THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
168/2001/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
October 30, 2001
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DECISION
ON THE LONG-TERM ORIENTATION, 2001-2005 FIVE-YEAR PLAN AND
FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the September 30, 1992 Law on
Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the Ministers of Planning and Investment; Finance;
Agriculture and Rural Development; Industry and the Minister-Chairman of the
Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- The
long-term orientation, 2001-2005 five-year plan and fundamental solutions for
the socio-economic development of Central Highlands (which embraces the
provinces of Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Lam Dong) aim to bring into full
play the region’s potentials, geographical advantages as well as natural
conditions, creating a dynamic development with high and sustainable growth
rate, protecting the ecological environment and proceeding to make it one of
the dynamic economic regions of the whole country; to step by step improve and
raise the living standards of people, first of all, in deep-lying, remote areas
inhabited by ethnic minority people and areas meeting with exceptional
difficulties; to build a strong and clean political system and an equitable,
democratic and civilized society, contributing to the maintenance of security
and defense. The major development targets are:
1. The gross domestic product (GDP) in 2005
shall double that of 2000, with the average growth rate of about 9%/year, in
which the industrial production shall grow by 16%/year, the agricultural and
forestrial production by 7%/year, service sector by 12%/year; the average
per-capita gross production shall increase by 1.5 fold over 2000.
2. The economic restructure shall be effected
along the direction of diversification, specialization, efficiency and high
competitiveness, gradually increasing the industrial, construction and service
proportions and gradually reducing the agricultural, forestrial and fishery
proportions in the GDP, which shall be 22, 25 and 53 respectively by the year
2005. In agriculture, efforts shall be concentrated on the development of farm
produce which can substitute the import goods, such as maize, soybean, cotton,
tobacco, milch cow, while continuing to develop the agricultural products of
export advantage, such as coffee, rubber, pepper, cashew, paper pulp, timber,
vegetables, flowers’ along the direction of highly intensive farming, raising
the quality and efficiency, thus contributing to raising the export turnover so
as to achieve the average per-capita export turnover of USD 200/year by 2005.
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4. Almost all communes will have
motorways to the commune centers, have post and cultural spots and basically
have clean water from drilled wells, taps or storage tanks for people; and 90%
of the communes will be supplied with electricity.
5. All health stations will be provided with
adequate conditions (electricity, water, equipment, machinery, medicines,
health workers) in order to ensure primary healthcare for people.
6. To complete primary education
universalization and illiteracy eradication in communes which have not yet
reached the standards therefor. By 2005, 30% of the communes and all cities,
provincial capitals and district towns will reach the junior-high education
universalization standards; 18-20% of the laborers working in various sectors
of the national economy will have gone through training; each district will
have at least one boarding school; almost all districts, provincial capitals,
district towns and cities will have short-term job training establishments.
7. To better settle the social issues,
raise the population’s intellectual level and markedly improve the living
conditions of people, particularly ethnic minority people.
8. To well maintain the political
security and strong national defense.
Article 2.- Orientations
for development of branches, domains
I. REGARDING AGRICULTURAL AND
FORESTRIAL PRODUCTION
To reach the average annual growth rate of 7% on
the basis of restructuring production along the direction of large-scale,
concentrated and specialized commodity production suitable to the ecological
conditions of each locality, doubling the output per acreage unit of arable
land over 2000.
1. On food production: The output will reach
about 1.5 million tons, focusing on the development of hybrid maize
(particularly maize of high protein), high-yield manioc with a view to
promoting the region�s
strengths so as to ensure food for people and produce animal feed for husbandry,
and industries using manioc raw materials.
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b) Subsidiary food crops: Central Highlands has
great potentials for strong development of subsidiary food crops such as maize,
manioc. It is necessary to formulate regions producing maize, particularly
cross-bred maize along the direction of concentrated and specialized production
in order to reach the output of 1 million tons/year by 2005. To formulate
concentrated manioc regions where conditions permit, ensuring raw materials for
manioc-processing industry.
2. On industrial plants:
a/ Coffee: Not to expand the acreage, to put the
coffee areas which cannot be irrigated under other crops of higher economic
efficiency. To convert part of the area being under robust coffee into area
cultivated with Arabian coffee where conditions permit. To focus on intensive
farming and strain improvement on the remaining areas. The People’s Committees
of the Central Highlands provinces shall devise the existing coffee acreage,
work out mechanisms and policies and guide in detail the reduction of coffee
acreage for cultivation of other crops.
Vietnam Coffee Corporation, the Central
Highlands provinces will, by 2005, complete the investment in building
(preliminary, refined) processing establishments, post-harvest foundations such
as sun-drying yards, heat-drying establishments, in order to raise the product
quality, standards and competitiveness on domestic and world markets.
b/ Rubber plant: Only to continue with new
cultivation as planned under the AFD capital-borrowing project within the State
rubber companies and small rubber farms borrowing WB capital (agricultural
diversification project), prioritizing the growing in border regions. To
continue with the investment, intensive farming on the existing acrease. By
2005, to have some 120,000 ha.
Vietnam Rubber Corporation and the Central
Highlands provinces must complete the investment in upgrading the processing establishments
(for preliminary processing of rubber) and restructure the products to meet the
market demands so as to formulate the rubber latex- processing industry by
2010.
c/ Tea plant: To focus on intensive farming on
the existing tea acreage. To cultivate tea on new areas only where conditions
permit, chiefly in Lam Dong. To gradually replace the existing tea varieties
with new ones of yield and quality suitable to domestic and foreign markets. By
2005, the acreage is expected to reach about 23,000 ha. To continue building
new processing establishments and upgrading the existing ones, raising the
product value, quality and competitiveness on the market.
d/ Cashew: By 2005, the cashew acreage will
reach about 31,000 ha, which will later increase to 60,000 ha, based on the
betterment of the old cashew gardens and the acreage expansion to appropriate
soil areas for intensive farming of high-yield and high-quality cashew in order
to reach the output of over 30,000 tons of nut/ year. To invest in the construction
of cashew nut- processing establishments compatible with the on-spot raw
material regions, in order to create more jobs for people.
e/ Sugarcane: To continue expanding new
sugarcane acreage in order to ensure the adequate supply of raw materials for the
existing sugar factories. To practice intensive farming, raising the percentage
of area under new sugarcane varieties of high yield and high sugar content and
expanding the irrigated sugarcane acreages in areas where exist irrigation
works.
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g/ Mulberry: To focus on restoring the mulberry
acreage and silkworm raising in Lam Dong. After 2005, to basically ensure the
adequate supply of raw materials for spinning and silk weaving plants already
built in the region. To maintain the acreage of about 5,000 ha with the
application of advanced methods to raise the mulberry productivity and achieve
the silkworm output of about 2,000 tons.
h/ Pepper plant: which remains to be plants of high
economic value in Central Highlands has strongly developed in recent years,
thus formulating highly concentrated specialized commodity production region;
it is necessary to focus on intensive farming, raising the quality of existing
pepper.
i/ Tobacco: To be grown in areas with favorable
conditions, with high-yield and high-quality strains suitable to the market
demand and taste, ensuring the adequate supply of raw materials for cigarette
factories while being able to export cigarette raw materials.
3. Vegetables, flower, fruit and other trees:
a/ Regarding vegetables and flowers: To be grown
mainly in Lam Dong province, to formulate the concentrated specialized farming
regions along the direction of industrial production with modern technologies
to produce high-class flowers and vegetables reaching the food safety standards
for export (particularly fresh flowers for export) and domestic consumption. By
2005, to reach about 30,000 ha, including some 500-600 ha for flower growing.
b/ Regarding fruit trees: To develop trees
yielding fruits with outlets and suitable to climatic and soil conditions of
the region.
c/ Food plants: To bring into full play Central
Highlands advantages for strong development of soybean and assorted beans and
peas. To formulate the concentrated specialized farming zones of commodity
production, associated with on-spot processing establishments. By 2005, to have
some 100,000 ha.
d/ Pharmaceutical plants: To continue expanding
the acreage in Kon Tum, Da Lat and areas where conditions permit. To protect
the precious pharmaceutical zones in Kon Tum.
4. Husbandry and aquaculture: Central Highlands
is endowed with more potentials and strengths than other regions of the whole
country to develop cattle rearing along the direction of commodity production
with high quality, particularly beef cattle and milch cow. To deploy projects
on development of high-quality beef cattle rearing in Dak Lak, ensuring the
supply of high-quality meat for urban centers and industrial zones. To step by
step develop the milch cow rearing in provinces together with the investment in
milk-processing establishments. By 2005, to reach a herd of 700,000 bovines,
including 5,000 milch cows. To develop husbandry in Central Highlands mainly
along the direction of household- and farm-based rearing; while State
enterprises and cooperatives shall provide services regarding breeds,
veterinary, agricultural promotion, product sale and husbandry product
processing. To develop fresh-water aquaculture, chiefly in reservoirs, in order
to have more products to be supplied for the local market.
