NATURAL CONDITIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Binh Dinh is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, located in the Central Key Economic Region, with a total natural area of 6,025 km2, bordering Quang Ngai province to the north, Phu Yen province to the south, Phu Yen province to the west, Gia Lai province to the west. , bordering the East Sea to the east; 1.065km from Hanoi, 649km from Ho Chi Minh City, 300km from Da Nang City, 300km from Bo Y International Border Gate (Kon Tum Province) via Laos.
Binh Dinh is located in the center of the North-South axis (on all 3 National highways 1A, Vietnam railway and domestic airway), the nearest and most convenient gateway to the sea of the Central Highlands, southern Laos, northeastern Cambodia and Thailand (by Quy Nhon international seaport and Highway 19). With Phu Cat airport, the travel between Binh Dinh with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City takes only over 1 hour. In the near future, Nhon Hoi seaport of Nhon Hoi Economic Zone will be built to complete the transport infrastructure system, giving Binh Dinh an outstanding advantage in regional and international exchanges.
Binh Dinh consists of 1 city of Quy Nhon province, 1 town (An Nhon) and 9 districts (An Lao, Hoai An, Hoai Nhon, Phu Cat, Phu My, Tuy Phuoc, Tay Son, Van Canh, Vinh Thanh). Quy Nhon City is a first-class city, with an area of 284.28 km2 and a population of over 284,000. international trade, service and transaction centers of the Central region and Central Highlands.
CLIMATE
Binh Dinh is located in a tropical monsoon climate region. Average temperature: 27.4 ° C (highest: 39.1 ° C, lowest: 15.5 ° C). Average humidity: 80%. The average annual total number of sunny hours is 2,223 hours (highest: 2,333 hours, lowest: 2,133 hours). Average annual rainfall: 1,935 mm (the highest: 2,467.4 mm, the lowest: 1,339.7 mm). Tide: 154cm (highest: 260cm, lowest: 44cm).
HUMAN RESOURCE AND EDUCATION FACILITY - TRAINING
The current population of Binh Dinh is about 1.5 million, of which people of working age account for over 55%.
Quy Nhon University offers multi-field training in 40 different fields, currently over 15,000 students study and more than 3,000 graduates each year. Quang Trung University has 13 majors.
Binh Dinh College, Vocational College, College of Health, Vocational College of Agriculture and Rural Development with vocational and vocational secondary schools ....
Tay Son Binh Dinh Martial Arts Academy is being promoted, 2 colleges, 1 vocational school and 1 International Interdisciplinary Science Meeting Center.
The above-mentioned training establishments annually train thousands of scientific and technical officials and skilled workers for the province and the region.
HEALTH FACILITIES
The system of provincial health facilities includes: provincial general hospital (grade I, 900 beds), 2 provincial regional general hospitals, 1 city general hospital, 1 private general hospital, Specialized hospitals and district health centers, many private general clinics, are eligible to meet the needs of medical treatment in the province and neighboring provinces.
TRAFFIC SYSTEM
1. Road
National Road 1A through the province is 118 km long, throughout the province.
Highway 1D is 33km long (19km in Binh Dinh area) connecting Quy Nhon city with Song Cau district, Phu Yen province on National Highway 1A.
Highway 19 in the province is 70 km long connecting Binh Dinh with the provinces of Central Highlands, Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia.
The coastal road of Nhon Hoi - Tam Quan is 107 km long and is a tourist and service road.
Under construction of a western road of the province 112km long from An Nhon to Hoai Nhon.
The province has hundreds of kilometers of provincial roads, most of which are asphalt and cement and thousands of kilometers of inter-district and communal rural roads.
2. Railway
The national railway across the province is 150 km long, across the length of the province.
Binh Dinh has Dieu Tri station (one of 10 major stations in Vietnam, about 12km from Quy Nhon city center and seaport) and district stations. In addition to the pairs of Vietnam Railways on the North-South route, there are also daily high-quality trains running on the Ho Chi Minh City - Quy Nhon (SQN) line and vice versa.
