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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. 44/1998/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
February 23, 1998
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DECISION
TO APPROVE THE
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN FOR THE SOUTHERN KEY AREA IN THE PERIOD
FROM NOW TILL THE YEAR 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant
to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
At the proposal of the Chairman of the State Council for Evaluation of
Investment Projects in Official Dispatch No. 315/HDTD of January 16, 1998,
DECIDES:
Article 1.-
To approve the master plan on the socio-economic development of the southern
key economic area including the provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Ba Ria -
Vung Tau and Ho Chi Minh city in the period from now till the year 2010 with
the following contents:
1. MAJOR
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES:
1. To build the southern key economic area into
one of the fast-growing economic areas attaining an economic growth rate higher
than elsewhere nationwide.
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3. To restructure the area and the whole
southern region along the direction of industrialization and modernization.
4. To complete and modernize for the first step
the infrastructure system in a comprehensive manner.
5. To basically settle the question of
employment for the working-age people.
6. The socio-economic development must be
coupled with the protection and improvement of the ecological environment,
particularly in the rational exploitation and use of resources, in the use of
land and in the process of urbanization and industrialization.
7. The economic development must be closely
linked to the enhancement of the capacity to maintain security and defense. To
attach importance to key defense positions and strategic logistic bases in the
area and the whole southern region. To firmly maintain the sovereignty over the
region's land, sea and space of very important strategic significance to the
whole country.
II. MAJOR
DEVELOPMENT TASKS:
1. Regarding industry
- The industrial sector must play the key role,
creating a driving force for the socio-economic development of the southern key
economic area, to strive to increase the industrial growth rate so as to
achieve a ratio of 49.0% and 50.4% of the area's GDP by 2000 and 2010
respectively.
- To develop clean and high-tech industries in
Ho Chi Minh city; to form industrial parks in Ho Chi Minh city and Binh Duong
through Bien Hoa along Highway 51 to Ba Ria - Vung Tau, which all form a
network of industrial parks. To develop the key and spearhead industries (such
as oil and gas exploitation and processing, electric energy, mechanical
manufacture, steel rolling, information technology, basic chemicals and
materials, etc. as the basis for the industrialization of various national
economic sectors) together with the consumer goods industry so as to meet the
domestic and export demands.
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- To develop trade and service to a level on a
par with the role and position of the area in the relationship with the
southern region, the whole country and the world, to strive to achieve the
average trade and service growth rate of from 13% to 15% in the period from now
to the year 2010; to establish a network of trade centers including a number of
centers and department stores of the regional countries' standards.
- To diversify and raise the quality and
effectiveness of various forms of tourism; to open appropriate tourist lines to
attract tourists, to build comprehensive material and technical bases and
infrastructure to assure the lodging needs of Vietnamese and foreign tourists.
- To diversify forms of financing, banking,
telecommunications and port services... in service of production and daily
life.
3. Regarding agriculture, forestry and fishery:
- Regarding agriculture: To step by step exploit
waste land for agricultural production. To step up intensive farming and expand
specialized farming on suitable soil so as to increase the quantity of
commercial products. To apply new scientific, technical and technological
advances as well as appropriate policies and measures to boost production. And
at the same time to prepare plans and measures to prevent and combat natural
disasters, storms and floods.
- To develop forestry, to regreen waste land and
bare hills (mostly in Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai); to quickly expand and soon
stabilize coastal protective forests, especially the areas of submerged forests
in Can Gio district of Ho Chi Minh city and along the coastline of Ba Ria-Vung
Tau, to attach importance to forests that serve as a source of materials for
the paper industry, to national forests and Tri An headwater forests.
- To develop the exploitation, culture,
processing of aquatic and marine resources and their marketing services among
the people. To raise the sea fishing capacity, promote offshore fishing and
apply new scientific, technical and technological advances to production. To
make in-depth investments in upgrading service establishments for the
development of fishery. To encourage all economic sectors to invest in promoting
the development of the aquatic resource branch.
4. Infrastructure development:
- To complete and start to modernize the
infrastructure system is a priority task that needs to be performed one step
ahead. To quickly build key communications routes including national highway
51, national highway 13, national highway 22 and the trans-Asian ways, to
quickly improve the urban traffic, upgrade Tan Son Nhat airport (also taking
into account the construction of a new international airport for the whole
region after Tan Son Nhat airport is over-loaded).
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- To renovate the railway junction in Ho Chi
Minh city, to build railway lines from Ho Chi Minh city to Vung Tau, Phnom
Penh, western south Vietnam and the Central Highlands.
- To upgrade and build a new power grid network
compatible to the power supply capacity so as to meet the production demand and
serve the people's daily life.
- To modernize the information and communication
network and expand the networks of mobile telephone, data transmission, coastal
post and information, to expand the radio and television coverage all over the
area.
- To renovate, upgrade and build water supply
and drainage systems in big cities and industrial parks to ensure the demand of
clean water for production, business and people's daily life, to improve the
living conditions and the environmental sanitation in urban and rural areas.
5. Cultural, health and social development:
- To develop and raise the quality and
effectiveness of the educational and training system so as to raise the
people's intellectual level, and supply adequate human resources for the
regional and national industrialization and modernization. To eradicate
illiteracy and universalize primary education among school-age children by the
year 2000 and universalize junior high school education among the population by
the year 2005.
- To develop the network of primary health care
and medical examination and treatment for the people, to invest in upgrading
existing hospitals and improve the quality of services. To build in the
immediate future medical centers for foreigners in Ho Chi Minh city and Vung
Tau.
- To attract capital from various sourcesand
investment in many forms for the scientific and technological development in
the region. To develop forms of research and application of scientific,
technical and technological advances. To strongly develop the system of centers
for research and experimentation as well as the agricultural, industrial,
forestry and fishery promotion demonstration in the area.
III.
MAJOR SOLUTIONS:
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2. The solutions with respect to sources of
capital, human resources, science, technologies and markets must be concretized
into mechanisms and policies suited to the conditions of each province or city.
Such solutions must be comprehensive and capable of mobilizing all resources
inside and outside the country in service of the socio-economic development of
the southern key economic area.
3. On the basis of the general development
objectives and orientations of the southern key economic area and the
development tasks of various economic sectors therein, the provinces and cities
in the area should review the list of programs and investment projects so as to
arrange them in a more rational priority order. In the course of
implementation, they should regularly supervise and make timely adjustments
thereto with a view to ensuring the efficient investment with different sources
of capital.
Article 2.-
The presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities in the
southern key economic area shall have to closely supervise and monitor the
implementation of this master plan through five-year and annual plans, programs
and investment projects in accordance with the area's master plan.
The ministries and branches at the central level
shall have to coordinate with and support the provinces and cities in the
southern key economic area in the process of formulating and carrying out
programs and investment projects so as to ensure the conformity between the
socio-economic development master plan of each province or city and the
socio-economic development master plan of the southern key economic area and
the national master plan.
Article 3.-
This Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing. The ministers, the heads
of the ministerial-level agencies and agencies attached to the Government, the
presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities in the
southern key economic area shall have to implement this Decision.
THE PRIME MINISTER OF
GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai