Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan works with Hoa Lac hi-tech park management board

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)

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Press release of VN-China cooperation steering committee

The 5th session of the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation was held in Hanoi on Sept. 6 under the chair of Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo.

The 5th session of the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation

In a sincere, frank and friendly atmosphere, the two sides exchanged in-depth views and reached a broad common perception on the more comprehensive development of the Vietnam-China relationship.

During the course of the session, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung separately received Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo. Dai conveyed a verbal message of Chinese Party General Secretary Hu Jintao to his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Phu Trong on the development of relations between the two Parties and countries.

On the occasion of the 5th founding anniversary of the steering committee, the two sides positively valued the steering committee’s activities over the past five years, saying that it has brought into play its important role in coordinating and promoting the friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties and countries in a more intensive, practical and effective manner and in conformity with the fundamental interests and common aspirations of both countries’ people.

The two sides said, in the current context of complicated international situation and profound changes, Vietnam-China relations are developing healthily and stably, meeting the fundamental interests of the two nations’ people and benefiting regional peace, stability and development.

The two sides agreed to maintain high-ranking meetings, fully promote the role of the steering committee, make a master plan on cooperation in various fields, exchange experience in national management and continue to well organise theoretical seminars between the two Parties.

The two sides also agreed to effectively promote cooperation mechanisms between sectors, further deepen practical cooperation in the fields of economics, trade, military affairs, law enforcement, security, science, education and health care, and expand people-to-people exchanges in order to ensure that Vietnam-China relations always develop in an active, healthy and stable direction.

The two sides held that the satisfactory settlement of the sea-related issues is very important to maintaining the general situation of Vietnam-China friendly and cooperative relations, affirming that they would base on the common perception of the two countries’ leaders, international law and the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and persistently pursue friendly talks and negotiations to peacefully settle marine disputes and take effective measures to maintain and defend peace and stability in the East Sea.

Both sides will speed up the pace of negotiations and seek fundamental and long-term solutions acceptable to both sides. The two sides agreed to increase negotiations on sea-related issues so as to soon sign an agreement on basic principles on guiding the settlement of sea issues between Vietnam and China. The two sides will also speed up the implementation of the DOC and future work to soon make practical progress.

(VietNamPlus)

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