The State leader made this suggestion during his working session with Ca Mau authorities on June 23. 

Ca Mau needs to be active and creative and take advantage of opportunities, said Mr. Triet, adding that local authorities should increase the efficiency of hunger eradication and poverty reduction and pay more attention to education and training to add more talent to the country. 

The Ca Mau gas-power-fertiliser industrial zone is a lever to boost economic development, he said. 

However, he said, the province should have an appropriate policy to attract domestic and foreign investors and take advantage of capital sources to roads and bridges in communes. 

2011 is also the first year the entire nation implemented the Resolution of the 11th National Party Congress, stressed the President. 

Party members and cadres in Ca Mau and the whole country must study the resolution well, to thoroughly grasp its contents, he said. 

Mr. Triet took the occasion to hail the first half socio-economic achievements of the provincial Party’s Committee, authorities and people. 

Ca Mau is leading the country in seafood exports with an annual export turnover of over US$800 million and a food output of more than 450,000 tonnes and an annual per-capita income of over US$1,100, he said. 

The living conditions of the local people have been improved and the number of poor households have dropped considerably. In addition, Party building work is also consolidated. 

The same day, the President also visited social beneficiary families, toured Phu Tan and Cai Nuoc districts and visited local armed forces.