THE PRIME MINISTER ---------- No. 114/2009/QD-TTg | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence- Freedom- Happiness -------------------------- Hanoi, September 28, 2009 |
DECISION
Approving the master plan on socio-economic development of Thanh Hoa province up to 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP dated September 7, 2006, on the elaboration, approval and management of socio-economic development master plans; and Decree No. 04/2008/ND-CP dated January 11, 2008, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP dated September 7, 2006;
At the proposal of the Peoples Committee of Thanh Hoa province in Report No. 36/TTr-UBND dated June 1, 2009,
DECIDES:
Article 1.
To approve the master plan on socio-economic development of Thanh Hoa province up to 2020, with the following principal contents:
I. DEVELOPMENT VIEW POINTS
1. To bring into the fullest play the potential and advantages of the locality, thereby efficiently using all resources for socio-economic development, accelerating economic growth and narrowing the gap between Thanh Hoa province and regional provinces as well as the whole country. To build Thanh Hoa province into a center for economic exchange between the North and northern Central Vietnam and a strong economic and socio-cultural center of the country.
2. To raise the quality of economic growth with a rational structure; to build a highly competitive economy and efficiently use natural resources; to develop quality industries, services and tourism; to develop agriculture towards safe and sustainable commodity production.
3. To concentrate investment resources on building dynamic economic zones and developing key product groups; to prioritize investment in quickly developing Nghi Son economic zone, creating a breakthrough in economic growth and restructuring.
4. To step by step make adjustments for a harmonious and rational development among areas in the province; to strongly develop the marine and coastal economy; to make the best use of investment supports of the State and economic sectors to develop the western midland and mountainous areas in order to bring these areas out of the under development state.
5. The combine economic development with gradual realization of social progress and equality. To step up the implementation of the policy on socialization of education, training, health care and environmental protection; to ensure high-quality human resources to meet the requirements of rapid development; to attach importance to hunger eradication and poverty alleviation, public health care, social stabilization and consolidation of solidarity among ethnic groups in the province.
6. To attach importance to scientific and technological development as the key to raising the quality of products, goods and services, thereby promoting the growth and raising the competitiveness of the economy.
7. To combine economic development with defense and security consolidation; to firmly defend the sovereignty over the border and islands; to maintain friendly relationships with neighboring provinces along the Vietnam-Laos borderline, and assure political security and social order and safety.
II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. Overall objectives
To strive for a rapid, efficient and sustainable socio-economic development, creating a substantial progress in the growth quality and competitiveness of the economy. To strive for the objective that by 2015, Thanh Hoa will become a province of average development in the country and by 2020 it will become a substantially industrialized province with a rational economic structure and a comprehensively developed and modern socio-economic infrastructure system, and an economic, education and training, health care, sport and physical training, and scientific and technical center of northern Central Vietnam and the whole country, with stable political security and firm national solidarity.
2. Specific objectives
a/ Economic objectives
- The annual growth rate during 2011 – 2015 and 2016 - 2020 will be 17-18% and over 19%, respectively. By 2015, the province’s per-capita GDP will attain the average level of the country and a higher level after 2015;
- To restructure the economy towards industrialization and modernization. By 2015 and 2020, the structure of agriculture - industry and construction - service will be 15.5% - 47.6% - 36.8%, and 10.1% - 51.9% - 38%, respectively;
- To strive to achieve an export value of US$ 800-850 million by 2015 and over US$ 2 billion by 2020. The annual export growth rate will be 19-20%;
- To strive to achieve a budget revenue ratio of around 6 - 7% of GDP by 2015 and over 7% by 2020.
b/ Social objectives
- To slow population growth with a natural population growth rate of under 0.65% by 2015 and some 0.5% by 2020;
- To sustain and firmly consolidate results of the lower secondary education universalization and complete the upper secondary education universalization before 2020. To increase the percentage of trained laborers to 45% by 2015 and 55 - 60% by 2020;
- To create new jobs for some 50,000 laborers a year. To reduce the unemployment rate in urban areas to under 3% and the rate of under employed rural laborers to under 3.5% by 2020;
-To reduce the percentage of poor households (under the current poverty line) by 3 - 5% every year;
- To improve the health care network from the provincial level to villages and hamlets; to strive for the target that 85% of commune-level infirmaries will have medical doctors by 2015; there will be 23 patient beds and 25 patient beds for every 10,000 inhabitants by 2015 and 2020, respectively; to reduce the malnutrition rate among under-five children to 18 - 20% by 2015 and below 10% by 2020;
- By 2015, all provincial and district roads and roads to centers of communes and commune clusters will be asphalted or concreted; all households will have electricity and television broadcasting coverage.
c/ Environmental protection objectives
- To increase the forest coverage to 53 - 54% by 2015 and over 60% by 2020. To protect the ground, surface, sea and coastal water environment;
- By 2015, all urban centers will have their own facilities for concentrated waste collection and treatment; all newly built production establishments will have facilities for treatment of waste up to environmental standards or apply clean technologies. The percentage of production establishments attaining environmental standards will be over 80% by 2015 and 90% by 2020;
- By 2015, all urban households will be supplied with tap water and 90% of rural households will have access to hygienic water and all of them will be supplied with tap water by 2020.
d/ Defense and security objectives
To maintain defense and security, firmly maintain the sovereignty over the national border and islands, assure political stability, and curb and eventually reduce crimes and social vices.
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