2 projects of Que Huong Joint Stock Company in Nam Sach are behind schedule

behind schedule

On December 8, 2020, Que Huong Joint Stock Company (located in Hai Duong City) was approved by the People's Committee of Hai Duong Province to invest in two production and business projects in Van Tai Tay village, Hong Phong commune. These are a green bean cake production facility and an umbrella production facility for export.

The green bean cake production facility project has a total investment of more than 78 billion VND, using more than 22,000 m²Land. The project aims to invest in a green bean cake production facility with a capacity of 8,000 tons/year to meet market demand.

The project of manufacturing facility for rain protection for export has an investment capital of nearly 71 billion VND, using more than 22,400 m²Production scale of 25 million umbrellas for export to the Japanese market.

Both projects have a 30-year operating period and must be completed and put into use within 24 months from the date of investment approval. However, up to now, the project implementation area is still abandoned. The project implementation area is conveniently located, next to the road leading to Han Bridge. According to the leader of Hong Phong Commune People's Committee, the land area for the project is derived from land 03 allocated to the people and public land managed by the Commune People's Committee. Currently, the investor has not yet completed the compensation agreement with the people for the area 03. As for the public land, the district has not yet established a Compensation and Site Clearance Council. The Commune People's Committee hopes that the project will soon be implemented and put into operation, contributing to promoting local socio-economic development, avoiding the situation of prolonging the project, causing waste of land and resources.

Last May, the Department of Planning and Investment established an inspection team to review the status and implementation of slow-progressing projects in the province, including two projects of Que Huong Joint Stock Company. Thereby, it was determined that these two projects had not been approved by the Provincial People's Committee to transfer agricultural land use rights, and there was no plan for compensation and support for the land area managed by the Commune People's Committee. Therefore, the project has not been handed over the land even though the implementation deadline has passed.

Stuck where?

According to a representative of Que Huong Joint Stock Company, the two projects were approved for investment at the time of the Covid-19 outbreak, so the implementation of investment procedures was interrupted. By 2022, the Nam Sach District People's Committee approved the detailed construction planning at a scale of 1/500 for both projects. However, problems in site clearance and land procedures have caused the project to be behind schedule. Within the scope of project implementation, there is a part of public land area managed by the Commune People's Committee, so it is necessary to comply with the procedures on public land stipulated in Decree 148/2020/ND-CP dated December 18, 2020 of the Government on amending and supplementing a number of Decrees detailing the implementation of the Land Law. By September 28, 2022, the Provincial People's Committee issued regulations on conditions, criteria, scale, and ratio of separating public land into independent projects in the province. On the other hand, the process of measuring and making extracts to serve land recovery and site clearance encountered difficulties due to changing data. Therefore, the enterprise has not completed the procedure to request the Provincial People's Committee to allow the transfer of agricultural land use rights to implement the project.

By the end of July 2024, Que Huong Joint Stock Company had agreed to clear 90% of the agricultural land area for people to use. The remaining area is related to a number of households without local representatives. "Due to complicated land procedures, the land acquisition process is prolonged. The enterprise has requested the competent authority to advise the Provincial People's Committee to allow an extension of the project implementation progress to soon complete investment procedures and put the project into operation," said the investor representative.

Que Huong Joint Stock Company proposed to extend the investment progress by 24 months from the date the Provincial People's Committee approved the adjustment of the investment policy. The enterprise committed to completing land and environmental procedures and receiving land within 6 months from the date of adjustment of the investment policy. Completing procedures for construction licensing, fire prevention and fighting, etc. within 3 months from the date of land handover. Synchronously constructing the factory, auxiliary items, purchasing and installing equipment for production, putting the project into operation within 15 months from the date of completion of construction procedures.

It is known that at the end of July, Que Huong Joint Stock Company deposited more than 4 billion VND in investment funds, committing to implement the project. In order for the project to come into operation soon and effectively use land resources, the authorities need to actively accompany the investor to remove obstacles and complete investment procedures soon. At the same time, closely monitor the investment implementation process of the enterprise, not to delay the project and waste land for a long time.