Still difficult, entangled

After the Prime Minister approved the investment policy in late 2017, the Son My 1 Industrial Park project was also granted an Investment Registration Certificate by the Provincial Industrial Park Management Board in early 2018. This project has an area of ​​1,070 hectares, currently invested by Son My Industrial Park Infrastructure Investment, Construction and Business Joint Stock Company (IPICO). Promoting investment preparation and after being allocated land for the first time by the Provincial People's Committee (more than 76 hectares), IPICO Company completed construction licensing procedures and organized the groundbreaking ceremony at the end of August 2022.

Recently, compensation and clearance work at the project has also started, especially with the priority area with an area of ​​about 375.57 ha/1,070 ha according to the allocated land use plan for the Industrial Park until 2025. Including the area to implement the projects: Son My LNG Port Warehouse, Son My I and Son My II BOT Thermal Power Plants with an area of ​​about 200 ha. As for the remaining area of ​​Son My 1 Industrial Park (more than 608 ha), Ham Tan district continues to issue a notice of land recovery, carry out inventory and transfer legality review for affected households, individuals and organizations.

However, the reality shows that, up to now, the progress of implementing the Son My 1 Industrial Park project in Ham Tan district is still slow and has not met the requirements, especially in terms of compensation and clearance. According to the Management Board of Binh Thuan Industrial Parks, in the past, Ham Tan District People's Committee has appraised and approved the compensation and additional support plan, but the relevant organizations did not agree with the approved compensation and support plan. Households whose compensation plans have been approved must prepare documents to handle the slow implementation of compensation according to regulations (because there was previously no funding to pay compensation to households). In addition, the implementation of financial obligations for the area that the Provincial People's Committee assigned in the first phase to IPICO Company has not yet been agreed upon by the relevant departments to guide the investor in implementation. In addition, the investment in the Son My resettlement area has not been completed, and the raw water supply pipeline serving Son My 1 Industrial Park must carry out bidding procedures to select investors according to the provisions of law...

Need to focus on removing

In April 2025, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Dang Hong Sy and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Do Huu Huy made a trip to inspect the actual situation at Son My 1 Industrial Park. Thereby, requesting relevant departments, localities and units to actively coordinate and support the investor to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles to promote the progress of project implementation.

According to its functions, the Binh Thuan Industrial Park Management Board also proposed a number of solutions to remove obstacles and speed up the progress of the Son My 1 Industrial Park project, promptly handing over land for a series of gas - electricity projects as required by the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee. Specifically, the projects include: Son My I BOT Thermal Power Plant (capacity of 2,250 MW) with an investment capital of 2.2 billion USD, Son My II Thermal Power Plant (capacity of 2,250 MW) with an investment capital of 2.1 billion USD, Son My LNG Gas Port Warehouse (phase 1 design capacity is 3.6 million tons of LNG/year and phase 2 increases to 6 million tons of LNG/year) with a total expected investment capital of about 1.34 billion USD.

Regarding this work, the Management Board of Binh Thuan Industrial Parks requests the Department of Agriculture and Environment to preside over and coordinate with relevant departments to resolve or advise the Provincial People's Committee to resolve the content of the proposal of the Ham Tan District People's Committee related to land acquisition. Thereby contributing to promoting the progress of compensation and support for organizations in the Son My 1 Industrial Park project area (if any) as well as households whose compensation plans have been approved before but have not yet paid compensation. Especially for the area of ​​375 hectares to arrange for the Son My Power Center project (about 220 hectares), the LNG Gas Port Warehouse project, traffic infrastructure items, operating houses, water supply and wastewater treatment plants, etc.

Meanwhile, the People's Committee of Ham Tan district needs to do a good job of propagating and mobilizing people about the importance of investing in infrastructure of Son My 1 Industrial Park for socio-economic development, creating livelihoods and jobs for workers here. Particularly for households and organizations that have correctly and fully calculated the compensation and support contents according to the law, urgently mobilize them to comply with the State's compensation and support decisions. On the other hand, it is also necessary to speed up the compensation and clearance of the remaining area (more than 608 hectares) to hand over the site to the investor of Son My 1 Industrial Park to implement the project... Along with that, urgently direct the completion of related procedures according to the instructions of the Department of Finance to organize a bidding to select an investor to implement the investment project to build a raw water pipeline to the fence of Son My 1 Industrial Park.

Regarding this issue, the Management Board of Binh Thuan Industrial Parks also requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment to coordinate with the Provincial Tax Department to review and guide IPICO Company to complete the tax exemption dossier and fulfill financial obligations according to the law for the area leased by the Provincial People's Committee. On that basis, proceed to sign a land lease contract, determine the boundary and hand over the land on the field to the investor of Son My 1 Industrial Park infrastructure to implement the project...