| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No: 15/2007/QD-TTg | Hanoi, January 29, 2007 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE MASTER PLAN ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BA RIA-VUNG TAU PROVINCE IN THE 2006-2015 PERIOD, WITH ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the People's Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in Reports No. 42/TTr-UBND of January 5, 2006, and No. 3175/TTr-UBND of June 12, 2006; proceeding from the opinions of the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Official Letter No. 6849/BKH-TD&GSDT of September 15, 2006, on the approval of the master plan on socio-economic development of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in the 2006-2015 period, with orientations towards 2020,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the master plan on socio-economic development of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in the 2006-2015 period, with orientations towards 2020, with the following major contents:
1. Development viewpoints:
a/ To continue building the socialist-oriented market economy, encourage and create equal conditions for various economic sectors to develop, create environment for attracting investors in the province, the country and overseas to invest in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province;
b/ To actively integrate into the international and regional economies; strongly develop lines and domains with potentials and competitive edges;
c/ To associate economic growth with the achievement of social justice and progress, improving the material and spiritual life of people; to attach importance to the development of rural areas toward civilization, modernity, gradually narrowing the gap in enjoyment of basic social services and the income gap between rural areas, islands and urban cities;
d/ To step up the cause of education and training of human resources, considering human resources a decisive factor for socio-economic development;
e/ To synchronously coordinate production development with infrastructure development in various regions;
f/ To achieve sustainable economic development on the basis of protecting, regenerating and enriching marine, forest, land and water resources, protecting the environment, particularly ecological and marine environment;
g/ To closely coordinate economic development with the maintenance of defense and security, the building of the all-people defense and the people's security posture.
2. Development objectives:
a/ General objectives: To build Ba Ria-Vung Tau into an industrial province strong in marine economy with a system of national and international commercial ports and an industrial, service, tourist and fisheries center of the region and the whole country; to markedly raise the people's living standards; to firmly maintain defense and security.
b/ Specific objectives:
- The average GDP growth rate reaches 11.32%/year (or 17.49% if petroleum is excluded) in the 2006- 2010 period; 11.8% (or 16.58% if petroleum is excluded) in the 2011-2015 period; 11.13% (or 13.35% if petroleum is excluded) in the 2016-2020 period;
- To create vigorous improvement in economic structure in the direction of boosting the fast development of services, particularly tourist services, port and trade services; to develop modern technologies for higher productivity and better goods quality; to strongly restructure each economic sector to raise its efficiency, proceeding to develop the knowledge- based economy. The economic structure by 2010: industry and construction represent 79.34%; services: 18.74%; agriculture, forestry, fishery: 1.92% (which will be 58.04%; 38.07% and 3.89%, respectively, if petroleum is excluded). By 2020, the economic structure will be: industry and construction represent 61.55%; services increase to around 36.8%; agriculture, forestry and fishery: 1.65% (which will be 53.23%; 44.77% and 2%, respectively, if petroleum is excluded);
- The average per-capita GDP will reach around USD 11,460 by 2010, up by 3.15 times over 2000; and around USD 27,000 by 2020, up by 2.36 times over 2010;
- To strongly develop external economy, striving to boost export to achieve USD 5.8 billion by 2010 (or USD 523 million if petroleum is excluded). The average export growth rate (excluding petroleum) reaches 12%/year in the 2006- 2010 period and 9-10%/year in the 2011-2020 period; the export turnover reach USD 1 billion (excluding petroleum) by 2020;
- To mobilize around USD 6.4 billion of development investment capital (at the 1994 prices) in the 2006-2010 period; and around USD 31.3 billion in the 2011-2020 period;
- To create a substantial and comprehensive improvement in the education and training sector; attach importance to vocational training suitable to the province's socio-economic development demand; to raise the percentage of trained labor to over 50% by 2010 and over 80% by 2020; create jobs for laborers;
- By 2010, the natural population growth rate approximates 1%, the population will be around 1.026 million people, of which the urban population represents 57.3%. By 2020, the population will be stable at around 1.18 million people, of which the urban population represents 69.06%;
- To develop culture-information, conservation and renovation activities to bring into play the value of cultural and historical relics of the nation; build up cultural institutions according to planning; diversify physical training and sport activities and raise their quality; to raise the quality of health care and protection services for people; by 2010, the number of hospital beds reaches 25 per 10,000 inhabitants, then increases to 28 by 2015 and 30 by 2020. To well socialize cultural, medical and educational activities;
- To develop rural infrastructures in order to form a developed, civilized and modern countryside close to urban life. By 2010, 98% of the households will be supplied with electricity and 98% of the households with clean water; by 2020, 100% of the rural households will be supplied with electricity and 100% with clean water;
- To narrow the gap between regions, between population strata in the enjoyment of basic social services. By 2010, there will be basically no more poor households under the province's criteria (1.5 times higher than the national criteria) and continue to raise the people's living standards in the subsequent periods;
- To maintain defense, security, social order and safety, to ensure traffic safety and order, efficiently implement the four-decrease program (decreases in crimes, traffic accidents, drug-related evils, prostitution), minimize social vices; preserve the ecological environment and maintain sustainable development.
