At the press conference on the results of the implementation of the socio -economic tasks of Bac Giang Province in the first quarter of 2025 on the morning of April 11, Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong - Deputy Director of the Department of Home Affairs of Bac Giang Province said that the Standing Committee of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committee met about the merger of the two provinces.
The Standing Committees of the Bac Giang and Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committees have agreed to establish working groups to serve the implementation of the merger of the two provinces, including reviewing policies, facilities, and officials of the two provinces.
Accordingly, the deadline for submitting documents on the arrangement of provincial administrative units is before May 1, and the time to collect voters' opinions is April 20.
As the province with the smallest area, Bac Ninh's economic scale ranks 9th in the country.
The total product in the province (GRDP) in 2024 of the province is estimated to reach 232.8 trillion VND.
GRDP growth rate reached 6.03% compared to 2023. Average income per capita is estimated at 73 million VND, up 14.8%.
Bac Ninh province has 16 concentrated industrial parks approved by the Prime Minister, of which 12 have been put into operation. For many consecutive years, Bac Ninh has been the province with the leading industrial production scale in the country.
Bac Ninh attracts investment capital from 41 countries and territories, especially in the electronics sector and is a production base of many large economic groups in the world such as Samsung, Canon, Nokia, Amkor...
This province has also been at the top of the country for many consecutive years in terms of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI).
For agriculture, because the total cultivated area is not large, only over 31 thousand hectares, Bac Ninh province focuses on developing high-tech agriculture.
Meanwhile, in 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, Bac Giang is the province with the highest economic growth rate in the country (over 13%).
The scale of the GRDP economy is constantly expanding, reaching 207 trillion VND, maintaining the 12th position in the country. Investment attraction reached over 2.23 billion USD in converted investment capital, ranking 11th in the country.
Up to now, Bac Giang province has 16 IPs that have been approved by the Prime Minister with a total land area of about 3,683.94 ha; 55 industrial clusters with a total area of over 2,329 ha.
The industrial parks are mostly concentrated in Viet Yen town, Hiep Hoa district, Lang Giang... Planned adjacent to each other, located along National Highway 1A Hanoi - Lang Son, close to large cities, convenient for roads, rivers, railways and airports and river ports.
With an area of agricultural land of over 302 thousand hectares. Bac Giang has planned large commodity production areas such as: The largest fruit growing area in the North; large-scale processing and growing areas for safe vegetables; specialized aquaculture areas.
