Prime Minister chairs the Red River Delta Coordination Council Conference

On the morning of July 20 in Hanoi , Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the first meeting of the Red River Delta Coordination Council.

Also attending the conference were Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung, Ministers of the ministries of Planning and Investment, Construction, Industry and Trade, Information and Communications, Science and Technology, Natural Resources and Environment; members of the Party Central Committee, representatives of central and local departments, ministries and branches. On the side of Vinh Phuc province, there was comrade Hoang Thi Thuy Lan, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation.

Red River Delta Coordination Council Conference

At the conference, the Ministry of Planning and Investment announced Decision No. 826/QD-TTg dated July 11, 2023 of the Prime Minister on the establishment of the Red River Delta Coordination Council, including ministers, leaders of ministries, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities in the region, with the Prime Minister continuing to be the Chairman of the Council.

Accordingly, the Regional Coordination Council is determined not to be an administrative level but an effective organizational model to consider and decide on important regional issues, contributing to solving problems that a locality in the region cannot solve, and at the same time being able to solve problems that have not reached consensus or are beyond the decision-making authority of ministries, branches and localities in the region.

Decision 826 on the establishment of the Red River Delta Regional Coordination Council sets out 11 tasks and powers of the Regional Coordination Council, emphasizing that coordination must ensure the principles of consensus, equality, publicity, transparency, and compliance with legal provisions.

At the same time, Decision 45 on promulgating the Regulations on the operation of the Regional Coordination Council has stipulated 7 coordination methods on: Establishing and organizing the implementation of planning; Investment and development; Training and using labor; Building mechanisms and policies; Solving regional linkage issues; Regional linkage coordination plan; Regional information system database.

Reporting at the conference, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said that despite its important contribution to the country's economic growth, the development of the Red River Delta has been facing many challenges and has revealed many limitations and weaknesses such as: Localities have developed unevenly, growth depends heavily on capital and labor; the budget revenue structure is not sustainable; some localities depend too much on a few large-scale FDI foreign investment projects; Industrial parks lack linkages, and industry clusters have not yet been formed; The urban system has developed unreasonably and unsustainably, with many shortcomings.

In addition, land and resource management still has many limitations; environmental pollution is increasingly complicated, especially wastewater, hazardous waste, traffic congestion; the overload of central end-line hospitals in Hanoi has not been resolved; Links and cooperation between localities in the region are not tight, low efficiency, especially issues related to labor, consumer markets, traffic connection systems, etc.

Therefore, Resolution No. 30-NQ/TW dated November 23, 2022 of the Politburo on socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the Red River Delta region to 2030, with a vision to 2045, clearly identified the need to "build a strong enough regional linkage institution, ensuring effective coordination and linkage in regional development" to innovate the way of operation, coordination and linkage between localities in the region to promote the highest efficiency of the potentials and strengths of each locality in the region.

Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Secretary Hoang Thi Thuy Lan and delegates attending the conference. Photo: VNA

Accordingly, the Red River Delta is oriented to become a region of rapid and sustainable development, with a reasonable economic structure, imbued with national cultural identity; modern industry, services and high-tech, organic, green, circular agriculture with high economic value; becoming a center of education and training of high-quality human resources of the whole country; leading in the development of science and technology, innovation, digital economy, digital society; with synchronous, modern socio-economic infrastructure, smart urban areas, and high connectivity.

Environmental pollution, traffic congestion and flooding have been basically resolved. In particular, the capital Hanoi "Cultured - Civilized - Modern", becomes the center and driving force for regional and national development, striving to be on par with the capitals of developed countries in the region.

Strategic thinking, long-term vision

At this Conference, leaders of ministries, branches and localities will discuss, debate and develop the Red River Delta Regional Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, with strategic thinking and long-term vision, ensuring connectivity, synchronization, unity, efficiency and sustainability with a focus on promoting the development of modern industry, services and highly efficient, organic and circular agriculture on the basis of strong application of science and technology; digital transformation, development and application of science and technology, innovation, training of high-quality human resources.

In which, it discussed and gave opinions on a number of planning orientations for the development of the Red River Delta region to 2030, with a vision to 2050. The Ministry of Planning and Investment has planned to develop the Red River Delta region with 3 major orientations: Organizing the development space of the region associated with 4 economic corridors - 4 dynamic regions, urban areas and growth poles - 2 economic sub-regions; Developing 8 main industries and fields with a focus on developing modern industry with competitive advantages of the region; high-tech service industries in tourism, information technology, finance - banking, logistics, education and training, healthcare... associated with the development of science, technology and innovation.

