Enterprises dialogue with the Provincial Farmers' Association about product consumption.

In the 2021-2025 period, Son La province strives for the PCI index to be in the average group of the whole country. The Provincial People's Committee directs departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts and cities to urgently overcome and improve the scores of the component indexes that have decreased.

Focus on reducing time and costs for businesses, especially in the fields of land, tax, social insurance, etc.; enhance the responsibility of leaders; departments, branches, districts and cities increase support, create an investment and business environment, synchronously deploy solutions and publicize recommendations and the process of resolving recommendations of investors and businesses on the electronic information portals of the units; departments, branches and localities organize dialogues with businesses once a quarter, promptly remove difficulties. In addition, departments, branches and localities develop specific plans to improve each PCI component index associated with their functions and tasks, etc.

From ranking 55/63 provinces and cities in 2020, then 46th and 49th in 2021 and 2022, by 2023, Son La's PCI index reached 65.5 points, increasing to ranking 47/63 provinces and cities. Of the 10 component indices of PCI, the province has 8 indices increasing in score, including: Market entry; land access; transparency; time costs; informal costs; business support policies; labor training; legal institutions and security and order.

Handling administrative procedures at the one-stop department of To Hieu ward, City.

Through analysis, the two indexes that increased significantly and improved significantly were time costs, up 1.47 points and 36 ranks; business support policies increased 1.09 points and 10 ranks. This shows that leaders at all levels of provincial government have promoted a dynamic spirit, strongly supporting the private economic sector; and have been positively evaluated by businesses. Administrative reform and service attitude of officials, civil servants, and public employees maintained high scores. According to the reported data, 89% of businesses assessed that procedures at the one-stop-shop were publicly listed; 80% of businesses assessed that the time to perform administrative procedures was shorter than prescribed...

Ms. Ha Ngoc Chau, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance, said: The province has resolutely directed the implementation of solutions to improve the PCI index, notably reviewing the set of administrative procedures; shortening the time for processing and resolving records and administrative procedures in the fields of water resources and minerals by 10% or more; in the field of environment, the time for implementing administrative procedures has been reduced by 10-30% compared to regulations; construction permit procedures have been reduced from 30 days to 15 days... Sectors have proactively resolved administrative procedures in their respective fields after registering to establish enterprises, shortening the time for enterprises to officially start operating.

With the motto "Government accompanies businesses", the province established a working group to support investment projects in the area, grasp the difficulties investors encounter and actively remove difficulties related to investment procedures, land, site clearance, etc.

Compared to last year, businesses have a better perception and assessment of state agencies in handling administrative procedures, 82% of businesses agree that the province implements transparency in bidding; 75% of businesses said that problems in implementing documents implementing free trade agreements (FTAs) are effectively resolved by local state agencies...

Yen Chau District Business Association grasps the production situation of enterprises.

Mr. Le Toan Thang, Director of the Instant Cereal and Dried Fruit Factory of VFI Investment Trading Production Joint Stock Company (Hanoi) started construction at Mai Son Industrial Park, said: The factory has an expected scale of 720 tons of Granula cereal, 300 tons of powdered cereal, 2,800 tons of dried fruit/year, with a total investment of 39 billion VND. Through the implementation of the project, the company received attention from the province, departments, branches, and sectors to guide and create favorable conditions in completing procedures, legal documents, site clearance, etc. The factory is expected to be completed and put into operation in September 2025.

Determined to improve and enhance PCI results not for the sake of ranking but for the satisfaction and success of businesses when investing locally, Son La province promotes digital transformation in all fields, ensuring a safe and healthy investment and business environment, creating maximum conditions for businesses and investors to feel secure in production and business, contributing to socio-economic development.

According to: Son La Newspaper