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Industrial complexes require clear management regulations
Representatives of 28 northern provinces and cities have asked the Government and Ministry of Industry and Trade to issue clear regulations to manage the country’s industrial complexes.
They asked the Government to support industrial complexes on investment in their infrastructure and waste processing facilities.
These opinions were highlighted at a conference entitled "Sustainable development of industrial complexes – real situation and solutions" held by the Department of Local Industries (Ministry of Industry and Trade) and Hai Phong City’s Department of Industry and Trade yesterday.
At the workshop, participants said industrial complexes still lacked master planning, as well as legal documents for State governance. Priority mechanisms were not clear, and industrial complexes lacked capital for development, they said.
According to the ministry, 1,643 industrial complexes have been approved by provincial People’s Committees to 2020, covering a total of 73,000ha.
Participants said the industrial complexes are advantageous in that they help develop local enterprises, distance production from residential areas, prevent environmental pollution in handicraft villages and residential areas, and create jobs for rural residents.
However, most industrial complexes in provinces lacked general development planning, as well as detailed planning for construction.
There are currently no legal Government documents outlining State governance of the industrial complexes. Each city or province issues its own regulations to manage the industrial complexes.
Eighty per cent of industrial complexes are managed by district People’s Committees, while others by industrial zone management boards or other offices.
Some cities and provinces still do not have agencies to manage industrial complexes, including Hai Phong, Long An, Kon Tum, Ben Tre and Binh Phuoc. This has led to overlapping or cumbersome procedures for investors who want to invest in industrial complexes.
As the industrial complexes lack legal regulations for management, and their mechanisms and priorities are not very clear, it is hard to mobilise investment to develop these complexes.
Enterprises operating inside the industrial complexes have to build their own infrastructure. As a result, many of them lack waste water processing facilities, causing serious environmental concerns.
Faced with such situations, regarding management models for industrial complexes, many participants agreed with a proposal by the director of Hai Phong’s Department of Industry and Trade, Do Quang Thinh, who said the State governance over an industrial complex should be assigned to the local Department of Industry and Trade, while enterprises would directly manage the industrial complexes. Cities and provinces could also assign an administrative office to manage the industrial complexes on behalf of the State.
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