| THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No: 56/2006/QH11 | Hanoi, June 29, 2006 |
RESOLUTION
ON 2006-2010 FIVE-YEAR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Pursuant to Article 84 of the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10 of December 25, 2001, of the Xth National Assembly at its 10th session;
On the basis of considering the reports of the Government, reports of the National Assembly's agencies and concerned bodies and the opinions of National Assembly deputies,
RESOLVES:
The National Assembly fundamentally agrees with the Government's report on assessment of the implementation of the 2001-2005 five-year socio-economic development plan and the orientations for 2006-2010 five-year socio-economic development with major targets, tasks, norms and solutions; and further resolves:
I. OVERALL OBJECTIVES AND MAJOR NORMS
1. Overall objectives:
To accelerate the economic growth rate, raise the efficiency and sustainability of development, and quickly take the country out of the state of underdevelopment. To markedly improve the people's material, cultural and spiritual life. To speed up industrialization and modernization and develop a knowledge-based economy, laying foundations for making our country a fundamentally industrial country along the direction of modernization by 2020. To maintain political stability, social order and safety. To firmly defend national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security. To continue strengthening and broadening foreign relations, raising Vietnam's position in regional and international arenas.
2. Major norms for five years to 2010:
a/ Economically
- The GDP in 2010 at comparative prices shall increase by more than 2.1 times over 2000. The GDP growth rate shall reach 7.5 - 8%/year, with a goal to achieve over 8%/year. The average per-capita GDP at current prices shall be equivalent to USD 1,050-1,100.
- The GDP structure: agriculture to be around 15-16%; industry and construction, 43-44%; services, 40-41%.
- Export turnover shall increase 16%/year.
- The annual proportion of GDP contributed to the State budget shall reach 21-22%.
- The nation's total annual investment capital shall reach around 40% of GDP.
b/ Socially
- The population growth rate shall be around 1.14%.
- Agricultural labor shall account for less than 50% of the workforce.
- Jobs shall be created for more than 8 million laborers; the urban unemployment rate shall be under 5%.
- The poverty rate shall drop to 10-11%.
- To accomplish the universalization of lower secondary education; trained laborers shall account for 40% of the workforce.
- The rate of malnourished under-five children shall drop to below 20%.
c/ Environmentally
- Forest coverage shall reach 42-43%.
- The rate of population using clean water shall reach 95% in urban centers and 75% in rural areas.
- The rate of newly-built production establishments which are subject to the application of clean technologies or furnished with pollution-reducing and waste treatment equipment shall be 100%; the rate of production and business establishments reaching environmental standards shall be over 50%; to build wastewater treatment systems in 100% of the urban centers of grade 3 or higher, 50% of grade-4 urban centers and all industrial parks and export processing zones; 80-90% of the solid wastes and 100% of medical wastes shall be gathered and treated to environmental standards.
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