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THE PRIME MINISTER OF
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 184/1998/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, September 24,
1998
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DECISION
ON THE RATIFICATION
OF THE GENERAL PLANNING FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
IN THE PERIOD FROM NOW TO THE YEAR 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30,1992;
After considering the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development in Official Dispatch No. 1896 NN-KH/TTr of May 7, 1998 and of the
Chairman of the State Evaluation Council for the investment projects in
Official Dispatch No. 3408/HDTD of May 20, 1998,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To ratify the General
Planning for Socio-Economic Development of the Central Highlands (4 provinces :
Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Lam Dong) in the period from now to the year 2010
with the following main contents:
I. MAIN DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. On economy:
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- Step by step to restructure the economy so
that by the year 2010: industry and construction shall account for from 35% to
40%, agriculture and forestry from 25% to 30%, and tourism and services from
30% to 35% of GDP.
- To strive for an accumulation rate from GDP of
from 10% to 11% in the period from now to the year 2000, and from 14% to 15% in
the 2001-2010 period.
- To carry out renovation of equipment and
technology at the existing establishments, and equip the new establishments
with modern and advanced technology, especially those serving the processing of
farm and forestry products in order to create competitive and export-oriented
products on the market.
- To increase investment in protecting and
developing forests, and strive to raise the forest cover rate to 65-70% in by
the year 2010.
- To increase investment in building the
infrastructure with priority for the settlement of the question of water,
communication, electricity, building of schools, medical stations,
communication and liaison, broadcasting and television.
2. On social welfare and the environment:
- To carry out efficaciously the program of
sedentarization of farming and population, step by step to conduct planning and
rational distribution of the population on the spot as well as the people
coming to the Central Highlands from other regions, to stabilize the life of
the people of ethnic minorities.
- To create jobs, increase the number of
employed persons in the working age, strive to increase the rate of the labor
force in industry, small industries and handicrafts, construction and the
service sector. To create conditions for the people of ethnic minorities to
have access to the new mode of production and technology.
- To strive to eradicate famine by the year
2000, alleviate poverty step by step, ensure vital necessity in food, clothing,
housing, traveling, study and healthcare aimed at raising the living standard
of the people. To observe a civilized lifestyle, preserve and develop the
national cultural identity.
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- To pay attention to improving the living
conditions of the people in deep-lying areas, remote areas, and border areas.
To build an equitable and civilized society and a healthy social community, to
eradicate harmful habits and social evils.
3. On national security and defense:
To carry out the strategy of economic build-up
associated with strengthening security and national defense, preserving social
order and safety, and firmly upholding national sovereignty. To pay special
attention to the key areas of strategic defense and crucial logistic bases of
the regions and of the whole country.
II. MAIN DEVELOPMENT TASKS
1. On agriculture and forestry:
- To strive for a growth rate of about 6% in
agriculture and forestry from now to the year 2000 and about 7% in the period
from 2001 to 2010.
- To develop agriculture in the direction of
commodity production, to develop the existing advantages and potentials in a
way conformable with the natural conditions of each region. To pay attention to
preserving landscapes and the environment and protecting the ecology and ensure
sustainable development.
- To conduct high and effective investment in
intensive farming, combining agriculture with forestry and processing industry,
to step by step modernize important processes in it, in order to promote the
production and meet the need of production, the people's life and export.
- To expand step by step the acreage according
to the planning in the planting of coffee, rubber trees, cashew, pepper, tea,
fruit trees, medicinal plants and short-term industrial trees. To expand the
acreage and practice intensive farming of maize; to restrict and eventually to
eradicate the deforestation for farming land. To pay attention to the rational
use of the land fund and to restructure the land fund in the direction of
diversification of products; to expand the areas of specialized farming in
order to create a rate of commodity farm products with high quality.
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- To develop forestry in the direction of
strengthening the protection, transformation and supplementation of the
existing natural forests, especially the headwater forests, special-use forests
and protection forests; to promote the planting of new forests, to restore step
by step the forest acreage in order to increase the forest cover. To carry out
land allocation, to allocate and contract forests in order to combine
horticulture with agricultue and forestry. To exploit the forest fund
rationally in association with the program of sedentarisation of farming and
population, to promote the planting of scattered trees, to give importance to
the benefits from protecting the ecological environment combined with the
benefits of forest ecology.
