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Provinces to focus on core strengths
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Ha Nam Province to focus on developing agriculture, the hi-tech and cement industries and eco-tourism.
Dung was speaking to leaders of the province at a meeting in Ha Nam yesterday.
He also said that the province should improve human resources training and administrative reform to attract more investment. The province needs to strive to reach the target of increasing GDP by 14 per cent this year.
The province must prepare a plan for the next five years and take advantage of its strengths. Modern technology should be applied in agricultural production to create breakthroughs in the coming years.
Dung asked the province's leaders to speed up land clearance and resettlement work in order to ensure investment progress.
In a visit to the northern province of Hoa Binh last Saturday, Dung said fundamental changes were needed to stop drug trafficking and stamp out drug smuggling rings in communes of the province.
Dung made the request in Mai Chau District whose Hang Kia and Pa Co communes were inhabited by nearly 5,000 H'mong people, among whom there existed smuggling rings with well organised drug transport systems.
Dung urged ministries and agencies to co-ordinate with Hoa Binh Province to improve methods of detection and prevention of drug smuggling and transport.
He asked the province to improve people's participation in drug prevention by raising their awareness of the harmful effects of drugs and the illegality of drug trafficking.
He also pledged more government assistance for the province to improve its socio-economic development plan and to source appropriate plants and animals for its people.
Dung urged Hoa Binh Province to speed up intensive farming while focusing on industrial products with high added value, aquaculture and forestry as well as developing concentrated material zones and processing industries.
The province should also pay more attention to policies on social security, poverty reduction and forest protection while accelerating administrative reforms to attain a GDP growth rate of 11.5 per cent and per-capita income of VND13.3 million (US$700) per year and reduce the poverty rate to 14 per cent this year, Dung said.
He also said he highly valued efforts made by the provincial authorities and people to obtain satisfactory achievements in the first four months of this year.
The province reported a GDP growth rate of nearly 11 per cent and per-capita income of VND11.42 million ($602) last year.
On the same day, Dung attended the inauguration ceremony of the Hoa Binh provincial General Hospital.
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