Bac Kan is a mountainous and inland province, located in Northeast Vietnam, bordering 4 provinces: Cao Bang, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen and Tuyen Quang. The province was re-established on January 1, 1997 and now has 8 administrative units (7 districts and 1 town) with 122 communes, wards and towns. Natural land area of 4.899 km², population of 300,000 people, including 7 ethnic groups (Tay, Nung, Kinh, Dao, Mong, Hoa and San Chay) live in which ethnic minorities account for more than 80%.
I. Land of potential development
Bac Kan is naturally endowed with many potentials for socio-economic development with rich forest resources, forest land, minerals and Ba Be National Park, where Ba Be Lake is one of the 20 large freshwater lakes. In the world…
Potential for industrial development
Bac Kan province has the potential to develop the agriculture and forestry exploitation industry based on the advantages of the forest. Thanh Binh Industrial Park is located in Thanh Binh Commune, Cho Moi District, located along the National Road No.31, 130km from the center of Hanoi, to meet the needs of investors in the province, especially in the mining industry. agricultural and forestry exploitation. Currently, the Sahabak wood processing factory in the Industrial Park has provided stable products, creating jobs for nearly 500 workers with an average income per capita of over VND 3 million / month. Fair industrial production value has contributed greatly to the development of the province's industrial sector. Thanh Binh Industrial Park is expected to promote economic growth and economic restructuring, create jobs for workers, create motivation and environment to attract investment projects, promoting their potential. strengths of the province.
Bac Kan also has potential to develop mining and processing industry of minerals and construction materials. There are 165 mines and ore points in the province, minerals with great reserves are: 70 lead zinc mines and ore points, reserves of about 4 million tons; iron has 13 mines and mines, with a reserve of about 22 million tons; gold has 17 mines and ore points with reserves of about 39 tons; cement limestone 150 million m³; 460 million m³ of white stone and quartz; cement clay is over 10 million m³, in addition there are antimony, titanium, Kaolin, silicon ...
At present, a number of enterprises have invested in building a zinc lead processing plant on a small scale, the product has only reached the level of zinc lead ore concentrate and has not yet been refined into zinc ingot with high content.
With large mineral reserves, Bac Kan has the prospect of investing in deep processing at small and medium scale to raise the value of minerals to higher and better serve domestic industries and proceed to export. password. Especially, the production of construction materials such as cement, paving stone, industrial stone powder is very promising in Bac Kan.
In addition, in Bac Kan province, there are many stream systems that are the headwaters of the Day, Gam, Chu rivers ... small basins, large slope slope, narrow beds and many rapids convenient for investment in small hydropower projects.
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TOURISMPotential for agriculture and forestry development The rich land resource is an important basis for Bac Kan to develop agriculture - forestry.Bac Kan's natural forest area is the largest among the Northeast provinces (95.3% of the area). Forest resources of the province are quite diverse and plentiful. In addition to providing wood and bamboo, there are many rare and valuable animals and plants and is considered a center for conservation of plant genetic resources of the Northeast.
Regarding animals, currently concentrated in Kim Hy area in Na Ri district, Cao Son in Bach Thong district, Ban Thi in Cho Don district and Ba Be lake. The fauna of Bac Kan province has high self-preservation of genetic resources with many endemic and rare species.
In addition, Bac Kan has a favorable climate to develop a diverse group of plants and animals, especially industrial crops, fruit trees, and cattle raising. This is an advantage for developing an ecological agriculture, creating products focused on consumption and export.
Tourism development potential
Bac Kan province is blessed with many beautiful landscapes, which is a condition for tourism development. Ba Be Lake is one of the 20 largest natural freshwater lakes in the world. The lake has an area of 500ha, located in the area of Ba Be National Park, has a primeval forest system on limestone mountains with 417 species of plants, 299 species of vertebrates, in the lake there are 49 species of freshwater fish. Ba Be Lake has been recognized as a special national monument. In 2003, Ba Be National Park was recognized as an ASEAN Heritage Park, in 2011 recognized as the third RAMSAR area of Vietnam. Currently, it is preparing a dossier for UNESCO's recognition as a world heritage site.
Coming to Bac Kan, visitors will visit revolutionary bases, most notably ATK Cho Don - this is one of the bases that Uncle Ho and other senior leaders of the Party and Government have live, operate, lead our nation during the resistance war against the French colonialists. Currently, ATK Cho Don is being restored according to the master plan of "Vietnam North War Zone" of the Government.
Bac Kan is the land of typical Caxo terrain types, typically the magnificent caves such as Puong cave, Hua Ma cave, Nang Tien cave, Thach Long cave ... The area of the cave is wide from hundreds to thousands of square meters, with stalactites and columns of vivid shapes, unique.
Coming to Bac Kan, visitors can also visit other tourist destinations such as: Kim Hy Nature Reserve, Tham Temple, Thach Long Pagoda, excursions on Cau River, Nang River ... In particular, tourists can also visit. Ethnic villages with unique traditional cultures enjoy the sweet taste of seedless persimmons, pears, citrus, etc. with the special flavor of Viet Bac mountain.
Human resources
The human resource of Bac Kan province is quite large, which can supply enough labor demand for enterprises with investment projects in Bac Kan province with cheaper labor cost than other places. However, the province's human resources need to be trained to improve the quality and meet the needs of providing skilled and high-skilled labor.
