The central province of Quang Ngai has set forth a number of key socio-economic tasks for the second half of this year during the 20th conference of the provincial Party Committee on June 25.

They include adjustments to the socio-economic development plans for a number of districts and cities, and making a master plan for the development of the island district of Ly Son together with reviewing the use of land in the Dung Quat Economic Zone and other industrial zones.

The province will accelerate a project to restructure the agricultural sector towards raising added value and sustainable development and create incentives for developing product brand names.

In the first half of this year, the provincial GDP was estimated at more than 6 trillion VND (284.2 million USD), 49 percent of the yearly target.

The industrial production value reached 11.6 trillion VND (541 million USD), accounting for more than 52 percent of the year’s plan, and the agricultural, forest and aquaculture sectors posted a production value of 1.5 trillion VND (69.4 million USD).

As of the end of June, the province had two communes recognised as new-style rural areas, meeting all requirements of the national building programme.

Budget collections totalled 16.4 trillion VND (49.3 percent of the year’s target), to which the Dung Quat Refinery contributed 14.5 trillion VND.-VNA