Long An Province is calling for investment to develop new industrial clusters. - VNA Photo

LONG AN — Long An Province will call for investment and develop 14 new industrial clusters by 2025, according to the locality's recently announced development plan for industrial clusters for this decade.

To come up in the districts of Đức Hòa, Cần Đước, Thạnh Hóa, Đức Huệ, Bến Lức, Thủ Thừa, and Tân Trụ, their combined area will be 976ha.

Huỳnh Văn Sơn, deputy chairman of its People’s Committee, said by 2030 all industrial clusters would have infrastructure and centralised wastewater treatment systems.

With respect to exisiting industrial clusters, it has instructed relevant agencies to draft regulations for their efficient management and evaluate their technical infrastructure.

They need to attract tenants to fill up existing clusters and ensure new ones are built to plan, helping investors resolve the difficulties they face with respect to procedures, land acquisition and others.

Huỳnh Văn Quang Hùng, director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade, said Long An has 18 operational industrial clusters with a total area of over 1,100ha.

Their infrastructure is more or less in place though some have not completed wastewater treatment systems and land acquisition or face problems with it.

Another 27 (over 1,300ha), are completing procedures related to investment, land and infrastructure, but progress is somewhat tardy due to lengthy land acquisition procedures.

The province is also soliciting investment for a further 28 (1,808ha) industrial clusters, including the 14 slated to be developed next year. VNS