Along with that, develop the regional infrastructure, with a focus on developing key infrastructure for inter-regional traffic connections such as: inter-regional and intra-regional expressways, Ring Road 4, Ring Road 5 - Capital Region, high-speed railway, seaport infrastructure, airports, etc.

Study mechanisms and policies to effectively mobilize resources from all economic sectors to invest in building regional infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, decentralize to localities to proactively implement inter-regional connection projects; study the formation of a Regional Infrastructure Development Fund to invest in building inter-regional projects; study and propose to allow the issuance of international bonds or ODA loans to synchronously invest in urban railway lines of Hanoi City or allow the application of urban development models according to the orientation of transport development (TOD) for urban railway lines, inter-regional high-speed railways and main traffic axes of the region associated with economic corridors, in order to maximize underground space, expand development space, solve problems of compact urban areas such as traffic congestion, flooding, environmental pollution, etc.

Focus on investing in the construction and development of the seaport system in the region in conjunction with the construction of a modern warehouse and logistics system. Build the Hai Phong - Quang Ninh area into a modern maritime economic center; Hai Phong city into an international logistics center associated with the development of the Free Trade Zone in Hai Phong; develop the coastal economic corridor of Quang Ninh - Hai Phong - Thai Binh - Nam Dinh - Ninh Binh in conjunction with highways and coastal roads to form modern industrial parks and urban areas. Link industrial parks and coastal economic zones for development cooperation, gradually forming clusters of supporting industries in the fields of electricity and electronics, instead of competing and eliminating each other.

Focus on fundamentally solving environmental problems, especially waste, gas discharge, pollution in rivers, flooding in Hanoi, Hai Phong and large cities. Discuss and orient the location and scale of concentrated solid waste and hazardous waste treatment areas at the regional level; attract investment and socialize resources to improve and restore environmental quality in the Nhue and Day river basins, and the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system. Plan and have mechanisms and policies to relocate and build new hospitals and universities in neighboring localities to reduce pressure on social infrastructure and traffic congestion in Hanoi.

Research and propose mechanisms and policies for the development of the southern sub-region of the Red River Delta, especially access to resources for infrastructure development; attract investment with the development orientation of the southern sub-region of the Red River Delta, focusing on a number of areas such as: high-tech, organic, and circular agriculture; agricultural product preservation and processing industry, supporting industry; renewable energy; development of ecological industrial parks, coastal economic zones; eco-tourism, resorts, and spiritual tourism.

Focus on developing the Red River Delta region to become the leading center of science - technology, innovation and digital transformation in the country. Effectively connect with the Innovation Ecosystem of the National Innovation Center that has been formed, associated with the construction of the Red River Delta innovation center, startup, innovation and artificial intelligence centers in Hanoi, Hai Phong and Ha Nam.

Hanoi will receive the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park, so it is necessary to research and propose solutions and policies to promote the operational efficiency of the High-Tech Park in conjunction with the City's research institutes and universities to become a center of science, technology and innovation in the region. Research and build a high-tech park in Ha Nam according to a suitable roadmap, focusing on the fields of artificial intelligence, automation and biotechnology.

Research to propose specific mechanisms for the Red River Delta. Currently, the Ministry of Justice is coordinating with Hanoi City to develop the Capital Law (amended) including 80 new, breakthrough policies for the city to develop Hanoi into the nerve center, politics, culture, education and training, science and technology and health of the Region. For the region, it is recommended to study a number of mechanisms and policies focusing on a number of areas: Development of modern transport infrastructure (highways, urban railways), logistics, seaport logistics services, free trade zones associated with the seaport system; Management of construction and development of smart urban infrastructure and environmental protection; Promoting the development of science - technology and digital transformation, innovation; Preserving, conserving and promoting culture and history associated with tourism development.

Discuss the list of important inter-regional projects to prepare for the 2026-2030 period and the principles, criteria for identifying projects and ways to allocate resources for implementation.

Focus on training and developing high-quality human resources. The Red River Delta has the advantage of being the leading center of healthcare, education - training, science - technology with a team of talented intellectuals and is the cradle of producing, training and supplying human resources for the whole country with many prestigious universities, research centers, and vocational education centers concentrated in Hanoi City, so there needs to be a solution to train and promote the human resources of the Region.

Research and build a regional data center, complete and share a common database system of provinces and cities in the region, especially in the fields of environment, land management, investment attraction, and socio-economic development indicators to serve the work of coordinating regional linkages effectively, accurately, and promptly.

According to vov.vn

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