Seminar discusses Da Nang’s development programmes

 

Da Nang (VNA) - The People’s Committee of the central coastal city of Da Nang organised a seminar on June 3 to discuss the implementation of its “Five No’s”, “Three Yes’s”, and “Four Safety” programmes aimed at ensuring the city’s path towards sustainable development.

According to a report from the committee, the city has recorded positive outcomes after 20 years of implementing the “Five No’s” programme, which targets “no hunger, no illiteracy, no homelessness, no addiction, and no crime”.

After two years of implementation, the city had basically eradicated hunger and changed the objective to “no extremely poor households”. In the process it selected 6,000 extremely poor households and designed specific policies and mobilised resources to support them. Such households no longer exist in the city.

Da Nang has also changed its “no illiteracy” objective to “no children dropping out of school”, thus ensuring general education for all local kids. It has also adopted drastic measures to ensure there are no beggars on its streets and to minimise drug addiction and crime.

In addition to the “Five No’s” programme, the city also launched its “Three Yes’s” programme - ensuring housing, employment, and a civilised urban lifestyle - in 2005. Over the 15 years since, it has focused resources on building student dorms and accommodation for workers.

With the successful implementation of the “Five No’s” and “Three Yes’s” programmes, Da Nang also launched the “Four Safety” programme, targeting social order, traffic safety, food hygiene, and social security. Five years on, it has addressed issues in terms of traffic accidents and food hygiene.

Participants at the seminar shared ideas and discussed directions and changes to objectives in the programmes to make them more suitable with the existing circumstances.

Vice Chairman of the committee Le Trung Chinh said that with the successful implementation of the three programmes, Da Nang will maintain suitable objectives while adding others.

The “no children dropping out of school” programme will be updated to “no children being abused in families or at school” or “no abuse or violence against women and children”.

For the “Three Yes’s” programme, Da Nang will continue implementing “housing” while reconsidering “employment”, which could be included in other social security programmes.

The city will continue its “Four Safety” programme to further the outcomes from the past five years./.