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New push to boost rural areas, says PM
Building a new rural model is an urgent mission and a strategic policy for the sustainable development of Viet Nam, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the launching ceremony for the Central Council for Emulation and Awards in the capital yesterday.
During the ceremony, the Prime Minister launched new emulation movements calling all people to build a new rural model.
In his address, PM Dung highlighted the important role of agriculture, farmers and rural areas which had made significant contributions to the nation's construction and defence and stabilised national socio-economic development.
Agriculture played an important role in the national food security strategy, he said.
In recent decades, the Party and State have paid strong attention and issued proper policies to develop agriculture and rural areas. In the last 10 years, the country has achieved the annual agricultural growth rate of 3.6 per cent.
In 2008, the Government chose 11 communes nationwide to participate in a national pilot programme to build new rural areas. Many provinces and cities have built new rural areas and achieved significant results, including improved infrastructure, new farming production models and higher incomes.
About 70 per cent of the Vietnamese population earns their living from agriculture, accounting for 20 per cent of the annual gross domestic product and 30 per cent of the export turnover.
Despite this, development of the agriculture sector was not considered completely sustainable due to its low competitiveness. A shift in the economic mechanism and renewal of the agricultural production model had been implemented slowly and the ratio of poor households was still high, particularly in remote and mountainous areas, the Prime Minister said.
He also asked relevant agencies to implement the National Target Programme on Building New Rural Areas to 2020 in order to establish a developed agriculture sector which meet new rural standards in 20 per cent of communes by 2015 and 50 per cent by 2020.
PM Dung ordered the Viet Nam Fatherland Front, sectors and localities to respond to the emulation movement to build new rural areas as well as the emulation movement to learn from and follow the moral example of President Ho Chi Minh which was successfully achieved by all Vietnamese.
All ministries, sectors, relevant agencies and People's Committees in cities and provinces should develop a plan and detailed measures focused on implementation of the National Target Programme on Building A New Rural Area, Dung said.
At the ceremony, the Vice Chairwoman of the Central Council for Emulation and Rewards, Tran Thi Ha, presented a report reviewing emulation and reward activities in 2010.
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