Some other advantages
1. Regarding transportation and infrastructure: Bac Kan is a province located deep in the continent, but National Highway 3 connecting Hanoi and Ta Lung border gate in Cao Bang province has been upgraded and upgraded, which is quite convenient for the transport of goods. The distance from Bac Kan province to Huu Nghi international border gate and Tan Thanh - Lang Son border gate is about 200km, the road from Bac Kan town to Noi Bai Airport is 150km and Hai Phong port is just over 200km. As such, it can be seen that the goods trade from Bac Kan to the border gates of Cao Bang, Lang Son, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong and Hanoi is quite convenient.The provincial road network is built in line with the development of road systems of the whole country and the midland and mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. The province focuses on investing and upgrading to meet the standards of transport routes to the tourist areas and central areas of the province
Up to now, the whole province has 126km of national highways, 84km of provincial roads are asphalted; 16.9 km of district roads are covered with cement concrete; 447.5 km of road from district center to commune reach rural standard grade A. The whole province has 84.2% of villages having rural roads to the village center; 108 communes, wards and towns have cars traveling to the center in 4 seasons.
The national grid and communication system have been invested in all communes; Town centers and towns have covered mobile phones.
2. Regarding hydrological climate: The climate of Bac Kan has many characteristics:
The annual average temperature is from 20 to 22 degrees Celsius, the highest average is from 25 to 28 degrees Celsius, the lowest average is from 10 to 11 degrees Celsius. With such a regime, heat has formed in many provinces. Climate sub-regions are different, suitable for a variety of crops and livestock, creating strengths for each region, with typical tropical and subtropical products. Bac Kan, located deep inland, is covered by deep mountains so it is less affected by storms. Storms to Bac Kan are usually less harmful, only large water and floods in rivers and streams ...
3. Electricity supply infrastructure, industry
Every year, the province's electricity supply system is constantly upgraded, basically meeting the requirements of electricity supply for production and daily life of the people.
The total length of high voltage lines in Bac Kan province is 1,502.38 km, of which: 220KV line is 73km long, 100KV line is 137.8km long. Up to now, the whole province has a total of 781 transformer stations; The total length of the 35kV line is 1,363.85km; The total line length of 04kV is 1,570.89km
The whole province has 3 hydroelectric plants in operation, connected to the national grid: Ta Lang Hydroelectricity with a capacity of 4.5Mw, Thuong An Hydroelectricity with a capacity of 2.4Mw, Nam Cut 1 Hydroelectricity with a capacity of 3.2Mw.
4. Information technology infrastructure
The province has gradually invested in building information infrastructure in the direction of modern and advanced technologies, suitable to the province's annual socio-economic development situation. The provincial specialized data transmission network is invested and installed at the end point in departments, agencies, branches and 8 districts and towns.
The whole province has 6% of households connected to the Internet; 100% of telecommunication service providers have deployed to provide high quality services with modern technology; 3/5 enterprises have provided 3G services to facilitate the deployment of Internet connection and data transmission and information technology application.
Government agencies have used invested IT infrastructure. The implementation of the e-government model at the district People's Committee has initially brought good results:
Up to now, 24/28 agencies and state management units under the province have websites / web portals, reaching 85.7%.
Document and document management software is deployed in 28 units at provincial and district levels to manage incoming and outgoing documents in the network environment.
The province's e-mail system has been put into use at http://mail.backan.gov.vn so far that 100% of officials and public servants are agencies and units in the province.
IT infrastructure at state agencies has also been upgraded and supplemented to ensure professional work and ensure that 80% of cadres and civil servants of state management agencies from district level upwards in the province have to use electronic mail and exploit information on the Internet for work. Currently 100% of departments, branches and districts in the province have LAN, the Internet connection rate reaches over 95%; 100% of communes and wards have computer-assisted investment and 65.6% of communes and wards have Internet access. Up to now, 100% of district-level cadres and civil servants and 60% of commune-level cadres and civil servants will have basic information universalized.
5. Irrigation infrastructure
Bac Kan is the headwaters of 5 major rivers in the Northeast region: Lo River, Gam River, Ky Cung River, Bang Giang River, Cau River. Based on the advantages of natural conditions, the province has focused on upgrading the existing irrigation system; building and consolidating river bank embankment and reservoir systems. To date, the whole province has 955 large and small irrigation works, including 35 reservoirs and 742 dams; 144 canals and 10 siphon systems; 24 electric pumping stations to supply water for production and daily life. Irrigation works to ensure water supply for agricultural production, environmental improvement and safety for people.
In addition, the province has focused and integrated programs such as Program 135, National Program on clean water and rural environmental sanitation, Program 134, Program 30a, ... to invest in upgrading and building small irrigation works and rural daily-life water supply works.
6. Urban infrastructure
The province's urban infrastructure is gradually invested. In 2012, Bac Kan town was recognized as a class-III city. Currently, the province is focusing its resources on infrastructure investment to make the town become Bac Kan City in 2015. Van Tung is going to be recognized as Van Tung town, the main economic center. of Ngan Son district.
With the above potentials and advantages, Bac Kan province is looking forward to welcoming investors in the province, contributing to building a rich, civilized and sustainable Bac Kan homeland.
(Source: www.backan.gov.vn)
