Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (sixth, left) and delegates at the conference. (Photo: VNA) Highlighting Lang Son’s strategic position inpolitics, economy, culture, national defence and security, and foreign affairs,the leader lauded its achievements over the past time, with its gross regionaldomestic product (GRDP) growing 7% last year.
He also pointed to problems regarding production andbusiness, the implementation of some investment projects, public investmentdisbursement, natural resources management, smuggling and trade fraud.
Given this, he urged the locality to work harder inorder to contribute to consolidating and strengthening the solidarity,friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and its neighbouring country ofChina, and to maintaining national independence, sovereignty and territorialintegrity, while carrying forward its role in transport and economic connectivitybetween Vietnam and other ASEAN countries, and China.
The provincial master plan should match national,regional and sectoral plans, he said, asking Lang Son to quickly set out an implementationplan which needs to identify key tasks, progress and resources.
The locality was also requested to change itsdevelopment mindset and vision, optimise its intrinsic strengths, step up thepublic-private partnership, prioritise major investment projects, and pay moreattention to human resources development, innovation, and science-technologyresearch and application, focusing on agriculture, processing, trade, logisticsand tourism.
More heed should be paid to cultural development and improvement of living standards of local residents, especially ethnicminority groups, the PM stressed.
Other tasks assigned by the leader include naturalresources management, environmental protection, climate change response,administrative reform and preparations of projects to call for investors.
Under the provincial master plan, Lang Son is set to becomea growth pole and an economic centre of the northern midland and mountainousregion by 2030, and holds an increasing important role in economic and tradeconnectivity between Vietnam, other ASEAN countries, China and Europe. Bythat time, it would be among the top five localities in the region in terms of economic size and GRDP per capita.
On this occasion, Lang Son presented investment licencesand in-principle approvals to 14 projects with a total capital of 18.6 trillionVND (730.98 million USD) and nine investment memoranda of understanding to investors./.
VNA
