The Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan is a planning instrument with a multi-sectoral approach relating to the period 2016-2020, whose overall objectives are: To ensure macroeconomic stability, strive to achieve economic growth rate higher than that of the previous 5 years. To accelerate the implementation of strategic breakthroughs, economic restructuring associated with growth model innovation and improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. To promote cultural development, practice of democracy, social progress and justice, ensure social security, enhance social welfare and improve people's lives. To actively respond to climate change, effectively manage resources and protect the environment. To strengthen national defense and security, stay resolute and persistent in the struggle to safeguard the national independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity and assure political security, social order and safety. To raise the efficiency of external affairs and international integration. To maintain peace and stability, create favorable environment and conditions for the construction and defense of the country. To improve the status of our country in the international arena. To strive to make Viet Nam basically become a modern-oriented industrialized country. The major targets are: Economic targets: Improve gross domestic product (GDP). Industry and services and social investment sectors will enhance their situation in five years. Total factor productivity (TFP) will contribute to economic growth. Social labour productivity will increase by about 5%/year. Energy consumption based on GDP will be reduced. Rate of urbanization will reach 38-40% by 2020. Social targets: Rate of agricultural labor among the total workforce will be around 40% by 2020. Rate of trained laborers will reach approximately 65-70% by 2020, in which the rate of laborers having diplomas and certificates will reach 25%. Urban unemployment rate will be below 4% by 2020. By 2020, there will be 9-10 doctors and more than 26.5 patient beds per one thousand people. Health insurance coverage will be over 80% of the population by 2020. Poverty rate will reduce by about 1.0-1.5%/year. Environmental targets: Percentage of population using clean water will be 95% in urban areas and 90% in countryside by 2020. Rate of hazardous waste processed will be 85% by 2020. Rate of medical waste processed will be 95-100% by 2020. Forest cover will reach about 42% by 2020. The Plan continues to improve policies and people’s living standards. Synchronously implement policies and solutions to achieve sustainable poverty reduction objectives, prevent recurrence of poverty. Reduce poverty rate by 4%/year in the poorest districts and communes in accordance with the national poverty line for the 2016-2020 period. The Plan aims to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. Measures are foreseen to boost agricultural development, innovative rural construction and improvement of people’s life. Further, the Plan aims strengthen management of natural resources, minerals and environmental protection. New exploitation of natural resources and minerals must be subject to public and transparent procurement procedures in accordance with the law. Develop and effectively deploy sectoral plans to prevent natural disasters and adapt to climate change. Steer official development assistance and State budget capital to developing infrastructure in key areas to reduce human and property damages. Universalize response and resilience measures by each level of climate change to the entire population. Examine and strictly handle acts causing environmental pollution, especially in rural areas, villages, industrial zones and watersheds.
فيتنام · 2016-04-12