 
General information
- Geographic location: Ha Nam is 50km from Hanoi. It is the gate entering Hanoi in the South. It is bounded by Ha Tay to the North, by Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces to the East, by Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh provinces to the South and by Hoa Binh to the West.
- Area: 859.7 km2
- Topographic features: Ha Nam is situated in the delta but next to mountains. Therefore, it has features of both delta and mountains. The Western part of the province (accounting for 10-15% of the total area) is the half-mountain half-plain area with limestone, soil mountains and forestry hills. The majority of soil here are yellow-brown soil in ancient silt, red-yellow soil in clay rock, red-brown soil in base rock and brown-red soil in limestone, which are suitable for industrial crops, fruit trees and timbers. Many caves with historical, cultural monuments of the region can be exploited to promote tourism. The Eastern part of the province (accounting for 85-90% of the total area)is plain whose level is raised by large rivers. The region has rich soil, suitable for water paddy, subsidiary crops and short-term industrial crops such as sugarcane, mulberry, Soya bean, groundnut and fruits. The majority of land here is spitted by quite dense river system. Therefore, there are many ponds, lakes, lagoons, deep paddy fields, rivers suitable for aquaculture and breeding of waterfowls. There are several large rivers running through the province such as Red river, Day river, Chau river and manmade rivers (Nhue river, Sat river, Nong Giang river, etc).
- Administrative units: The province is divided into 1 town (Phu Ly-the capital of the province), 5 districts: Duy Tien, Kim Bang, Ly Nhan, Thanh Liem and Binh Luc.
- Population: 8,266,000 with the density of 961 persons/km2 (Statistical yearbook of 2006).
Resources
- Natural resources: Ha Nam has 851 km2 of natural land located in the deep part of the Red river delta. The soil is rich suitable for short-term industrial crops and fruit trees. The province is also suitable for developing aquaculture and breeding of waterfowls. Limestone is the major mineral found in Ha Nam with a large reserve of over 7 billion m3 which allows it to become one of the large construction material production centers in the Northern plain. Other mineral include precious stones, clay, peat with the reserve of over 11 million m3, construction sand.
- Tourism resources: Hà Nam
- Human resources: The labour force is abundant with approx. 11,900 higher education degree holders (accounting for 3% of the labour force) including 34 doctorate & master’s degree holders, 4,250 university degree holders, 7,240 college degree holders; 13,000 professional school certificate holders, 10,400 technical workers. Trained labourers are 997,000 in which 415,000 having certificates (accounting for over 10% of the labour force). The majority of the labour force are working in agriculture-forestry-fishery (over 81.4%). 115,000 are jobless (3% of the labour forces). There are annual increase of 8,000 – 9,000 people in the province’s population, providing more labour force.
Ha Nam has completed lower secondary educational universalization. Average schooling is 8.1 year/person (12 school year system).
Infrustructure
- Transportation system: Ha Nam is situated in the important North – South transportation axis with national highway no. 1 and others such as national highway no. 21, 21B, 38 running through. It has 50 km of North-South railway route. The province’s transportation system is complete, convenient for goods and passenger transportation with over 4,000 km roadway including national highways, provincial, district, communal roads covered with tar or concretized; over 200km convenient waterway with 42 concrete built bridges; thousands kilometers of rural roads. It is also quick and convenient to travel from Phu Ly town to other provinces in the Red river delta.
- Power supply system: The system has extended to almost all communes. Power from National network has been supplied to all households, enterprises, State bodies in Phu Ly town and districts. The power supply is stable even at rush hours. Electricity charges is 700VND/kW/h. The system will be improved to meet the national standards for promoting modernization, industrialization and socio-economic development of the province.
- Water supply and drainage system: The province’s irrigational system with 87km of river dykes, irrigation pump stations thousand kilometers of drainage canals is quite good ensuring irrigation, flood drainage, disaster avoiding for local people and enterprises. In the coming years, the irrigational system will be improved and expanded for modernization and concretization.