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a/ To continue well performing the tasks of
forest protection, zoning of existing forests for regeneration, including
natural forests, protective forests, national gardens, nature preservation
zones, to apply strict measures to protect natural forests.
b/ To concentrate on planting economic forests,
formulate raw material zones closely linked to establishments producing paper,
paper pulp, plank bits, artificial board, wood furniture,... To strive to plant
at least 200,000 ha of new forests by 2005, with such trees as eucalyptus,
hybrid acacia, pine, bamboo, ensuring enough raw materials for processing wood
products. In the immediate future, to ensure adequate supply of raw materials
for Gia Lai MDF plant, paper pulp factories in Kon Tum, Lam Dong and other
localities where conditions permit in order to reach the pulp and paper output
of 1 million tons/year and the assorted-board output of about 500,000 m3/ year.
To apply scientific and technical advances to
hybridization by mode of tissue culture and cuttings in order to quickly
develop fast-growing trees (about more than 20-30 m3/ha/year or more) with high
efficiency.
c/ To strongly develop the growing of big timber
trees in areas where conditions permit in order to satisfy the consumption demands,
including fast-growing big timber trees and some kinds of spacious timber
(padauk, sin-dora-wood, boggy starwort, dipterocarpus).
d/ To step by step contract natural forest
acreage to households, communities (hamlets, villages, communes) for management
and protection under the community rules. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development in the third quarter of 2001 submits to the Prime Minister for
promulgation the policy on benefits and obligations of people who are assigned,
leased, contracted forests and forestry land in order to encourage the forest
planters to manage and protect forests.
e/ To strictly observe the regulations on timber
exploitation according to plans, process and procedures for exploitation of
special products under forest foliage, in combination with the development of
forest industry in order to increase the use value of forest resources. To
combine the forest protection zoning with eco-tourism under the forest foliage.
To guide the consumption of domestic wood furniture, replacing forest timber
used in construction with other materials; to encourage the replacement of fuel
wood used in daily life and material production with other fuel sources. To
restrict then put an end to forest slash and burn for farming and forest hunting
according to law provisions. For natural forests banned from exploitation, they
shall be transferred into special-use forests for strict protection.
II. INDUSTRIALLY
The industrial development in Central Highlands
aims mainly at the industrialization of agriculture, forestry, processing of
agricultural and forestrial products, hydro-electric power industry and mining
industry.
1. The processing industry: To focus on the
completion of investment in the construction of new farm produce processing
establishments and the upgrading of the existing ones according to planning so
as after 2005 to basically complete the investment in the construction of
agricultural, forestrial product-processing establishments and post-harvest
technologies, first of all tea, coffee and fruit-processing technologies, and
intensive-processing industries which use agricultural and/or forestrial
products, including paper industry, wood production, rubber, textile
industries,… In the immediate future, to:
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Complete the construction of Gia Lai MDF board
plant with the capacity of 54,000 m3/year as scheduled in association with the
raw material timber zones and continue developing wood furniture-making
establishments in the locality.
Invest in the construction of a new large-scale
cotton fiber, spinning plant, gradually formulate establishments for garment
production and/or order-production in order to create jobs and take part in
export. To fully tap the capacity of silkworm, silk-weaving establishments
already built in the region in order to raise the quantity and quality of export
silk articles. To restore traditional weaving crafts among the population,
especially people of ethnic minority.
The agricultural and forest product-processing
industry must become one of the spearhead economic branches and be given
priority in the application of advanced and modern technologies in order to
turn out products of good competitiveness on domestic and foreign markets.
2. Hydro-electric power industry: The Central
Highlands has great potentials for developing hydro-electric power industry which
may achieve the capacity of 2,383 MW, the electricity output of 12.7 billion
kWh/year, and mini-hydro-electric power stations with the output of about 1.5
billion kWh/year.
To complete the hydro-electric power projects:
Ham Thuan Dami for power generation in early 2002, Ialy hydro-electric power
station with the remaining turbogenerator being put into operation at the end
of 2001.
To complete the elaboration of feasible
investment projects for hydro-electric power stations within Dong Nai river
system (upstream being under Lam Dong province), Se San river system in Gia Lai
and Kon Tum provinces in line with the general scheme on electricity
development in the 2001-2010 period and to the year 2020. To reform the power
grids for 4 cities and provincial capitals, to build the second 500 kV
transmission line linking Pleiku, Buon Ma Thuat - Di Linh and Phu Lam; to build
the 110 kV power transmission line to Ma Drac and Dac Min districts (Dak Lak
province).
