Lai Chau prioritizes developing agricultural economy and border gates.
The Government Office has just issued Notice No. 542/TB-VPCP dated December 29, 2023, concluding the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's meeting with the leaders of Lai Chau province.
Lai Chau has favorable conditions for developing border trade economy.
The announcement stated: Lai Chau province has an extremely important strategic position in terms of national defense, security and protection of national border sovereignty; has many potentials and advantages for socio-economic development, especially in agriculture, tourism, services and trade, import and export, and border gate economy. Lai Chau is a large, sparsely populated province with a natural area of over 9,000 km², a population of over 489,000 people with 20 ethnic groups, ethnic minorities account for nearly 85% (Thai ethnic group accounts for 32.3%, Mong 21.5%, Dao 13.2%, Kinh 15.3%, Ha Nhi 3.1%...). Lai Chau people have a rich tradition of revolution, solidarity, diligence, kindness, and hospitality.
Lai Chau has favorable conditions for developing border trade economy with a border of over 265 km bordering Yunnan province, China; currently there is 01 Ma Lu Thang international border gate, 01 pair of U Ma Tu Khoong secondary border gates and 06 openings. Diverse mineral resources, including construction material minerals, metal minerals, industrial minerals, including rare earth and mineral water resources. The climate is neutral and relatively mild, less affected by storms. Land resources are quite diverse, favorable for the development of food crops, fruit trees, medicinal plants, especially some industrial plants with high economic value, such as: Ginseng, rubber, tea, cinnamon, hawthorn, macadamia... Large forest area (over 494,000 ha), of which protective forests and special-use forests account for 58.8%, production forests account for 41.2%, ensuring environmental security, and sufficient area for developing production forests, creating wood and forest products for economic development. Abundant water resources with a location in the headwaters and especially vulnerable protection areas, regulating water sources directly for large hydroelectric projects on the Da River, ensuring sustainable development of the entire Red River Delta, with many rapids, large flow, and great hydroelectric potential.
Lai Chau has a diverse culture, majestic natural landscapes, and rich tourism potential. The art of Xoe Thai and Then practice of the Thai people were recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The province has many traditional festivals of ethnic groups, unique features of cuisine, costumes, architecture, customs and practices; traditional crafts are preserved and strongly developed; many famous landscapes and landscapes with great potential. With many distinct potentials and rich, diverse resources, Lai Chau province has all the unique conditions for rapid, green, and sustainable development, becoming a fairly developed province, a solid border of the midland and mountainous region of the North.
Despite many difficulties and challenges, the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in Lai Chau province have strived and achieved positive and quite comprehensive results in all areas: Growth has been promoted, the average GRDP in the period of 2021 - 2023 increased by 3.91%/year. The average GRDP per capita in 2023 is estimated at 47.2 million VND, an increase of 3.4 million VND compared to 2020. The economic structure has shifted positively, agriculture has developed towards concentrated commodity production, focusing on developing high-quality rice varieties, advantageous crops and high added value. The whole province has 171 OCOP products of 3 stars or higher. New rural construction has achieved positive results. Services and tourism have been given attention for development, gradually becoming a key economic sector; the number of tourists has increased by an average of 33.2%/year. Investment has been given to socio-economic infrastructure; National target programs are actively implemented.
Administrative reform and improvement of the investment and business environment have been promoted. The fields of culture, society, health, education and training have made much progress, and people's lives have been improved. Social security policies have been fully and promptly implemented, especially policies to support workers and employers facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The poverty rate in the 2021-2023 period decreased by an average of 3.4% per year, and in poor districts alone, it decreased by an average of 4.7%...
In addition to the achieved results, Lai Chau province still has some shortcomings and limitations such as: The economic scale is still small; the growth quality is not high; the structural shift within the economic sectors is not clear; revenue is not enough to cover expenditure. Import and export face many difficulties and lack stability. The socio-economic infrastructure still has many difficulties, especially transport infrastructure. Disbursement of public investment capital is still slow; by the end of October, only 43.2% of the plan was disbursed. Planning and resource mobilization for development investment are still limited. The number of operating enterprises is still small; foreign investment projects have not been attracted. The poverty rate is still high, with 4/7 districts on the list of poor districts. Political security, ethnic and religious issues, spontaneous migration, illegal entry and exit, and drug crimes still have potential complications...
To overcome shortcomings and limitations and promote and effectively exploit potentials and strengths; strive to achieve the goals set by the 14th Provincial Party Congress, the Prime Minister requested Lai Chau province to thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the Party's guidelines and policies, especially Resolution No. 11-NQ/TW dated February 10, 2022 of the Politburo, policies and laws of the State, the direction and administration of the Government, the Prime Minister and the Resolution of the 14th Provincial Party Congress; at the same time, closely follow the actual situation to adjust tasks accordingly.
The province needs to develop its economy and society quickly, greenly and sustainably on the basis of strongly promoting its potentials, strengths, and spirit of self-reliance; turning danger into opportunity; turning nothing into something; turning heritage into assets; turning potential into resources; rising strongly with endogenous strength, rising from its own hands, minds, sky, land, and border gates, without waiting or relying on others. Strengthening the great national unity bloc, creating a spiritual foundation for the province's development.
