| THE PRIME MINISTER ------- | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence– Freedom – Happiness --------------- |
| No. 195/QD-TTg | Hanoi, February 16, 2012 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE MASTER PLAN ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF VINH LONG PROVINCE THROUGH 2020
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 formulation, approval and management of socio-economic development master plans, and Decree No. 04/2008/ND-CP of January 11, 2008, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP;
At the proposal of the People's Committee of Vinh Long province,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the master plan on socio-economic development of Vinh Long province through 2020 (below referred to as the master plan) with the following principal contents:
I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINTS
1. The master plan must comply with the national strategy on socio-economic development and the master plan on socioeconomic development in the Mekong River delta and ensure synchrony and consistency with sectoral master plans.
2. To bring into the fullest play the province's potential and advantages; to intensify international economic integration; to step by step consolidate internal strengths, gradually increase the rate of savings for the economy, minimize challenges and proceed to forming an advanced, open, harmonized and balanced economic structure competitive in domestic and overseas markets.
3. To link economic development with health, education and training development: to ensure social progress and justice, protect the environment, improve people's living quality and gradually reduce the poverty rate; to train quality human resources to meet market requirements, associating human resource development with science and technology development and application.
4. To closely combine socio-economic development with building a strong political system, consolidating national defense and security and maintaining social order and safety.
II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives
To build Vinh Long province into an eco-fricndly. green, clean and beautiful urban area with harmonious urban and rural development, and improve people's material and spiritual lives; to strongly develop hi-tech industries and quality services; to incrementally form a knowledge-based economy with quality human resources; to strengthen national defense and security and maintain political stability and social order and safely.
To link with Can Tho to form a dynamic economic region, an economic, training, cultural and scientific-technical center of the Mekong River delta, contributing to successfully achieving the objective of building Vietnam into a basically industrial country by 2020.
