As a mountainous province with many difficulties, Bac Kan mainly develops agriculture and forestry, while industry is not strong. The export shoe processing factory in Huyen Tung Industrial Cluster (Bac Kan City) is one of the major production projects being completed.
The project started in June 2024, on a scale of 13 hectares with a total investment of 25 million USD (more than 600 billion VND), with a capacity of 10 million pairs of shoes/year.
The factory is expected to attract secondary investors when completed and put into operation, thereby creating jobs for about 5,000 local workers.
According to the reporter of Lao Dong Newspaper at the end of March 2025, after nearly 1 year of implementation, the factory project has basically been completed and is currently in the construction phase of the operator's house.
At the construction site, workers and engineers are mobilized to construct important items. Machinery leveling, rolling the road, completing a series of technical infrastructure and other auxiliary items.
Talking with reporters, the project investor representative said that by March 2025, the two most important items, the factory and warehouse, had been completed, and a number of equipment and machinery lines had been installed.
Other technical infrastructure items such as transportation systems, water supply and drainage, and wastewater treatment have reached more than 90% of the workload.
"Contractors are focusing and urgently implementing the completion phase of some auxiliary items to prepare to put the plant into operation, expected in the second quarter of 2025," the investor's representative added.
Previously, Mr. Dinh Quang Tuyen - Permanent Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Kan province said that the factory project implemented at Huyen Tung Industrial Cluster is the project with the largest scale of labor use in the province.
"This is one of the very good opportunities to attract workers back to the locality, both to have jobs and to contribute to the economic and social development of the region," the provincial leader emphasized.
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