To continue studying the investment in
hydro-electric power-cum-irrigation projects; prioritize the investment in
small-sized hydro-electric power stations in areas where conditions permit. To
complete the construction of power transmission line to 142 communes where
electricity is yet available even at the communal centers, ensuring that by
2005 over 70% of the population will be supplied with electricity.
3. Mining and chemical industries: On the basis
of taking into account the economic efficiency and possible capital sources, to
construct the bauxite mining and aluminium-refining factories in Lam Dong and
Dak Lak. To expand the scales of projects on exploitation of tin, gold,
precious stones and assorted building materials in the locality. To build a NPK
fertilizer plant in Dak Lak.
4. Mechanical engineering industry, handicraft
and cottage industry
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5. To build industrial parks: To complete all
procedures for the construction of Tra Da industrial park, prepare conditions for
the construction of the industrial parks of Tam Thang, CuJut (Dak Lak), Chupah
(Gia Lai), Hoa Binh (Kon Tum), Bao Loc (Lam Dong), etc., of appropriate sizes,
when there appears demand therefor.
III. COMMERCE, TOURISM,
SERVICE
To develop commerce, tourism and service sector,
creating the driving force for stepping up the economic development throughout
the whole region in order to bring into full play its advantages and achieve
the set socio-economic targets with the growth rate of 12%/year.
1. To develop the diversified trade
network suitable to the Central Highlands terrain, and encourage all economic
sectors to join in goods circulation in order to create motive force for
production to develop. To build trade centers in provincial cities and some key
districts. To well organize the trade network from the provincial, district to
commune level for smooth goods circulation as provided for in the Government�s Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of
March 31, 1998 on trade deployment in mountainous areas, islands and regions
inhabited by ethnic minority people. By 2005, to complete the construction of
markets and shops in centers of the commune clusters.
To invest in the construction of border gates,
border markets and border-gate economic zones in order to step up trading
activities and goods exchanges with Laos and Cambodia. To complete investing in
the construction of a number of border-gate trade centers in the region.
2. To concentrate intensive investment in
the existing tourist centers, to make selective new investment in areas where
conditions permit in diversified forms of tourism, such as ecological tourism,
cultural tourism, historic tourism… To formulate intra-regional and
inter-regional tourist routes and diversify tourist products suitable to
Central Highlands’ particularities, in association with tourism in Central
Vietnam coastal provinces and eastern South Vietnam provinces.
IV. REGARDING EDUCATION AND
TRAINING, HEALTHCARE, CULTURE AND SOCIAL MATTERS
1. Regarding education and training: To raise
the quality of comprehensive general education, step by step approaching the
standard level of other countries. To consolidate the fruits of primary
education universalization, increasing the rate of school-goers within the
school-age bracket. To strive to achieve the standards of unversalization of
junior-high education for the entire region in 2010. To invest in building
enough solid or semi-solid classrooms for all educational levels; about 50% of
schools will be equipped with teaching aids, labs, libraries, play grounds and
sport areas of minimum standards; 80-90% of the schools will be furnished with
standard equipment and facilities by 2010. To complete the construction of
boarding schools for ethnic minority pupils of all districts, improve the
material foundations of boarding high schools for ethnic minority pupils in all
provinces. To develop semi-boarding schools and schools for disabled pupils in
all provinces. To consolidate and develop creches and kindergartens. To
concentrate investment to raise the training capacity and scale of Da Lat
university and Central Highlands university. To open pre-entrance courses at
Central Highlands university for ethnic minority pupils. To upgrade Dak Lak
culture and art intermediate school into Dak Lak Culture and Art College by
2005 and to plan the establishment of Gia Lai economic and technical College
and Kon Tum Economic and Technical College in the 2006-2010 period. To invest
in upgrading the job-training schools for ethnic minority youths in Dak Lak,
the technical training school in Da Lat, Lam Dong; to upgrade and expand 4
existing vocational-training schools, invest in building a new Kon Tum
vocational-training school and 4 key district job-teaching centers (one center
for each province). All districts and cities shall have their own regular
education centers.
2. On public health: To upgrade and build
medical establishments, first of all to build regional hospitals
(inter-district) of Daknong, Ajunpa, Ngoc Hoi, An Khe, Krongpa,…, consolidate
district health centers; to maintain and develop regional polyclinics with
efficiency. To build and develop the regional health center with Buon Me Thuot
- Dak Lak hospital, the Central Highlands Hygiene and Epidemics Institute and
the medical department of the Central Highlands university as the core. To set
up and build the traditional medicine hospital in Kon Tum province. All
communes must have solid health stations adequately staffed with professional
cadres in order to well ensure the primary healthcare for people. To work out appropriate
policies to step up the posting of doctors to communes. To strive to achieve by
2005 the target of 50% of the communes to have medical doctors; 100% of the
commune health stations to have midwives or obstetric-pediatric assistant
doctors, each medical station to be staffed with 3-5 medical workers; to have
4-5 medical doctors per ten thousand people throughout the region; 100% hamlets
to have professionally trained medical workers. To strive to eliminate plague
throughout the region by 2010. To upgrade 4 social support centers.
