On September 21, during a trip to check on the scientific and technological application in Hanoi, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan worked with the Hoa Lac hi-tech park management board.
Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan works with the Hoa Lac hi-tech management board
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Lang, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology and Head of the Hoa Lac hi-tech management board, the park had already completed site clearance on 845 hectares of land, accounting for 53.28 percent; built 19 kilometres of roads and water sewage systems; completed the waste water treatment factory with a capacity of 6,000 cubic metres per day; and completed 70% of the waste water collection system of the park.
He said that the current difficulty was to conduct site clearance on the remaining 800 hectares of land, which requires an extra VND 8 trillion.
Chairman of the Hanoi City People’s Committee, Nguyen The Thao, said that in general, the progress in the building of the park was slow.
According to the Chairman, the park has been planned as one of the five satellite urban areas, with 600,000 people. Therefore, the top priority must be a focus on the technical and social infrastructure such as traffic, power, water and housing systems.
“A large amount of capital is needed to realise the target,” he said.
He also added that as it was a hi-tech park of national scale, its progress should be accelerated, saying that the city will be willing to share difficulties with the management board and direct relevant sectors and agencies to help tackle difficulties.
During the meeting with the management board, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan stressed that the Government considered the Hoa Lac hi-tech park a national construction of great significance in training the human resources to develop the capital and the country. Therefore, the Government asked for an increased effort in the building of the park, including the completion of the site clearance for the whole construction by 2012.
The Hoa Lac hi-tech park management board introduces the general project to Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan
He asked the Ministry of Finance to work with the Ministry of Planning and Investment for capital planning to be submitted to the Prime Minister.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested the management board work directly with the Electricity of Vietnam and the Hanoi Electricity Corporation to identify the demand for power for the park, and work with the Hanoi Transport Corporation to identify the need for vehicles.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan overviewed some of the ongoing construction in the hi-tech park, including the building of FPT University, an Italian pharmaceutical production company and Japan’s Nissan automobile company.
The Hoa Lac hi-tech park has been established and been in construction since 1998 on an area of over 1,600 hectares. The park has licensed 53 projects with a total registered capital of nearly VND 22 trillion across more than 259 hectares. Seventeen of them have been put into operation with a turnover of VND 1.2 trillion, attracting 4,100 labourers./.
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(Theo website Nguyễn Thiện Nhân)