3. Seaport
- Quy Nhon International Port is one of Vietnam's 10 major seaports. The port has the advantage of being anchored anchored area, deep water level, large warehouse, with a depth of 8.50m, average tide of 1.56m, a channel of 80m wide (the channel will expand to 120m, dredging deep 11, 5m). Ensure ships with tonnage of 30,000 tons enter and exit safely. Cargo capacity through Quy Nhon port reaches about 4.5 million tons / year. Quy Nhon port is 10 km from National Highway 1A, 175 nautical miles from Da Nang ports, 90 nautical miles from Nha Trang port, 280 nautical miles from Vung Tau port and 455 nautical miles from Hai Phong port. From Quy Nhon port, it is possible to go directly to major seaports in Asia.
4. Aviation
Binh Dinh has Phu Cat Airport 30km from Quy Nhon city, Vietnam Airlines and Mekong Airline flights to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi every day. Constructing infrastructure for night flights at Phu Cat airport.
POWER SUPPLY
Binh Dinh has a system of power grids of all kinds: high-voltage lines, low-voltage lines and distribution transformer stations.
All wards and communes in the province have electricity, of which 158 wards and communes have national electricity grid and 1 island commune Nhon Chau uses diesel power.
WATER SUPPLY
Water supply capacity of Quy Nhon city: 45,000 m3 / day, will be upgraded to 48,000 m3 / day.
Water supply capacity for Phu Tai Industrial Park: 8,500 m3 / day and night.
Water supply capacity for Nhon Hoi Economic Zone: 12,000 m3 / day (phase 1, under construction).
Water supply capacity of 9 towns in the province: 21,300 m3 / day.
Besides, up to now, Binh Dinh province has repaired, upgraded and built 356 irrigation works of all kinds including: 153 reservoirs, 107 spillways, 96 pumping stations. The total volume contains 552.94 million m3.
POST AND TELECOMMUNICATION
Post and telecommunication network with all types of services can quickly meet the needs of information and communication exchange.
Up to now, the total number of telephones in the province is nearly 1.7 million (of which, there are about 1.4 million mobile phones and about 240,000 fixed telephones), reaching a density of 115 telephones / 100 people (25% increase compared to 2009)
FINANCE - BANKING
The province has a sufficient banking system, including 18 branches of state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock commercial banks, 27 grassroots credit funds, hundreds of transaction offices and transaction points of credit institutions. Banks have the ability to mobilize capital and meet the capital needs in Vietnamese and foreign currencies.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
MINERAL
- Types of stone and granite used as high-class construction materials (of which red and yellow granite are only available in Binh Dinh), the reserve of about 700 million m3 concentrates mainly near traffic axes.
- Ilmenite: With reserves of about 2.5 million tons, concentrated in Phu My, Phu Cat and Hoai Nhon districts.
- Bauxite in Vinh Thanh, with reserves of 150 million tons of virgin ore.
- Sand and white sand: distributed along the coast and in valleys and alluvial grounds of shallow river beds with a volume of 14 million m3.
- The whole province has 5 mineral springs: Hoi Van, Chanh Thang (Phu Cat), Dinh Quang, Vinh Thinh (Vinh Thanh) and Long My (Quy Nhon). Particularly, Long My hot mineral water is of international standard quality and can be exploited 50 million liters / year.
- Kaolin: concentrated in Phu Cat and Long My districts (Quy Nhon), with a reserve of about 25 million tons.
- Clay: with reserves of about 13.5 million m3, concentrated in the districts of Tay Son, An Nhon, Tuy Phuoc, Hoai Nhon ...
- Gold: original gold potential of gold spots with reserves of about 22 tons, concentrated in districts of Hoai An, Vinh Thanh and Tay Son.
