Natural resources: The province’s natural land area is 165,200 hectares, including 96,400 hectares of agricultural land. Its agricultural land is suitable for intensive farming especially paddy, subsidiary crops, short term industrial crops. Nam Dinh does not have many kinds of mineral but have several major ones such as brown coal in Giao Thuy, crude oil and gas in Giao Thuy continental shelf; inmenit, zircon, monazite in Hai Hau and Nghia Hung, etc. (Office of Geology – Mineral).
Travel resources: Nam Dinh has many cultural and historical monuments ranked by the State and large area of natural land with coastal warp good for developing tourism and research. The province’s places of interest are Tran temple – Bao Loc, Giay temple, Quat Lam and Thinh Long beaches.
Human resources: Nam Dinh has been implementing its seven solutions to develop its human resources with systematic, proper and high quality structure. It is planned to have the rate of trained labour to be 45%, agriculture-forestry-fishery to be 67%, industry-construction to be 21% and services to be 12%. The rate of university degree holders-professional school certificate holders-technical work is 1-3-6 respectively.
Traffic: Nam Dinh has a quite developed transport system. In terms of railway: 42 km of national railway runs through the province. There are National Road No 21 to Hanoi and No 10 running through Nam Dinh. It also has provincial road systems developed 80% that creates convenient transportation for the province. Regarding waterway, Nam Dinh has a large uniform waterway system created by 4 rivers with the total length of 251km and inner field channels. The waterway system also includes Dao River port comp
Power system: Nam Dinh has 4,069 km of low voltage lines and 1,160 low voltage transformer stations. Power has been supplied to all communes of the province.
Water system:
Post and Telecommunication Systems: Over the last few years, the system has been further developed with total 68 post offices, 32,797 telephone subscribers.
Systems Industrial Zone: Nam Dinh has 3 industrial zones which are My Trung IZ with the area of 150,6453 hectares in My Trung, My Loc district, An Xa IZ with the area of 50 hectares in Loc An and My Xa communes, Hoa Xa IZ with the area of 326.8 hectares in Loc Hoa and My Xa communes, Thanh An IZ with the area of 150
hectares, Bao Minh IZ with the area of 200 hectares, Hong Tien IZ with the area of 250 hectares and Ninh Co IZ.
The economic structure:
Increase the proportion of industry, services while decrease that of agriculture-Forestry and Aquaculture
| Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Agriculture-Forestry-Aquaculture (%) | 32.2 | 29.6 | - | - | 29.5 |
| Industry-Construction (%) | 32.0 | 35.1 | - | - | 36.45 |
| Services (%) | 35.8 | 35.3 | - | - | 34.1 |
Growth:
In the period of 2006-2010, the average growth rate of GDP was 13.5% per year
|
Year
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2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
|
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GDP (%)
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11.5
|
11.5
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12.0
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11.0
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10.7
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Attracting investment: