| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------------ |
| No: 43/2002/QD-TTg | Hanoi, March 21, 2002 |
DECISION
ADDITIONALLY APPROVING THE SCHEME ON THE OVERALL PLANNING ON ECONOMIC-DEFENSE ZONES IN THE NEW SITUATION
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 135/1998/QD-TTg of July 31, 1998 approving the programs on socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes meeting with exceptional difficulties;
Pursuant to the Regulation on Construction and Investment Management, issued together with the Government’s Decrees No. 52/1999/ND-CP of July 8, 1999 and No. 12/2000/ND-CP of May 5, 2000;
At the proposals of the Ministry of Defense (Official Dispatch No. 3859/BQP of December 7, 2001), the Ministry of Planning and Investment (Official Dispatch No. 201/BKH-QPAN of January 10, 2002), and the Ministry of Finance (Official Dispatch No. 1063/TC-DT of January 31, 2002) on the additional approval of the Scheme on the overall planning on economic-defense zones in the new situation,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To additionally approve the Scheme on the overall planning on economic-defense zones in the new situation with the following main contents:
1. The scheme’s name: The Scheme on the overall planning on economic-defense zones in the new situation.
2. Objectives: To boost socio-economic development in the project areas, contributing to step by step improving the people’s material and spiritual life in combination with ensuring national defense and security in strategic and border areas, on the basis of population relocation according to the production planning and long-term defense and security objectives, to formulate various clusters of border villages and communes, creating a border belt in the entire-people defense disposition to safeguard the Fatherland.
3. Tasks:
a) To build infrastructure in combination with population rearrangement:
- To build essential infrastructure: traffic roads, electricity, irrigation, clean water supply, schools, dispensaries, markets;
- To carry out the work of sedentarization, prepare for the resettlement of people in service of Son La hydro-electric power project;
- To stabilize the life of local people, including free migrants in the localities. To build up strong localities in terms of both defense-security and socio-economic development;
- To create conditions for relocating people from delta areas to the project areas for the materialization of two targets of hunger elimination and poverty alleviation as well as defense and security, thus changing the population structure of the project areas.
b) To create initial foundations for the development of commodity economy:
- To promote agricultural, forestry and fishery production;
- To provide two-way services, creating commodity economy on the basis of cooperative economy;
- To transfer technologies to local people;
- To create models and provide professional guidance;
- To create conditions for local people to participate in the construction of various works so as to earn incomes and have access to techniques;
- In the localities where conditions permit large-scale production but local people are incapable of making investment therein by themselves (for example: the Central Highlands, western South Vietnam and north western regions), the army shall directly organize the production in order to attract ethnic minority households and people from other places into State-run economic organizations.
c) To raise the people’s material and spiritual life:
- To propagate and agitate people to thoroughly grasp and strictly comply with the Party’s and State’s lines, strategies and policies; fight the enemies distorting and instigating ploys, as well as acts of illegally preaching religions.
- To introduce radio, television, cultural and medical services to villages and hamlets;
- To create conditions for ethnic minority children to go to school and participate in the programs on primary education universalization and illiteracy eradication;
- To provide healthcare and medical treatment to people;
- To foster and train the contingent of local cadres;
- On the basis of the improved living conditions, to restore, preserve and develop traditional cultures of the ethnic minority people.
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