Decision No. 286/QD-TTg dated March 09, 2018 of the Prime Minister on approving the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dak Lak province through 2020, with a vision toward 2030

DECISION

Approving the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dak Lak province through 2020, with a vision toward 2030^[1]

THE PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the June 19, 2015 Law on Organization of the Government;

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP of September 7, 2006, on the formulation, approval and management of socio-economic development master plans; and Decree No. 04/2008/ND-CP of January 11, 2008, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP of September 7, 2006;

At the proposal of the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province,

DECIDES:

Article 1.To approve the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dak Lak province through 2020, with a vision toward 2030 (below referred to as the master plan), with the following principle contents:

I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINTS

1. To bring into the fullest play internal resources and attract external resources to raise the competitiveness of the province’s economy, restructure economic sectors and territorial regions toward quality and exploit in depth economic sectors and fields with comparative advantages along with incrementally improving the quality of social fields.

2. To develop Dak Lak’s economy in the direction of open connection and regional and international economic integration based on bringing into play the comprehensive effectiveness of the Central Highlands, participating with a higher and higher role in the global value chain and asserting the province’s position in the Central Highlands, the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle and the whole country.

3. To prioritize advantageous sectors and focus in-depth investment in the fields and areas that can create efficiency and spill-over effect and are suitable to local budgets in order to mobilize and lure other resources for development investment along with promulgating incentive policies. To concentrate and prioritize investment in agriculture and rural infrastructure and human resources development.

4. To combine sustainable economic development with gradually improving social fields and protecting the eco-environment. To attach importance to developing livelihood and social infrastructure in remote, deep-lying and ethnic minority-inhabited areas, sustainably reducing poverty to narrow the gap in cultural and social life among areas in the province. To combine economic objectives with environmental protection, climate change response and natural disaster mitigation objectives.

5. To closely combine economic development with firmly maintaining national defense, security, and social order and safety; to build basic, coordinated and solid defensive zones in the province; to build a strong political system.

II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

1. Overall objectives

By 2020 and afterwards, Dak Lak’s economy will pursue the direction of “green” growth (attaching importance to eco-environment), sustainability and exploit in-depth development advantages toward open linkages and regional and international integration. To build Buon Ma Thuot city into a central city of the Central Highlands with complete infrastructure, acting as the region’s trade, transport, education-training, health care, culture and science and technology transfer hub. To develop economic sectors toward industrialization and modernization; to take the lead in the application of science and technology to production; to markedly raise the quality of human resources and healthcare, cultural, sports and physical training standards. To steadily ensure social security, sustainably reduce poverty and protect the eco-environment. To uphold the strength of national unity, build a strong political system and preserve national defense and security.

2. Specific objectives

a/ Economically:

- The gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate in the 2016-2020 period will be 8.5-9%/year, with industry and construction growing by 10.5-11%; agriculture, forestry and fisheries, 4.5-5%; and services, 11-11.5%. The GRDP growth rate in the 2021-2030 period will be 10-11%/year, with industry and construction growing by 12-12.5%; agriculture, forestry and fisheries, 4.0-4.5%; and services, 9-10%;

- The economic structure in the GRDP (excluding import duty and product tax): industry and construction will account for 17.5-18%; agriculture, forestry and fisheries, 38.5-39.5%; services, 39-40%; they will respectively be 37-38%, 19-20%, and 34-35% by 2030;

- The per-capita GRDP will reach VND 60-60.5 million by 2020 and VND 217-220 million by 2030;

- The total export value will reach USD 3,765 million in the whole 2016-2020 period, USD 850 million by 2020 and USD 3,500 million by 2030;

- The GRDP contribution to the budget will reach 7-8% in the 2016-2020 period and around 7-8% in the 2021-2030 period. The state budget revenues in the locality will increase by 10%/year in the 2016-2020 period and 7-8%/year in the 2021-2030 period;

- The total social investment capital will represent 29-30% of the GRDP in the 2016-2020 period and around 30-31% in the 2021-2030 period.

b/ Socially:

- The average population growth rate will be 1.1% in the 2016-2020 period and around 1% in the 2021-2030 period. The birth rate will drop by 0.15-0.2 ‰/year in the 2011-2020 period and stabilize at 0.15‰ after 2020;

- The urbanization rate will be around 35% by 2020 and 46.5% by 2030;

- By 2020, the rate of trained laborers will surpass 60%, with more than 45% for vocational training, which will increase to over 70% and 60% respectively by 2030.

- The rate of agricultural labor will be around 55% of the total workforce by 2020 and 38% by 2030;

- 27,000-28,000 jobs will be created every year (including new 15,000-16,000 ones). The unemployment rate in urban areas will be 2.5-2.7% in the 2016-2020 period and 2.2-2.5% in the 2021-2030 period and the underemployment rate in rural areas will drop to 5%;

- The poor household rate will drop to below 5% by 2020 and 1-2% on average per year by 2030 (according to the new poverty line);

- The rate of permanently built classrooms will reach 80% by 2020 and 100% by 2030. The rate of schools reaching the national standards will be 50% by 2020 and 85% by 2030;

- By 2020, all communes will reach the national healthcare standards. The number of medical doctors per 10,000 people will be 8-9 by 2020 and 9.5-10 by 2030. The malnutrition (weight-for-age) rate among under-five children will be reduced to below 20% by 2020 and under 15% by 2030;

- To strive for the target that by 2020, 40-45% of the population will regularly do physical exercise by 2020 and the rate will surpass 60% by 2030.

c/ Environmentally

- To increase the forest (including rubber tree plantations) coverage to 40.1% by 2020 and around 44% by 2030, increase the green canopy in the city and other urban centers in the province;

- By 2020, all industrial parks and clusters will have a water drainage system and advanced wastewater treatment technologies up to environmental standards; 90.3% of urban solid wastes and 100% of hazardous medical solid wastes will be collected and disposed of. A complete waste (including solid waste, wastewater and exhaust) treatment system will be built by 2030;

- By 2020, more than 95% of rural people will have access to hygienic water and this rate will be more than 98% by 2030. Ninety percent of urban people will have access to clean water by 2020 and this rate will be around 95% by 2030;

- To conserve and rationally use natural resources and protect biodiversity. To build management capacity and raise environmental protection awareness.

d/ National defense and security

To build a strong national defense. To steadily ensure political security and social order and safety in all circumstances. To strengthen economic potential and national defense and security and maintain political security, social order and safety, and adapt to the context of deep regional and international integration.

III. DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATIONS OF SECTORS AND FIELDS

1. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

- Agriculture, forestry and fisheries will make up 38.5-39.5% by 2020 and 19-20% by 2030 in the total GRDP. The average growth rate of these sectors will be 4.5-5%/year in the 2016-2020 period and 4-4.5%/year in the 2021-2030 period.

- To restructure agriculture, forestry and fisheries toward raising the proportion of husbandry, fisheries and forestry (from planted forests) and agricultural services and reducing that of cultivation and natural forest exploitation. Husbandry will be prioritized to create breakthroughs in agricultural development during the province’s agricultural restructuring process.

- To form and develop agricultural sub-zones based on bringing into play the province’s potential and advantages in natural conditions, resources and advantages in key agricultural products in combination with the processing industry. To comprehensively develop the agro-forestry and fisheries sectors to ensure national food security and contribute to stabilizing growth, balancing the environment and preserving and protecting ecological landscapes.

- Cultivation: To restructure cultivation toward developing large-scale intensive production associated with preservation, processing and consumption according to value chains by bringing into play the advantages of the province and its products. To develop production combined with processing on a rational production scale with a focus on advantageous commodity farm products like coffee, cashew nuts, pepper and rubber to raise their quality, value and competitiveness in domestic and international markets, increasing their export value. To promote the application of biotechnology; to develop hi-tech agriculture and form safe vegetable and flower zones in Buon Ma Thuot city and adjacent areas, harmoniously develop cultivation, husbandry and agricultural services based on the each locality’s potential and advantages. By 2020, the group of key crops in the province will continue to be long-term industrial plants with high export value, including coffee, rubber, pepper and cashew....

- Husbandry: To vigorously shift husbandry toward large-scale and intensive animal raising applying advanced technologies. By 2020, to basically form consolidated livestock breeding zones and large-scale farms applying high technologies; to focus on intensive farming of cattle (milch and beef cows, goats,…) and poultry with higher product yield and quality. To develop husbandry to account for the largest part in the agricultural sector, mitigate environmental pollution, ensure food hygiene and safety and increase competitiveness. The proportion of husbandry in the agricultural sector will reach 40-50% by 2020.

- Agricultural services: To raise the quality and diversify types of agricultural services, including agro-forestry and fisheries extension services; plant protection and pest prevention and control guidance services, veterinary services and the service of application of scientific, engineering and technological advances to agricultural production such as using bio-products in the production of clean agricultural products for consumption and export. To apply scientific and technological achievements and bio-products to producing clean and quality agricultural products for consumption and export. To select and apply technologies suitable to the province’s conditions.

- Fisheries: To focus on developing fish farming in reservoirs using different farming methods suitable to each region, area or water body.  To study and introduce such endemic species of high economic value as sturgeons and salmons to serve domestic consumption and tourism. By 2020, the total aquaculture area will be around 14,500 ha, including 2,970 ha of specialized aquaculture (170 ha of low-lying fields and 2,800 ha of small ponds and reservoirs) and 12,030 ha for aquaculture in reservoirs.

- Forestry: By 2020, to have around 21,000 ha of new planted forests, making the total area of forests account for 40.1% of the province’s natural area, ensuring the rates of special-use, protection and production forests will be 34%, 11% and 55%, respectively. By 2020, to effectively protect the existing forest area, it is necessary to enrich 100,000 ha of poor forests. By 2030, to maintain the forest coverage at 44% and increase the green tree coverage in the city and urban centers of the province.

2. Industrial development

To develop industrial production by using modern and environment-friendly technologies, focusing on supporting industries for agricultural development, bringing into play the province’s comparative advantages and developing some spearhead, competitive and high added value industries to serve domestic market and export. The growth rate of industrial production value will be 10-11%/year in the 2016-2020 period and around 12-13%/year in the 2021-2030 period. The industrial production value will reach VND 65-66 trillion by 2020.

In the 2016-2020 period, to develop exploitation and deep processing of farm products, textile, construction materials, mechanical engineering, electricity, water and supporting industries. After 2020, to concentrate on exploitation and processing of high-quality farm products and high-grade construction materials, machinery and equipment manufacturing and supporting industries to serve export.

To form industrial clusters for key industries. To boost the development of supporting industries. To build brands for industrial products up to regional and international levels and seek new markets for key industrial products.

To increase the competitiveness of key industries:

- Agro-forestry product processing, food and beverage: To invest in building a cattle processing plant with an annual capacity of 10,000-20,000 tons and a cottonseed oil pressing and refinery plant with an annual capacity of 5,000-8,000 tons. To attract investment in dairy product processing plants with a total annual capacity of more than 500 million liters in the dairy product production chain by 2020.

- Mining: To build a 100,000-ton feldspar processing plant in the Ea Dar industrial cluster and Ea Kar 60,000-ton kaolin processing enterprise. To build four workshops to grind stones into artificial sand with an annual total capacity of 600,000 m³. After 2020, to gradually reduce the output of on-spot exploitation and exploit materials from other areas, and shift to intensive processing technology to manufacture high-grade auxiliary materials.

- Construction material production: To raise the capacity of the existing construction material plants. To build a new ceramic tile plant with an annual capacity of 150,000 m²in Ea Kar district. To build another non-baked brick plant with an annual capacity of 20 million bricks.

- Metallurgy, mechanical engineering and electronics: To continue investing in building multi-functional farm vehicle and agricultural machine assembly plants with an annual capacity of 25,000 tons of products; to make more investment to increase the capacity of local mechanical engineering establishments. To form a group of supporting industries. To invest in building an automobile spare part plant with an annual capacity of 5,000 tons of products; and a plant assembling and manufacturing agro-forest product processing equipment with an annual capacity of 5,000 tons of products. To develop the hi-tech supporting industry to produce mold products, electronic components, etc., to serve processing industry projects.

- Electricity generation and distribution: To attract investment in wind power in Ea H’Leo, Ea Ral and Ea Sol communes (Ea H’Leo district), Krong Buk and Krong Nang districts, and Buon Ho town. From now to 2020, to build 5-10 wind mills with a total annual output of 7.5-15 MW. To call for investment in solar power generation in Ea Sup and Buon Don districts. To work with the electricity sector to develop a wide power transmission system and gradually lay the power grid underground to satisfy production and daily-life needs.

- Water production and supply and waste treatment: To invest in building new water plants in townships (districts) and Buon Ho town to ensure all urban and rural population will have access to clean and hygienic water with an average norm of 90-120 liters per day and night. To invest in upgrading existing water supply systems and building new ones in communal centers with high population density and high demand for water for daily-life and production and business activities.

To build plants to process organic fertilizers from peat and other organic wastes with a total capacity of 40,000 tons per year in Buon Ma Thuot city, Ea Kar district, Cu M’gar district and Buon Ho town. By 2020, all solid waste and industrial park and urban waste will be collected and treated.

- Forest product, timber and paper processing: to build a plant manufacturing wood furniture for export with an annual capacity of 10,000 cm³and a plant manufacturing wood furniture from artificial boards with an annual capacity of 10,000 cm³; and a bamboo paper pulp plant with an annual capacity of 3,000 tons in M’Drak. To raise the capacity of existing wood furniture plants in the province. To build a 5,000-ton paper pulp and paper plant and a 30,000-cm³chipboard plant in Krong Bong district.

- Chemical, rubber, plastic and fertilizer: To build a rubber latex and rubber product plant with an annual capacity of 15,000 tons; a children’s toy plant with an annual capacity of 5 million products; a consumer plastic product plant with an annual capacity of 1,000 tons of products; a PP packaging plant with an annual capacity of 20 million products; a plant processing organic fertilizer from peat and organic waste with an annual capacity of 40,000 tons; a non-toxic pesticide plant with an annual capacity of 1,000 tons and an ethanol plant. To build a 50,000-ton NPK fertilizer plant and a 0.5 million tire plant.

- Textile-garment-footwear: To maintain and increase the capacity of existing garment factories to generate more jobs. To invest in garment factories with latest equipment to turn out products meeting export standards and concurrently focus on domestic market, gradually reduce contractual processing and proceed to direct export. To develop garment industry in combination with proactively producing auxiliary materials to gradually increase the industry’s added value.

To study and deploy the construction of an export garment plant with an annual capacity of 2 million products. To build a 1,000-ton yarn plant, a 100-ton thread plant and a leather tanning and packaging plant.

- Orientations for development and spatial arrangement of industrial parks and clusters by 2020:  To continue building the Hoa Phu industrial park (181 ha); expand the Hoa Phu industrial park by 200 ha; to build the Phu Xuan industrial park on 325 ha in Cu M’gar district, the Tan An 1-BMT industrial cluster (48 ha), Tan An 2-Buon Ma Thuot industrial cluster (56 ha), Ea Dah-Ea Kar industrial cluster (52 ha), the Ea Ral-Ea H’leo industrial cluster (50 ha), the Krong Buk industrial cluster (Pong Drang commune - 69 ha) and Cu Kuin industrial cluster.