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To strive to achieve, by 2005, 100% of the communes
to be covered with television. To invest in one more centrally-run FM radio
station with 5 kW capacity in Dak Lak; each province will be furnished with an
equipment set to produce ethnic minority language programs and one FM
transmitter of 2-5 kW, clusters of FM public-addressing stations; to increase
the transmission in ethnic minority languages. To build a television station
for each commune and each commune cluster. To modernize equipment, increase the
time volume for broadcasting programs in ethnic minority languages, each
district will be equipped with a television receiver-relay transmitter of
100-150 W, to build satellite antennas in concave regions and the transmission
tower on Ham Rong mountain (Gia Lai), one VTV1 transmitter of 2 kW in Kon Tum provincial
capital.
To implement with efficiency the national target
program on crime and social evils prevention and combat.
4. Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation
and employment:
Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation
constitute an urgent program of Central Highlands. The People’s Committees of
the Central Highlands provinces must work out plans for implementation
organization and concrete solutions regarding land, breeds, capital,
agricultural and forestrial promotion for hungry and poor households; to help
poor households, with their own efforts, get out of poverty in a sustainable
manner.
To efficiently implement the national program on
employment in order, by 2005, to create jobs for 400,000-420,000 laborers (an
average of 80,000-85,000 laborers a year, providing loans as support for
creation of jobs for 16,000 laborers); to strive to reduce the urban
unemployment rate to 4% and to raise the use rate of agricultural working time
to 82%, creating an upturn in the labor structure, quality and productivity.
5. Sedentarization and population migration for
development of new economic zones:
To complete the sedentarization of local ethnic
minority people, first of all those in deep-lying and remote areas, former
revolutionary bases, border regions. To sedentarize free migrants who are being
confronted with difficulties and stabilize the lives of people who have come to
build economic zones in Central Highlands over recent years. To limit then put
an end to free migration.
To plan and prepare to build the projects on
resettlement along the direction of building complete economic and social
infrastructure (traffic, irrigation, electricity, water supply, schools, health
stations), production land as well as residential land, aiming to receive more
locals and part of new settlers from other regions, including resettlement
people under a number of hydro-electric power projects.
Article 3.- Objectives
of investment in socio-economic infrastructure in the 2001-2005 period are as
follows:
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- Regarding traffic: To complete Ho Chi Minh
road as scheduled; to upgrade roads leading to Laos, Cambodia, highways 14, 19,
20, 24, 25, 27 and 28 and roads from west to east. To invest in upgrading the
whole length of highway 14C for early opening to traffic, to build highway 40
of mountain grade 3 standards, linking with highway 18B of Laos. To upgrade 32
provincial roads with the total length of 3,030 km. To strive to have 80% of
the provincial roads asphalted according to mountain grade 5 standards, to
solidify 100% of the bridges and sluices on all the provincial roads. To
complete the construction of roads leading into 12 communes which have no
motorways leading to commune centers. To study and invest in proper renovation
of landing ways, parking yards and terminals of 4 existing airports in the
region. To prepare and implement the project on construction of railway systems
from the national railways into Dak Nong (Dak Lak) and Bao Loc (Lam Dong).
- Regarding irrigation projects: To prioritize
works irrigating hills cultivated with industrial trees and other trees of high
economic efficiency. To continue investing synchronously in small projects,
projects leading to canals, solidifying canals, projects on water reservoirs to
store enough water for irrigation in the dry-season. To complete the irrigation
projects of Upstream Easuop, IaLau and IaMo in order to create more land for
production and to prepare for reception of new settlers from other localities.
2. To attach importance to investment in
projects in service of culture, public-addressing, television and sport
establishments, cultural houses, communal houses in service of rituals to
promote the cultural traditions and ethnic traits.
3. To prioritize investment in educational,
training, job-teaching establishments, the research, application and transfer
of scientific, technical and technological advances to production and daily
life of people, first of all the domains of creating plant varieties, animal
breeds, technologies for agricultural and forest product preservation,
processing, mineral exploitation and processing.
