Industrialization Trends in Bac Giang Province


The socio-economic and approval mechanisms, inspection and supervision are relatively strict, while investment in projects using state budget capital still has many loopholes.

Specifically, restructuring investment capital sources requires early determination of the economic functions and tasks of the State in the market economy, which sectors need State investment, which sectors should be combined with private investment. State investment capital will not be poured into industries that the private sector can do, or into purely business sectors such as taxis, hotels, restaurants, etc. State and private investment do not compete but complement and cooperate with each other.

Restructuring investment does not mean absolutely reducing investment capital from the State budget (economic development still requires investment) but rather adjusting the current unreasonable investment proportion in the total capital source to achieve the best efficiency, management and use. It is necessary to gradually adjust the structure to gradually reduce public investment in total social investment by the State gradually withdrawing from the purely profit-oriented business sector. For restructuring of industries and sectors, State budget capital will be restructured and improved in efficiency, mobilizing other resources in the public-private manner, expanding the socialization model, including public services.

However, with the reinvestment trend and the Government's investment policy, the implementation of investment projects in Bac Giang province has also had new changes, significantly affecting resources as well as other factors of the project.

3.2.1.2. Industrialization trend in Bac Giang province

Industrialization is an inevitable development process. Whether this process takes place quickly or slowly depends on many subjective and objective factors.

In general, as a part of our country, the urbanization process is viewed in the socio-economic development planning as a comprehensive development system to ensure maximum utilization of the advantages of industrialization, creating a proactive position to help the provincial government create conditions for population development, improve living standards and contribute more to the whole country.


However, if urban development is not strictly controlled, it will lead to spontaneous situations that will have unpredictable negative impacts on investment project management in general and on investment project management using state budget capital in particular. Because some industrial parks have attracted a lot of workers, this issue requires that in the coming time, a large number of investment projects must be implemented to upgrade and renovate technical infrastructure and social infrastructure to meet the increasing needs of the people.

Thus, with a large number of investment projects in the future, Bac Giang province will face many difficulties in management, difficulties in balancing capital sources to implement investment projects, difficulties due to limited human resources in implementing investment project management. Invisibly, the industrialization process has caused negative impacts on investment project management in Bac Giang province.

3.2.1.3. Development trends, impacts and possibilities of applying scientific and technical advances and new technologies to investment project management

The trend of technological development in the world today is taking place strongly in many fields. Domestic and international technological trends have, are and will affect many aspects of economic and social life in the province. Scientific and technological advances have also greatly affected the management of investment projects.

It can be said that scientific and technological advances have supported the improvement of State management capacity. Along with the socio-economic development, the management of socio-economic activities of the province is increasingly diverse and complex; improving the capacity and effectiveness of State management. As one of the leading provinces in implementing administrative procedure reform, aiming at "one door, one stamp" effectively and quickly, it is necessary to end the division and fragmentation of information between management units, gradually organizing, arranging and building a common data system serving State management is indispensable, in which the level of dissemination and access rights, exploitation and updating of information are specifically decentralized; data on administrative management requires


digitization, and at the same time implementing the computerization program of planning work, as well as determining growth targets in planning.

3.2.2. Objectives of managing investment projects using state budget capital in Bac Giang province in the period 2011 - 2015

3.2.2.1. On investment capital for projects using the State budget

To ensure the average growth rate of the province according to the plan set out in the period of 2011 - 2015, it is necessary to mobilize investment capital of approximately 18 trillion VND (Table 3.3), investment capital for total social development, 2.1 times higher than 5 years ago, an average of 3.66 trillion VND must be mobilized each year, this is a big challenge for Bac Giang province.

Table: 3.3: Development investment capital plan using the state budget in Bac Giang province for the period 2011-2015

Unit: billion VND



A


LIST

Total

Expected period 2011-2015

Year

2011

Year

2012

Year

2013

Year

2014

Year

2015


TOTAL

18,309

2,893

3,545

3,776

3,986

4,110

1

Budget capital by the Central

management

2,223

350

392

439

492

551

2

Budget capital by Local

management method

8,077

1,200

1,380

1,587

1,825

2,085

3

ODA capital managed by the province

2,406

308

507

533

534

524

4

ODA capital from the Central Government

manage

2,182

261

471

505

515

430

5

Government bond capital

3,201

724

745

672

580

480

6

Preferential credit loans

invest

220

50

50

40

40

40

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Industrialization Trends in Bac Giang Province

Source: Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee - Summary report on the master plan for socio-economic development of Bac Giang province 2006-2020 [74]

In which the capital structure is as follows:

- State budget capital is 10,300 billion VND, accounting for 14.1% of total investment capital (centrally managed budget capital is 2,223 billion VND, local budget capital is 8,077 billion VND).