3. Trade, service and tourism development

The service growth rate will be 11-12%/year in the 2016-2020 period and around 12-12.5%/year in the 2021-2030 period. The service proportion in the province’s GRDP will be 39-40% by 2020 and 34-35% by 2030.

- Trade: The average growth rate of total goods retail sales and service revenues will reach 18.5%/year in the 2016-2020 period and 17% in the 2021-2030 period. To build complete infrastructure for the province’s trade fair and exhibition center, develop an e-commerce system for trading transactions and strongly develop business activities of the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and Commodity Exchange Joint-Stock Company. To develop the system of markets, supermarkets and trade centers in Buon Ma Thuot city, Buon Ho town and townships provincewide. To focus on building and upgrading the trade infrastructure system including farm, fisheries and cattle wholesale markets, trade centers, supermarkets, wholesale centers, logistics centers and fair and exhibition centers. To invest in constructing infrastructure for the Dak Rue border-gate economic zone and build the border market system.

To boost export production and processing, make full use of the province’s potentials and resources and take advantage of opportunities to develop export markets upon accession to new-generation free trade agreements (FTAs). To gradually shift the structure of exports by raising the proportion of deeply processed products and cutting down the rate of semi-processed products and export of crude materials. To strive for a total export value of USD 850 million by 2020, USD 1,500 million by 2025 and around USD 3,500 million by 2030.

- Services: To shift services and improve their quality to promote the development of production. To concentrate on raising the quality of financial, banking, transport, post and telecommunications services; and science and technology consultancy and transfer.

- Tourism: The province is projected to receive 1,129,000 tourist arrivals, including 103,000 foreign tourist arrivals by 2020, and 2,863,000 tourist arrivals, including 256,000 foreign tourist arrivals by 2030. The average tourism growth rate will be 15%/year in the 2016-2020 period and 16.5%/year in the 2021-2030 period. To prioritize investment in developing tourism infrastructure and human resources; to preserve Dak Lak’s tourism resources; to develop special tourism products; to protect the environment and build up brands for tourism products. To strongly promote tourism partnership with other provinces and cities across the country with special focus on the southern central coastal region and the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle in order to attract international tourists and expand international tourist markets.

4. Orientations for development of social fields

a/ Population, labor

- Population: The population is estimated at 1,972,000 by 2020. The average population growth rate will be 1.1%/year, of which urban population growth will be 4.3%/year in the 2016-2020 period. The urbanization rate will be around 35% by 2020. To improve population quality toward the human development goals and indices and take care of human development in a comprehensive manner.

- Labor: A total of 1,325,000 people are expected to work in economic sectors in the province by 2020. To shift workforce toward slashing the proportion of agro-forestry and fisheries workers while raising the proportion of industrial and service workers, cutting the number of laborers in low-productivity areas while raising that in high-productivity ones. The proportion of agricultural workers in the workforce will fall from 63.1% in 2015 to 55% by 2020 and that of service and trade laborers will rise from 22.8% in 2015 to 26% by 2020. To create 27,000-28,000 jobs each year (including 14,000-16,000 new ones). To cut the unemployment rate in urban areas to 2.5-2.7% in the 2016-2020 period and to 2.2-2.5% in the 2021-2030 period and reduce the underemployment rate in rural areas to 5%.

b/ Education and training

- Education: To further solidify and modernize schools and classrooms up to the national standards. By 2020, all schools will have specialized classrooms, 80% of classrooms will be solidified and 50% of schools will meet the national standards. By 2030, all classrooms will be solidified and 85% of schools will meet the national standards. To build a sufficient pool of teachers satisfying professional qualification standards. To comprehensively improve education quality.

- Training: To speed up the streaming of students after lower secondary education and transferability between educational grades and training levels. By 2020, professional secondary schools in the province will be capable of receiving 30-35% of lower secondary school graduates. To strive to raise the rate of workers holding professional secondary training degrees in the province’s total trained labor to 15% by 2020 and to 25% by 2030. To expand vocational training models to meet market demands, combining vocational training with economic restructuring and serving labor export; to develop forms of vocational training and create favorable conditions for poor and ethnic minority people to have vocational training.

c/ Medicine and people’s health care

By 2020, the mortality rate among under-one and under-five children will drop to below 18‰ and 15‰, respectively; the malnutrition (weight-for-age) rate among under-five children will be 20%; the rate of children in the eligible age group to get vaccinated against six diseases will be raised to more than 95%. There will be 8-9 doctors, 4-5 pharmacists and 27 hospital beds (excluding communal health clinic beds) per 10,000 people. All communes will meet national health criteria. By 2030, the malnutrition (weight-for-age) rate among under-five children will fall to below 15%; all children in the eligible age group will be vaccinated against six diseases; there will be 9.5-10 doctors and 30 patient beds per 10,000 people.

