Directive 27/CT-TTg to promote growth, sustainable development of Central Vietnam

DIRECTIVE

On solutions to promote growth and sustainable development of Central Vietnam

Central Vietnam consists of 14 provinces and centrally run cities, stretching from Thanh Hoa province to Binh Thuan province along the coastline of 1,900 km, and boasts great potential and advantages for the development of marine economy. The region has large infrastructure projects in which large investments are made, including 9 airports (5 international airports), 14 deep-water seaports (8 national complex and regional transshipment seaports), and 11 out of total 17 coastal economic zones of the whole country. It has recorded many important achievements, such as the gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate of 7.62 percent during 2016-2018, contributing 19.28 percent to the whole country’s GDP in 2018. Its economic restructuring is positively underway with higher proportions of services and industry, local budget revenues attaining or exceeding the revenue estimates for the 2016-2018 period, improved business investment environment, greater attention paid to marine economy, and more importance attached to social affairs, environmental protection, health care, education and training, hunger eradication and poverty alleviation.

However, the region still encounters problems and limitations which need solutions to prevent them from becoming drawbacks for its development, such as its unstable growth driving force with weak role of the industry sector due to lack large production and trading, industrial processing and manufacturing projects; slow economic restructuring in many localities with unidentified priorities in sector development strategies; failure of a number of provinces and centrally run cities to identify their marine economic sectors based on their own advantages; lack of complete legal institutions for economic development of the central provinces as well as the whole region, particularly those for power decentralization, economic management and intra-regional connection; low quality of local human resources compared to market needs; failure of the key Central Vietnam economic region to play its role as the growth nucleus and locomotive to lead the regional economic development; unstable collection of budget revenues, particularly land use levy, construction lottery, taxes and charges which account for high proportions in total domestic revenues; poor transport infrastructure facilities connecting the region with the Central Highlands and between regional areas; low quality of the business environment and poor state management capacity of cadres, civil servants and public employees in many localities. In addition, the region is also facing other challenges, including environmental pollution, sustainable poverty alleviation, highlands-inhabited ethnic minority people and policy beneficiary families.

In order to create favorable conditions for Central Vietnam to bring into fullest play its potential and advantages for breakthrough and sustainable development, the Prime Minister requests the ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, and chairpersons of People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally run cities of Central Vietnam (below collectively referred to as ministries, sectors and localities) to concentrate on directing the implementation of the following solutions for the following objectives:

I. OBJECTIVES

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