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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:
173/2001/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
November 06, 2001
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DECISION
ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MEKONG RIVER DELTA
REGION IN THE 2001-2005 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
At the proposals of the Ministers of: Agriculture and Rural Development; Planning
and Investment; Finance; Communications and Transport; Construction; Health;
Education and Training; and Aquatic Resources,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To orient
the production restructuring and socio-economic development in the Mekong river
delta region in the 2001-2005 period, aiming to:
Tap the potentials and advantages with respect
to geographical position, land, water resources (fresh water, blackish water,
sea water), forests and labor in order to continue promoting the whole
country’s status in the export of rice, aquatic products and other farm
produce.
Raise the production effectiveness of the
branches: food, vegetables and fruits, husbandry, aquatic resources and
industry, including processing of agricultural, forestrial and aquatic
products, mechanical engineering in service of agriculture and rural trades;
deploy the building of Southwestern gas-electricity-nitrogenous fertilizer
industrial clusters and make a quick step in the economic restructuring along
the direction of increasing the ratios of industries and services
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Effect the agricultural restructuring along the
direction of raising effectiveness and ensuring sustainable development,
increasing the value created per acreage unit, increasing peasants incomes;
concentrate efforts on developing a number of production branches with a high
competitive edge in association with the processing industry and the
consumption market, and at the same time ensure the requirements of sustainable
development and protection of the ecological environment.
Article 2.- Major
socio-economic development objectives to be attained in the 2001-2005 period:
1. The annual GDP growth rate shall reach over
9.8%, in which agriculture, forestry and fishery will remain to be major
production branches of the region, with an annual growth rate of 6%; industry
and construction will rise 13.5% a year and services 10% a year.
2. By 2005: Agricultural, forestrial and aquatic
products shall account for 45.5% of the GDP; industry and construction 22.5%,
and services 31.5%. The annual average per-capita income shall reach over USD
550.
3. Jobs shall be created for 1.8 to 2 million
laborers, or an average of 350,000 laborers a year.
4. By 2005, there shall be no hungry households,
the percentage of poor households shall drop to 10%; the percentage of
malnourished children shall reduce to 22 - 25%; 70-80% of the rural households
shall be supplied with electricity; 75-80% of the urban households and more
than 60% of rural households may use clean water. There shall be no
footbridges.
5. 85-90% of the five-year children shall be
sent to kindergartens before going to primary schools; 95-97% of the children
in the eligible age bracket shall go to primary schools; 78-80% of the children
in the eligible age bracket shall go to junior-high schools; 42-45% of the
children in the eligible age bracket shall go to senior-high schools; to
strongly develop vocational education in various forms. To raise the enrolment
in vocational secondary schools by 10-15% a year; to increase the number of
college and university students, striving to have 60-70 students per 10,000
people. The percentage of trained laborers in the region shall reach 20-25%.
6. To make investment so as to complete the
construction of population clusters and lines in line with the overall
planning, ensuring that inhabitants living in flood-prone areas shall not have
to evacuate, that all communes have health centers, inhabitants have timely
medical examination and treatment, pupils in flood-prone areas shall not have
to stay away from schools during the flooding season, inhabitants shall step by
step have a safe and stable life, society shall become more and more civilized
in spite of annual floods.
7. To markedly improve and raise the living
standards of ethnic minority people, especially Khmer people. To effectively
implement the hunger elimination and poverty alleviation programs and attain
the set targets, settle problems related to employment and production land, to
guide ways of making a livelihood and provide dwelling house support for poor
households and policy beneficiary households.
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1. Agricultural production,
forestry and fishery:
a/ On rice production:
Rice production shall remain to be an
advantageous production branch of the Mekong river delta region. To stabilize
the rice acreage of around 1.8 million hectares of land with good irrigation
conditions for growing two surely successful crops, of which one million hectares
shall be grown with high-quality rice varieties for export, thus maintaining a
yearly rice output of 15 to 16 million tons. To readjust the crop structure and
the rice variety structure to suit the development of floods and consumption
markets. To raise the levels of rice production, processing and preservation
technologies on par with the advanced level in the region by 2005, with a high
competitiveness on the international market.
For land areas planted with rice of low and
unstable productivity, riverside land areas, flood-free high-lying land areas,
rice cultivation areas in the outskirts, along traffic roads and in other
areas, they shall be gradually shifted to cultivation of trees of higher
economic value or aquaculture.
b/ On the development of plants for use as
industrial raw materials:
To expand the areas under corn, soybean in
combination with the use of new high-yield strains so as to supply raw
materials for production of animal feed.
