| THE PRIME MINISTER No. 1168/QD-TTg | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness Hanoi, July 16, 2014 |
DECISION
Approving the Strategy for development of Vietnam’s automobile industry through 2025, with a vision toward 2035
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the Ministry of Industry and Trade,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the Strategy for development of Vietnam’s automobile industry through 2025, with a vision toward 2035, with the following principal contents:
1. Viewpoints
a/ The automobile industry is an industry that creates an important motive force for promoting industrialization and modernization and should be encouraged through stable, consistent and long-term development policies.
b/ To develop the automobile industry on the basis of drawing upon the potential of enterprises of all economic sectors in order to step by step meet the country’s domestic demand and defense and security requirements.
c/ By 2035, the automobile industry will ensure overall socio-economic efficiency, meet environmental requirements, follow the trend of energy conservation, satisfy domestic demand and participate in the world’s automobile manufacturing chain, and achieve high export value.
2. Strategy
To bring into play the internal resources of all economic sectors in the country while attaching importance to association and cooperation with the world’s large automobile manufacturing groups for developing the automobile industry in synchrony with developing transport infrastructure to basically meet the domestic demand for types of vehicles with competitive edge in conformity with consumption policy and environmental protection and energy conservation requirements; to raise competitiveness to become a supplier of components and parts in the world’s automobile manufacturing chain; and to create a motive force for promoting the restructuring of the national economy toward modernity.
Groups of priority products:
a/ For trucks and passenger cars of 10 seats or more
To attach importance to developing multi-utility small trucks to serve agricultural production and rural areas and medium- and short-distance passenger cars running on inter-provincial and -district routes and in inner urban areas, etc., which are suitable to local terrain conditions and transport infrastructure, ensuring reasonable cost, safety and comfort.
b/ For passenger cars of up to 9 seats
To focus on energy-efficient small-sized personal cars suitable to transport infrastructure and people’s incomes.
c/ For special-use vehicles
To manufacture and assemble a number of types of vehicles with great demand (concrete transport trucks, tank trucks, and vehicles serving national defense and security, etc.); to encourage the manufacture of multi-utility small agricultural vehicles (for cargo transportation in combination with soil preparation, water pumping, power generation, pesticide spraying, etc.) to meet the demands of rural and mountainous inhabitants.
d/ For the supporting industry
To access and apply technologies to manufacturing important details and components, such as transmission systems, gearboxes, engines, body shells, etc., for a number of types of vehicles; to increase cooperation with large automobile firms in selecting types of parts and components which Vietnam can manufacture and assume the role of a link in the global manufacturing-supply chain and on that basis, to invest in advanced technologies to manufacture these parts and components for export.
