Central and Central Highland regions hold first industrial promotion conference
The first ever conference on promoting industrial production in the central and Central Highland regions was held in Binh Dinh province on July 31.
According to the conference, industry and trade departments of regional provinces and cities should strengthen examinations and supervisions to ensure the progress of industrial promotion projects and appropriate spending.
According to the Department of Local Industry under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in the first six months of 2010, although the economy showed signs of recovery after the world economic crisis, the industrial growth was not high in the face of many difficulties such as rising prices of electricity and petrol, difficult access to loans and power shortages.
However, the industrial promotion work in central and Central Highland provinces and cities was maintained and the State management on industrial promotion was strengthened during the period.
The conference also noted that six out of 14 regional provinces have yet to build their own industrial promotion programmes and eight localities are slow to improve the capacity of provincial industrial promotion and development consultancy centres.