To invest in upgrading equipment of the Central Highlands general hospital, improving medical examination and treatment quality and developing high-quality medical services. To turn Dak Lak into the Central Highlands’ healthcare and medical research center.

d/ Culture, information, physical training and sports

- Culture: To invest in building physical facilities for the cultural sector, giving priority to cultural institutions serving the community such as museums, libraries, cinemas, art monuments, playing and entertainment areas, and cultural and sports centers. To develop cultural activities in both human resources and physical facilities from the provincial to grassroots level. To upgrade the province’s Culture and Art College into the Culture and Art University of the central region and the Central Highlands by 2020.

To strive for the targets that by 2020, more than 90% of households will be awarded the cultured family title; 85% of villages and hamlets in every district will be recognized as cultured ones and 40% of communes will reach the new cultural standards. By 2030, 98% of households will be awarded the cultured family title and 90% of villages and hamlets in every district will be recognized as cultured ones and around 50% of communes will reach the new cultural standards.

To preserve tangible and intangible cultural heritages, collect cultural quintessential traits of the E de, M’Nong and Kinh people and other ethnic groups in the province for development and conservation, uphold special folk arts and the essence of the community arts and absorb modern progressive  culture.

- Information: From now until 2020, to increase investment in mobile information teams and continue to equip them with devices to disseminate information and culture in remote, deep-lying and border areas. Public information work will follow the Party and State’s guidelines and policies. By 2030, to maintain the quality of information activities to ensure all remote, deep-lying and border communes in the province will have an uninterrupted information system.

- Physical training and sports: To build a complete system of physical training and sports facilities and ensure land use planning for physical training and sports activities from the provincial to grassroots level. To turn Dak Lak into the Central Highlands’ sport and physical training center. To build a Central Highlands physical training and sports complex in Buon Ma Thuot city qualified to host national and international competitions, helping raise the province’s physical training and sports achievements.

By 2020, 40-45% of the population will regularly do physical exercises and 15-20% of households will reach the sports family title. All students from lower secondary schools to universities will meet physical training standards. More than 95% of soldiers in the armed forces will reach the healthy soldier title, more than 90% of youths in the province will meet the healthy youth standards, 100% of schools will provide physical training education, and 100% of communes and wards will have common sports playgrounds and gyms and stable facilities like culture and sports centers. By 2030, more than 60% of the population will regularly do physical exercises.

dd/ Other social fields

- Poverty reduction: The rate of poor households will fall to below 5% by 2020 and maintain an average annual decrease of 1-2% by 2030 (according to the current poverty line);

- Child care: To realize the rights of the child, ensure children in special circumstances will be protected and taken care of; to create a safe and sound environment for comprehensive development of children; to prevent and drive back child abuse risks;

- Prevention and control of social evils: To accelerate the prevention and control of social evils, especially drug addiction; to provide drug addiction treatment and prevention counseling; to develop drug abuse relapse prevention models associated with vocational training, job placement and community-based addiction rehabilitation; to experiment drug replacement treatment using methadone or other methods;

- Social security: To develop the social security network. To zone off and invest in building a nursing center for people with meritorious services to the revolution and social establishments with wider scale and higher service quality. To effectively implement social security policies for especially disadvantaged people and vulnerable, poor, lonely and helpless people by developing and consolidating social funds, mass organizations, charitable and humanitarian activities and non-governmental organizations. To create opportunities for employment, participation and integration in community and social activities in villages and communes; and expand insurance types.

5. Science and technology development, natural resources and environmental protection

a/ Science and technology

To raise scientific research level, creativeness and technological renovation; to increase the contribution of science and technology to raising the productivity, quality and competitiveness of products, goods and services. To build Dak Lak province into the Central Highlands’ scientific and technological research and application center. By 2020, the rate of hi-tech product value will be 20%, the patent application rate will be 1.1% and the  technology renovation rate will be 25%. To mobilize resources from the society to invest in scientific research and technological development;

b/ Natural resources and environmental protection

By 2020, 80-85% of residential solid waste in Buon Ma Thuot city and grade-IV and grade-V urban centers will be collected and disposed of; 90% of solid waste of industrial parks and clusters will be sorted on spot and collected and disposed of by appropriate technologies; 100% of hazardous medical solid waste will be disposed of by centralized incinerators; 100% of industrial parks and clusters and production facilities will have rainwater and wastewater drainage systems and wastewater treatment technologies up to environmental standards; 80% of rural households will have hygienic latrines; 95% of rural people will have access to hygienic water and the rate will be 90% and 98%, respectively, by 2030. To promote public information and education to raise people’s awareness of environmental protection. All communes and townships will have their own teams in charge of environmental sanitation in accordance with the Law on Cooperatives; all households will abide by environmental and natural resources protection regulations and commitments.

To pay attention to the protection of water resources, air and land environment, urban environment and landscapes, the environment in residential areas, forest resources and biodiversity; natural landscapes and the prevention and control of storm, flood and natural disasters.

6. National defense and security

To strengthen and build the all-people protect national security movement by adopting forms and practical measures suitable to the characteristics of local conditions to mobilize people to take part in the movement, thus contributing to consolidating the national great unity bloc and fortifying the all-people defense posture.

