| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No. 87/2006/QD-TTg | Hanoi, April 20, 2006 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE MASTER PLAN ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF LAI CHAU PROVINCE IN THE 2006-2020 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the People's Committee of Lai Chau province in Report No. 578/TTr-UBND of October 12, 2005, and Document No. 10/UBND-TH of January 9, 2006, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Official Letter No. 1532/BKH/TD&GSDT of March 10,2006, regarding the master plan on socioeconomic development in the 2006-2020 period,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the master plan on socioeconomic development of Lai Chau province in the 2006-2020 period, with the following principal contents:
I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINTS:
To tap to the utmost internal resources, combined with supports of the central government and the whole country, speed up economic growth, gradually narrow the development gap with other provinces in the region and ensure conformity with the process of international economic integration.
To concentrate all resources on building socioeconomic infrastructure; to restructure the economy for commodity production development; to bring into the fullest play the strengths of border-gate economy; to regard hydropower, minerals, cement, paper pulp, tea, rubber, cardamon, pharmaceutical materials and big cattle husbandry as major and long-term commodities. To properly organize relocation. To closely combine economic development with the protection of the eco-environment, tending and protection of headwater forests in the Da river basin in order to protect water sources of major national hydropower plants.
Economic development must be harmoniously combined with the settlement of such pressing social issues as hunger eradication and poverty reduction, sedentarization, raising of public knowledge, training of cadres, especially grassroots cadres, ethnic minority cadres and female cadres; to properly implement ethnicity policies, assist ethnic minority inhabitants in having a stable life, escaping from the particularly difficult state and enjoying a gradually improved material and spiritual life.
To associate the province's socio-economic development objectives with the performance of national strategic tasks in the province, namely, to build the political system strong, build up and strengthen defense and security, build the great unity block among ethnic minorities living in the province, firmly protect national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in connection with building a border of peace, friendship, cooperation and long-lasting stability.
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