Measures discussed to develop enterprises in Mekong Delta

Le Hung Dung, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region, said most enterprises in the region are of small or medium scale with weak competitiveness, so they need support from the central and local governments via administrative reform with a one-stop mechanism. 

According to Vo Tan Thanh, Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the forum, as part of the 9th Mekong Delta Economic Cooperation Forum (MDEC), is expected to open up opportunities for Mekong Delta businesses to forge links among them and with other counterparts at home and aboard.

It offers a chance for central and local agencies to study local enterprises’ difficulties and listen to their ideas and proposals, thus taking more practical and timely measures to support them, he added.

The Mekong Delta now boasts 60,000 operational enterprises, making up 12 percent of the country’s total number. 

In the first six months of this year, the region had close to 4,000 newly-registered enterprises with a combined capital of nearly VND40,000 billion (US$1.76 billion), up 9% and 28%, respectively, year-on-year.