Decision No. 05/2009/QD-TTg dated January 13, 2009 of the Prime Minister approving the master plan on socio-economic development of Bac Giang Province till 2020

DECISION

APPROVING THE MASTER PLAN ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BACGIANGPROVINCE TILL 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 of September 7, 2006, on the formulation, approval and management of socioeconomic 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 president of Bac Giang province People's Committee in Report No. 42/TTr-UBND of August 18, 2006, and the Minister of Planning and Investment in Document No. 4022/BKH-TD&GSDT of June 4, 2008,

DECIDES:

Article 1. To approve the master plan on socio-economic development of Bac Giang province till 2020 (below referred to as the master plan), with the following principal contents:

I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINTS AND OBJECTIVES

1. Development viewpoints

a/ To mobilize to the utmost all resources for accelerating the development and raising the economic growth quality; to efficiently tap the economic potential and advantages, boost the economic restructuring towards industrialization and modernization; to strive for the target that the province's economy by 2020 will be restructured mainly with industry and service;

b/ To highly concentrate on the development of industries, cottage industries, handicrafts and rural trades; to prioritize the development of key products with advantage and hi-tech content value, step by step strongly directing towards export, raising the efficiency and competitiveness of commodities and the entire economy;

c/ To develop agriculture and rural areas towards industrialization and modernization; to strongly restructure the agricultural economy, developing commodity production in association with the processing industry and meeting the market demands; to raise the productivity, quality and production value per unit of cultivated area; to restructure labor towards reducing agricultural labor while increasing industrial and service labor;

d/ To associate economic development with social development, eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, create jobs, narrow the living-standard gaps between regions, constantly raise the material and spiritual life of people; to pay attention to cultural development, environmental protection and maintenance of security and defense as well as social order and safety.

2. Major objectives

a/ Economically:

- The average annual economic growth rate will reach 10-11% in the 2006-2010 period; 12% in the 2011-2015 period; and 12% in the 2016-2020 period;

- By 2010, the industry-construction proportion will be 35%; services, 34.5%; agriculture, forestry and fishery, 30.5%; which will be 44.7%, 35.1% and 20.3% by 2015, then 49.2%, 37.1% and 13.7% respectively by 2020;

- To strive to gradually reduce the per-capita GDP gap with the national average and surpass the targets set in Resolution No. 37-NQ/TW of July 1. 2004, of the Political Bureau, for the northern midland and mountainous region.

b/ Culturally and socially:

- To create substantive qualitative improvements in culture, healthcare, education, training and people's intellectual level; to constantly raise the people's living standards, quickly reducing the poverty rate (on average by 3.3%/year in the 2006-2010 period; 1.8-2%/ in the 2011-2015 period and 0.5-0.8%/year in the 2016-2020 period), striving for the target that the province's poverty rate will equal the national average by 2010;

- The secondary education universalization rate will reach 80% by 2010 and 100% by 2015. The number of permanently built schools will represent 90% by 2010 and 100% by 2015;

- To reduce the urban unemployment rate to about 4.5% by 2010; 4.3% by 2015 and 4% by 2020. To increase the working time in rural areas to 90% by 2010 and 93-95% by 2020; to increase the rate of trained laborers to over 30% by 2010 and over 50% by 2020;

- To strive for the targets that by 2010, 82% of local households will reach the cultured family standards; 60% of villages, hamlets and street quarters will be recognized by district authorities as having reached the cultural standards, which will correspondingly rise to 87%, 70% by 2015, then 90%, 80% by 2020; and 85% of agencies and units reach the cultural standards by 2010. which will reach over 90% by 2020.

c/ Environmentally:

- To create substantive improvement in people's awareness about environmental protection, step by step establishing habits and a life style for a green, clean and beautiful environment. To prevent and restrict environ-mental pollution, degeneration and incidents. To increase the forest coverage to 40.5% by 2010 and 43% by 2020 (including fruit tree areas on forest land);

- To protect and sustainably exploit natural resources, to conserve bio-diversity, environmental beauty and ecological balance;

- Urban and industrial-park wastes must be treated up to Vietnam's environmental quality standards;

- To strive for the targets that by 2010, 95% of urban population and 85% of rural population will have access to clean water, which will rise to 99.5% and 95% by 2020; and 75% of families will have hygienic latrines, which will rise to 85% by 2015 and 100% by 2020.

d/ Defense and security

- To bring into full play the integrated strength of all levels, branches and people, building the all-people defense and the people's security disposition. To closely combine defense and security with economic development, maintaining political stability, social order and safety, creating a favorable environment for socio-economic development;

- To consolidate the political system at all levels, raising the capacity to detect and handle law violations, fully meeting the requirements set in the administrative reform program and the legal system building and improvement strategy already promulgated by competent authorities.

II. BRANCH AND DOMAIN DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATIONS

1. Industry-construction development orientations

- To strive for the industry-construction production value growth rate of 21% in the 2006-

2010 period: 18% in the 2011-2015 period and about 14.5% in the 2016-2020 period, turning Bac Giang from a largely agricultural province into one with an economic structure of mainly industries and services;

- To concentrate great efforts on the development of industries, cottage industries and handicrafts, boost the economic growth and restructuring and create prerequisites for labor restructuring. To determine industrial parks and complexes as important economic zones, focusing on the development of industrial parks and complexes as motive forces for economic growth and urban center and service development;

- The export value will reach some USD 350-500 million by 2020; the industry-construction labor will rise from 8.86% to nearly 22% by

2020;

- Industrial parks will be arranged in association with services and urban development along key development spatial axes, including the North-South axis linked with national highway IA. the Southwest-Northeastern axis with national highway 31, the West-South axis with national highway 37 and the Northwest-Southeastern axis with provincial road 398 linking to Noi Bai-Ha Long expressway corridor.

2. Agriculture, forestry and fishery development orientations

a/ Agriculture:

- To strive for the average production value growth rate of around 4%/year in the 2006-2010 period; 3.8%/year in the 2011-2015 period and 3.5%/year in the 2016-2020 period;

- To ensure food security, boosting the commodity production on the basis of development of advantageous plants and animals, including 4 kinds of plants (fruit tree, food plant, foodstuff plant and industrial plant) and 2 kinds of animals (pig and cow); to raise the production value per cultivated land area unit, striving to earn around VND 45 million by 2020; the agricultural commodity proportion will reach around 40% in the 2006-2010 period and around 50% in the 2011-2020 period;

- To form ecologically clean and hi-tech agricultural commodity production zones to serve domestic consumption and export. To expand areas under winter crops, intensifying the application of bio-technology and technical advances to production, developing the growing of safe vegetables, flowers and ornamental trees in outlying areas of urban cities, townships and townlets;

- To quickly raise the husbandry proportion to around 45% of the agricultural production value, to reduce the cultivation proportion to around 49% and raise the agricultural service proportion to 6% during the planning period;

- The average agricultural labor productivity will rise about 5.5%/year in the 2006-2020 period; to stably maintain the areas under fruit trees and raise the quality of fruit trees, with around 45.000 ha. including some 35.000 ha of excellent-quality litchi. To practice intensive farming, raise the quality and restructure plant varieties in order to spread out the harvesting; at the same time, to apply bio-technology to safe and high-quality litchi for processing and export.

b/ Forestry:

- To develop forestland with three types of forests, striving to raise the forestry proportion to about 3% of the GDP by the end of the planning period;

- It is expected that by 2020, the total forestland area will be 145.974.5 ha, including 15.411.3 ha of special-purpose forests: 18.803 ha of protection forests and 111,760.4 ha of production forests.

c/ Fisheries:

To strive for the target that by 2020, 90% of the total aquaculture area will be tapped (nearly 13,000 ha). To apply new technologies in order to raise the aquaculture productivity to 2.5-3 tons/ ha through industrial and semi-industrial rearing; to raise the province's reared fish output to 25,000-30,000 tons by 2010 and 38,000-40,000 tons by 2020; the average fishery growth rate will approximate 15%/year.

3. Service development orientations

- To strive for the annual service growth rate of about 9.9% in the 2006-2010 period; over 12% in the 2011-2015 period and some 13.6% in the 2016-2020 period. To focus on the development of service trade and tourism into important economic branches; to prioritize the development of trade, transport, store houses and yards, post and telecommunications, banking, finance and credit, insurance, real estate and tourist sectors, strongly directing the economy towards export for the target that the export turnover will averagely rise 15-16%/year in the 2006-2020 period;

- The service labor force will represent 18% by 2010 and 27% by 2020; to step by step invest in building civilized and modern service and trade infrastructure.

4. Cultural and social development orientations

a/ Education-training and vocational training:

- To create substantively qualitative improvements in education towards approaching the advanced level. To build and develop contingents of teachers and educational administrators, sufficient in quantity and rational in structure; 100% of teachers will meet the prescribed standards and raise the percentage of higher-standard teachers;

- To intensify investment in school material foundations, striving for the target that by 2020. 100% of general education classrooms will be permanently built; 100% of general education schools will reach the national standards; and the secondary education universalization will be completed by 2015;

- To encourage the development of various forms of vocational training towards socialization. To build modern and high-quality vocational-training universities and schools meeting the labor demands of the province and the region; to intensify on-spot training and raise the percentage of trained laborers to 50% by 2020.

b/ Healthcare, population, family and children:

- To renew and perfect the healthcare system towards equality, efficiency and development. To raise the operational quality of public healthcare networks and develop non-public healthcare services. To well implement social policies in the field of caring for and protection of people's health, with regard to medical examination and treatment for poor people and disadvantaged children;

- To step up the application of scientific and technical advances and combine traditional medicine with modern medicine; to further consolidate and develop grassroots healthcare, accelerating the formulation of national standards healthcare commune and striving for the target that by 2020. 100% of communes will reach the national healthcare standards;

- To fruitfully realize the population strategy, stabilizing the population at 1.840,000 by 2020 and trying to achieve and maintain the replacement birth rate. To attach importance to child care and protection, trying to reduce the malnutrition rate among under-five children to around 10% by 2020.

c/ Culture-information, physical training and sports:

- To raise the quality and efficiency of the movement "The entire population unites to build a cultured life". To strive for the targets that by 2020, 90% of households, 80% of villages, hamlets and wards and over 90% of agencies and units will be recognized as having reached the prescribed cultural standards. To further build and consolidate grassroots culture and information institutions. To preserve and promote the value of traditional culture of local inhabitants;

- To strongly step up the mass movement for physical training and sports in combination with socializing physical training and sport activities. To attach importance to comprehensive and synchronous investment in sports which the province has strengths, trying to obtain national achievements in a number of these sports.