On the afternoon of 26/4/2011, Binh Dinh People's Committee (PC) in collaboration with Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) held the conference ‘PCI 2010 and solutions to improve the provincial competitiveness capacity in 2011’ in Quy Nhon city in order to comprehensively analyze the results of PCI 2010 and to develop effective solutions for improving Binh Dinh PCI 2011. The event was attended by Mr Le Huu Loc, the PC’s Chairman; Mr Nguyen Cuong, Director of VCCI, Mr Jim Winkler, Director of VNCI; Mr Dau Anh Tuan, Deputy of Legal Department VCCI; specialists and leaders of varied departments and sectors in the Province.

At the conference, VCCI and VNCI specialists presented the surveys and evaluation results of Binh Dinh economic governance in boosting business environment for private enterprise development in 2010. The cause of falling 13 grades in the ranking (20/63 provinces) as compared with PCI 2009 (7/63) was due to indicators of market admission, land access, transparency, time expenses, unofficial expenses, dynamism. The participants also contributed a lot of frank and valuable opinions.

Mr Le Van Tam, Director of the DPI said that many investors don’t want to invest into the industrial zones/clusters with the available infrastructure but register to carry out their project out of these areas. This has caused a lot of difficulties for the local authorities and the implementation of the projects.

Mr Dao Quy Tieu, Director of the Construction Department commented that the planning in Binh Dinh was not good enough and there should be enough funding for planning; the plan for housing, urban development and real estate projects needed to be available for investors’ access.

According to Mr Dinh Van Tien, Deputy of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the land access is currently difficult because it is hard to identify the origin of land and the compensation policy is not consistent, the capacity of staff involved in land clearance is limited, and resettlement organization for people is still slow.

Specialists and representatives of Departments of Trade and Industry, Tax, Customs, Economic Zone Administration and enterprises requested several fields to be improved: administrative reform, inter-departments collaboration, transparency, public policies on websites, associations’ roles, public-private sector dialogues, enterprises’ opinions collected before issuing documents related to them, human resource training and planning, improved quality of vocational training centres…     

Mr Nguyen Cuong, Director of Dang Nang VCCI emphasized that any provinces who analyzed PCI indicators and realized them well would have great chances to improve their ranking and services for enterprises more effectively. 

To close the conference, Mr Nguyen Huu Loc, Binh Dinh PC Chairman appreciated the program and directed the leaders of departments and sectors to make more efforts to create a more favorable business environment, to enhance the provincial competitiveness capacity, to raise the officers’ responsibilities in assisting enterprises and to boost business activities in the upcoming future.