To build the all-people defense and the all-people defense posture associated with the solid people’s security posture. To uphold the revolutionary traditions and the strength of the great national unity bloc in association with consolidating the people’s patriotism and solidarity.

To focus on building the strong political systems at all levels. To build the grassroots political system focusing on the role and position of grassroots officers in hamlets and villages. To build the national great unity bloc to be able to frustrate all hostile forces’ plots and tricks and ensure political stability.

To combine socio-economic development with strengthening national defense-security and adapting to the context of deep and wide international integration, ensuring all communes will be strong in terms of national defense and security by 2030.

7. Orientations for infrastructure development

a/ Transport

To synchronously develop the transport infrastructure system, ensure the continuity, feasibility and flexibility, and satisfy the province’s transport demands in each period, thus bringing about socio-economic benefits and safeguarding national defense and security.

By 2020, to consolidate, restore and upgrade existing road works, complete the road network, build a number of urgent works and ensure the density of roads of more than 1 km/km². By 2020, all provincial, district and urban roads will have their surface asphalted or concretized; at least 70% of communal roads and 50% of village and hamlet roads will have their surface solidified. By 2030, the density of roads will surpass 1.3 km/km²; the system of provincial, district and urban roads will be upgraded; 100% of communal roads and 75% of village and hamlet roads will be solidified.

- National highways: To renovate and upgrade 6 existing national highways, including national highways 14, 14C, 26, 27 and 29 (section from Dak Rue border gate-Phu Yen), and the East Truong Son section running through the province. The total length of these 6 routes is 679.5 km, including 470 km of renovated and upgraded routes, 209.5 km of new, upgraded and extended roads (including 58.5 km of upgraded provincial roads, 71 km of upgraded district roads and 80 km of new roads on natural terrace). To build the Buon Ma Thuot City-Ho Chi Minh City expressway;

- Provincial roads: To upgrade provincial road 689 (provincial highway 9), a 39 km section of provincial road 691, a 20 km section of provincial road 696 and the extended section of national highway 29. The province is expected to have 25 provincial routes with a total length of 1,004 km by 2030;

- District roads: The province will have around 2,020 km of district roads by 2030, including 1,078 km of renovated and upgraded roads and 942 km of new roads. The district road design level will be grade-IV for mountainous areas, bridges will be permanently built according to the 22 TCN 272-05 design criteria. By 2020, to solidify at least 70% of communal roads and 50% of village roads by 2020; the rates will be 100% and 75%, respectively, by 2030.

- Urban roads: The total length of urban roads is expected to reach around 1,597.3 km by 2030, mainly in Buon Ma Thuot city, Buon Ho town and grade-IV and grade-V urban centers;

- Aviation: In the 2016-2020 period, to upgrade and build Terminal 2 (group B) and modernize the airfield to receive large aircraft with direct flights to other countries in the region and beyond, with an annual capacity of more than 1 million passengers and handling around 3,000-3,500 tons of cargo.  In the 2020-2030 period, to build and upgrade the Buon Ma Thuot airport into an international one assuming an important role in the provincial and Central Highlands transport network and functioning as an important link in the Central Highlands border defense system;

- Waterway: To open 5 new inland waterway routes and a number of reservoir tourism routes with a total length of 129 km. To build inland waterway wharves including 6 passenger wharves, 10 wharves for reservoir tourism, 4 sand wharves and 30 km of wharf roads;

- Railway: From now to 2030, to coordinate with ministries and central sectors in implementing a project building the Central Highlands railway axis running through the province (Da Nang-Kon Tum-Dak Lak-Binh Phuoc and Buon Ma Thuot-Tuy Hoa section).

b/ Post, telecommunications and information technology

By 2020, to maintain quality so that all communes will have access to an uninterrupted information system. To build and develop post, telecommunications and information technology infrastructure facilities which operate in an efficient, safe and reliable manner and cover all communes, wards and townships in the province. To develop and apply the common-use software system of “e-government” and “single window” to improve public administration;

c/ Power supply

By 2020, to renovate and develop the province’s power grid to satisfy power needs of production, services and people’s daily life. To extend the power grid to rural areas to satisfy the requirements of industrialization and modernization of agriculture and rural areas. To invest in clean and environment-friendly energy resources to be added to the province’s energy sources and concurrently increase local budget revenues and meet sustainable development requirements;

d/ Hydraulic works

To concentrate investment in upgrading and renovating existing hydraulic works, modernize the control equipment system to fully tap the design capacity and raise the service capability. To continue investing in canals and large hydraulic works in order to expand areas under cultivation and increase the land use coefficient such as the upper Ea Sup irrigation western canal, Ia Jloi irrigation canal, and lower Krong Buk irrigation canal.

To strive for the target that by 2020, more than 80% of cultivation areas in need of water will be proactively watered by 2020, and this rate will increase to 90% by 2030;

dd/ Water supply

To pay attention to clean water supply programs for rural, remote, deep-lying areas. In the 2016-2020 period, to build 42 centralized water supply stations and 4,277 scattered water supply works. To strive for the target that 95% and 98% of rural residents will have access to hygienic water by 2020 and 2030, respectively.

