THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 134/2004/ND-CP
Hanoi, June 9, 2004
 DECREE
ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL INDUSTRY
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of December 25, 2001;
At the proposal of the Minister of Industry,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Objectives of industrial promotion activities
The State shall organize activities of encouraging, guiding, supporting and creating conditions for, organizations and individuals to participate in the development of rural industrial production (hereinafter called industrial promotion activities for short), aiming:
1. To encourage and mobilize domestic and foreign resources to participate in, or support organizations and individuals to invest in, rural industrial production and industrial promotion services under the industrial development plannings of the whole country and each locality.
2. To contribute to economic restructure along the direction of industrialization and modernization, first of all agricultural and rural industrialization, create jobs, increase incomes, and re-distribute social labor.
3. To support, and create conditions for, organizations and individuals of all economic sectors to invest in the development of rural industrial production in a sustainable manner, raise the competitiveness and efficiently implement international economic integration roadmap.