- ODA capital is 4,488 billion VND, accounting for 6.3% of total investment capital (ODA capital managed by the province is 2,406 billion VND, ODA capital managed by the central government is 2,182 billion VND).

- Government bond capital is 3,201 billion VND, accounting for 4.4% of total investment capital.

- Preferential investment credit capital of 220 billion VND accounts for 0.3% of total investment capital.

3.2.2.2. On investment projects using state budget capital

In the next 5 years, it is necessary to maximize capital from outside, at the same time strongly mobilize resources from the population and enterprises, from all economic sectors and consider capital exploitation channels from the stock market for business development. Orientation with the capital source planned above, in the period of 2011-2015, the number of investment projects will increase accordingly, many projects will have a rapid increase in investment capital. The target in this period is 386 projects with specific investment according to (Table 3.4).

Table 3.4: Summary of planned investment projects for the period 2011-2015 in Bac Giang province

Unit: Project


STT


LIST

Expected period 2011-2015

Year

2011

Year

2012

Year

2013

Year

2014

Year

2015


TOTAL

168

185

190

206

218

1

Group A Project

11

12

12

12

12

2

Group B Project

41

46

54

56

64

3

Group C Project

116

127

126

144

145

Source: Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee - Socio-economic development plan for the period 2011-2015[76]

In specific investment-oriented projects as follows:

- Capital investment projects through the management of ministries and branches: The total number of investment projects through ministries and branches in this period is 21 projects with an investment capital of 3,558 billion VND. Of which, through the Ministry of Industry and Trade are 3 projects with a total capital of 1,280 billion VND, the Ministry of Transport is 5 projects with an investment capital of 1,178 billion VND, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is 1,178 billion VND.


The village sector has 4 projects with a total capital of 578 billion VND, the Ministry of Education and Training has 3 projects with an investment capital of 400 billion VND, the remaining fields have 6 projects with an amount of 122 billion VND.

- Provincial budget capital investment projects by sectors: Total number of investment projects is 89 projects. Of which, 4 projects for industry with investment capital of 230 billion VND, 12 projects for transportation with investment capital of 998 billion VND; 38 projects for agriculture and rural development with investment capital of 1,748 billion VND, 7 projects for health with investment capital of 310 billion VND, 13 projects for culture, sports, tourism, information and communication and the Ministry of Industry and Trade with investment capital of 890 billion VND, 7 projects for education with investment capital of 106 billion VND, 3 projects for state management with investment capital of 600 billion VND; 5 projects for urban development with capital of 360 billion VND, in addition to project program 135 with capital of 332 billion VND and some other projects invested by the district and city with capital of 391 billion VND.

- Projects using ODA capital: Total number of ODA projects is 19 projects with capital of

4,588 billion VND. Of which, the number of projects directly managed by the province is 10 projects with a capital of

2,406 billion VND and projects managed by the Ministries are 9 projects with an investment capital of 2,182 billion VND.

- Projects using government bond capital: A total of 33 projects with a total capital of 3,201 billion VND invested in traffic works, hospital and school construction.

In addition to projects invested by the state budget, there are also projects invested by enterprises and foreign capital with large and typical projects as follows: Vu Xa Thermal Power Plant Project, Luc Nam District with a total estimated capital of 800 billion VND; Yen Lu Thermal Power Project, Yen Dung District with an estimated capital of 5,690 billion VND; Ha Bac Fertilizer and Chemical Company Project with an investment capital of 5,000 billion VND.

3.3. Solutions to improve the efficiency of investment projects using state budget capital in Bac Giang province

In order to implement the orientations in the period of 2011-2015, in addition to measures to mobilize maximum investment capital sources to meet the development investment needs of the whole society, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of using investment capital for


Projects also need to be closely monitored and implemented, especially projects invested with state budget funds.

Although construction investment using state budget capital only accounts for over 30% of the total investment capital for social development, it plays a very important role in attracting other capital sources to form an investment structure that highly promotes the economic restructuring towards industrialization and modernization of the country.

