Author: | THE PRIME MINISTER ------- No. 07/CT-TTg | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence– Freedom – Happiness --------------- Hanoi, March 2, 2012 |
DIRECTIVE
ON REDRESSING THE MANAGEMENT AND INCREASING THE OPERATION EFFECTIVENESS OF ECONOMIC ZONES, INDUSTRIAL PARKS AND INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES
In the past years, the development of coastal economic zones, border-gate economic zones (EZs), industrial parks (IPs) and industrial complexes
(ICs) has contributed to modernizing infrastructure systems, simplifying administrative procedures and forming streamlined and flexible organizational structure and management mechanisms, thus creating an open and attractive investment environment, especially for foreign direct investment, and increasing the industrial production value, generating employment, restructuring the economy and workforces and strengthening defense and security.
Besides the above positive results, there remain a number of problems in the development of EZs, IPs and ICs: the quality of plans is poor; the development is too fast in number; the investment is thinned out; the investment structure is unreasonable; the occupancy rate of industrial land is not high; environment pollution remains serious; houses, incomes and material and spiritual lives of laborers are still limited.
In order to overcome the above problems, continue to promote the important role and contribution of EZs, IPs and ICs to the national socio-economic development, ensure the sustainable economic, environment and social development, achieving the target that by 2020 Vietnam will basically become a modernity-oriented industrial country under the 2011-2020 socio-economic development strategy, the Prime Minister instructs ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies and chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees to thoroughly grasp and perform the following tasks:
