Ca Mau will become the seafood processing hub

Mr. Nguyen Tien Hai, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Mau Province, said that as a province with rich potentials in marine and fisheries economy, Ca Mau is overcoming many challenges of climate change to exploit effectively. strong and enriched results from marine economy.
Sir, what are the advantages of Ca Mau province in the development correlation of the Mekong River Delta (Mekong Delta)?

As a pillar of the Mekong Delta's "Motivation Quadrilateral", Ca Mau is assessed as a province with many potential advantages for development, especially in the field of aquaculture, fishing and processing of aquatic products. Tourism and Gas - Electricity - Fertilizer Industrial Complex.

In addition, the province has 3 sides bordering the sea, with a coastline of 254 km, belonging to the eastern coastal corridor of the Southwest Sea, and is located in the center of the waters of Southeast Asian countries, especially in the region. The Gulf of Thailand, which has large oil and gas reserves, has potential for ecotourism and island and sea tourism. All of these factors "natural weather, favorable terrain and human conditions" have created Ca Mau comparative advantages not easily obtainable in relation to regional economic development.

Ca Mau people are industrious, dynamic, friendly, generous and Western spirit will be a big attraction for domestic and foreign investors when they come to the southernmost land of the country.

In difficult conditions such as coastal erosion, natural disasters, complicated changes, the situation of socio-economic development in 9 months of 2019 of Ca Mau province?

Ca Mau is the southernmost province in the Mekong Delta region, which is directly affected by climate change, especially in recent times, the erosion of the coastline and river banks has been serious. Thanks to the solidarity and determination of the whole political system; attention and support of the Central Agency; The efforts and contributions of the business community and the people, the socio-economic situation in the province of Ca Mau in 9 months of 2019 have positive changes and continue to develop over the same period.

Accordingly, the province's fishery, agriculture and forestry production continues to be stable, the total fishery output increases by 4.3%; total retail sales of goods and services increased by 7.9%; The production output of major industrial products increased, pushing the industrial production index to rise by 5.9%; Budget revenue increased by 21.5% and reached 90.8% of the estimate.

The quality of tourism services has been increasingly improved and attracted many tourists to visit (tourists to Ca Mau in the three quarters of 2019 reached 1,157,423 arrivals, an increase of 15.4% over the same period, reaching 69 , 7% of the plan; total revenue reaches over VND 1,860 billion, up 11% over the same period, reaching 77% of the plan.

What made Ca Mau achieve such achievements, sir?

Achieving the above results is because the province has drastically focused on directing and implementing seriously and synchronously the tasks and solutions under the resolutions of the Government, the provincial Party Committee and the provincial People's Council. The leadership, direction and administration continued to innovate in the direction of sticking to tasks, observing the reality, checking the effectiveness of each specific task, promoting individual responsibility, especially the head.

The provincial leaders often closely watch the localities and grassroots levels, intensify dialogues and answer recommendations of people and businesses; proactively providing information, resolving resolving issues of public opinion concerns in the field of management. In particular, the province is determined to continue to promote administrative reforms in order to create institutions and open environment to attract investment, to complete 20/30 administrative reform tasks according to the set plan.

Last time, the morale and service attitude of cadres, civil servants and public employees in handling administrative procedures for organizations and individuals has been raised; The result of evaluation of satisfaction level is very high, reaching over 88%; the rate of on-time settlement documents reaches over 99.6% ... creating an open environment to attract investment.

What is the highlight for the orientation of Ca Mau for sustainable and effective development strategy in regional link, sir?

Ca Mau will adhere to the Government's objectives and projects on the top priority for Mekong Delta development, the provincial plan closely associates organically with regional and national planning, with people-centered and ant-centric planning. creating sustainable and prosperous development, on the basis of proactively adapting to climate change and saline intrusion, promoting potentials and strengths, transforming challenges into opportunities for development and life assurance stabilizing the people, preserving the unique traditional cultural values ​​of the Mekong Delta.

One of the many goals to exploit and maximize the potentials and advantages and promote rapid growth in the Mekong Delta region is the Mekong Delta Master Plan up to 2020, with orientations to 2030, focusing on developing sub-sectors. Ca Mau peninsula, including Ca Mau province and the southern part of Kien Giang province, is an important link in the overall regional connection. In this sub-region, to focus on developing energy, chemical, oil and gas service industries in Khanh An and Nam Can (Ca Mau) areas; trade and service centers in Ho Chi Minh City. Ca Mau, Song Doc, Nam Can. Perfecting the irrigation system. Expanding the area of ​​industrial shrimp farming associated with processing and exporting.

To develop forestry in combination with the protection of the national forests of Dat Mui, U Minh Ha and U Minh Thuong and to develop mangrove eco-tourism. The island area includes the island districts of Phu Quoc and Kien Hai (Kien Giang province) and some islands of Ca Mau province.

Ca Mau oriented development of aquaculture and marine tourism, concentrated in the area, the coastal islands of Ca Mau, Ha Tien. Invest in a synchronous infrastructure network for islands linked to storm anchoring areas. Complete the planning and implementation of infrastructure construction investment in Nam Can economic zone. Attracting investment, developing Nam Can economic zone in association with Gas - Electricity - Fertilizer Ca Mau cluster, Nam Can port, shipbuilding industry cluster - Nam Can industrial park and Mui Ca Mau national tourist area ...

Ca Mau Province has set a goal to 2030, striving to become the center of seafood processing industry; At the same time, developing the chemical, fertilizer and renewable energy industries, which have a pervasive effect on the development of regional industry.

(Investment Newspaper)