PM urges Bac Giang to narrow development gap
Bac Giang province needs to make full use of its land, transport and human resources to narrow the development gap with other provinces and cities nationwide.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stated this at a meeting with the Bac Giang provincial authorities on May 25.
The PM praised the province’s efforts to achieve good socio-economic outcomes, including a GDP growth rate of 8.7 percent in the past five years, rapidly developing industries with three industrial zones and 29 industrial clusters, and new and more efficient models of agricultural production.
These have helped to increase the annual per-capita income to 600 USD and reduce the poverty rate.
Yet, Bac Giang’s economic development remains slower than the rest of the country and its per-capita income is only half of the national level, the PM pointed out.
Noting the fact that 70 percent of local workers are involved in agriculture, generating only 30 percent of the province’s GDP, Mr Dung directed the province to hurry up and apply new technologies to agriculture to increase the quality and productivity.
For the next five years (2011-2015), the PM asked the province to increase investment in agriculture, industry and the service sector to speed up the economy, achieve a GDP growth rate of 11-12 percent per year and an average per-capita income of over US$1,300 by 2015.
While in Bac Giang, PM Dung also visited the Fuhong company in the Dong Vang industrial cluster.