3. Development of lines and domains:
a/ Industrial development:
To develop key industries, based on the promotion of the province's potentials and strengths: To continue boosting petroleum exploration in order to increase the exploited volume, develop service industries in support of petroleum and industries using gas as raw materials or fuel; shipbuilding industry, port service industry in service of sea shipping. To step up marine product processing in service of export and domestic consumption, and pay attention to the development of industry producing construction materials from local raw materials.
- To concentrate investment on the completion of infrastructures of 9 industrial parks already set up in order to bring into play their efficiency. To additionally set up Kim Dinh industrial park of 100 ha and the hi-tech park of the province in Ba Ria provincial town. When the industrial parks are filled up by over 60%, investment shall be made to develop the industrial parks of Long Huong (400 ha) and Long Son (500-600 ha), the Ben Dinh petroleum port and service zone (100 ha);
- In each district, township or town, investment is to be made to develop a number of industrial and handicraft complexes to create conditions for development of small- or medium-sized enterprises, development of industries in service of agriculture, fisheries and rural economy, creation of jobs for local laborers;
- To develop and distribute industrial parks and industrial complexes on the basis of rational use of natural resources and labor and assurance of environmental requirements.
- To mobilize investment capital sources from various economic sectors at home and abroad for the development of infrastructures inside the fences of industrial parks and complexes; at the same time, the budget capital sources must be balanced to ensure the synchronized development of technical infrastructures outside the fences and the synchronized development of social infrastructures.
b/ Development of services:
- To develop services at high rates and with high quality, ensuring their comprehensive and sustainable development;
- To concentrate investment on tourist development with the following key tourist forms: forest-sea-island eco-tourism, historical and revolutionary relics-visiting tourism and convalescence tourism. To develop typical tourist products in Vung Tau, Con Dao in order to promote the local potentials and strengths and create conditions for fast and sustainable development;
- To develop trade in the direction of forming trade centers in cities and trade complexes in rural areas, the marketplace system. To organize forms of modern trade services suitable to local conditions. To tap advantages of agricultural and aquatic products for boosting export; at the same time, to develop hi-technique industrial parks, aiming to expand the export goods from the processing industry, increasing the export turnover. The export growth rate (exclusive of petroleum) will reach 12%/year in the 2006-2010 period and 9-10% in the 2011-2020 period; the export value (exclusive of petroleum) will reach USD 523 million by 2010 and over USD 1 billion by 2020;
- To bring into play advantages of the seaport system, developing petroleum services, maritime services, services of water transport, including inland water and sea transport. To develop international maritime services of various types at Thi Vai, Vung Tau and Con Dao port areas. To strive to reduce service charges and raise the competitiveness of sea transport services.
- To develop credit activities in association with service of economic restructuring with a view to achieving the socio-economic development objectives of the province. To set up and well manage the operation of such funds as the Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Credit Guarantee Fund, the Risk Investment Fund, the Social Relief Fund. To develop business, financial brokerage, insurance activities, forming financial companies. To develop the systems of modern infrastructures up to international standards for the formation of a financial center in Vung Tau city after 2010.
c/ Development of agriculture, forestry, fishery:
- To build a commodity agriculture for sustainable development in association with building the rural areas with comprehensive economic-cultural-social development. To build the agriculture toward urban ecology, focusing on the building of a number of hi-tech agricultural zones, the application of bio-technologies, aiming to increase the output value and income per land area unit. To industrialize and modernize the rural areas, associating agricultural development with processing industry;
- To step up the restructuring of the agricultural sector in the direction of developing perennial industrial trees in service of export, developing vegetable and fruit production and husbandry;
- To continue investing in the construction of comprehensive irrigation systems, particularly completing Ray river reservoir; solidifying 100% of the canal systems, ensuring irrigation, drainage, salt-water prevention and flood control;
- To form concentrated and specialized agricultural production areas;
- To develop concentrated husbandry in the direction of industrialization and modernization, constantly sizing up the cattle herds and poultry flocks with high quality;
- To partly convert forestry land into non-agricultural land for creation of land fund for development of industrial parks, ports, tourist services and a number of urban centers and population quarters. The conversion of forestry land for other purposes shall be made on the basis of the land use planning and forestry development planning. For forestry land converted for the purpose of tourist development, only investment in form of eco-tourism is permitted, ensuring to promote the potentials, strengths and not to alter the forest nature; at the same time, to continue to improve forests for tourist development;
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