PM Dung pays working visit to Tra Vinh

Meeting with key provincial leaders on January 3, PM Dung noted Tra Vinh’s numerous difficulties include a high proportion of poor households and outdated and insufficient infrastructure particularly regarding transport.

He asked the province to harness the advantages of its potential in aquaculture to boost growth and raise living standards.

Tra Vinh should focus on proliferating larger-scale rice field models and applying scientific and technological advances capable of improving productivity, quality, and competitiveness.

The locality should also encourage enterprises to invest more in rural areas, helping rural economic structural transformations and creating more jobs for local labourers, he said.

The PM asked Tra Vinh to devote more efforts to social welfare. Provincial authorities should unite to rapidly reduce poverty in a sustainable way.

Healthcare and cultural and educational development are imperative to improving the spiritual and material lives of locals.

Bettering social security, safety, and order is especially apposite ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, he said.

The Tra Vinh People’s Committee has reported a number of socio-economic achievements in 2013.

The province’s GDP grew 10.53%. The ratio of poor households decreased 2.64%, while all 85 communes implemented the new rural area construction programme.

In 2014, the province is aiming for a minimum GDP growth rate of 11% and a 3% reduction in the number of poor households. The locality will also strive to create additional 22,000 jobs

Tra Vinh will pursue these goals in accordance with its 2013–2020 economic restructuring plan, including a special focus on aquaculture.

It will also strengthen trade promotion and raise the quality of its human resources, while fine-tuning ethnic minority and religious policies.

PM Dung reserved time to inspect the progress of a project enabling larger capacity vessels to enter the Hau River.

The constructed passage hopes to welcome an annual 21–22 million tonnes of goods and 450,000–500,000 TEU containers by 2020.

The PM also toured the ongoing Duyen Hai power centre project, consisting of four power plants with capacity of more than 4,200 MW.