These projects increased the total number of investment projects in Thai Nguyen province to over 150, including 74 FDI projects and 77 domestic ones with total investment capital of 7 billion USD and 11.7 trillion VND (508 million USD), respectively.
The provincial Industrial parks Management Board also reproted that over 70 foreign business delegations, mainly from the Republic of Korea and Japan, has come to study investment opportunities in the province since the beginning of the year.
Firms in the Thai Nguyen province’s industrial parks contributed over 3.7 trillion VND (160 million USD) to the State budget in the first six months of the year, an increase of 7.4 times against the same period last year, the provincial Industrial parks Management Board added.
The total export value of those enterprises in the first half of this year reached 8.62 billion USD, up 7.75 percent. The provincial industrial parks also created over 89,000 jobs, up 25 percent compared to 2015.
Thai Nguyen province is focusing on completing procedures to build the infrastructure of the Song Cong II Industrial Park and accelerating the implementation of the second phase of Yen Binh Industrial Zone project in order to attract more investment in the province.