To stabilize the sugarcane areas of around
90,000 hectares in order to ensure raw materials for existing sugar mills. To
apply scientific and technical advances in strains in combination with
intensive farming in order to raise the sugarcane productivity to an average of
80 tons per hectare by 2005.
To continue to improve the coconut-processing
technology, diversify and increase the value of coconut products. At the same
time, to step by step carry out research into high-yield and high-quality
coconut varieties, suitable to consumers tastes, in order to supplant old and
stunted, low-yield coconut orchards; to implement the method of inter-planting
coconuts with other plants or in combination with husbandry or aquaculture, in
order to increase the current land use efficiency by 1.5 - 2 times.
On the basis of scientific conclusions on the
effectiveness and possibility of development of cotton in the region, the
provincial People’s Committees, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development and Vietnam Garment Corporation shall work out plans and measures
to expand the areas under hybrid cotton strains of high yield and quality in
areas where conditions permit. The cotton development must be associated with
the development of cotton-spinning and textile industries. To develop jute
planting in areas where conditions permit for use as raw materials for
packaging and paper industries.
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To develop assorted tropical fruit trees with
competitive edge and high economic commodity value, such as mango, longan,
thick-skinned orange, sweet mandarins, shaddock, pineapple, star apple,
mangosteen, durian and others trees. The development of fruit trees must be
associated with export markets and import substitution.
Frequently-flooded areas should change their plant-
and -crop structures suitable to inundation conditions.
d/ Regarding husbandry: To continue developing
herds of pigs, poultry, beef cows and quickly develop herds of milch cows in
order to supply raw materials for milk-processing plants in Long An, Can Tho
and other localities.
e/ Regarding forestry development:
To protect and develop submerged forests in
southern South Vietnam, particularly coastal ones in the provinces of Ca Mau,
Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, considering it a vital issue of the ecosystem of
the whole southern South Vietnam.
To associate the protection and development of
special-use forests, nature conservation parks, and forests being historical
places with the development of eco-tourism.
To speed up the plantation of economic forests
on alkaline soil areas and in areas where conditions permit, to grow around
100,000 new hectares of cajeput forests in the Plain of Reeds, Long Xuyen
Quadrangle, western Hau river area and southern Ca Mau peninsula.
To intensify the protection and development of
forests in submerged ecological land areas, to associate forest zoning and
regeneration with aquaculture, to enhance the protection capability, ensure
economic efficiency of forestry and protect the ecological environment.
To strongly develop the planting of scatter
trees and wave-shielding trees, attaching importance to planting timber trees
in populous areas, population lines and clusters, along roads, canals and
around dwelling houses.
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f/ Regarding aquatic resource development:
To bring into full play potentials and
advantages of the country’s largest aquatic product production and export
region. To strongly develop aquaculture on water surface of various types (fresh,
blackish and salt); at the same time, to develop step by step the sea-rearing
of assorted shrimps, fishes and mollusks of high value according to the overall
plannings of the region and each locality.
Before 2005, the aquaculture areas in the whole
region shall reach over 700,000 ha; the fishing and aquaculture output shall be
1.7 million tons and the export value over USD 1,500 million.
To diversify aquaculture methods: inter-farming,
farming rotation, specialized farming, intensive and semi-intensive farming,
ecological rearing and diversification of reared animals in order to achieve
high economic efficiency, protect the ecological environment, limit risks, meet
the demands of domestic and international markets, especially markets with huge
potentials.
To prioritize investment in building the
aquaculture infrastructure system, especially the network of irrigation
projects (dykes, canals, main water supply and drainage culverts,
electricity-operated pumping stations), to form small- and medium-sized aquaculture
project areas with a view to receiving synchronous investment, ensuring the
requirements of rapid, sustainable and highly-effective development of aquatic
resources.
Offshore fishing must be associated with marine
services so as to raise economic efficiency; to re-organize production and
create jobs for coastal fishermen along the direction of strong shift to
aquaculture, provision of services and protection of aquatic resources in
coastal areas.
To concentrate investment in renewing processing
technologies, gradually downsizing the crude processing; increasing the
processing contents of high added value, diversifying products and turning out
high-quality products to meet the market demands; at the same time, to well
manage the quality, ensuring aquatic food hygiene and safety.