THE FOREST
Binh Dinh has 185,884 ha of natural forest with timber reserves of about 10 million m3 and 64,850 ha of planted forests. The area of forestry capacity is about 250,734 ha, which can be developed into a raw material area for wood and paper processing industry. Resources under the forest canopy and rich forest flora and fauna.
SEAFOOD
Binh Dinh Province has a coastline of 134km, a territorial sea area of about 2,500 km2 and over 40,000 km2 of exclusive economic zones along with abundant marine resources of high economic value and rare specialties such as mackerel. , tuna, shrimp, squid, bird's nest, lobster, king crab ... favored by domestic and foreign markets.
The number of motorized fishing boats is over 8,108, with a total capacity of nearly 577,646 CV (including 55% of fishing in offshore waters) and a force of experienced fishermen with skills and experience. fishing grounds throughout the country. Annual fishing capacity of 120,000 tons of seafood.
Natural brackish water surface area: 7,600 ha (including Thi Nai lagoon: 5,060 ha, De Gi lagoon: 1,600 ha, Tam Quan estuary area: 400 ha ...), and thousands of hectares of saline-contaminated agricultural land unstable rice productivity, convertible coastal sandy soil to develop aquaculture with high economic value such as black tiger shrimp, silver shrimp, grouper, snapper, sour fish, blood cockle, clam, oysters, crab, golden thread seaweed ....
The area of natural fresh water surface is 5,176 ha, including natural lakes, irrigation reservoirs, hydropower, small lakes, low-lying fields ... (including Chau Truc 1,200ha). The ability to develop freshwater aquaculture such as turtles, turtles, ebony eels, giant freshwater prawns and fishes.
The province's seafood processing industry currently has 6 frozen seafood processing factories with a total capacity of 35 tons / day with an annual export value of about 30 million USD.
In Binh Dinh province, there are 4 fishing ports including: Nhon Chau, Tam Quan, De Gi and Quy Nhon fishing ports; 17 facilities, the ability to build 800 boats annually with fishing vessels of 45 CV or more and repairing thousands of boats, including some facilities capable of building ships of 500 - 700 CV and have applied technology Composite hull.
TRAVEL
Binh Dinh is a martial land, the starting place and the capital of the Tay Son farmer movement in the late 18th century with the famous name of the hero of the emperor Quang Trung - Nguyen Hue.
Being the hometown and nurturing talents of celebrities Dao Tan, Han Mac Tu, Xuan Dieu, Che Lan Vien and Yen Lan; the hometown of traditional art forms such as tuong and bai choi.
Binh Dinh used to be the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Champa with its preserved heritage being Do Ban citadel and Cham towers (7 clusters, 14 towers) with unique architectural art.
There are long beaches, many bays and bays with beautiful beaches and beautiful, harmonious sea landscapes such as Tam Quan, Tan Thanh, Vinh Hoi, Trung Luong, Hai Giang, Dao Yen, Hoang Hau, Quy Hoa beaches. , Bai Dai .... The province is focusing investment in tourism development, especially construction of infrastructure for tourism.
Binh Dinh has 105 hotels (4 hotels - 4-star resorts, 2 3-star hotels), totaling 2,446 rooms, of which 1,536 rooms are of international standard. Some resorts and 4 - 5 star hotels are under construction. 9 business travel businesses.
Binh Dinh has 231 relics, of which the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism) ranked 33 relics and the provincial People's Committee ranked 55 relics.
Traditional festivals: Dong Da victory, Taloc - Taléc victory; Winning the Pass of the Spring - Duong Lieu; Victory for Hill 10; Festival of coastal residents; Buffalo kill Festival...
Craft villages: Bau Da wine, Fine arts carpentry, Pottery, Go Gang horse hat, Phuong Danh forging village, Bun Song Thang, Coconut water rice paper, Sesame rice paper ...
Food: Bread ask pork, bread less thorn leaves, Bau Da wine, Song Thang vermicelli, Market District rolls, coconut water rice paper ...
(Source: www.nhipcauviet.com.vn)