The production efficiency of Van Chan Brick Factory confirms the right direction of the local in the development of the building materials industry.

Located in the gateway to the west of Yen Bai province, 200 km from Hanoi, 70 km from Yen Bai city, Van Chan district has many advantages in connecting with other districts inside and outside the province. The area of the district is quite wide, stretching tens of kilometers divided into three economic areas with its own strengths: the inner area (Muong Lo area) consists of 12 communes with flat land, which has Muong Lo fields with over 2,400 hectares ranked the second in the North West; the outside with nine communes, towns has advantages to develop hill garden, forest gardens; the highland district includes 10 communes with potentials of forest products, minerals, cattle breeding.

Especially, Van Chan has tea area of ​​6,400 ha, of which 4,000ha of tea are for business, accounting for over 50% of tea buds in the province. In addition, Van Chan also has some precious rare minerals such as gold; copper, nickel, lead, iron ... which can be exploited in industrial scale. Van Chan has many beautiful sights, relics and mineral springs: Suoi Giang, Tu Le, Muong Lo, Lung Lo Pass ... which are ideal places to visit.

In the past years, with the attention from the central and provincial authorities in combination with internal resources, Van Chan has built a well-developed transport infrastructure system with 31/31 communes and townships with cell lines to the center, with the grid, water for more than 90% of the population. Van Chan has completed a series of master plans from the district socio-economic development to sectors such as high quality rice production areas; To develop and exploit the ancient tea grounds and specialty citrus fruit trees in the outer and upland communes; Suoi Giang ecological tourist area, Muong Lo fields, Tu Le, Ban Bon mineral springs, Ban Hoc ...

With diversified potentials and advantages, some investors have implemented the projects in Van Chan district such as Tay Giang Nonferrous Metallurgy JSC; Van Chan Hydropower Joint Stock Company; Vuc Tuan Hydropower Joint Stock Company; Chan Thinh Hydroelectric ...

In addition, Van Chan district identifies tea as the staple crop for poverty reduction for farmers; The development of the tea processing industry is essential to securing output, creating jobs for rural labor, especially increasing the proportion of industry as well as contributing to the state budget. To help investors feel secure, the district has taken many measures to strengthen state management, mobilize people to sell raw materials to factories, resolutely fight tea contamination ... In the past years, Van Chan has always made it easy for businesses, especially investment projects to enjoy many land and tax incentives. District authorities regularly interact directly  and share with the difficulties of investors. Thanks to the activeness in the management, in 2016 and the first 8 months of 2017, Van Chan's economy continued to grow well, the economic structure shifted positively.

For Mr. Ho Duc Hop - Chairman of the district People’s Committee, the district wishes to attract many domestic and foreign investors to explore, implement projects to bring into full play their potentials, local advantages, and develop the district's economy. In addition to introducing preferential mechanisms and policies, the district always attaches great importance to supporting investors in land clearance, labor recruitment, job training, security ensuring…. District gorvenment usually makes direct dialogues and timely solve problems of investors.

Accordingly, the district has made a plan, step by step to build infrastructure, policies and incentives, attract and create conditions for investors to develop the industry. Every year, the district has policies to encourage enterprises to innovate technology, apply science and technology into production to improve the quality and value of products. The district also plans to develop raw material areas to ensure the source of raw materials for production.

By the efforts in the state management, attracting investment activities in Van Chan has achieved important results, contributing to promoting local economic development, economic growth next year is higher than last year; budget revenue in the area is guaranteed; People's life has been gradually improved; The rural face of the district has many changes. However, although the results have been very positive, Van Chan is still a difficult district. In order to attract investment, the province needs specific policies, such as preferential incentives in assisting enterprises in leveling land, renting land, borrowing capital ...