2. Regarding industrial
development: To concentrate investment in developing the key industries:
a/ Processing of agricultural, forestrial and
aquatic products, especially the aquatic product-processing industry. To give
priority to renovating, expanding and bettering aquatic product-processing
establishments in Ca Mau, Soc Trang, Can Tho, Tra Vinh, to bring the processing
capacity to over 250,000 tons a year by 2005; to use to the utmost the capacity
of fresh milk-, yogurt- and ice-cream-processing factories in Long An and Can
Tho.
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c/ Production of construction materials to
develop infrastructure and build dwelling houses. By 2005 the cement production
output shall reach 4.17 million tons, of which cement produced in Kien Giang
shall be 3.05 million tons.
d/ For the textile and garment industry, to
build two combined textile, garment and dyeing complexes in Can Tho and Long
An, each shall have 20,000 to 30,000 spindles for yarn-spinning, a total
capacity of 20 million meters/year for coarse cloth weaving; 1,500 tons a year
for knitting, 45 million meters a year for finished dyeing for cotton and
synthetic fabric. To attract over 20,000 redundant labors from the agricultural
sector.
e/ Manufacture of shoe leather, chemicals,
fertilizers, packaging, paper, wood processing In localities where condition
permit, to develop handicraft and cottage industries.
f/ Regarding the electricity industry, to invest
in building the O Mon power plant (I + II) with a capacity of 600 MW, a 110kW
electricity transmission line network and stations compatible with the plant.
To deploy the building of the Ca Mau mixed gas turbine power plant with a
capacity of 720 MW and the Ca Mau - O Mon high-voltage power line network; to
expeditiously build the electricity and nitrogenous fertilizer industries in Ca
Mau and Can Tho (to build in 2002 the nitrogenous fertilizer plant with an
annual capacity of 800,000 tons in Ca Mau) according to the Ca Mau
gas-electricity-nitrogenous fertilizer industrial park planning, which was
approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 776/QD-TTg of June 26, 2001.
g/ Regarding cigarette production, to stabilize
an annual output of 230-240 million packs; to continue intensive investment in
order to modernize factories, raise the quality of cigarettes, with filter
cigarettes in hard packs to account for 90%.
h/ Regarding the brewery industry, to
concentrate efforts on improving the quality of beer in five local State-run
establishments, expand their capacity, re-organize and re-arrange
establishments so as to raise the beer quality to meet the consumption demands
in the region.
To find outlet markets, raise the quality of
assorted fruit juices, aerated and non-aerated soft drinks; to study and make
additional investment in building a plant with a capacity of over 10 million
liters/year in order to consume fruits of large yield like mango, longan,
orange, mandarin, rambutan
i/ To develop and attract investors into six
existing industrial parks, at the same time to step by step plan and form some
more new industrial parks of small and medium sizes.
To continue setting up industrial parks,
industrial clusters and spots in townships and districts so as to meet the
needs of preservation and processing of farm produce; to develop industries,
handicraft and cottage industries and craft villages to turn out more products
to meet the domestic demands; to boost export, contributing to stimulating
demand and quickly stepping up the rural industrialization process.
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a/ To well perform the work of market
forecasting and information as well as trade promotion in order to expand domestic
and foreign markets with funding sources of enterprises, financial support of
organizations and individuals, and the State’s support. To build and develop
the border-gate economy in provinces where conditions permit.
To encourage the founding, and promoting the
role of, commodity-line associations. To study and set up a Trade Promotion
Fund, Funds for insurance of animals and plants; to formulate and organize the
implementation of programs to raise the competitiveness of each commodity item,
of each enterprise and of the Mekong river delta region as a whole.
To build and develop trade centers, market
information centers, trade promotion centers, systems of warehouses for storage
and preservation of farm produce, networks of wholesale markets for farm and
aquatic products To invest in trade technical infrastructure (market, trade
centers’) for localities in areas mainly inhabited by ethnic minority people,
deep-lying and remote areas.
To increase the growth rate of goods and service
retail sales of the whole region to 15% a year and the export growth rate to
18-20 % a year.
b/ To tap the region’s potentials and advantages
so as to develop tourism and eco-tourism. The tourism sector shall strive for a
yearly growth rate of over 20% in the 2001-2005 period; by 2005 its turnover
shall surpass VND 800 billion.
c/ To diversify and raise the efficiency of
production and business activities of various services, focusing on quickly
developing services of various forms to boost goods production and export, and serve
the people’s daily life, such as communications and transport, post and
telecommunications, banking, insurance, customs bonded warehouses, transit,
border gate-to-border gate delivery, temporary import for re-export, labor
export, technology transfer, provision of input and output supplies and
techniques for agriculture and aquaculture. The annual growth rate of the
service sector in the 2001-2005 period shall reach 8-10%.
