
Speaking at the event, PM Chinh hailed the efforts made bythe province and the achievements it has gained over the past three decades.
Its average GRDP growth rate reaches 10.18 percent a year.The economic structure is shifting towards the industrialisation andmodernisation direction, with the economic scale in 2021 enjoying a 38-foldincrease compared to that in 1992.
Last year, its commodities, mainly aquatic products, wereexported to around 40 nations and territories, helping the locality pocket over1.2 billion USD – a 51-fold rise against 1992.
The rate of poor and near-poor households plunged to 6.64percent last year from 36.7 percent 30 years ago.
Defence has been maintained, while political security andsocial order and safety in the province in general and ethnicminority-inhabited areas in particular have remained stable for years.

Attention should be paid to improving the building the Partyand the political system; preventing corruption, wastefulness and negativephenomena; maintaining the effective implementation of the National Assemblyand Government’s resolutions on COVID-19 prevention and control andsocio-economic recovery and development.
Soc Trang needs to innovate its growth model, restructure itseconomy, develop the green economy and increase labour productivity, hestressed, asking the province to invest more in infrastructure, especially worksto respond to climate change.
The Government leader also required the locality to strengthenmanagement; use natural resources rationally, effectively and sustainably andprotect the environment; actively carry out measures to deal with climatechange, especially saline intrusion and sea level rise; develop human resources;and continue stepping up administrative reform, improving the investmentenvironment and increasing its administrative reform index and competitiveness.
On this occasion, the PM presented the Ho Chi Minh Order toSoc Trang’s authorities and people for their contributions to the Party andnation’s revolutionary cause, and handed over his Decision recognising SocTrang city as a tier-2 urban area./.