President Triet visits Ca Mau province

President Nguyen Minh Triet has suggested the southernmost province of Ca Mau capitalise on its diverse potential and advantages and choose a breakthrough sector for development.
President Nguyen Minh Triet has suggested the southernmost provinceof Ca Mau capitalise on its diverse potential and advantages andchoose a breakthrough sector for development.

The State leader made this recommendation during his working session with Ca Mau authorities on June 23.

Ca Mau needed to be active and creative and take advantage ofopportunities, said Triet, adding that local authorities should increasethe efficiency of hunger eradication and poverty reduction and pay moreattention to education and training to add more talent to the country.

The Ca Mau gas-power-fertiliser industrial zone was a lever to boost economic development, he said.

However, he said, the province should have an appropriate policy toattract domestic and foreign investors and take advantage of capitalsources to roads and bridges in communes.

2011 wasalso the first year the entire nation implemented the Resolution of the11 th National Party Congress, stressed the President.

Party members and cadres in Ca Mau and the whole country must studythe resolution well, to thoroughly grasp its contents, he said.

Triet took the occasion to hail the first half socio-economicachievements of the provincial Party’s Committee, authorities andpeople.

Ca Mau was leading the country in seafoodexports with an annual export turnover of over 800 million USD andachieved a food output of more than 450,000 tonnes and an annualper-capita income of over 1,100 USD, he said.

Theliving conditions of the local people had been improved and the numberof poor households had dropped considerably. In addition, Party buildingwork was also consolidated.

The same day, thePresident also visited social beneficiary families, toured Phu Tan andCai Nuoc districts and visited local armed forces./.

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