During a working session with officials of the locality on August 24, he praised endeavor by the locality in completing economic goals in recent years.
He also highly valued comprehensive and proper direction and management related to socio-economic development and security-defense of the local authorities.
Thai Nguyen has actively worked hard to mobilize domestic and foreign resources for promoting the locality’s development, especially in poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas, he noted.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the working session with Bac Kan officials. |
In recent years, the locality has focused on promoting industry development and lure investment to this field.
It aimed to attract at least 10 investment projects totaling around USD 300 million to its industrial parks in 2019. The combined sales in local industrial parks are projected to hit USD 28 billion and the export turnover at USD 26 billion.
Later the same day, at a working session with key official of the Northern province of Bac Kan, PM Phuc stressed that it is very important for the locality to promote poverty reduction, especially in remote and ethnic monitory areas.
Attention should be paid to accelerating agricultural restructuring and infrastructure development, he said.
The leader also suggested Bac Kan focus efforts on developing infrastructure, improving the quality of human resources, and expanding attraction of investment and official development assistance (ODA).
Statistics show that Bac Kan’s average economic growth reaches 6.8 percent per year, with agriculture-forestry production, industry-construction and service up 3.5 percent, 9.5 percent and 7.9 percent. Its per capita income is forecast to reach 34.5 million in 2019.
Source: VNA