NA adopts 2009 socio-economic development targets
06/08/2010 - 21 Lượt xem
With more than 87 percent of the vote, the National Assembly passed the resolution on 2009’s socio-economic development plan on Nov. 6, with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6.5 percent.
Under the plan, the Government targets a growth rate for export turnover of 13 percent, total social investment capital of 39.5 percent, and consumer price index of below 15 percent.
The plan also targets the generation of jobs for 1.7 million people, including 90,000 to be sent abroad, reduction of the percentage of households living below the poverty line to 12 percent, and provision of clean water to 79 percent of those living in rural areas.
It also plans to treat 65 percent of harmful waste and to ensure that 65 percent of industrial and export processing zones possesses concentrated waste water systems that meet environmental standards.
The plan aims to continue curbing inflation, actively prevent economic declination, and to ensure social security and smooth integration into the global economy.
To attain these goals, the government, ministries, sectors and localities will initially focus on addressing difficulties facing businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises, to help them reach sources of capital.
They will conduct studies to establish a fund supporting enterprises in order to help them cope with the financial crisis, continue improving the business environment to ensure equality and fair treatment, and complete a legal framework for economic groups and State-owned corporations.
They will also create favourable conditions for farmers to have access to capital in order to develop the agricultural sector.
The National Assembly asked the government to address capital construction’s outstanding debts, tighten the management of investment capital to raise the efficiency of the use of capital, and attract a greater level of foreign investment to make the most of opportunities to ensure fast and sustainable development for national economy.
Source: VNA
