THE PRIME MINISTER

Decision No. 1621/QD-TTg of September 18, 2013, approving the master plan on development of Vietnam’s chemical industry through 2020, with a vision to 2030

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 socio-economic development master plans, and the Government’s Decree No. 04/2008/ ND-CP of January 11, 2008, amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government s Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP;

At the proposal of the Minister of Industry and Trade in Report No. 4635/Ttr-BCT of May 29, 2013, and Official Letter No. 7102/BCT-HC of August 12, 2013,

DECIDES:

Article 1. To approve the master plan on development of Vietnam’s chemical industry through 2020, with a vision to 2030 with the following principal contents:

1.   Development viewpoints

a/ To develop the chemical industry in a sustainable manner and in conformity with the country’s socio- economic development strategy.

b/ To develop the chemical industry based on the mobilization of domestic and foreign resources; effective use of natural resources and domestic materials; the attraction of foreign investment for projects that the country is not yet able to meet their demands for large capital and high- technology; and bringing into play the potentials and strengths of each region and locality.

c/ To invest in developing the chemical industry that are based on the application of advanced technologies to turn out high-quality products competitive in price and environment friendly.

2.   Development objectives

a/ Overall objectives

-    To build the chemical industry with a relatively complete structure, including the manufacture of means of production and means of consumption to serve other induces, better meet the domestic demand and boost export of products such as fertilizers, rubber products, basic chemicals, petrochemicals, pure chemicals, pharmaceutical chemicals, consumer chemicals.

-    To rationally distribute production forces by sector and territorial region, creating a balanced and reasonable development within the chemical industry and establishing and bringing into play industrial parks and complexes and large-sized chemical production groups.

-    The growth rate of chemical industry production value will reach 14-16% on average and the chemical industry will account for up to 14 percent of the whole industrial sector by 2020 and 15 percent by 2030.

b/ Specific objectives

-    The group of fertilizers: To basically meet the needs of agricultural production for various kinds of fertilizers, ensuring national food security and to export a number of fertilizers based on intensive investment and existing plants’ technological renovation in manufacturing phosphate, NPK, organic and micro fertilizers, investment in or raising the production capacity of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), potassium, and sulfate of ammonium (SA) fertilizers.

-    The group of plant protection chemicals: To meet domestic consumption demands and be exported; to apply advanced technologies, replace hazardous organic solvents and chemicals, pay attention to using new microorganism active ingredients and plant extract active ingredients to turn 65 easy-to-use, biodegradable and environment-friendly products.

-    The group of petrochemical products: To build petrochemical industrial complexes associated with domestic oil refineries to supply raw materials for manufacturing plastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS), acryl-butadien- styrenesty- (ABS), additives, semi-finished products as raw materials for other industries.

-    The group of pharmaceutical products: To invest in cutting-edge technologies, step by step meeting the pharmaceutical industry’s demand for raw materials; to build establishments producing antibiotics and raw materials for production of essential medicines; to develop production of medicine materials that are Vietnam’s advantages, especially herbal medicine materials.

-    The group of basic chemicals: To make intensive investment in, upgrade and build production establishments to ensure sufficient supply of basic chemicals such as sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid and caustic soda for industrial and civil sectors.

-    The group of electrochemical products: To make intensive investment and expand common battery and accumulator manufacture capacity to meet domestic demand and for export; to continue investing in manufacturing hi-tech products such as absorbent glass mat batteries, NiMH and NAS batteries and other new-generation rechargeable batteries such as solid fuel cells, NiMH and Lithium-ion batteries, etc.

-    The group of industrial gas products: To satisfy domestic demand for common industrial gas; to invest in manufacturing rare gas to reduce the import rate.

-    The group of rubber products: To invest in expanding existing production facilities and renovating technologies to improve product quality; to focus investment in and expand the manufacturing of technical rubber products to serve industrial and civil sectors.

-    The group of detergent products: To modernize existing technology lines so as to satisfy domestic demand for products’ quantity and quality and promote export.

-    The group of paints and printing inks: To continue investing in cutting-edge technologies in order to raise productivity and product quality, satisfy the economic-technical and civil sectors’ demands for common and special paints; to develop some new environment-friendly paints.