PM calls for Gia Lai’s greater poverty reduction efforts
(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to double efforts to reduce poverty and iron snags in production and business.
At a working session with key provincial leaders on April 12 on development orientations for the locality, PM Dung said the province should find ways to ease business difficulties, effectively carry out the national target programme on building new-style rural areas while assisting locals in developing family-based economies.
Gia Lai needs to boost agricultural production, and apply scientific advances and new technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, especially in the coffee, rubber, pepper and animal husbandry sectors.
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The province should improve its investment environment to attract investors into areas with high development potentials, such as the cultivation and processing of industrial crops.
More attention should be given to improving health care and education services, especially high-quality human resource training to meet development demand, Dung said.
Despite facing numerous difficulties in 2012, Gia Lai achieved a high economic growth rate of nearly 13 percent with per capita income of VND26 million. The rate of poor households dropped by 3.82 percent, equivalent to 8,370 households.
Dung and leaders of ministries and central agencies also gave their opinions on Gia Lai’s proposals, including upgrading the Pleiku airport terminal and funding key transport, irrigation and cultural infrastructure projects.
The same day, he visited the provincial police and Army Corps 3 High Command.