Foreign investment license issued in North Khorasan

Foreign investment license issued in North Khorasan
  • 2020-10-01
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Head of North Khorasan Management and Planning Organization: This year, a foreign investment license in the amount of eight million Euros has been approved and issued for a decorative stone processing project in Bojnourd.

According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Hassan Parsipour stated: "Despite sanctions and economic problems, good measures have been taken in the province to attract domestic and foreign investors, and we are trying to provide prosperity and leap by providing conditions for the private sector." Achieve economic in the province.

He added: the government pays special attention to the private sector, of course, in this situation, the only solution to economic problems is the entry of the private sector, in this regard, by launching the investment portal of North Khorasan province, 69 anonymous licenses in various economic sectors it has been exported.

The head of the North Khorasan Management and Planning Organization said: "Issuing an anonymous license means that a private sector investor can easily enter the investment field without going through various administrative steps."

Parsipour said about the economic measures taken in the province in recent years: concluding 14 memoranda of understanding with organizations, institutions and companies during the government's visit to the province with a credit of 105 thousand and 297 billion rials, 638 million dollars, 154 million euros and 91 One million dirhams is one of the important measures that can cause the economy to prosper.

Referring to the importance of economic development in rural areas, he said: "North Khorasan is a rural province and 44% of the people of the province live in rural areas, so the development of these areas is very important."

The head of the North Khorasan Management and Planning Organization said: the construction of 1,500 five-kilowatt solar power plants in the rural areas of the province is underway, which can enable and create sustainable employment for the villagers.

He said that this action is carried out with the participation of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and Welfare and with the focus on construction mobilization: so far, the implementation of this project has been visited in a thousand rural places and technical approval has been obtained and investment is ready.

Parsipour mentioned the approval of the annexation of Bojnourd airport to the special economic zone, the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of five industrial zones in Pish Qala, Gholaman, Safiabad, Kharq and Jorglan and the follow-up of the commissioning as other important measures taken in the province.

Regarding the important projects of the resistance economy in the province, he said: "North Khorasan is an agricultural province and a large part of the province's employment is in this sector, so we are trying to implement economic plans depending on the capacities in each city."

He said: in Esfarayen city, a plan to develop the cultivation of medicinal plants, nomadic tourism and greenhouse cultivation of aloe vera has been approved, and in Shirvan city, a plan for nomadic and border tourism as well as a light livestock breeding plan is being pursued.

Parsipour pointed out: in the border city of Raz and Jirgalan, due to the power and interest of the people in the silkworm breeding industry, a plan to revive breeding is on the agenda, also the plan to breed Turkmen thoroughbred horses has been approved as a plan of resistance economy.

He said: "One of the problems in the noghandari industry in Raz and Jirgalan is the incompleteness of the cocoon production chain. In this regard, we are trying to create handmade carpet value chain infrastructure in this city in the form of a resistance economy plan."

The head of the North Khorasan Management and Planning Organization stated: In Farooj city, to complete the saffron and grape production chain, plans have been developed in the form of a resistance economy plan, which is being pursued.

The 863,000-strong province of North Khorasan is located in the northeast of the country.

* IRNA