With the advantage of having a system including 12 international and national border gates and sub-border gates, in the coming years, Lang Son will focus on rapidly developing the border gate economy, creating momentum to promote the province’s economic growth.
With an area of 394km2, Lang Son Border Gate Economic Zone is identified as the key economic driving force of the province in particular and the Northeast region in general. In particular, in the 2016-2025 period, the provincial border economic zone was selected by the Government as one of the important border economic zones to focus on investment and development from the state budget.
Mobilising all resources to build the border gate infrastructure
In recent years, Lang Son Province has allocated additional capital to start consulting on construction and completion of works and projects to develop infrastructure of the Dong Dang-Lang Son border economic zone.
Thanks to that, the provincial border economic zone has become the largest transit point for production and import goods in the northern mountainous provinces, contributing to the economic and social development of the province.
In the last days of 2024, coming to Huu Nghi international border gate (Cao Loc branch) and Tan Thanh border gate (Van Lang branch), everyone noticed many changes. The image of cargo cars, congested along the length of the road inside the border gate has definitely decreased.
Head of the Customs Branch of Huu Nghi international border gate Ha Thi Kim Dung happily said: In the past, when entering the agricultural product target such as: melon, dragon fruit... there was often a congestion of goods at the border gate, but now this situation has basically been resolved.
Deputy Head of the Dong Dang-Lang Son Border Gate Economic Zone Management Board Hoang Khanh Duy said since 2021, the Province has allocated more than 6.8 trillion VND from the state budget to invest in technical infrastructure in a central and key direction, prioritising works and projects that have a widespread impact and contribute to improving the efficiency of the development of the border gate economic zone.
Of which, most of the investment capital is for developing and exploiting the completion of the technical infrastructure system at the border gates. Typically, focusing on investing in the construction of the Huu Nghi international housing project and the specialised route for production and import of goods through room 1119-1120 at Huu Nghi international border gate; the specialized route for chemical transportation at Tan Thanh border gate; Upgrading and renovating the import and export road at Chi Ma border gate (Loc Binh); improving and upgrading the Huu Nghi-Bao Lam route...
These projects have been completed and put into use on time, making an important contribution to promoting the effectiveness of the Border Gate Economic Zone, especially facilitating the import and export of goods across the country through the province.
In addition to capital from the State budget, in recent years, Lang Son province has focused on calling for, attracting and mobilizing social capital sources from organisations and businesses to invest in implementing projects in the Border Gate Economic Zone. Specifically, from 2016 to 2023, the total social capital invested in the Border Gate Economic Zone is more than 60,000 billion VND, in 2023 alone, 11,574 billion VND was mobilised to invest in 12 projects to upgrade and renovate infrastructure at border gates such as: cargo transit area, duty-free zone and export processing zone 1...
Efforts to build a border gate logistics service centre
According to Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of Lang Son province, Lieu Minh Anh: In order to exploit the potential and strengths of the border gate economy, in recent years, the province has directed relevant departments, branches and sectors to focus on attracting investment, building and upgrading infrastructure serving logistics activities to turn Lang Son into a modern border gate logistics service center of the country.
Notably, on November 28, Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation had a meeting with the People’s Committee of Lang Son province to discuss and accelerate the implementation of the Viettel Lang Son Logistics Park project. The project has a scale of 143.7 hectares with a total investment of nearly 3.3 trillion VND, and is expected to open as soon as possible.
The project includes many functional areas such as customs clearance service area, warehouse area, parking lot, agricultural product trading center, exhibition area and other value-added logistics services. The project is expected to shorten customs clearance time, reduce costs, and contribute to promoting Lang Son to become a strategic logistics center, connecting Southeast Asia and China.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Doan Thanh Son emphasized: In the coming time, the province will continue to focus on building the infrastructure of the Border Gate Economic Zone so that this area becomes a dynamic economic zone of the province, striving to build Lang Son to soon become one of the centers, hubs for export, import, trade, services, tourism and key border gate economic activities of the Northeast region, and at the same time a gateway for goods trading between ASEAN countries and the Chinese market and vice versa.
With the results achieved in recent years, along with the determination of the entire Party Committee and government of Lang Son province, the efforts and consensus of the people and business community in the province, the border gate economic zones will continue to have stronger development steps with new opportunities and fortunes...
