Dong Nai boosts tourism, services for GDP growth target

Southern Dong Nai province is calling for investment into its tourism and service sector in a bid to achieve a record 15 percent GDP growth rate for this year.

Southern Dong Nai province is calling for investment into its tourism and service sector in a bid to achieve a record 15 percent GDP growth rate for this year.

At a meeting on July 24-25, the provincial Peoples Council also urged the industrial sector to apply more advanced technologies to raise industrial production value to 32 trillio VND, an increase of 19.5 percent over last year.

To attract 1.2 billion USD of foreign investment capital in 2007, the province will focus on improving infrastructure facilities in 23 local industrial parks and foreign investment promotion programmes from now to the end of the year.

The province also plans to facilitate FDI businesses export activities in order to achieve an export turnover of 5 billion USD, accounting for 10 percent of the countrys export value.

(Source: VNA)