THE PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 81/2009/QD-TTg
Hanoi, May 21, 2009 
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE PLANNING ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHARMACO-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY UP TO 2015, WITH A VISION TOWARD 2025
THE PRIME MINISTER
 
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 343/2005/QD-TTg dated December 26, 2005, approving the planning on development of Vietnam’s chemical industry up to 2010 (with a vision toward 2020 taken into account);
Pursuant to Decision No. 55/2007/QD-TTg dated April 23, 2007, approving the list of priority industries and spearhead industries for the 2007-2010 period, with a vision toward 2020, and a number of incentive policies for these industries;
At the proposal of the Minister of Industry and Trade,
DECIDES:
Article 1.
To approve the planning on development of the pharmaco-chemical industry up to 2015, with a vision toward 2025 (below referred to as the planning) with the following principal details:
I. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives:
- To build the pharmaco-chemical industry with a relatively comprehensive structure of products, including such key pharmaco-chemical products as group of antibiotic materials; group of materials for producing medicines for treatment of cardiovascular diseases and cancers; group of vitamin and tonic materials; group of analgesic antipyretic and anti-inflammatory medicine materials; group of materials for producing medicines for HIV/AIDS treatment and drug detoxification; and group of adjuvants and additives, with a view to step by step satisfying domestic needs, supplying import substitutes and eventually exporting medicines;
- To step by step build a modern pharmaco-chemical industry using advanced technologies for turning out competitive products on the domestic, regional and world markets. To combine the research to high-quality technologies at home with the import and mastering of foreign modern and advanced technologies for producing pharmaco-chemical materials in service of development of the pharmaceutical industry.
- To rationally and efficiently exploit, process and use natural resources for developing the pharmaco-chemical industry, attaching importance to the preservation and development of precious and rare genetic resources of material medica. To strive to supply most of inorganic pharmaco-chemical materials and common adjuvants, part of high-class adjuvants and organic pharmaco-chemical materials abstracted from plants and materia medica for domestic consumption and export; and ensure sufficient supply of essential medicines produced from inorganic pharmaco-chemical materials;
- To bring into play materia medica potential and advantages and combine them with the essences of the traditional medicine and pharmacy to create precious pharmaco-chemical products with high curativeness and suitable to our country's pathological pattern;