PM Pham Minh Chinh speaks at a conference to announce Long An’s planning scheme and promote the province’s trade on July 25, 2023.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made the remarks at a conference to announce Long An’s planning scheme and promote the province’s trade on Tuesday.

Long An should become a dynamic, effective, sustainable economic hub in the southern region by 2030, a gateway to the urban economic and industrial corridor in the Mekong Delta, and an important bridge linking trade activities between Vietnam and Cambodia.

The locality should also strongly promote economic restructuring aligned with innovative growth models, and improve productivity and competitiveness, Prime Minister Chinh said. He added that Long An needs to strengthen public and private partnerships with a focus on investing in socio-economic infrastructure and to play the role of a transshipment hub for the Mekong Delta region.

Attention must be paid to strengthening dialogue and promptly resolving difficulties and obstacles facing investors to facilitate their operations in the locality, he said.