Clean water supply system with the capacity of 25.000 m3/day has not been used up to its maximum capacity. Clean water is supplied to 97% of households in Phu Ly town and hundred thousands of households in rural areas (54%).
- Post and telecommunication system: There is one post office in Phu Ly town, 5 post offices in districts, 33 commune post offices and nearly 100 commune post points. There are telephone network in all wards/communes, state administrative and economic units. There are post point in every industrial zone. There is 1 telephone for every 70 persons. Mobile phone can be reached everywhere in the province. Every year, over 90,000 postal parcels, airmails and approx 14,000-15,000 letters and monetary telegrams. Local radio, television, communication transmission lines have been expanded. It is convenient to have access to post, telecommunication services nationwide and worldwide from the province.
- Industrial zones: There are 5 industrial zones in the provinces: Dong Van with the area of 400 hectares; Chau Son lying in the West of Phu Ly town with the area of 169 hectares, Hoang Dong with the area of 100 hectares, located in Duy Tien district, 48 km from Hanoi in the South, Chau Giang with the area of 132.4 hectares, located in communes of Chuyen Ngoai, Trac Van (Hoa Mac district).
Economic situations
- Growth rate: After the re-establishment of the province in 1997, the GDP rate reached 11.1% annually in which agriculture-forestry-fishery increased 6.1% annually, industry and construction increased 14.3% annually and services increased 7.3% annually with focus on developing commodity agricultural production: changing crop structure, types of plants, domestic animals; developing new breeds, plants for export, paddy breeds, farms, production in low lying land, etc.
GDP increased 12.01% (it was planned to increase 12%) in 2007. GDP per head was 7.4 million VND (increased 18.04% compared to that of 2006); Its economic structure was 41.83% of construction, 31.96% of service, 26.21% of agriculture. Production values were 1,695.1 billion VND of agriculture-forestry-fishery, 4,200.5 billion VND of industries. Export turnover values were 70 million USD, 44.33% beyond plan, increasing 42.36% compared to that of 2006. Total values of retailed goods and services were 3,716.6 billion VND.
- Foreign investment attraction: There were 6 foreign investment projects granted with investment certificates with the total registered capital of 86.5 million USD.
- Economic structure: The economic structure has been changed in a positive way with increase in industry and service which increased from 18.6% in 1006 to 34.6% in 2003; service increased from 31.6% in 1996 to 31.8% in 2003; agriculture-forestry-fishery decreased from 49.6% in 1993 to 33.7% in 2003. Attentions were giving to promoting diversification of production and business to activate economic activities especially households working in agriculture-forestry-fishery, private business and other economic actors in industry, small-scaled industry, trade and services.
Economic actor structure has been significantly changed. The proportion of State economy increased from 17.56% in the period of 1991-1996 to 30.29% in 2003.ển đế
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Development plan up to year 2010
- Major objectives: It is planned to reach the economic growth rate of 13.3%. Average GDP per head will be 9,175,000 VND in 2010 (three times more than that of 2000); The rate of budget mobilization from GDP will be 17% annually (for the whole period); The rate of investment accumulation from GDP will be 18% annually (for the whole period); The rate of urbanization will be 30% in 2010 (according to “Ha Nam’s Socio-economic development planning to the year 2010”)
- Sectors’ development plan: It is planned to decrease the proportion of agriculture-forestry-fishery from 41.3% in 2000 to 16.3%, increase the proportion of construction and industry from 28.5% in 2000 to 42%; increase the proportion of services from 30.2% to 41.7% in 2010.
Economic Structure Change Forecast table to the year 2010. Calculation unit: %
|
Criteria/Norm |
2000 |
2005 |
2010 |
|
GDP |
100,0 |
100,0 |
100,0 |
|
Industry and construction |
28,5 |
34,0 |
42,0 |
|
Agriculture-Forestry-Fishery |
41,3 |
32,0 |
16,3 |
|
Services |
30,2 |
34,0 |
41,7 |
|