2. On industry:
- To pay attention to developing those
industries which use on-the-spot raw material resources like: processing of
coffee, rubber, sugarcane, food industry, building materials, paper, earthenware
and porcelain...To develop step by step the repair engineering industry, to
encourage the development of small industry and handicraft production in both
the urban and rural areas.
- To carry out step by step in-depth investment,
renovate equipment, especially in the processing industries in the crop
specialization areas and in the production of forest products in order to
restructure the economy of the whole region. To link industry with agriculture
and forestry in order to promote production.
- To encourage domestic and foreign investment.
To prepare the necessary conditions for the formation of industrial parks aimed
at developing the advantages and potentials of the Central Highlands.
- To focus efforts on developing industry at the
appropriate size, with preference given to the application of technologies that
require little fund but that create many jobs for laborers and contribute to
the rural industrialization. To apply scientific and technical advances to
agricultural and forestry production.
3. Developing trade, tourism and services:
- To develop trade, tourism and services in
order to generate the motive force to promote economic development in the whole
region aimed at developing the advantages and achieving the set socio-economic
targets. To strive for an annual growth rate of 10-15% for trade, tourism and
services from now to the year 2010.
- To develop a diversified trading business
network suited to the territory of the Central Highlands, to encourage all
economic sectors to take part in goods circulation in order to create a motive
force for the development of production. To build step by step concentrated
trading centers in the cities and towns in order to exchange goods and
introduce products to other areas and to Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
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- To make the most of the advantages in
geography, climate, landscapes and environment... in order to develop the
existing tourist sites, at the same time to build new tourist centers in Da
Lat, Suoi Vang, Lac Thien, Buon Ho..., to form travel tours in the region
linked to the key economic areas and inter-regional travel tours in other
areas: Eastern South Vietnam, the Central coastal area, the Mekong river delta,
Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau... To build in a synchronous way the
infrastructure, the material and technical bases and tourist exploitation
centers linked with upgrading and preserving nature, preserving and developing
the tourist resources, to develop the national cultural identity and eventually
to develop the strategy of international tourism in the future.
- To restructure trade, tourism and the service
industry by giving preference to tourism, telecom-munications, finance and
technology transfer, to encou-rage all economic sectors to take part in these
activities.
4. To develop the infrastructure and urban
centers:
- To build and rationally distribute the medium
and small towns as economic, cultural and service centers of the whole region
in conformity with the urban network of the country to be formed and developed
according to the General Planning for the development of Vietnamese urban
centers up to the year 2020.
- To develop the urban network associated with
the renovation and upgrading of the communi-cation lines and the process of
formation of commodity production areas. To upgrade and perfect step by step
the land road system of the provinces in the region.
- To develop the land and air route networks...
according to planning. To pay attention to the rural communication network,
especially in the deep-lying, remote and border areas, to create conditions for
the development of the difficult areas, former resistance bases and areas of
key strategic importance. To strive so that all the communes will be accessible
to motor vehicles up to the centers of commune groups by the year 2010.
- To attach importance to the building of the
water conservancy systems, especially hydro-electric dams and water reservoirs
linked to the system of irrigation canals of the concentrated production areas.
To combine the building of land roads with the perfection of the systems of
water conservancy works, bridges and culverts and other works catering for
production and life.
- To upgrade the existing systems of water
supply and drainage and build new ones in the urban centers and industrial
zones. To pay attention to meeting the need in clean water of the rural
population. To give importance to the protection and exploitation of the water
sources.
- To carry out step by step the electrification
of the Central Highlands so that by 2000 60% of the population and by the year
2010 80% of the population will be supplied with electricity. In the immediate
future to invest in extending the electric grid to the densely populated areas,
the areas susceptible to the exploitation and development of agriculture and
forestry in order to increase the rate of commodity goods. To pay attention to
developing small electric stations in the difficult, deep-lying and remote
areas and the former resistance bases and the centers of commune groups.
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- To modernize the post and telecommunication
networks in the direction of synchronization, automation and digitalization in
order to meet the communication needs in the country and international
exchanges.
