(BNP) - On the afternoon of May 27, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and Vice Chairman of the Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh chaired a reception and working session with a Chinese business delegation led by Mr. Pang Ganzhi, Chairman of Anxin Group Company Limited (China), to survey and learn about policies related to energy storage and AI computing infrastructure, as well as exchange views on project implementation conditions, electricity consumption targets, and industrial park resources in Bac Ninh province. Attending the working session were representative leaders of relevant provincial departments, sectors, agencies, and units.
The scene of the working session.
At the reception, on behalf of the delegation, Mr. Pang Ganzhi thanked the friendly and open welcome of the leaders of Bac Ninh province, and stated that Chinese major enterprises were currently accelerating their internationalization strategies; paying special attention to the Southeast Asian market, in which Vietnam was evaluated as a destination with much development potential.
Through practical research and exchanges with Chinese enterprises having been and were investing in Bac Ninh, the Chinese business delegation found that the province's investment and business environment was stable and transparent, creating trust and peace of mind for enterprises during project implementation.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh exchanges views with members of the Chinese business delegation.
Mr. Pang Ganzhi emphasized that this delegation included the participation of many enterprises owning typical, large-scale projects with high technological capacity in China in energy storage, smart computing, and digital infrastructure. These were all fields aligning with the high-tech industrial development orientation of Bac Ninh province.
Therefore, Chinese enterprises expected to have opportunities to expand investment in Bac Ninh, contributing to bringing China's advanced technology, new development models, and modern management experience to the locality; thereby promoting socio-economic development, improving competitiveness, and supporting the process of industrial transformation towards green, smart, and sustainable directions.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh presents lychees (a signature agricultural product of the province) to the delegation.
On the basis of the orientation to strengthen economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and China, the Chinese business delegation focused on exchanging views with provincial functional agencies on the development orientation of the high-performance computing industry, the development of green energy storage project systems; investment attraction policies; support mechanisms and incentives for high-tech projects; market access conditions for foreign-invested enterprises; regulations related to land, technical infrastructure, electricity supply, telecommunications, and necessary conditions to implement green energy projects and next-generation digital infrastructure in the coming time.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh presents a Dong Ho folk painting to Mr. Pang Ganzhi.
Exchanging views with the Chinese enterprises, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh emphasized that Bac Ninh province was currently one of the localities strongly attracting foreign enterprises and investors, especially those from China. Particularly, the Chinese business community in Bac Ninh at peak times had about more than 50,000 experts, laborers, and traders living, working, producing, and doing business in the locality.
To create new development space and improve competitiveness in investment attraction, Bac Ninh province was focusing on implementing many key strategic projects. Prominent among them was the Gia Binh Airport project - a work expected to create regional connectivity dynamics, expand socio-economic development space, and increase attractiveness to domestic and foreign investors.
Along with that, the province was investing synchronously in the technical infrastructure system, focusing on transport infrastructure, railways, electricity, and telecommunications to meet the requirements of high-tech industrial and digital economic development in the new period. Bac Ninh also identified the semiconductor industry as one of the priority development sectors; while step-by-step expanding green industries, clean energy, and renewable energy, including wind power.
For new industries, besides the semiconductor industry development orientation, the province paid special attention to promoting the formation of data centers, computing centers, and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, creating a foundation for digital economic and high-tech industrial development.
Through the information exchanged at the working session, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thinh expressed his desire for Chinese enterprises to continue paying attention to, researching, and expanding investment in Bac Ninh. He also expressed confidence that with a favorable investment environment, an increasingly complete infrastructure system, and a clear development orientation, Bac Ninh would continue to be an attractive destination for high-tech, green energy, and digital infrastructure projects in the coming time./.
