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Gov't issues action plan to spur southern zone (14/06)
06/08/2010 - 218 Lượt xem
The Government's action plan, issued by the Prime Minister and taking effect yesterday, envisages more than doubling the economic size of the southeastern region in general and the southern focal economic zone in particular in every ten years.
The southern focal economic zone comprises HCMC and seven adjacent provinces, including such high-profile localities as Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Long An.
Meanwhile, the southeastern region encompasses a large swathe from HCMC northward to the southern part of Lam Dong Province.
Bringing out concrete master plans for the whole region in different aspects is stressed as the core mandate in the action plan, according to
Tuoi Tre.Building roads and bridges to connect provinces in the region is one of the urgent tasks. The Prime Minister urges localities concerned to step up preparations for key projects, such as expressways and rail links, including highways branching out from HCMC to Can Tho, Long Thanh, Vung Tau, and Da Lat.
There must be planning schemes for those cities and provinces that are undergoing fast urbanization, including the central town and urban zones in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Nhon Trach, Long Thanh and Tan Phuoc in Dong Nai, and Di An - Tan Uyen in Binh Duong.
The Government also calls for building a new urban zone of some 6,000ha encompassing HCMC, Tay Ninh and Long An, and instructs that zoning plans for urban areas and industrial parks must be made public.
The Government assigns relevant ministries and localities to bring out a coordination program for the whole region, and mechanisms on investment, finance, water use, and waste treatment right in this month.
Meanwhile, a general master plan on socio-economic development for the whole region must be completed within this year.
The key mandate of the action plan is to "quickly turn the southeastern region and the southern focal economic zone into the growth zone that assumes the leading role in the cause of industrialization and modernization."
Investment promotion activities will be launched, taking into account these master plans.
Concrete targets for the region include regional GDP by 2010 to be at least 2.5 times bigger than in 2000, and GDP in 2020 should be 2.3 to 2.5 times bigger than the 2010 level. The investment flow into the region in the 2006-2010 should be twice that in the previous five-year plan.
The southern focal economic zone, with HCMC as the nucleus, has in the past many years served as the locomotive pulling along the national economic development.
HCMC's GDP accounts for around one-third of the national figure, while the economic size of the whole southern zone makes up more than half of the country's total.
However, each province or city in the region for the past many years has developed on their own initiatives, without close coordination which may threaten the sustainable development of the whole region.
In fact, there have appeared overlapping investments in manufacturing within the region, leading to production surplus in certain industries and shortages in others.
Source: SGT
