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PM tells Vinh Long to cash in on fruit
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long to speed up economic restructuring by focusing on industrial development while also tapping into its agricultural strengths.
The Government leader made the request during his working session with the provincial administration yesterday.
He said Vinh Long should cash in on its temperate climate and fertile land which is ideal for fruit specialities such as grapefruit and freshwater products like Tra and Basa catfish.
He asked provincial authorities to develop policies in favour of agricultural production on an industrial scale in harmony with rural development and improve living conditions for farmers.
Dung called on the province to increase GDP growth to surpass 13 per cent annually in the next five years from 11.19 percent in the 2006-10 period, and per-capita income to US$1,850 by 2015 from $1,000 at present.
The poverty rate should drop by 2 per cent in each of the next five years while medical and industrial waste at all facilities should be collected and properly treated.
All this should be done in an effort to join the national industrialisation and modernisation cause, the Government leader emphasised.
In this regard, the PM and provincial leaders shared a view to intensify investment in traffic infrastructure, irrigation, healthcare, education, rural vocational training and job creation.
Earlier, Dung attended the new school year opening ceremony of Chau Van Liem High School in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Dung highlighted the achievements made by the school's teachers and students in particular and the education and training sector across the country in general during the 2009-10 academic year.
Chau Van Liem School is one of the oldest schools in the Mekong Delta and the only high school in Can Tho that meets national standards. The school saw a graduation rate of 99.5 percent in the 2009-10 academic year.
The PM asked local Party committees and authorities at all levels, as well as parents and the community in Can Tho and the rest of the Mekong Delta, to create the right conditions for students to learn.
Monument
Construction of a monument to commemorate the late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet started in Vung Liem Town, Vung Liem District, in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long yesterday.
In his ground-breaking ceremony address, PM Dung said Kiet was a talented Party and State leader and an outstanding pupil of late President Ho Chi Minh who devoted his entire life to national liberation, and the country's reunification and construction.
Covering an area of 17,000 square metres, the monument is expected to be finished in 2012.
Born in Vung Liem District in 1922, Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet is considered Viet Nam's key economic reformer. He died in 2008 at the age of 85.
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