Tien Giang province is investing US$3.4 million is completing the traffic system for the Long Giang industrial zone, the first of its kind in the Plain of Reeds.

About US$1.2 million is invested in upgrading two major roads leading to the zone, and the rest is spent on dredging three canals and moving earth and stones for ground leveling.

Deputy Head of the provincial Industrial Zones Management Board Nguyen Xuan Truong said the Long Giang industrial zone has great potential for drawing hi-tech, clean and environmentally friendly projects as it is located close to national highway 1A and the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Expressway.

The zone has attracted a Chinese business which rents 17 ha of land to build an export-oriented brass pipe factory.