Dong Nai to strive to maintain economic growth

03:02, 22/02/2013

(ĐN)- Although facing many difficulties and challenges, Dong Nai’s Party and people has made great efforts to fulfill the province’s 2012 socio-economic development targets.

(ĐN)- Although facing many difficulties and challenges, Dong Nai’s Party and people has made great efforts to fulfill the province’s 2012 socio-economic development targets.

Accordingly, the province achieved an economic growth of 12.1 percent, double the country’s average, reached or exceeded 38 of its 45 socio-economic development targets set for 2012. It also lured US$1 billion in FDI and VND11 trillion in domestic investment capital, reported a budget revenue of nearly VND27 trillion, saw significant decrease in the number of malnourished children and the increasing rate of cultural families.

The impressive results are driven by the provincial authorities’ efforts in utilizing every resource to promote production development, remove difficulties facing businesses, control inflation, keep the prices of essential goods stable, and speed up agricultural production.

Secretary Tran Dinh Thanh of the provincial Party Committee required that departments, agencies and localities should focus their efforts to effectively implement the province’s resolution on socio-economic development tasks for 2013.

Accordingly, the province needs to concentrate on implementing policies to assist businesses to surmount difficulties in production, maintaining a high economic growth of 11.5-12%, developing a high quality workforce, taking care of people's health, paying attention to the environment protection work, and ensuring social welfare

Concretely, the departments, agencies and localities have to take drastic measure to boost administrative procedure reform, solve bad debts, enhance operational efficiency of trade promotion programs, support capital and decline interest rates for small and medium-sized enterprises and agricultural processing facilities, attract projects on agricultural production using advanced techniques and biotechnology, change the structure of the industrial sector with a focus on hi-tech, electronics and electricity, and supporting industries.

Reported by P.V