Red River Delta development plan announced
Speaking at the
event, MoPI Deputy Minister Dang Huy Dong said the master plan is an
important basis for ministries, sectors and relevant localities to map
out sectorial development plans, provincial socio-economic development
plans and five-year and annual socio-economic development plans.
Under the master plan, the region’s contribution to national gross
domestic product (GDP) is expected to increase from 24.7 percent in 2010
to 26.6 percent in 2015 and 28.7 percent in 2020.
Meanwhile, the region’s average per capita income will climb to 2,500 USD by 2015 and about 4,180 USD by 2020.
By
2020, the agricultural sector will account for 7-7.5 percent of the
region’s GDP, industry and construction will reach 45-47 percent, and
services, 46-48 percent.
The plan also set a target of creating
jobs for 300,000 to 350,000 labourers every year and reducing the
annual average rate of poor households to 2 percent, while overcoming
environmental pollution in both rural and urban areas and ensuring
sustainable requirements during the region’s development process.
Priorities will be given to high quality transport, consultation,
design, invention, finance-banking, telecommunications,
education-training, healthcare, trade, tourism, science and technology.
With
ambition to develop tourism into a spearhead sector, the region will
pour investment into building a number of key tourism areas that satisfy
international standards.
By 2015, the region is expected to
welcome 17-18 million domestic visitors and 3.2-3.5 million
international tourists. The numbers are expected to hit 24-25 million
and 4.5-5 million respectively by 2020.
Investors are
encouraged to continue investing in industrial parks, especially those
repairing and building ships and other marine vehicles in Hai Phong
city, and Quang Ninh and Nam Dinh provinces.
In agriculture, the
region will focus on intensive cultivation of rice, vegetables and
flowers, industrial pig and poultry farming and aquaculture using
cutting-edge technologies.
Economic and social infrastructure
will be developed synchronously to generate momentum for the region’s
socio-economic development.
The system of highways connecting
the region’s economic, commercial and service centres will be completed
during the period.
The plan aims to build the region into
the nation’s pioneer area in implementing the country’s strategic
breakthrough targets, restructuring the economy and renovating growth
models.
The region is expected to become a driving force for
the country’s economic development, industrialisation and modernisation,
contributing to raising Vietnam ’s position in the international
arena.
The Red River Delta includes 11 provinces and
centrally-run cities. They are Hanoi , Hai Phong, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh,
Vinh Phuc, Hung Yen, Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Ha Nam , Ninh Binh and
Quang Ninh.
According to the plan, Hanoi and neighbouring
cities will be developed into a national centre of politics, culture,
economics and science-technology.
Hai Duong city will be a
central urban area, focusing on developing industries, science research
and technology transfer, while Nam Dinh city will become a centre for
agriculture-served industry, training and healthcare, and Hai Phong a
gateway for economic integration in the north.
At the
conference, participants presented reports related to measures to
implement the plan, with priorities given to developing an area for
manufacturing high quality farm products and a rural transport
infrastructure system.-VNA