The effective use of state budget capital in investment and construction is an urgent requirement today, especially when capital is still limited and investment needs are high. The inherent problems in the investment and construction sector over the past years have many subjective and objective causes, including many shortcomings and deficiencies in investment and construction management, especially investment from state capital; the policy mechanism and system of legal documents in the investment and construction management sector are incomplete, not synchronized and have many shortcomings. Therefore, it is possible to propose solutions to overcome and improve the efficiency of using investment capital from the state budget as follows:

3.3.1. Reform, amend and supplement policy documents and management methods during the investment process.

- Firstly, complete the system of legal documents on investment and construction management in a synchronous, unified and stable direction: Research and develop the Law on management of public investment activities not for business purposes. Amend a number of articles of the Investment Law, Bidding Law, Enterprise Law, and Construction Law that are currently inconsistent. Complete the system of documents guiding the promulgated laws on investment management in a direction to limit overlap, contradiction, inconsistency and lack of uniformity. Legal documents on investment management must have specific sanctions to handle cases of irresponsibility that affect the quality of construction works, cause damage to the State or to partners performing construction work, and cases of violations of regulations on basic construction investment for all parties involved in the investment process.


- Second: Quickly complete the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) institution in the field of project investment in the province.

+ The investment method under BOT, BTO, BT contracts was introduced by the Vietnamese State very early in the Foreign Investment Law, and later in the General Investment Law in 2005. On that basis, Bac Giang province has had mechanisms to implement it, but the number of these projects is very rare, almost no projects are implemented in the above form. It was not until 2009 that the Government issued Decree No. 108/2009, some of which have just been amended by Decree No. 24/2011, to initially institutionalize this new investment method. In 2010, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 71/2010 promulgating the Pilot Regulation on Investment in the form of Public-Private Partnership (also known as State-Private Partnership), internationally known as PPP (Public-Private Partnership). It can be seen that although some types of investment in the form of PPP were proposed early, the results achieved were quite poor, the main reason being institutional weaknesses.

+ Our country has passed the threshold of a poor country to become a lower middle-income country, so ODA capital sources will obviously decrease and end. Because ODA capital accounts for a large proportion of total investment capital for infrastructure development, our country needs to improve the efficiency of investment capital in the infrastructure sector on the one hand, and seek additional capital sources to replace ODA capital on the other hand. The Government has recently been interested in promoting PPP for that reason.

+ Develop and encourage the form of investment credit instead of the form of allocation for investment projects to build socio-economic infrastructure with the ability to recover capital. Quickly complete the institution of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the field of project investment in the province: To complete the PPP institution, it is necessary to grasp its characteristics, which is the "3 shares" relationship , that is " sharing benefits, sharing responsibilities, sharing risks" . The PPP contract must clearly define the content of those "3 shares", especially sharing risks, because the contract often has a very long term, up to 20-30 years or more. Sanctions for contract violations must also be very clear and fair. The problems that have recently occurred in the implementation of some PPP contracts often have


The reason for not fulfilling the commitment from the government side but the private partner must accept.

- Third: Perfecting the institution of hiring organizations to manage investment projects using state budget capital.

Except for some small and scattered projects, it is necessary to study the issuance of a mandatory regime to hire a project management consulting organization (the old name is the Management Board, should be changed to project management consulting, because the project management function is very broad, including the functions of the authorized person, the investor, and many other entities participating in project management). This organization is professional, independent, and works for the investor through an economic contract.

+ Currently, investors of large-scale public projects are ministries, provincial People's Committees and state-owned enterprises. The Investment Law (Article 63) and the Construction Law (Article

45) Our country stipulates two forms of construction investment project management:

1) the investor directly manages the project; and 2) the investor hires a project management consultancy organization. However, public investors often choose to use the form of self-management of the project and assign this management task to the Project Management Unit (PMU) established by the Ministry or the provincial level. This method already existed in the previous planned economy, when the construction boards (ie project management boards), design units, and construction units were all state organizations, receiving tasks directly from the state plan, only responsible for coordinating work but not having contractual relationships. When switching to a market mechanism, economic contractual relationships replaced planned relationships, but old practices still persisted, hindering international integration, making it difficult for project management to be socialized and professionalized.

+ Currently, only a few public investment projects hire “construction supervision consultants”, but due to the lack of institutional clarity, there are many problems. The term “construction supervision consultant” is also very ambiguous because it can only supervise the volume or quality of construction, while project management consultants not only supervise but also manage contracts.

+ After the reform and opening up, China soon realized the disastrous consequences.

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