Upon implementation of the Government’ Resolution regarding tasks, solutions for improving the business environment and raising the national competitiveness, the provincial people’s committee (PPC) has developed action plan to improve the business environment and raise the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) until 2015.

Accordingly, the target of Binh Dinh is to maintain PCI high rank, particularly in High or Mid-High group (ranked 1-20^th)

In order to achieve the planned target, it is required that causes, constraints and solutions are identified; and feasible solutions developed. Therefore, 10 issues need to be addressed including business support service, labour training, legal institutions, land access & tenure, entry cost, transparency, time cost, informal charges, equal competitive environment, pro-activeness in solving corporate issues.

In particular, all departments, sectors and PCs of city/towns and districts are required to:

1. Continue to strictly implement the Directive 07/CT-UBND dated 10/6/2011, it is required that Department of Investment and Planning follows up the execution process of this Directive.
2. Leaders of all sectors and levels increase dialogues with businesses, regularly have meetings and contacts to understand their difficulties so that timely solutions can be created to help them. Annually, PPC held two dialogues with businesses in order to sort out solutions for corporate constraints. In the nearest future, Department of Planning and Investment (DPI) is assigned to collaborate with VCCI and relevant agencies in the locality to organize a dialogue in June 2014.
3. (3) Department of Information and Communication is to support other departments, sectors and localities to improve websites in order to enhance information dissemination on media, increasing transparency regulations and policies, especially policies on investment attraction, administrative procedures, new regulations, information on planning.. so that enterprises can get access to necessary information for their manufacture and trade and organization of their activities.
4. (4) It is required that agencies and localities enhance administrative reform, shorten time for admin procedures relating to establishment and operation of enterprises, meeting the increasing corporate demand on public service. In addition, officials are asked to improve working attitude, understand laws and legislation well to accompany businesses.
5. Concerning agencies need to provide timely support for the PPC in identifying reasonable land lease cost so that a balance of public budget and investment attraction policies can be made for each period, and competitiveness is ensured.
6. Concerning sectors must complete their general planning, land use and construction plan so that the investment promotion centre (IPC) can be more proactive in luring investment and investors do not have to wait. Regarding important projects, especially projects using land, Department of Construction is assigned to collaborate with related agencies to address criteria, then the IPC is to look for suitable investors.
7. Provincial Land Resource Development Centre and PCs of districts are to prepare clean land so that resettlement are can be arranged and land clearance is not a problem for new projects in the future.

Source: IPC Binh Dinh