4. Science, technology and the
environment:
a/ To enhance the scientific and technological
capability in the region, to mobilize scientific and technological forces
outside the region, making a fresh and effective development step in scientific
and technological research and application with a view to increasing scientific
and technological contributions to the added value of commodity products,
creating a driving force for socio-economic development in the Mekong river
delta region.
To continue deeper research into the flood
distribution and development rules, to work out scientific grounds for measures
to deal with floods, landslides’ as well as construction solutions like coastal
dykes, island dykes and protection dykes for densely-populated areas; to
effectively treat the rural environment and the environment in concentrated
rearing and planting areas.
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b/ To apply new scientific and technological
achievements in construction, material production and construction structure
suitable to landslide prone areas and frequently-flooded areas; to study the
dredging of Dinh An ship passage leading to Can Tho port so that ships with a
capacity of up to 10,000 tons can enter or leave the port.
c/ To study so as to build the software industry
in Can Tho, build and exploit the region’s Internet network.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and
Environment shall coordinate with the provincial People’s Committees and the
concerned ministries and branches in planning the allocation of funding in the
five-year (2001-2005) and annual research plans for attainment of the economic
restructuring objectives in the Mekong river delta region.
5. Health, education and
training:
a/ Health:
To consolidate and develop the network of general
hospitals in service of the primary healthcare, epidemic prevention and fight
and medical examination and treatment for people.
To finish soon the investment in building the
region’s general hospital in Can Tho city, with a view to better meeting
medical examination and treatment needs of people in the region.
To continue strengthening and upgrading the
grassroots medical network, especially in communes, hamlets and villages; to
adopt policies to encourage medical doctors to work in communes, with 80% of communes
to have medical doctors by 2005.
To ensure the necessary reserve amounts of
medicines for flooded areas, at the same time intensify the propaganda and
education on the use of clean water, safe and proper use of medicines. To take
measures to prevent, fight and restrict such dangerous diseases as typhoid and
other diseases.
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To quickly generate a basic change in education
and training to meet the education needs of all population strata and
socio-economic development in the region; to attach importance to attracting
children of Khmer and other ethnic minority peoples to schools.
To strengthen and perfect the planning on the
network of pre schools and general education schools (including boarding
schools for ethnic minority children) in association with the planning on
population clusters, making them suitable to frequently-flooded areas; to
basically eliminate three-shift classrooms in the 2001-2002 school-year, to
build solid and semi-solid general education schools which shall account for
80% of schools by 2005, ensuring stable study and use as shelters when floods
occur.
On the basis of the planning on the network of
colleges and universities, already approved by the Government, to start the
founding of a number of universities and colleges in provinces where conditions
permit so as to enhance the capability of training human resources on the spot,
and meet the region’s socio-economic development needs, especially in the
domains of agriculture, aquatic resources, processing of agricultural,
forestrial and aquatic products, medicine and training of teachers.
On the basis of the existing Medicine and
Pharmacy Faculty of Can Tho university, to deploy in 2002 the founding of, and
investment in building, a medicine and pharmacy university for training
specialized and general medical practitioners for the Mekong river delta
provinces.
To definitely put an end to the shortage of
primary school teachers in 2002, junior- high school and senior-high school
teachers by 2005. For the immediate future, to expand the teachers-training
scale of the Pedagogy Department of Can Tho university, the Vinh Long Pedagogy
and Technical College and a number of local pedagogy colleges so as to
supplement in time and raise the qualifications of the contingent of teachers
in the region. To deploy in 2002 the establishment of, and investment in
building, a pedagogy university for training teachers in the region.
To gradually increase the investment ratio for
education and training in the Mekong river delta region to around 22% of the
total education and training budget in the 2001-2005 period.
c/ Labor and employment:
Together with the economic restructuring, to
strongly develop traditional crafts and trades, to invest in building rural
infrastructure in line with the planning, to effect production restructuring,
to create more jobs for local laborers.
The Mekong river delta provinces shall closely
coordinate with the ministries, branches and Corporations 91 in studying,
supplementing and finalizing job training and teaching programs to satisfy
human resource needs; to strive to transfer annually around 240,000 laborers
from the rural sector to the industrial and service sectors; to reduce the
unemployment rate in urban areas to below 4%; to achieve the percentages of
labor in the agricultural and forestry sector at 53%, the industrial sector 17%
and the service sector around 30% by 2005 in the region.
