Bringing successes to businesses
Under the Decision No.519/QD-UBND dated March 5, 2015 approving the Project and Action Program implementing the Project on improvement of the province’s international economic integration capacity in 2015 and the following years. In 2015, provincial People’s Committee concentrated on disseminating regulations directly related to locals and businesses’ legitimate rights and interests under free trade agreements that Vietnam signed or are under negotiation.
The province also stepped up administrative reform. Especially, the local tax and customs sectors bent on this task under the spirit of the Government’s Resolution No.19/NQ-CP dated March 12, 2015 on improving the business investment climate, in which application of information technology in the tax and customs fields was promoted to help businesses save their time. Provincial People’s Committee and relevant agencies also regularly held dialogues with businesses and industries’ associations for timely support.
Over the past time, the province regularly met with businesses and industries’ associations, helping remove their difficulties
In 2015, provincial People’s Committee also granted APEC business travel cards to 112 entrepreneurs, facilitating their travel within the APEC region; paid more attention to overseas trade promotion activities; advocated businesses to take part in foreign expos, helping them make market expansion and develop production. Through these activities, the province also introduced the local flexible image and readiness for integration to friends all over the world.
The province had close and effective coordination with agencies representing Vietnam abroad, foreign ones in HCM city and Taiwanese, Japanese, South Korean associations…to seek reliable partners, investment resources and introduce the local advantages as well as prioritized projects to the world. The province also welcomed foreign economic corporations in search of the local investment climate and opportunities for business cooperation while attaching special importance to developing infrastructure facilities, training high-quality human resources…for international economic integration.
Over the past time, the province took measures to support businesses to be proactive in the international economic integration process
With the above-mentioned measures, the province’s international economic integration process has brought encouraging results, creating an open investment climate at investors’ requirements. The local development orientations and support policies have also brought successes to businesses; helped them know more about international economic integration; pointed out their shortcomings in competitiveness, put forward innovations in production and business.
Measures to promote int’l economic integration
The province will continue taking measures to be able to integrate more deeply and widely into the world economy. Accordingly, the province will promote services, especially those with high added value like banking, insurance, logistics, healthcare, education, tourism, telecommunications…; strengthen trade promotion, expanding consumption markets at home and abroad, further maintaining trade surplus; create favorable conditions for businesses to register their trademarks; continue improving the quality, effectiveness and competitiveness of industrial products; step by step increase the rate of industries with high technology and added value.
Besides, the province will continue implementing plans, arranging land fund for investment attraction after the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) and free trade agreements take effects in accordance with the plan approved by the Government at the Official Dispatch No.173/TTg-KTN on adjustment of Binh Duong’s industrial parks development planning to 2020; continue paying attention to infrastructure investment and tourism connection in the region; tap waterway tours and those to historical-cultural relics, beautiful landscapes towards sustainable tourism development; hasten the progress of construction of key works to increase connectivity with other localities in the Southern Economic Key Zone and international trade exchange centers.
In the coming time, the province will further boost administrative reform to improve its economic integration index
The province will also realize administrative reform in a drastic and synchronous way. Particularly, the province will continue upholding the results of indexes done and redress shortcomings to enhance indexes regarding administrative reform, provincial-level competitiveness, international economic integration; perfect electronic one-door softwares at all levels; continue accelerating administrative reform at customs and tax agencies, meeting regulations of the free trade agreements that Vietnam signed.
Such these apart, the province will reinforce and boost relations with international organizations; effectively organize foreign cultural exchange programs, contributing to the local activities of trade, tourism and cultural promotion; continue well realizing agreements on friendship and cooperation signed while setting up friendship relations with Russia’s Oryol city, Holland’s Emmen city, South Korea’s Daegu city and the U.S’s Porland city to strengthen trade promotion.
Reported by Dinh Ly-Translated by Que Chi