Hanoi has established a plan to increase production in its building material industry by 2020. Under the plan, the industry will grow by five times between now and 2015 and six times by 2020, accounting for 6 percent of the capital’s total industries and providing jobs for 12,000 labourers. According to the municipal People’s Committee, [...]
The trading activities in domestic construction machinery have been strongly effected by public investment cutbacks. A report from the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that since the beginning of this year, imports of construction machinery have significantly tumbled. The ministry reported the volume of imported construction machinery in August was only 900 units, worth [...]
A seminar on the National Target Programme on Building New Rural Areas opened in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on September 21. The event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and provincial authorities. Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, [...]
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai met with the Ministry of Construction in Hanoi on September 21 to review this year’s tasks and to devise plans for the next year and the 2011-2015 period. Speaking at the working session, Mr. Hai praised the positive results that the Ministry has achieved over the past 8 months. [...]
Sales of building materials, particularly steel, are expected to pick up in the remaining months of the year. Steel sales in August increased by 50,000 tonnes to 410,000 tonnes against the previous month, said Nguyen Tien Nghi, deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Steel Association (VSA). That trend was expected to continue untill the end [...]
The plan to rescue seven civil engineering construction corporations (Ciencos) by joining the bids for big-scale infrastructure projects using the loans from the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) proves to have low feasibility. It is now clear that it is nearly impossible for the seven Ciencos, the leading construction and installation [...]
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