, Nghi Son iron and steel general international port project (NIS) ... To achieve that, Nghi Son Economic Zone Authority has continuously made efforts to improve the efficiency and capacity of state management to create favorable environment for investors.
The information work has many positive changes to help investors quickly access to the socio-economic situation, conditions and investment procedures. The management board also quickly applied administrative reforms, shortening the time to deal with investment procedures to create favorable conditions for investors. In addition, the management of construction, natural resources, environment, financial planning is also applied by the Management Board in accordance with the provisions of law.
In particular, the management of businesses, commercial activities and investment support are done seriously and quality. The Board has collaborated with relevant agencies and units to organize the propaganda and guide businesses and investors to ensure compliance with the provisions of law on fire and explosion prevention and fighting, occupational safety. dynamic.
In addition, in order to create a favorable and safe business investment environment to attract investors and businesses, the Management Board pays special attention to investment promotion and attraction activities. With many diverse and diversified forms of promotion at home and abroad, helping investors approach the most honest and clearest picture of the investment environment in Nghi Son economic zone.
Nghi Son Economic Zone is evoking potentials, strengths and truly creating opportunities and attractive destinations, bringing success to domestic and international investors. Not only foreign-invested projects, Nghi Son economic zone is also being invested by many domestic investors in many big projects. With each project being implemented and put into production and business, Nghi Son economic zone attracts high-quality human resources from international contractors, prestigious domestic contractors, digging establishments. domestic and foreign creation; This is an opportunity for cooperation, transfer of experience, advanced and modern production technology. Up to now, Nghi Son economic zone has attracted 163 investment projects, of which: 150 domestic investment projects, with a total registered capital of about 108,750 billion dong and 13 foreign invested projects, with a total capital of registered about 12.57 billion USD
Great success by "billion dollar" projects
After being established in 2006, Nghi Son Economic Zone has many domestic and international investors coming to explore investment opportunities in this place. In particular, the first is Nghi Son Thermal Power Plant 1, which was built in July 2010 with a total investment of up to 900 million USD and mainly has ODA from Japan. The main contractor complex of the project is headed by Marubeni Group.
This is one of the important projects, not only ensuring safe and economical electricity supply for industrial production activities in Nghi Son economic zone, meeting the needs of socio-economic development. Thanh Hoa in particular and the North Central region in general.
In 2015, the Nghi Son Iron and Steel International General Port project was officially started. The project is designed to invest in 9 berths, with a total length of 2,250m, total investment of 5,850 billion dong, capable of receiving ships of up to 50,000 tons, handling capacity of 30 million tons of cargo each. year. This is one of the most important projects in Nghi Son Iron and Steel Complex.
Nghi Son iron and steel general port is in Nghi Son seaport system, which is a regional hub port (type 1). This port is part of the 2nd complex, built in accordance with the international standards on management, operation and safety of the International Seaport Association, covering 71 hectares, including the port area. and logistics area where raw materials and goods are stored. As planned, from 2019 to 2021 the project will complete all ports.
Thanh Hoa 1 solar power plant has also been put into operation since 2017 and began to operate in late 2018. The investor of the Thanh Hoa 1 solar power project is BS Company Heidelberg Solar GmbH (Federal Republic of Germany) with 100% foreign capital.
This is a clean energy project, producing electricity from solar energy, with a capacity of 160 MWp, equivalent to producing 190,080,000 kWh of electricity per year, built in Phu Lam commune, Tinh Gia district, Thanh Hoa province. . Thanh Hoa 1 solar power plant has a construction area of about 170 hectares, with a total capital of over 4.3 trillion dong, equivalent to 190 million USD from the investor's capital and other lawful mobilizing sources. Solar power projects are highly appreciated during the green energy revolution. Compared to the two traditional types of power plants, hydroelectric and thermal power, solar power uses clean energy, almost never runs out and does not cause any negative consequences to the environment and life. human life.
Most especially, started to deploy in 2013, after 5 years of construction at the end of December 2018, Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant was officially put into operation. This is the project with the largest construction scale and total investment in Vietnam (more than 9 billion USD) by Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited - an international joint venture in the field of petroleum between Vietnam. , Japan and Kuwait as investors.
Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant is deployed on an area of over 395ha on the shore and nearly 914ha of water surface. The factory's main products are LPG, gasoline (RON 92, 95), diesel (premium, regular), kerosene / jet fuel, polypropylene, para-xylene, benzene and storage. sulfur. The capacity of the Phase I plant reaches 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day, equivalent to 10 million tons a year, nearly double the capacity of Dung Quat Oil Refinery. It is expected that by the end of 2019, Nghi Son Refinery will reach about 80% of the designed capacity.
Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Complex has important political, economic, social, national defense and security contributions, contributing to ensuring national energy security, together with Dung Quat oil refinery. The operation will meet more than 80% of petroleum demand for the domestic market, reducing the dependence on imports from external markets
A promising picture
Continuing to attract investors, in August 2019, Mintal Group - Hongkong proposed to invest in a ferrochrome, stainless steel and non-ferrous metal factory in Nghi Son Economic Zone.
During a meeting at the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa Province in August, the General Director of Mintal Group proposed investing in a factory to produce ferrochrome carbon, stainless steel and non-ferrous metals in Nghi Son economic zone with a total of The implementation fee is US $ 2 billion and the estimated area is 300ha. Phase 1 capacity is 1.5 million tons of ferrochrom carbon / year. Phase 2 is 1 million tons of stainless steel and 1 million tons of non-ferrous metals / year. Raw materials for production will be imported in South Africa, while the remaining 20% is expected to be purchased in Vietnam.
Following the success of Nghi Son 1 Thermal Power Plant, in 2017, Nghi Son Economic Zone is the place where Nghi Son BOT Thermal Power Plant is located. 2. The project with a total investment of up to 2.79 billion USD, to be constructed in August 2018 and expected to be completed in July - 2022. The project has an important meaning in ensuring the supply of electricity for economic development in the Northern region, contributing to ensuring security. national energy. Nghi Son 2 BOT Thermal Power Plant has 2 supercritical boilers, high efficiency turbines and two generating sets. The two units will be built in parallel but independently, creating more flexibility and efficiency.
Nghi Son economic zone is an important transport hub, a gateway for goods exchange and exchange connecting northern Laos, northeastern Thailand, and the vicinity of Thanh Hoa with national and international maritime routes through the system. road system and Nghi Son seaport. This is really a potential investment environment for domestic and international investors. Over the years, many large projects poured into Nghi Son Economic Zone have turned this place into the most successful industrial park in the country. It is expected that in 2020, the budget revenue in the area managed by Nghi Son Management Board may surpass 20,000 billion for the first time.
Nghi Son's initial success was the main driving force contributing to Thanh Hoa's rise to the 8th largest economy in the country and the first balance of revenue and expenditure. This is extremely important, reducing the burden on the national budget, contributing to reducing the budget deficit, creating favorable conditions for the state to invest in key projects and residential areas. There are still many difficulties and opportunities for development.