8. Territory-based development orientations

a/ Development orientations of sub-regions

- The central sub-region (a leading sub-region in terms of service-tourism and industry development) will encompass Buon Ma Thuot city and Buon Don, Krong Ana, Cu Kuin, Krong Pak and Cu M’gar districts. The region’s growth rate will be 1.2 times higher than the province’s average growth rate with top priorities being urban development, industry and tourism. To build the sub-region into the province’s key economic region with industry, service and tourism as main economic activities;

- The northern sub-region (agro-forestry production sub-region) will embrace Buon Ho town and Krong Buk, Krong Nang, Ea Sup and Ea H’Leo districts. The heart of the sub-region will be Ea Drang urban center while Buon Ho town will be the province’s counterpoise urban center with spillover effects and strong impacts on the sub-region. To concentrate on building Buon Ho town that will support the sub-region’s development with trade, culture, education and healthcare centers. To focus on developing the agro-forestry product processing industry associated with the development of raw-material zones. To further tap the advantages of forestry production, aquaculture and animal raising. To develop economic forest plantation zones (planting fruit trees, industrial plants and raw-material trees) to ensure supply of materials for craft villages in the district and for export processing. To form industrial, large-scale household-owned and concentrated breeding farms;

- Southeastern sub-region (region with difficulties) will cover Ea Kar, M’Drak, Krong Bong and Lak districts. To regard M D’rak urban center as the sub-region’s center and Ea Kar town as the third dynamic urban center (following Buon Ma Thuot and Buon Ho) impacting the development of other areas in the province, especially the National Highway 26 Economic-Urban corridor. To focus on developing farm product processing and wood product exploitation and processing. To establish concentrated zones specializing in food crops, including maize and short-term and long-term industrial plants like coffee and cashew trees, cattle breeding, and plantation of raw-material forests. To speed up the expansion of trade and service networks. To tap natural potentials and boost tourism development. To build new roads and set up new urban centers to speed up the urbanization process.

b/ Development orientations of corridors

- The North-South development corridor (national highways 14 and 27): The corridor will connect with the Central Highlands provinces and the central and southern key economic regions. The corridor will have Buon Ma Thuot-Buon Ho-Lien Son urban centers as the cores linking the corridor development. Services supporting agro-forestry production, farm and forest product processing, handicrafts and tourism services will be developed along the northern corridor (national highway 14). Service locations supporting agricultural production and eco-tourism destinations will be developed on the southern corridor;

- The East-West corridor (proposed national highway 29): This will be an international trade corridor with road and sea routes. Based on the proposed national highway 29 connecting Dak Rue border gate with Vung Ro port (Phu Yen province), to form this corridor linking the Greater Mekong Subregion economic development corridors with international shipping routes, facilitating the development of the region’s international transshipment services. To develop dynamic urban centers having the function of goods transshipment on the corridor such as Dak Rue urban center that will serve border-gate economic development and Buon Ho urban center with transport, warehousing and logistic services, etc.;

- The border corridor (national highway 14C) will connect the Dak Rue border gate with other border-gate economic zones in the Central Highlands such as Bo Y and Le Thanh and connect border economic linkage activities with national security and defense tasks;

- The Eastern corridor (national highway 26) will connect with Nha Trang seaport (Khanh Hoa province). Pending the construction of national highway 29, this will be the only route of the province linking with a seaport. At the same time, it will help tap tourism linked with Nha Trang city and form tourism services and goods transshipment.

c/ Urban and rural development

- Urban development: The urbanization figures will reach 35% and the urban population will be around 690,000 by 2020; and these figures will be around 46.5% and around 1,000,000, respectively, by 2030. The province will have 16 urban centers, including one grade-I urban center being Buon Ma Thuot city, two grade-IV urban centers being Buon Ho and Ea Kar towns, two new grade-IV urban centers being Phuoc An (Krong Pak district) and Buon Trap (Krong Ana district), 11 grade-V urban centers being central district townships, namely Quang Phu (in Cu M’gar district), Ea Drang (Ea H’leo district), Ea Sup ( Ea Sup district), Krong Nang (Krong Nang district), M’ Drak (M’ Drak district), Krong Kmar (Krong Bong district), Lien Son ( Lak district), Ea Knop (new Ea Kar district), Buon Don ( Buon Don district), and Dray Bhang district (Cu Cuin district); and Ea Pok township of Cu M’gar district;

- Rural development: To build a network of rural residential spots in association with the new-countryside building program toward sustainability and meeting the requirements of industrialization and modernization, preservation of traditional cultural values and national cultural identities. To prioritize investment in building socio-economic infrastructure in communes, villages and hamlets with special difficulties, 4 border communes, 4 Program 229-corered communes to reach the new-countryside criteria. By 2020, to have an additional 45 communes reaching the new-countryside criteria, bringing the total number of such communes to 76 (or 50%). The average housing area in rural areas will be 22 m²/person;

For newly migrated ethnic people, to continue implementing resettlement projects and settle them down in residential areas. By 2020, 75% of ethnic people migrated to Dak Lak will have stable life and production and no longer wish to lead a sedentary life.