Lai Chau focuses on improving the business investment environment
Lai Chau focuses on administrative reform, improving the investment and business environment, further enhancing competitiveness and international integration. Promoting startups, innovation, and digital transformation. Focusing on developing a circular economy, a green economy, improving growth quality and economic restructuring.
Lai Chau is a locality with strengths in agriculture, processing industry, and tourism development. Lai Chau province must pay special attention to ensuring harmony and connection between economic - cultural - social development and ecological environment protection associated with ensuring national defense and security; not sacrificing progress, social justice, and the environment in exchange for mere economic growth.
Strengthen decentralization and delegation of authority in conjunction with appropriate resource allocation, individualization of responsibility along with inspection, supervision and control of power. Encourage and protect cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for the common good. Build a system of clean, strong, united, highly unified, honest, democratic, active, effective administrative agencies, taking people and businesses as the center of service. Build a team of professional, clean, dedicated cadres, serving the people.
The Prime Minister requested that Lai Chau's task in the coming time is to focus on investing in developing socio-economic infrastructure. especially transport infrastructure, industrial park and cluster infrastructure, tourism infrastructure, ensuring seamless connectivity within the province, between provinces in the region, between the region and the whole country and internationally; at the same time, focusing on developing digital infrastructure, agricultural and rural infrastructure, educational, healthcare, cultural and sports infrastructure; providing electricity to rural areas, disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
Focus on building and promoting the effectiveness of the province's economic driving force; focus on prioritizing the development of agricultural economy, tourism and border gate economy towards green economy, digital economy, circular economy associated with the potential, strengths, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages of the province. Shift from agricultural production to developing ecological agricultural economy, high technology, digital transformation, concentrated commodity production, specialized areas, products with high economic value, applying science and technology, especially agricultural products with local strengths (high-quality rice, rubber, macadamia, cinnamon, medicinal herbs, etc.).
Effectively implement the "One Commune One Product" Program - OCOP. Attract investment in processing factories associated with building raw material areas; form and develop value chains from production, processing to consumption; develop domestic and foreign agricultural markets.
Lai Chau focuses on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector.
At the same time, Lai Chau must restructure industrial production towards reducing the proportion of mining industry, increasing the proportion of processing and manufacturing industry, especially agricultural processing, material production, developing the electricity industry, and exploiting and processing minerals in a green and sustainable direction.
Develop the service industry in a breakthrough direction, in which continue to focus on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector. Build high-quality, unique tourism products associated with cultural traditions, identity, beauty of nature and people of Lai Chau (eco-tourism, experience, medical treatment, combined with agriculture...). Strengthen promotion, advertising, building Lai Chau tourism brand, especially in Sin Ho district; strengthen tourism links with tourist centers and neighboring provinces. Focus on developing e-commerce and border trade economy.
Maximize all resources for development investment; diversify and improve the efficiency of attracting and using investment capital, especially FDI capital, investment under the public-private partnership (PPP) method and other forms of socialization.
Restructure public investment in the direction of investment having focus, key points, not fragmented, spread out, divided; continue to promote disbursement of public investment capital and progress of implementation of key projects and works in the area. Organize synchronous and effective implementation of national target programs for the period 2021 - 2025, especially the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the direction of focus, key points.
Exploiting the tourism potential of Sin Ho plateau
Along with that, Lai Chau province must strengthen leadership and direction of planning work; focus on planning and effectively exploiting mineral resources, including rare earth; planning and exploiting tourism potential on the Sin Ho plateau associated with national cultural identity, creating new development momentum for Sin Ho district and the whole Lai Chau province.
Focus on developing cultural and social fields, protecting the environment, ensuring social security, improving the material and spiritual life of the people of all ethnic groups in the province. Preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, characteristics of the ethnic groups and people of Lai Chau. Implementing well poverty reduction policies, especially promoting propaganda, mobilization, and replication of good economic models, helping people escape poverty sustainably.
Improve the quality of healthcare, education and training, and develop human resources, especially for ethnic minorities, remote areas, and especially the ethnic boarding school model. The spirit is that wherever there are students, there must be teachers, wherever there are patients, there must be doctors, but the arrangement must be reasonable and effective.
Strive to complete telephone coverage for low-lying areas in Lai Chau by 2024
The province must do a good job of information and communication, especially in eliminating areas with low phone signal. Assign the Military Industry - Telecommunications Group to pay attention to and focus on investing in broadcasting stations, striving to basically complete coverage for low points in Lai Chau by 2024; research and issue special packages and content to support and stimulate people in disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas to access mobile services.
Strengthening the management of land, resources, minerals, environmental protection, and adaptation to climate change. Protecting, developing, and effectively and sustainably using forests, especially protective forests and special-use forests, in conjunction with the development of forest carbon credits, methane gas, and biomass power generation.
Resolutely cut down and simplify administrative procedures; shorten the time for processing records and administrative procedures, especially those related to land, investment, construction, planning, and environment; promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles, provide maximum support for businesses to develop and enrich themselves legitimately; support startups, innovation, and business development incubators, etc.
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