THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 14/2006/QD-BCN
Hanoi, May 26, 2006
 
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE PLANNING ON DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES, COTTAGE INDUSTRIES AND HANDICRAFTS IN VIETNAM-CHINA BORDER AREAS UP TO 2010
THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY
 
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 55/2003/ND-CP of May 28, 2003, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 120/2003/QD-TTg of June 11, 2003, approving the Strategy on socio-economic development in Vietnam-China border areas;
Pursuant to the Government Office's Official Letter No. 1332/VPCP-CN, authorizing the approval of the Planning on development of industries, cottage industries and handicrafts in Vietnam-China border areas up to 2010;
At the proposal of the director of the Planning Department,
 
DECIDES:
 
Article 1.- To approve the Planning on development of industries, cottage industries and handicrafts in Vietnam-China border areas with the following principal contents:
1. Development viewpoints
- Development shall be closely associated with the assurance of security, defense, social order and safety, sovereignty and territorial integrity, with importance attached to the organic relations with neighboring areas as well as the whole country on the basis of coordination and cooperation for mutual benefits, step by step improving the people's economic life and intellectual standards in the areas.
- To mobilize all resources among ethnic minority people in the areas, people in other provinces, low-land enterprises of all economic sectors and foreign investments, particularly from China and ASEAN countries. The State shall concentrate investments in developing infrastructure and adopt policies to support enterprises engaged in industrial, cottage-industrial and handcraft production.
- To bring into the fullest play existing potentials and advantages of border areas, a gate of exchange between Vietnam and ASEAN countries and China, and step up cooperation, import and export with China's border localities.
- To concentrate on developing industries, cottage industries and handicrafts in main border-gate areas, industrial parks and clusters; to encourage development on small and medium scales in other areas located along the border. To combine development of industries, cottage industries and handicrafts with development of tourism. To attach importance to protecting the eco-environment, especially forests and water sources.
2. Development orientations toward 2010
- To concentrate investments in developing industries with advantages, such as mineral extraction and processing on small and medium scales, processing of agricultural and forest products, production of construction materials, small hydropower projects, fertilizers, chemicals and mechanical repair. To prioritize the attraction of investments in the industries of export processing, package manufacture and export packing targeted at the Chinese market. To attach importance to developing cottage industries and handicrafts as well as traditional trades which are labor-intensive and use a lot of local materials such as weaving, making of rattan and bamboo products, woodcarving, carpentry and some other trades, contributing to accelerating economic and labor restructuring in the areas and increasing inhabitants' income.
- Industrial parks shall be built and large and medium production projects executed primarily in Lao Cai and Mong Cai. Small and medium industries, cottage industries and handicrafts shall be distributed in districts and associated with material zones and the industrial systems in the provinces.
- The State encourages and supports the development of cottage industries, handicrafts, trade villages and traditional trades of ethnic minority people; training in and introduction of new trades for border inhabitants for employment and income generation, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty alleviation.
- To step up the prospecting and appraisal of mineral reserves, serving as a basis for the development of mineral extraction in the post-2010 period.
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