Tran Van Thoi District: Wealth of Opportunities for Investors

The diverse potential and recent infrastructure upgrades have fueled further development in Tran Van Thoi district, known as ‘miniature Ca Mau’. Our reporter interviewed Mr. Nguyen The Chau, Chairman of Tran Van Thoi People's Committee, to learn more about this.

Tran Van Thoi district has undertaken 54 public investment projects. By the end of June 2024, over VND46 billion had been disbursed, nearly 40% of the total planned amount.

Tran Van Thoi district successfully implemented its socioeconomic development goals and tasks in the first six months of 2024. Could you elaborate on this success?

Lying in the west of Ca Mau province, the district is named after revolutionary activist, Hero of the People's Armed Forces - Tran Van Thoi. This place is considered a "miniature Ca Mau". Compared to many other localities, the district is endowed by nature with two saline - freshwater ecosystems with forests, sea, coastal islands, immense rice fields, enormous cajuput forests and mangrove forests.

The district has continuously grasped its existing advantages and gradually achieved many positive results. In the first six months of the year, 16 socioeconomic targets set for 2024 basically completed 50% or more, with six exceeding 90%.

The district is home to five national historical relics, three provincial relics and many unique cultural forms of Kinh, Hoa, Khmer and other ethnic groups, enabling it to build charismatic tourist destinations with diverse and attractive tourism products. In the first six months of 2024 alone, the district welcomed over 140,440 visitors at tourist attractions and made an estimated tourism revenue of VND42.13 billion, reaching 100.3% of the plan.

2024 is an accelerating year of implementing the goals and tasks of the resolution of the District Party Congress and the 5-year plan. So, what key solutions has the district taken?

Tran Van Thoi district continues to focus on leading and directing the effective implementation of key tasks in four areas; accelerate the application and transfer of scientific and technological advances into production, build models and projects that bring practical results, suitable to local characteristics for people; and promote handicraft and industrial development, especially the development of Song Doc Industrial Park.

The locality also concentrates on developing aquatic, agricultural and forest product processing industries, and mechanical engineering industry for ship repairing. The district boosts tourism development, especially Thi Tuong Pond, Hon Da Bac Island and eco-tourism, with a focus on tourism products that are different from other localities. At present, Tran Van Thoi district is currently quickening the completion of related procedures to propose the province to approve the investment project for construction of Bac Ba Phi Relic Site as a tourist site in Khanh Hai Commune, a commercial and service area of Hamlet 9 in Tran Van Thoi Town, and a cargo and tourism port on the southern bank of the Ong Doc River.

Site clearance critically affects investment attraction and project progress. What are the district's guiding viewpoints, solutions and approaches to this issue?

Tran Van Thoi District has an advantage in land acquisition, land compensation and site clearance as per Directive 07-CT/TU. Most people agree on land compensation and hand over the site to investment projects in time. The process of compensation, support and resettlement always places the interests of people whose land is acquired first and strictly follows the correct order and procedures. We also are determined that, to have highly effective land compensation and site clearance, it is necessary to have immediate participation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee at all levels and sociopolitical organizations in communications and mobilization work to achieve high public consensus. In particular, it is important to enhance the responsibility of agency leaders in the above work.

With the support of relevant provincial and district agencies, we have implemented consistent solutions to enhance our competitiveness and attract maximum resources for development investment.

Thank you so much!

By Bui Lien, Vietnam Business Forum