Mr Triet was meeting with engineers, workers and foreign investors at the Chu Lai-Truong Hai Automobile Factory in the zone during his trip to the central region on January 29-30.

While working with local authorities, he praised the province’s achievements after 10 years of being split from Quang Nam Da Nang and asked it to pay due attention to improving the living conditions of social policy beneficiaries and ethnic groups in mountainous districts.

Quang Nam should devise appropriate solutions and policies aimed at creating a breakthrough in economic development and narrowing the development gap between the highlands and lowlands, said Mr Triet.    

He asked the city to boost investment in urban infrastructure construction closely linked to its overall planning in the future.

“Da Nang City should make the best use of Party guidelines and State policies to attract foreign investment and create favourable conditions for enterprises to develop production in industrial parks and export processing zones,” said Mr Triet.

He asked municipal authorities to increase the qualification of cadres and officials at the grassroots level to institutionalise the political system and consolidate people’s trust in the system.

The State President went to see officials and staff of the Military Command No 5 and Da Nang C hospital. He reminded them of the zone’s strategic position in the current process of national industrialisation and modernisation and wished them a happy New Year and successful implementation of their new tasks.