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To continue strongly developing infrastructure with
a view to creating conditions for rapid socio-economic development in the
region.
The plannings on communications, construction,
population clusters and lines and dwelling houses, electricity, water must be
further supplemented and revised to suit the irrigation and flood control
plannings so as to meet the flood drainage requirements, and at the same time
to ensure safety for infrastructural works when floods occur every year.
1. Regarding irrigation: To
invest in building systems of irrigation works in association with the
communications development and construction of population clusters, lines and
centers according to Decision No. 99/TTg of February 9, 1996 in order to serve
effectively the production restructuring and people’s life.
On the basis of the 2000 and 2001 figures on
floods, to assign the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to assume
the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries and
branches and the provincial People’s Committees in supplementing and finalizing
the overall planning on irrigation and flood drainage systems, acidity and alum
neutralization, salinization prevention, freshwater containment to meet the
requirements of the region’s economic restructuring program; supplementing and
revising the flood control planning on the basis of calculating the 2000 flood
reversion in the whole Mekong river basin, making it suitable to the flood
development and newly-arising issues, thereby ensuring the requirements of
rapid and sustainable socio-economic development in the region.
a/ Regarding the objectives for 2005, to perfect
the system of key irrigation and flood control projects in the region in order
to better meet the production requirements, minimize flood consequences, ensure
safety for the people’s lives and properties as well as economic establishments
and infrastructure.
To continue implementing and perfecting the
irrigation system, combining water supply and drainage, alum neutralization,
salinization prevention with flood control in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle. To
speed up research so as to have scientific grounds for investment in building
irrigation and flood control works in the Plain of Reeds and the Vam Co river
area.
b/ To complete the construction items under the
World Bank-funded project, including Quan Lo - Phung Hiep, Nam Mang Thit and
Omon - Xa No; the Ba Lai irrigation project in Ben Tre province;to build a
synchronous intra-field irrigation system capable of controlling the water
supply and drainage for the areas of around one million hectares planned for
production of rice for export; to build a synchronous and complete irrigation
system in service of around 700,000 hectares for rearing shrimps and assorted
aquatic species.
To operate the irrigation systems in the western
Hau river area, southern Ca Mau peninsula U Minh Thuong and U Minh Ha areas in
order to meet the requirements of diversified production development.
To revise and finalize the planning on sea and
river-mouth dykes in the coastal provinces with a view to facilitating the production
restructuring, safeguarding people and draining flood water in the region.
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a/ Over the five coming years, to solve
basically traffic problems, with attention paid to both land-road traffic and
exploitation of the strengths of waterway traffic in the region; to upgrade and
solidify national and provincial roads, of which 90% shall be asphalted; to
open new roads N1 and N2 in parallel with the North-South national highway 1A,
to open the Quan Lo - Phung Hiep route and the southern Hau river route (91c).
b/ To upgrade the systems of national highways,
provincial roads and key district roads in order to formulate a smooth land
road traffic system throughout the flooded region of the Mekong river delta.
The construction of communications lines, bridge
and culvert systems must be closely coordinated with irrigation projects, thus
forming a synchronous system for flood control, exploitation of water
resources, protection of the sustainable environment, and construction of
population clusters, lines and centers.
c/ For the immediate future, to concentrate on
completing key projects, renovating and upgrading a number of communications
lines and main ports; to make concentrated investment so as to achieve
practical efficiency, creating a driving force in timely service of
circulation, export and production development in the region, consolidating the
security and defense posture.
To begin the construction of route N2, the Thanh
Hoa - Duc Hoa section, route N1, the Ben Thuy - Tinh Bien - Ha Tien section,
the southern Hau river route (91c), and the Quan Lo - Phung Hiep route.
To open national highway 1A at the Ho Chi Minh
city - Trung Luong section, national highway 60 (Ben Tre - Tra Vinh, Soc Trang
and two ferries of Co Chien and Dai Ngai); national highway 80 (the My Thuan -
Vam Cong section); national highway 50 (the Cau Nhi Thien Duong - Go Cong - My
Tho section), To Chau bridge on national highway 80 and a number of roads
linking to the border gates; to deploy the construction of Can Tho bridge; to
restore national highway 1 at the Ca Mau - Nam Can section.
