Phu Yen People’s Committee has assigned the province’s economic zones management authority to adjust the master plan on construction of South Phu Yen Economic Zone by 2040.
Phu Yen is urging the implementation of South Phu Yen EZ. Photo: Vung Ro Port

The management authority will co-operate with consultant units and related departments to review, adjust, and complete the master plan.

Notably, it will work with Phu Yen Department of Transport and relevant authorities to determine the direction of the North-South Expressway and the North-South Railway projects. Besides, the management authority needs to discuss with Dong Hoa town to reach a compromise on the boundary of the area.

The target of the master plan is to build the South Phu Yen Economic Zone (EZ) suitable to the national maritime development strategy and Vietnam’s marine economic development strategy.

Besides, the master plan concretises strategic policies for the South Phu Yen EZ in the socioeconomic development orientations of the government for the key economic region of Central and South-Central Vietnam, as well as specify development orientations for the planning of South Phu Yen-North Khanh Hoa.

The province targets to build and develop this EZ into a multi-functional general EZ with a focus on high-tech industries and industries attached to seaports, contributing to creating a socioeconomic breakthrough in the region, linking the provinces of the South-Central Coast and the Central Highlands.

By Viet Huong (VIR)