Hung Yen should also pay more attention to human resources development and the application of high technology, while ensuring social security for locals, he said, adding that the province should further boost tourism in line with the conservation and promotion of cultural values.
The PM also requested the locality to strengthen the prevention and combat of corruption and wastefulness, while effectively implementing the Party’s resolution on Party building and Politburo’s direction on strengthening the study and following moral example of President Ho Chi Minh.
Located in the left bank of the Red River and the center of the northern delta, Hung Yen, also known as Pho Hien, was a busy urban area and a bustling commercial port of the north after the capital city of Hanoi in the 17th century. Its name also attached with the legend of Chu Dong Tu, one of the four immortals of Vietnam.
Hung Yen province was founded in 1831 and re-established in 1997. The province, which has long tradition of patriotism, is home to many famous patriots, including Trieu Quang Phuc, Pham Ngu Lao, Nguyen Thien Thuat and Hoang Hoa Tham.
Realizing the Party’s renewal policy, Hung Yen has risen to a locality with economic growth higher than the country’s average. Per capital income of the locality has increased 10 times compared to that in 20 years ago. Its economic structure has changed rapidly towards modernization and industrialization. Hung Yen expects to be among 16 localities with highest budget collection in 2017.
On the occasion, PM Phuc presented Independence Order, first class, to the Party Organization, administration and people of Hung Yen to recognize devotion and contributions of the province to the national construction and defense.
Source: VNA