To deploy the projects to build an expressway
from Ho Chi Minh City to Can Tho (stage 1), Rach Mieu and Vam Cong bridges in
the BOT form.
d/ To continue constructing inter-district,
inter-commune and inter-village rural road networks with the funding sources:
budgetary capital, capital mobilized from the population, capital provided by
JBIC, ADB and WB donors; to complete soon the program on elimination of foot
bridges and building of new rural bridges; to strive for all communes to have
motorways leading to their centers by 2005.
e/ To make investment in order to basically
complete the construction of traffic roads on islands (mainly on Phu Quoc
island), aiming to ensure defense and security, at the same time settle matters
related to electricity and water supply, bridges and culverts, health,
education� in order to
raise the people’ living standards and develop production.
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To complete the projects on two southern
waterway routes and Can Tho port; to continue upgrading Can Tho port, stage 2,
including completion of the remaining 76 meters of pier, building of yard roads
and furbishment of loading and unloading equipment. To invest in building Cai
Cui port (Can Tho), Can Giuoc port (Long An) and Dinh An port (Tra Vinh).
The Ministry of Communications and Transport
shall closely coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
in calculating and determining the span width and positions of the bridges
along the traffic roads and the systems of axis irrigation canals, to work out
appropriate construction solutions (over-the-flood bridges, viaducts, floodways�) so as to both ensure
traffic and avoid affecting the flow and raising the flood level.
3. On the plan for building
population clusters and lines and dwelling houses in frequently-flooded areas.
a/ To build over-the-flood population clusters
and lines (taking the peaks of the 1961 and 2000 floods as standard).
For the construction of population clusters and
lines, public welfare facilities such as schools, health centers, it must
ensure that they shall not be inundated as in 1961 and 2000, inhabitants in
flood-prone areas shall have a safe and stable life, not have to evacuate when
floods occur; at the same time create favorable conditions for production
development, suit the living conditions and habits of the people in the region,
help the people in the whole region to lead a civilized and modern life, meet
the requirements of agricultural industrialization and modernization and rural
development.
The population lines and clusters and dwelling
houses shall be constructed according to planning, by methods of elevating
house bases, building protection dykes or building house floors on piles,
ensuring safety in the flood season and compliance with the plannings which are
approved by the provincial People’ Committees after obtaining the evaluation
opinions of the Ministry of Construction.
To build public welfare facilities (education,
health, cultural and social which can operate normally in the flood season.
b/ To supplement and finalize the construction
planning, to arrange population in clusters and lines; protection dykes surrounding
population quarters shall be associated with socio-economic infrastructures in
service of the people’ life; for the immediate future deeply-submerged areas
shall be given priority.
- For populous provincial towns, district townships
and suburban centers: To combine the elevation of their bases and the building
of protection dykes surrounding population quarters with solutions to water
drainage, environmental sanitation and construction of urgent essential public
welfare facilities, suited to the practical conditions of each locality.
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- Population lines shall be built mainly along
axis canals, grade I - canals and major traffic roads. Population clusters
shall be arranged along population lines. Population clusters may be arranged
along one side or both sides of such canals or roads, interruptedly or
successively along each line, suited to the flood drainage planning and
concrete conditions of each area.
- For large surrounding dykes to protect
people’s production and daily-life activities on a village, commune or district
scale, detailed plannings must be worked out so as to avoid spontaneous
widespread construction thereof which serves sectional interests at the expense
of common interests. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development must
consider and approve detailed plannings for each province on the basis of the
whole region’s irrigation and flood control plannings.
c/ In the 2001-2005 five-year plan, to
concentrate investment so as to basically complete the construction of
population lines and clusters and essential infrastructure in flood-prone,
river-mouth and coastal areas; to ensure that schools, hospitals, medical and
cultural establishments operate normally in the flood season, step by step
solidify them to avoid inundation.
Within two years 2001 and 2002, to complete the
formulation of detailed plannings on the construction of commune centers and
population clusters in the flood-prone areas; to concentrate on directing the
simultaneous completion of five pilot population clusters in flood-prone areas,
which are now being invested incompletely, to sum up and draw experiences for
wide application. By 2005 the construction of over-the-flood population lines
and clusters must be completed.