IV. LIST OF PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS PRIORITIZED FOR INVESTMENT STUDY

(See the enclosed appendix)(not translated).

V. MAJOR SOLUTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE MASTER PLAN

1. Solutions for raising and efficient use of investment funds

The total investment funds are estimated at approximately VND 600 trillion, including some VND 151 trillion in the 2016-2020 period, and some VND 450 trillion in the 2020-2030 period. To attract and raise sufficient funds to meet such demand, it is necessary to focus on implementing the following specific solutions:

- For state budget funds: To continue using central budget funds under development programs and incentive mechanisms and preferential policies of the Government, ministries and sectors for building essential and key works in the province. To effectively use and increase accumulated funds.

- For enterprises, business people and private investors and residents: To create transparent mechanisms and policies to call for their investment. To apply public-private partnership (PPP) models in development investment to efficiently raise funds from the private sector, increase cooperation and the effectiveness of projects. To adopt tax incentives to encourage as many as possible enterprises and individuals to invest in production and business development in rural areas, particularly remote and deep-lying areas.

- For loan sources: To build feasible, detailed and suitable projects for effective production development to attract credit loans. To prioritize these loans for projects on development of spearhead sectors to create commodities. To enhance the efficiency of loan use.

- For external capital sources (from the central government, other provinces and overseas): To plan sectoral and territorial development, formulate feasible projects to attract investment from the central government’s supporting sources, other provinces and foreign investment in production development cooperation and partnership so as to boost the province’s economic, cultural and social development. To attach importance to generating revenues from land use rights auction for large projects’ infrastructure development in urban and large residential areas.

2. Solutions on human resources development

To raise awareness about the role and position of human resources in the socio-economic development process and assurance of security and defense for the political systems at all levels and the society as a whole. To renew the state management of human resources development toward strengthening the apparatus, promoting decentralization and perfecting policies. To arrange the workforce under the plans on development of the province’s economic sub-regions and pay attention to job placement, socio-economic development in border areas and stabilization of free migrants’ life. To provide training and retraining for human resources to raise their professional knowledge and  technical expertise as well as physical strength and moral quality. To re-arrange the training network, concurrently continue renovating training programs and improving the quality of training institutions’ managers and lecturers to satisfy socio-economic development requirements. To expand and boost the cooperation in human resources development. To focus on developing human resources for essential sectors and fields suitable to the province’s advantages.

3. Science and technology solutions

To apply scientific and technological achievements and selecting advanced and appropriate scientific and technological solutions to specific production and daily life issues. To adopt the order placement and bidding mechanisms for the performance of scientific and technological tasks and the mechanism of allocation of package funding for final scientific and technological products based on output results.

4. Solutions on investment promotion and attraction of foreign direct investment

To implement policies to facilitate foreign investment and guarantee transparency in line with regional and international economic integration requirements. To effectively implement decrees guiding the Investment Law and Enterprise Law; to further renew and publicize administrative processes and procedures to simplify investment formalities.

5. Solutions on development partnership and cooperation between Dak Lak province and other localities in the country and region

To further implement cooperation programs with other localities. To step up development cooperation between Dak Lak and Central Highlands, southeastern and central coastal provinces and between Dak Lak and provinces in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle.

6. Administrative reform

To focus on institutional reform and simplification and reduction of administrative formalities; to increase the operation effectiveness of the state administrative apparatus; to improve the quality of officials and civil servants; to reform public finance.

Article 2.Organization of the master plan implementation

The adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dak Lak province through 2020 will serve as the basis for the review, adjustment and addition of sectoral master plans (construction master plans, land use master plans and plans and other relevant master plans) and investment projects in the province.

1. After this master plan is approved, to assign the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province, based on the objectives, tasks and orientations for the province’s socio-economic development set out in the master plan, to coordinate with related ministries and sectors in guiding the formation, submission and approval and implementation of the following contents:

- To concretize this master plan’s contents into 5-year and annual plans; key economic, cultural and social development programs; and specific projects for concentrated and prioritized investment.

- To study the formulation and promulgation or submission to competent state agency for promulgation (if falling beyond their competence) of mechanisms and policies suitable to the province’s development requirements in each period so as to attract and mobilize resources to implement the master plan.

2. To assign related ministries and sectors, according to their respective functions and tasks, to assist the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province in the implementation of the master plan; to study, formulate and submit to competent state agencies for promulgation mechanisms and policies suitable to the province’s socio-economic development requirements in each period in order to mobilize and effectively use resources and encourage investment for the proper implementation of the objectives and tasks and orientations for the province’s socio-economic development stated in the master plan. To speed up the investment in and building of works and projects of regional scale and importance to the province’s development which have received investment decisions. To study the addition to sectoral development master plans and investment plans of related works and projects which are projected to receive investment under the master plan.

Article 3.This Decision replaces the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 87/2009/QD-TTg of June 17, 2009, approving the master plan on socio-economic development of Dak Lak province by 2020. This Decision takes effect on the date of its signing.

Article 4.The chairperson of the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and heads of government-attached agencies shall implement this Decision.-

Prime Minister
NGUYEN XUAN PHUC