Under a plan approved by the Prime Minister, the park is to be a national centre for research, development and application of high technologies, as well as a place for developing high-tech human resources and enterprises, and the production of and trading in high-tech products.
The park had been developed according to the plan for 15 years and had created a high-tech city, said Pham Dai Duong, the deputy minister of science and technology. Duong, who is also head of the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Zone management board, at a meeting between the ministry and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on issuing the decree on July 26.
However, the park has not seen breakthrough in development as expected, he said, so the ministry and the management board had identified the advantages and obstacles to the zone’s development.
They proposed a decree on specific investment incentives to attract more investors to the park and support it to make breakthroughs in development. The prime minister has directed the ministry to draft the decree with new investment incentives and transparency to attract investors. Duong said the park had applied some investment incentives for the park according to the government decision on April 5, 2004.
Investors had not availed of those incentives due to difficulties and obstacles in the process of implementing the incentives, he said. Therefore, the park would need feasible and more preferential policies to attract investors.
According to the draft, the decree would focus on solving difficulties to promote development of the park and create favourable conditions for attracting local and foreign investors, Duong said.
The draft would make clear the responsibility of the management board and implement a one-door policy. It would have incentives to attract investors from all sources, from the State investment for research and development and investment for high-tech infrastructure for the park.
The draft would also allow the development of enterprises so they would enjoy a favourable investment environment, simple administrative procedures and low input costs with incentives in land, corporate income tax, individual income tax, import and export tax, and value-added tax.