Construction on Vietnam’s Rang Dong textile park has started in Nghia Hung district in Nam Dinh. The vice chairman of the provincial people’s committee Ngo Gia Tu points out the park plays an important role in the province’s economic development strategy.
Nam Dinh is home to more than 480 textile businesses with over 70,000 workers. The sector’s revenue accounts for 40 per cent of the province’s total industrial production. Once operational, the industrial park will serve as a driving force for local socio-economic development, he indicated, asking investors to mobilise resources to build infrastructure facilities synchronously to ensure the project goes well.
As per Tran Minh Hoan, Head of the province’s industrial park management board the project covers a over 2,000 ha. area and is divided into three phases. The Rang Dong industrial park is looking to attract investors to achieve its goal of producing 1 billion metres of fabric by 2020. To meet environmental regulations, a wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 110,000 cu.m per day will be built.
Vietnam has set a target of increasing domestic fabric output from 2.85 billion metres in 2016 to nearly 18 billion metres by 2025. To achieve this goal, the government has allowed the establishment of several textile parks in certain localities along with Nam Dinh intended to become a garment and textile centre of the north.