4. To develop the urban networks along the direction
of investing in the construction of regional cities such as Buon Me Thuot,
provincial centers such as Pleiku, Bao Loc, Da Lat, Kon Tum. To formulate new
urban centers on the basis of developing particular economic zones such as
border-gate economic zones, tourist sites, ore-mining zones. To develop the
network of district towns in district centers and in commodity-manufacturing
areas. To construct townships functioning as economic, cultural and service
centers at rural population clusters and spots. To work out the program for
construction of rural population quarters.
To upgrade water supply and drainage systems in
urban areas, basically meeting the rural population’s demand for clean water.
5. To modernize the post and
telecommunication networks along the direction of synchronization and
digitalization to meet the domestic and international communication
requirements.
Article 4.- On a number
of policies and solutions
1. Land policy:
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Reclaiming virgin land for acreage expansion in
areas where conditions permit;
Readjusting land of State agricultural and
forestrial farms;
Undertaking land contracted from State
agricultural and forestrial farms.
The People’s Committees of the Central Highlands
provinces must determine the number of ethnic minority households having no or
inadequate land and work out measures to settle the situation in 2002.
The localities must well settle the question of
land, guide production, provide loan capital, consume agricultural products in
order to help people stabilize their sedentary life, quit nomadic forest slash
and burn farming.
b/ To basically finanlize the planning on land
use at district and commune levels, granting certificates of the right to use
agricultural, forestrial and residential land so that people feel at ease to
carry out their production.
c/ To strictly forbid illegal trading and
transfer of land, particularly the land of ethnic minority people. To
definitely settle burning issues regarding land complaints and disputes among
people, between people and State enterprises or organizations.
2. Regarding investment and credit:
a/ Regarding investment: The State budget
capital (including ODA capital) in support of investment primarily in the
following infrastructures in service of socio-economic development:
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- Regarding irrigation: The medium- and small-sized
irrigation projects, source-generating projects, projects on water supply for
urban centers, concentrated population quarters and industrial parks. To
solidify canals under Decision No. 66/2000/QD-TTg of June 13, 2000 of the Prime
Minister.
- Educational, training, medical and cultural
infrastructures.
- Forest planting and tending under Decision No.
661/1998/QD-TTg of July 29, 1998 of the Prime Minister.
- The national target program on employment,
hunger elimination and poverty alleviation, the national target program on
education, training and job-teaching, the program to prevent and combat a
number of social and dangerous diseases and HIV/AIDS.
- To invest in scientific and technological
development, agricultural and forestrial promotion, scientific research
institutions, crossbreeding establishments in service of production (including
the importation of breeds).
Each locality works out plans to distribute and
incorporate the national target programs in its respective area for management
and efficient use of various sources of State budget capital.
b/ The State’s development investment credit
capital: To well observe the current provisions of Decree No. 43/1999/ND-CP of
June 29, 1999 of the Government on the State’s development investment credit and
Decision No. 02/2001/QD-TTg of January 2, 2001 of the Prime Minister on the
policies for investment support from the Development Assistance Fund for
projects on production or processing of export goods and projects on
agricultural production; Decision No. 133/2001/QD-TTg of September 10, 2001 of
the Prime Minister promulgating the Regulation on export support credit. It is
necessary to provide, with satisfactory priority, capital sources for
investment projects in Central Highlands, especially the projects on
exploitation of the region’s advantages and potentials in the fields of
industry, production and processing of agricultural and forestrial products.
c/ Credit capital: The State Bank of Vietnam
shall direct commercial banks to ensure adequate capital to satisfy the
borrowing demands in the region; continue improving the capital-borrowing
procedures and apply concrete measures by nominating credit officials to
directly guide people in carrying out the capital-borrowing procedures so that
they can borrow capital from banks; coordinate with the Peasants’ Association
in expanding forms of setting up borrowing teams in order to help peasants have
a better access to credit capital and use the borrowed capital efficiently and
repay their debts.
To increase capital sources for the Bank for the
Poor, the national target program on employment in Central Highlands and
provide capital largely for poor households, particularly poor households of
ethnic minority people so that they develop production and get out of poverty.
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d/ To encourage forms of mobilizing capital
among population, capital from enterprises for investment in raising production
capacity, investment in developing medium- and small-sized enterprises,
cooperatives, farms and family households.
3. Freight and price subsidy policies: To assign
the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas the prime
responsibility to study, together with the concerned ministries and branches,
and propose the renewal of current freight and price subsidies to suit the
conditions and practices of ethnic minority people throughout the country.
