The central province of Ha Tinh announced a master plan on
socio-economic development for the province into 2020, with a vision to
2050, at a conference on April 27.
Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee Vo Kim Cu said that the master plan was
based on the prospects of Ha Tinh’s competitive sectors, namely steel
manufacturing; agriculture, forestry and fishery industries; trade,
transport and logistics; textiles and garments; construction; education
and training; information and communication.
Accordingly, by 2020, the province aims to have an annual economic
growth rate of 18.4 percent; industrial, service and agricultural
sectors will account for 54.7 percent, 32.2 percent and 13.1 percent of
the province’s economy respectively; and the number of poor households
will fall by 3-4 percent per annum.
Addressing the
event, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed that Ha Tinh
needs to continue promoting its potential and this master plan to
businesses and regional countries, in order to attract investment in
priority sectors. The province should also improve the quality of its
human resources to serve economic zones and large projects’ demands, he
added.
On the occasion, Ha Tinh presented
certificates of investment to six businesses, including four foreign
investors from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan
(China). The investors pledge to pour more than 55.4 trillion VND
(2.6 billion USD) in the province.
Since 2011, 301
new projects, worth more than 346 trillion VND (16.5 billion USD), have
been licensed to operate in Ha Tinh. Among them there are 48 foreign
projects with total registered capital of 218 trillion VND (10.4 billion
USD), including those run by such giants as Formosa ( Taiwan ( China
), Samsung (the RoK) and Mitsubishi ( Japan ).-VNA