Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the request at a working sessionwith provincial authorities on May 25.
The PM spoke highly of the province’s efforts to achieve good results insocio-economic development, including the GDP growth rate of 8.7percent in the past five years, quick industrial development with threeindustrial zones and 29 industrial clusters, and new and efficientmodels of agricultural production.
These helped increase the annual per-capita income to 600 USD andreduce poverty rate.
Yet, Bac Giang’s economic development remains slow and per-capita incomeis only half of the national level, the PM pointed out.
Noting the fact that 70 percent of local labourers work in agriculture,generating 30 percent of the provincial GDP, PM Dung requested theacceleration of scientific-technological application in agriculture toincrease quality and productivity for sustainable development.
For the next five years (2011-2015), the PM asked the province to tapevery resources for investment in agriculture, industry and servicesector so as to speed up the economy, achieve GDP growth rate of 11-12percent per year and an average per-capita income of over 1,300 USD by2015.
While in Bac Giang, the PM also visited Fuhong company in Dong Vangindustrial cluster./.