In the immediate future, in the Central
Highlands provinces as from 2001, the ethnic minority poor households in Region
III are provided free of charge with 5 kg of iodized salt/person/year; VND
20,000/ person/year as medicine support; hungry and poor households (according
to the criteria set by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs),
village patriarchs and hamlet chiefs who meet with difficulties and families
with meritorious services to the country, with 4 meters of ordinary
fabrics/person/year. Regarding the lighting, for the localities where
electricity is yet available, they shall be supplied free of charge with
kerosene at the level of 5 liters/household/year, and for localities where
electricity is available, the electricity price subsidy shall be provided
corresponding to the level of 5 liters of kerosene/year for ethnic minority
households and families entitled to social policies.
4. Housing support policy: The State adopts the
policy of providing appropriate support for ethnic minority people who really
meet difficulties regarding dwelling houses. The Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs shall assume the prime responsibility and
coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches in mapping out specific
support policy and submit it to the Prime Minister in the fourth quarter of
2001. The provincial People’s Committees must work out plans to mobilize
enterprises and people with conditions to provide assistance and draw up plans
to exploit to the utmost forest tree timber in the basin of the hydro-electric
power and irrigation reservoirs in order to help people build their dwelling
houses so that after 2003, the housing question shall be basically solved for
ethnic minority households meeting with difficulties and households entitled to
social policies.
5. The policies on education and training: As
from 2002 the following educational policies shall be implemented for ethnic
minority children in Central Highlands:
a/ Exemption of school-building contributions,
school fees, support in textbooks and writing papers.
b/ Compiling teaching materials and textbooks in
ethnic minority languages, implementing the teaching and learning of ethnic
minority languages at different educational levels, suitable to the
particularities of the region. To teach ethnic minority languages for teachers,
medical workers, State officials and employees, mass-organization officials and
commune administration cadres, who are not ethnic minority people but work in
areas inhabited by ethnic minority people.
c/ The State shall cover all expenses for meals,
accommodation and study of ethnic minority pupils in their boarding schools.
For children who are entitled to study at boarding schools but stay outside the
school dormitories and study at public or semi-public schools, they shall be
provided with scholarship being equal to 50% of the scholarship enjoyed by the
boarding pupils.
d/ Adopting the policy of recruiting and sending
ethnic minority children to intermediate vocational schools, colleges and
universities for training, giving priority to subjects who volunteer to return
to their native places to work after their study. The administration at all
levels must work out plans to train, employ and arrange qualified local people
of ethnic minorities to work at State agencies, mass organizations, political
and/or social organizations in their respective localities. To step by step achieve
the norm that the vast majority of medical and educational workers in rural
areas inhabited by ethnic minority people are people of ethnic minorities.
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f/ Adopting the policy to attract science
workers and technicians to Central Highlands for working.
6. Regarding public health:
a/ The State shall provide budget for
implementation of the regime of full exemption of medical examination and
treatment charges at health stations, medical centers and hospitals for ethnic
minority people.
b/ For hungry and poor households and people in
general in communes of region III, the current medical insurance cards shall
not be used, but the free-of-charge medical examination and treatment shall
apply; the health establishments shall settle their actual expenses from the
medical examination and treatment funds for the poor, set up by the provinces
and managed by the provincial Health Services.
c/ Opening regular courses for training of
recruited and nominated people of ethnic minority people in region II and
region III to be medical doctors. To work out appropriate allowance regime and
adopt the policy of providing dwelling houses for medical doctors working in
particularly difficult communes in the region.
7. Regarding culture:
a/ To increase funding for the implementation of
cultural program on sending books and newspapers to hamlets, villages and
communes, as well the preservation and promotion of the cultural traits of
ethnic groups, including material culture and non-material culture.
b/ To increase the time volume of radio and
television broadcasts in the languages of ethnic minority groups in the region,
and publish pictorial newspapers in ethnic minority languages.
c/ To provide funding support so as to
consolidate art troupes, mobile information teams, mobile film protection teams
in service of ethnic minority people, particularly in deep-lying, remote and
border regions.
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To encourage all organizations and individuals
of all economic sectors to invest in socio-economic development in the Central
Highlands provinces. The People’s Committees of the Central Highlands provinces
shall consult with the provincial Party Committees through the provincial
People’s Councils before adopting specific policies on land, tax preferences,
training support, with convenient investment procedures in order to attract
investors in their respective localities and other parts of the country.
a/ For State enterprises:
- To well carry out the restructuring,
renovation and development of State enterprises. For State-run agricultural and
forestrial farms in the locality, they must revise the land fund, first of all
transferring land which has been left unused or used inefficiently to the
locality for assignment to peasants for long-term and stable use. The remaining
land areas must be assigned, contracted according to Decree No.01/ND-CP of
January 4, 1995 and Decree No.187/1999/ND-CP of September 16, 1999 of the
Government. The State-run agricultural and forestrial farms shall well perform
the tasks of providing services on strains and breeds, supplies, techniques,
farm produce processing and consumption. Enterprises shall have to sign
contracts for consumption of commodity farm produce with peasant households or
cooperatives in order to protect the producers interests.
In cases where the land formerly belonging to
people, especially ethnic minority people, and was handed over to the State-run
agricultural or forestrial farms for management and use when such people joined
such farms, and a section of laborers being workers, in the course of
restructuring production, have to leave their jobs according to the prescribed
regimes or no longer work in the agricultural or forestrial farms, thus having
no land for production, the State-run agricultural or forestrial farms must
assign such laborers with appropriate land areas or contract land to them for
production and maintenance of their livelihood.
- To support State enterprises with working
capital as provided for in Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998 of the
Government and other current regulations.
- To continue developing form of State
enterprises with the combination of economic tasks with national security and
defense, especially to continue building and promoting the efficiency of,
economic-defense zones in key regions and along the borders in order to attract
people (including locals and immigrants from other localities) in production
along the direction of receiving production land associated with population
clusters, villages and hamlets in line with the production orientations and
security as well as defense tasks. To prioritize the provision of land and
technical guidance to ethnic minority people in the locality.
b/ For cooperatives: To transform cooperatives
and production groups according to the Cooperative Law, and at the same time
step by step formulate economic cooperation organizations and cooperatives with
voluntary participation by people in order to help one another in the services
on techniques, breeds, supplies, consumption and processing of agricultural
products, first of all by a number of people engaged in concentrated specialized
commodity production.
c/ The household economy, farm economy,
people-founded businesses are encouraged and given conditions to thrive with a
view to tapping their potentials in capital, techniques and labor.
9. The policies towards officials,
building of strong and clean political system, especially at the grassroots.
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- The policy of prioritizing the fostering and
training to raise the managerial and leading skills, the teaching of ethnic
minority languages for grassroots officials, particularly those working in the
State sector.
- Raising the allowance levels for village and
hamlet chiefs and working out regimes for village patriarchs.
The Government’s Commission for Organization and
Personnel shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the
concerned ministries and branches in studying the specific support levels and
submit them to the Prime Minister in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Article 5.-
Implementation organization
1. The Central Highlands provinces must
determine the contents of this Decision as the primary tasks of the Party
Committees and administrations in their respective localities and concretize
them into programs and plans of each specialized branch, each administration
level, each mass organization in order to organize the implementation thereof.
First of all, to select and determine some
target and key programs with concrete contents and their urgency in order to
direct the implementation thereof in the fourth quarter of 2001 and in 2002,
and work out concrete plans for realization of the contents of this Decision in
the subsequent years and till 2010.
The presidents of the provincial People’s
Committees shall have to closely coordinate with ministries, branches and
localities in the region in readjusting, elaborating the plannings and plans of
the provinces in line with the overall planning of the region and organize the
execution of elaborated programs and projects.
2. The ministries and branches, depending
on their respective functions, tasks and powers, shall, together with the
Central Highlands provinces, organize the direction of the implementation of
specific programs and projects under their respective State management
responsibility according to the objectives and contents of this Decision.
Based on the approved programs and projects, to
work out concrete annual plans, starting the investment right from 2001 and
organize the direction, supervision of their implementation according to
objectives of the programs and projects under this Decision.
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In their quarterly and annual reports on the
evaluation of their work results, the ministries and branches must review and
assess the working programs in Central Highlands and detect difficulties and
obstacles in order to work out remedial measures.
3. The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the
Ministry of Finance and the concerned ministries and branches shall, on the
basis of the approved programs and projects, map out annual investment capital
plans, concretize policies for execution according to the set objectives.
4. To set up the Steering Committee for
socio-economic development in Central Highlands, comprising leading officials
of the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development; Communications and
Transport; Industry; Planning and Investment; Finance, the Committee for Ethnic
Minorities and Mountainous Areas; and a number of concerned ministries and
branches, a number of officials knowledgeable about Central Highlands and
leading officials of four Central Highlands provinces, which is led by a
Deputy-Prime Minister as its head, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
as its standing deputy-head.
Article 6.- This
Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 7.- The
ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the
agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the Central Highlands
provinces shall have to implement this Decision.
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai