Phú Quốc boosts investment in socio-economic development

A view of Phú Quốc Island from the Hòn Thơm cable car. — VNS Photo Phương Thảo

PHÚ QUỐC — Phú Quốc island district continues to deploy synchronous solutions, creating favourable conditions, supporting investors and enterprises to implement projects as planned, speeding up construction and contributing to local socio-economic development.

This was revealed by Phú Quốc Economic Zone management board in the southern province of Kiên Giang, Vietnam News Agency reported on Monday.

In particular, the island is concentrating on investment capital to speed up the construction schedule to complete key infrastructure projects; overcome limitations and weaknesses in planning management, land, construction, compensation and site clearance; drastically handle disputes, compensation, clearance, resettlement and support for people to have "clean land公众for investors to implement the projects.

According to the representative of Phú Quốc Economic Zone management board, investment attraction in Phú Quốc mainly focuses on tourism and marine economic development. Although a number of projects on the island have been granted investment policy decisions, the implementation of these projects is still slow.

The reasons include the compensation for site clearance, support and resettlement of projects takes a lot of time; disputes and complaints leading to land handover in the field face many difficulties and problems; coordination between investors and State management agencies is not synchronised, so some projects are encroached and re-occupied, causing difficulties and shortcomings in implementing projects in accordance with the plan.

In addition, the source of infrastructure investment capital of the Government has not met the demand for development investment, affecting the construction progress of key infrastructure projects compared to the plan. So far, Phú Quốc has paid compensation and support to  more than  一0, 八 九 七 households, with an amount of over VNĐ 六. 一 二 trillion (US$ 二 六 一. 六 million).

Phú Quốc Economic Zone management board said that till date, Phú Quốc island has  二 九 九 valid investment projects in planning areas with a total area of  一0, 五 七 八ha. Accordingly,  二 五 八 projects were granted investment certificates, investment policy decisions, with a total area of  八, 八 九 三ha, total registered investment capital of over VNĐ 二 七0. 三 trillion, and  四 一 projects are completing procedures.

Currently,  四 六 projects have been put into operation on an area of  一, 二00ha with a total investment capital of more than VNĐ 一 三. 四 七 trillion. The other  四 一 projects are under construction, covering an area of  三, 二 四 六ha with total investment of VNĐ 一0 一. 四 三 billion, including six partially operated projects, the remaining projects are completing investment procedures.

In addition, up to now, on Phú Quốc island, there are  三 一 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with total registered capital of $ 二 九 三 million. — VNS