5. On education, science, culture, healthcare
and social welfare:
- To pay attention to developing the system of
education and training, to raise step by step the quality and efficiency of
education in order to arise the people's cultural level, and train on the spot
human resources to meet the needs of development of production and improving
the living standard. To strive so that all children in the school age can
afford schooling, to universalize primary education by the year 2000. To expand
the system of boarding and half boarding schools for children of ethnic
minorities.
- To study in order to apply advanced science
and technology as basis and motive force for socio-economic development in the
region. Especially, it is necessary to quickly introduce science and technique
into production and life aimed at promoting the development of agriculture and
forestry.
- To give importance to the efficiency of
cultural activities, broadcasting, television and physical training and sport
activities. To preserve and develop the national tradition and identity in its
worthy role as the motive source of development. To eradicate step by step the
harmful customs and superstition, to develop various forms of mass culture,
folk culture and create conditions for all strata of the population to enjoy
culture and arts.
- To transform the existing medical
establishments and build new ones, to strengthen and develop the system of
medical stations at the communes and wards, the polyclinical consulting rooms
and hospitals... in service of primary healthcare, the prevention and fight against
epidemics, and the consulting and treatment establishments for the people. To
strive step by step in order eventually to eradicate communicable diseases. To
popularize and conduct effective education on population work and family
planning. To conduct education on hygiene in living environment. To step by
step socialize the medical work and raise its quality in service of the ethnic
minorities.
- To strive to complete the sedentarization of
farming and population, especially in the deep-lying and remote areas, the
highlands, the former revolutionary bases and border areas; to step by step
stabilize the life of the people, first of all the one million people of ethnic
minorities. To build new economic zones according to planning. To actively step
up the program for eradication of famine and alleviation of poverty; to strive
so that all households have the conditions to progress on their own especially
the households of ethnic minorities, the families beneficiaries of welfare
policies with a living standard of the medium or higher level compared with the
community.
- To effectively integrate the national
programs, the target programs and concrete projects aimed at practical
socio-economic effects.
- To develop the economy associated with security
and national defense, to firmly defend national sovereignty. To involve
effectively the army in the economic programs combined with national defense
such as: planting rubber trees, protecting and planting forests, building
roads, eradicating illiteracy...
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On the basis of the contents of the ratified
General Planning, it is necessary to take synchronous, appropriate and
effective measures to mobilize the internal and foreign resources in service of
the socio-economic development of the Central Highlands.
A rational solution should be adopted to use the
precious natural resources namely land fund, labor, forest resources, and water
resources to develop the economy, preserve the environment and increase the
forest cover.
- To carry out incentive measures to step by
step attract domestic and foreign investment to create conditions for applying
modern science and technology and expand the market.
- To practice preferential concentrated and
definitive investment aimed at practical results and creating the motive force
to develop the economy and improve the living conditions.
- To carry out high economic incentive policies
for those enterprises and branches that create export-oriented and competitive
products in order to increase the market share.
- To invest in building the technical
infrastructure in service of the immediate and long-term develop-ment needs.
On the basis of the ratified General Planning of
the region, the provinces in the region must revise the general planning of
each locality, with preferential arrangement and readjustment to make it
conform with the planning of each region.
In order to successfully realize the general
planning of the region, the provinces must creatively apply the mechanisms and
policies aimed at creating the motive force for development. On the territory
of each province, the People's Committee must concretize the orientation for
socio-economic development of the Planning through programs and concrete
projects, medium-term and short-term plans aimed at operating, managing and
organizing the implemen-tation according to the set orientation.
Article 2.- The ministries, the
ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government and the
People's Committees of the provinces in the Central Highlands shall have to
organize, monitor and implement this Planning according to the ratified
contents.
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In the process of implementing the Planning, the
Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall have to coordinate with the related ministries and branches
and the People's Committees of the provinces in the Central Highlands shall
have to review and evaluate and draw experience in order to make timely
supplements and readjustments so that the socio-economic development process
follow the right track and achieve high efficiency.
Article 3.- This Decision takes effect 15
days after its signing. The Presidents of the People's Committees of the
provinces in the Central Highlands and the ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the related agencies attached to the
Government shall have to implement this Decision.
THE PRIME MINISTER OF
GOVERNMENT
Phan Van Khai