The Ministry of Construction shall assume the
prime responsibility for formulating, together with the provinces, programs and
plans on the construction of safe population clusters and lines in flood-prone
areas and the 2001-2005 five-year program on housing development in the Mekong
river delta region, submit them to the Prime Minister for approval and
direction of the program implementation.
d/ To implement appropriate housing support
policies for policy beneficiary families, poor inhabitants, especially
households of Khmer people who are leading a difficult life and unable to build
their houses. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall
assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries
and branches in formulating specific support policies and submit them to the
Prime Minister in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Together with the State’s support policies, the
localities and people in the region shall launch campaigns to help people solve
problems regarding land and dwelling house construction with a view to
stabilizing their life.
e/ To review and adjust the plannings of
population areas, district townships and suburban centers, well combining the
embellishment, upgrading and expansion of old urban centers with the investment
in building new ones; to upgrade and renovate infrastructures in district
townships and suburban centers in the region; to coordinate with the localities
in directing the effective implementation of support policies and creating
conditions for improving the people’s dwelling houses, particularly for inhabitants
in flood-prone areas.
f/ The State encourages the localities to
mobilize resources and organize the effective implementation of the program on
investment in development of rural infrastructure such as investment in rural
traffic roads, aquaculture infrastructures, rural craft village infrastructure;
to ensure clean water and environmental sanitation in rural areas; to well deal
with the environment in industrial parks, population quarters, rivers and
canals.
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The mechanisms and policies for the Mekong river
delta region must ensure the accelerated economic restructuring in an effective
manner; the development of infrastructures; the solution of burning issues in
the region, such as hunger and poverty, diseases, schooling, so as to raise the
living standards of ethnic minority people, especially the Khmer people.
1. Regarding the mobilization of investment
resources for production development:
To encourage all economic sectors to participate
in making investment in socio-economic development, creating jobs and providing
vocational training; the State budget shall prioritize the allocation of
fundings for investment in building key infrastructure.
For aquaculture projects in newly-reclaimed
areas, the localities shall have plans on reserving land for them and encourage
investors to invest therein and enterprises to act as investors to build
infrastructure then sell, contract or lease them for capital recovery according
to the investment mechanisms for industrial parks.
2. Regarding the consumption of agricultural,
forestrial and aquatic goods:
To build an organizational mechanism for
associating farmers households, cooperatives and enterprises, together with
appropriate mechanisms and policies in order to strive for a majority of
farmers engaged in goods production to be able to produce these goods under
contracts.
By 2005, over 50% of farmers households engaged
in commodity production shall be able to produce goods under contracts signed
with economic cooperation organizations, processing and trading enterprises.
First of all, to effect the production under economic contracts of sugarcane,
cotton, cow milk, aquatic products and step by step expand the contractual
production to other production raw materials.
The signing of commodity product consumption
contracts shall be an obligation of processing and consumption enterprises of
all economic sectors.
To set up associations for mutual assistance in
production and consumption, protection of interests of producers and business
people in each commodity line branch.
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Besides the budgets (including central and local
budgets), human force and external financial sources shall be mobilized to
increase resources for investment in building socio-economic infrastructures
like roads, irrigation, education, health, population lines and clusters and
public welfare facilities in population clusters.
To adopt policies to encourage all economic
sectors to invest in manufacturing construction materials suitable for building
dwelling houses and socio-economic infrastructure in the Mekong river delta
region.
4. Regarding credit:
a/ The State�s
development investment credit shall ensure sufficient capital for investment
projects for economic development, projects on manufacturing and processing of
export goods, agricultural, forestrial and aquaculture projects, which may
borrow capital under the provisions of the Government’s Decree No.
43/1999/ND-CP of June 29, 1999, the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 02/2001/QD-TTg
of January 2, 2001 and Decision No. 133/2001/QD-TTg of September 10, 2001.
The Development Assistance Fund shall apply
various credit forms: guarantee, post-investment support under the provisions
of Decree No. 43/1999/ND-CP of June 29, 1999.
To earmark part of the State’s development
investment credit capital for policy beneficiary households and poor households
to borrow at a preferential interest rate to lift their house bases or build
dwelling houses by mode of installment payment over many years; to support
investment in population lines and clusters.
The Ministry of Finance shall assume the prime
responsibility and coordinate with the State Bank of Vietnam, the Development
Assistance Fund and the concerned ministries and branches in formulating
capital-lending mechanisms and policies, then submit them to the Prime Minister
for decision.
b/ Commercial banks shall provide loans to goods
producers according to regulations, at the same time set up soon credit guarantee
funds so as to help those who have no collateral conditions to borrow bank
capital. To encourage the expansion of capital service forms for producers, to
especially encourage enterprises to provide capital services for people in the
form of capital advance and repayment in farm produce.
5. To elaborate industrial promotion policies:
To support job training, reduce the land use levy for investors, provide
preferential credit for enterprises to invest in industrial and handicraft
production in the Mekong river delta region.
