Part 2: Going all out for the big goal

Export yarn is one of the province's key industries. In the photo: Production at Thang Long Import-Export Investment Joint Stock Company.

High political determination

To achieve the above target, the Provincial People's Committee determined that the growth of the agricultural sector must reach 3.6%, industry and construction 17.3%, trade and services 10%. Many economic experts believe that these are high growth thresholds, requiring each level, each sector, people and the business community to make great efforts, high determination, and at the same time have truly fundamental solutions to be able to implement.

The Provincial People's Committee has directed departments, branches and localities to have high political determination, act decisively, dare to think, dare to do, be proactive and creative in leadership, direction and administration. Each agency and unit must focus on reviewing economic goals and targets, analyzing and evaluating potentials, advantages and development space to propose solutions for leadership, direction and organization of drastic, synchronous and flexible implementation, striving to complete at the highest level the economic development targets in 2025.

Comrade Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested: Departments, branches and localities need to clearly identify regular and urgent goals, on the basis of proposing effective implementation solutions to create clear changes and major breakthroughs. Highly focus on strategic tasks, decisive for the economic growth of the province; effectively mobilize and allocate resources to create new values. Thoroughly grasp, seriously, fully and synchronously implement the tasks and solutions set out in the resolutions, conclusions and directions of the Central Government, Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and Provincial People's Committee on socio-economic development in 2025.

Breakthrough solution

It can be said that the double-digit growth target in 2025 puts departments, branches, localities, people and businesses in front of a difficult problem; to solve it, it requires new thinking and breakthrough solutions. Instead of directing and investing in development in all areas, the province has chosen key economic sectors to concentrate investment resources, creating room and strength to promote growth.

In the agricultural sector, the province's policy is to develop sustainable agriculture in the direction of improving quality and efficiency in line with market demand; building brands for key agricultural products of the province, especially the Thai Binh rice brand. Implement planning for commodity agricultural production areas, specialized livestock farming, key aquaculture associated with investment in infrastructure serving production, agricultural processing network; restructure livestock herds and implement safe production processes, high economic value, and stable markets.

Mr. Do Quy Phuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, said: The entire agricultural sector is striving to achieve the growth target of 4.27% for crop cultivation, 3.32% for livestock, and 2.97% or more for aquaculture. Along with that, the Department of Agriculture and Environment will preside over and coordinate with departments, branches, and localities to effectively implement the One Commune One Product (OCOP) program, striving to have 25 more communes with 60 products achieving OCOP certification in 2025, contributing to improving the economic value and production efficiency of people, businesses, cooperatives, and craft villages.

In order to make a breakthrough in the industrial sector with a growth rate of 19.8%, Thai Binh focuses on restructuring towards developing industries and products with competitive advantages, high added value, and environmental friendliness, while promoting processing, manufacturing, and supporting industries. Some manufacturing industries will play a pivotal role in growth such as processing and manufacturing, electricity production and distribution, water supply, waste and wastewater management and treatment, etc. The room for industrial development mainly includes economic zones, industrial parks, and industrial clusters with rapid investment in synchronous technical infrastructure, attracting high-quality secondary projects into operation.

Mr. Vu Kim Cu, Head of the Economic Zone and Industrial Park Management Board, said: The determination to improve the investment and business environment and actively remove obstacles and create favorable conditions for investors to implement projects will add resources for the province's development. In the Economic Zone and Industrial Parks alone, 42 large projects have been invested and put into operation such as Greenworks, Keystone Electrical, Goodway, Longstar Lighting..., with a total revenue of VND 17,065 billion in 2025.

Creating more room for development Along with maximizing growth from large and key projects, the province has identified promoting disbursement of public investment capital, striving to disburse 100% of the assigned capital plan and speeding up the implementation of key projects as one of the solutions to create room for industrial and commercial development. Along with that, strengthening trade promotion activities, supporting businesses to connect and consume typical and key products; maintaining market stability and developing tourism into an important economic sector, accelerating the development of the trade and service sector in 2025 and the following years.

Mr. Do Van Ve, Chairman of the Provincial Business Association shared: We highly appreciate the 9 groups of tasks and key solutions that the Provincial People's Committee has implemented to achieve the double-digit growth target. The determination of all levels, sectors and localities to improve the investment and business environment, improve the PCI and DDCI indexes, especially reviewing and clarifying shortcomings and obstacles in mechanisms and policies, focusing on removing bottlenecks, bottlenecks and difficulties, will help the business community to release energy, feel secure, boldly invest, expand production and business scale, contributing to the completion of the goal of attracting investment capital to the province in 2025 to reach more than 50,000 billion VND.

The solidarity, determination and efforts of the entire political system, business community and people from the beginning of the year are the strength and motivation for us to believe that the province's growth target in 2025 will come true. More importantly, we will complete the goals set by the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025 by 2025: the proportion of industry, construction and trade and services in GRDP reaches 80% or more; GRDP per capita reaches 90 million VND (3,500 USD) or more; average income per capita reaches 78 million VND/year or more and reduces the number of poor households by 1/3 compared to 2020 - the goals to help Thai Binh become a fairly developed province and by 2030 catch up with the leading group, by 2045 become a developed province in the Red River Delta region.