THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 116/2006/QD-TTg
Hanoi, May 26, 2006
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE OVERALL PLANNING ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YEN BAI PROVINCE IN THE 2006-2020 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the People's Committee of Yen Bai province in Report No. 240/TTr-UBND of February 24, 2006, and of the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Official Letter No. 2470/BKH-TD&GSDT of April 11, 2006, approving the overall planning on socio-economic development of Yen Bai province in the 2006-2020 period,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the overall planning on socio-economic development of Yen Bai province in the 2006-2020 period with the following major contents:
1. Development viewpoints:
- The overall planning on socio-economic development of Yen Bai province in the 2006-2020 period must be based on the following viewpoints:
- It must be placed in its organic relations with the socio-economic development of the northeastern region and the northern mountainous region.
- It ensures the objectives of fast and sustainable economic growth; economic growth must be associated with the objective of hunger elimination and poverty reduction and with social development. Production development must be associated with outlets, creating breakthroughs in order to speed up the economic development and step by step overcome the danger of being lagged behind other regions in the whole country.
- It is considered and calculated in the context when the country is actively and expeditiously integrating into the world economy.
- It must be associated with ecological environment protection in order to ensure sustainable and long-term development.
- The province's potentials, strong points and advantages must be brought into full play.
- The socio-economic development must be closely combined with the maintenance of security, social order and safety.
2. Major development objectives:
a/ Overall objectives:
To continue maintaining the fast and sustainable economic growth rate, creating the qualitative improvement in socio-economic development process. To strive for Yen Bai province to become an industrial province and one of the development centers of the northern mountainous region. To step up the economic and labor restructuring along the direction of industrialization and modernization with agriculture, forestry-industry, construction-service structure. To step by step raise the efficiency and competiveness of the economy. To step up the application of scientific advances and raise the technological level in production branches. To raise the quality of education and training as well as the quality of human resources. To efficiently tap the external economic relations. To build convenient infrastructure systems, meeting the requirements of socio-economic development. To constantly raise the material and spiritual life of people. To continue with hunger elimination and poverty reduction, creating jobs for laborers. To maintain political stability and social order and safety.
b/ Specific objectives:
- To achieve the average annual economic growth rate of 12% in the 2006-2010 period; 12.5% in the 2011-2015 period; and 13% in the 2016-2020 period.
- The economic structure: agriculture, forestry, fisheries-industry, construction-service shall be 27% - 38% - 35% by 2010; 20% - 44% - 36% by 2015; and 17% - 46% - 37% by 2020.
- The average per-capita income: VND 9.2 million by 2010; VND 17.5 million by 2015 and VND 34 million by 2020.
- The export turnover to reach USD 25 million by 2010, which shall rise to USD 35 million by 2015 and USD 50 million by 2020.
- The natural population growth rate shall reduce to 1.186% by 2010; 1.086% by 2015 and 1% by 2020.
- To strive to reduce the average annual poverty rate by 4%, to 15% by 2010.
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