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6. To basically settle the problem of peasants
having no land or lacking production land:
To create more land fund by virgin-land
reclamation.
To review the land funds of State-run
organizations, agricultural and forestrial farms in order to recover right in
2001 and early 2002 unused or ineffectively-used land areas and assign them to
the localities for assignment to farmers households for production.
To create conditions for a section of
land-hungry and land-less peasants to settle down in new economic zones.
To enhance the land management; to complete
cadastral dossiers, grant land use right certificates, and strictly manage
land-related fluctuations. To strictly forbid the illegal land cessions, to
definitely settle land-related complaints and disputes.
To continue well implementing the policy on
exemption of agricultural land use levy for flood-prone areas as well as
localities that face outlet market difficulties. To exempt the land use levy
for poor households (according to new criteria), for households in communes
covered by Program 135.
7. For ethnic minority people: To continue
implementing freight and price subsidy support policies for ethnic minority
people suited to their conditions and habits; the State shall adopt support
policies suitable to Khmer households facing real housing difficulties.
To give priority to them to borrow capital for
production from the Bank for the Poor and other sources; to well perform the
agricultural promotion work and give further guidance on ways of living and
production to ethnic minority people.
As from 2002, to implement the following
policies towards poor ethnic minority households:
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- Exempting them from paying charges for medical
examination and treatment at health stations, health centers or hospitals.
Article 6.- Organization
of implementation:
1. The People’s Committees of the Mekong rive
delta provinces must consider the implementation of the contents of this
Decision a major task of the Party committees and local administrations at all
levels as well as of the people in the region; at the same time, closely coordinate
with the ministries and central branches in elaborating, and organizing the
implementation of, the programs and projects.
On the basis of the agreement with the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry
of Aquatic Resources, the General Land Administration and concerned agencies as
well as provinces shall review and adjust the plannings on the construction of
population quarters, on the land use, and detailed plannings on production
areas (rice-shrimps; rice-subsidiary food crops; fruit trees, forestrial
development) in their respective localities. The presidents of the provincial
People’s Committees shall approve detailed plannings on production areas suited
to the characteristics of each locality; concretize them into programs and
plans, then organize the implementation thereof.
2. The ministries and branches shall base
themselves on their respective functions and tasks to assume the prime
responsibility together with the Mekong river delta provinces in organizing and
directing the implementation of specific programs and projects. The ministries
and localities shall report once a year to the Prime Minister on the results of
the implementation of the contents of this Decision.
3. In order to settle the housing problem for
policy beneficiary households and poor households in deeply-flooded areas, to
assign the Ministry of Construction to assume the prime responsibility and
coordinate with the State Bank of Vietnam and the Ministry of Finance in
formulating policies on providing loans in kind being dwelling houses to these
households, then submit them to the Prime Minister for decision.
The projects on construction of urgent
population lines and clusters in 2001 and 2002, which have been approved by
competent authorities, shall not be required to make pre-feasibility study
reports and have them approved but only need to submit technical designs and
total cost estimates for approval according to regulations, be allowed to apply
the form of bidder appointment for implementation, but they must not let
negative acts happen.
For the immediate future, the Ministry of
Construction shall work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
and the People’s Committees of the provinces having flood-prone areas to
determine and select projects on the construction of urgent population clusters
and lines, and protection dykes surrounding population quarters in
deeply-flooded areas, compatible with the planning, for early investment in
2001 and 2002, then submit them to the Prime Minister.
To exempt the charge for changing the purpose of
agricultural land use to construction of population lines and clusters.
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The State Bank of Vietnam shall direct the
prioritized lending of preferential credit to people for investment in
production development and rural infrastructure construction.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
make full use of the sympathy and support of foreign countries and
international organizations, prioritize the use of ODA capital sources to
support the implementation of programs and projects on development of economic
and social establishments.
5. The General Department of Hydrology and
Meteorology shall continue enhancing the measuring, surveying and exploring
capacities so as to collect adequate and accurate data on hydrology,
meteorology and water environment so as to perform well the hydrological and
meteorological forecasting work, study more comprehensively the climatic and
hydrological rules in the region; create scientific grounds for the branches
and localities to consider, revise and/or supplement the plannings with a view
to bettering solutions to control and use flood water in the Mekong river delta
region in a rational and effective way.
Article 7.- This
Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 8.- The
ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the
agencies attached to the Government, and the presidents of the People’s
Committees of the Mekong river delta provinces shall have to implement this
Decision.
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai