The Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan is a planning instrument with a multi-sectoral approach relating to the period 2006-2010, whose main goal is to: boost the economic growth rate, achieving rapid and sustainable development, quickly bringing the country out of the low development state; improve people’s material, cultural, and spiritual life; boost the industrialization and modernization process and gradually develop the knowledge-based economy, creating foundations to make Vietnam become a modern industrial country by 2020. The main targets are set up so as to ensure sustainable development of the following three axes: economy, society and environment. The Plan aims to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. It provides measures to increase production at reasonable rate so as to ensure national food security and food reserve. The instrument also aims to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable. Measures are foreseen to develop production of industrial crops, and to develop high-productivity, high quality plant and livestock varieties, contributing to the reduction of production costs and improvement of agricultural product competitiveness. Improve the agricultural extension network at grassroots level, guide farmers to develop their production in accordance with master plans, apply scientific and technological advances to cultivation and livestock raising. The main objectives in the field of environmental protection include: to minimize the pollution level, overcome the degradation and improve the environmental quality; significantly tackle the environmental degradation in industrial zones, densely-populated areas in major cities, craft villages, and some rural areas; improve environment and treat environmental pollution in rivers, lakes, ponds, canals and ditches. The Plan aims at the reduction of rural (and urban) poverty. Measures are set out to develop non-agricultural economies in rural areas for employment and income generation and rural economic structural transformation in the orientation of development of industries and services in rural areas; and to develop various types of rural business, especially small and medium size businesses and industrial villages. 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 to increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters. The goal is to improve the prevention capacity and mitigate adverse effects of natural disasters and negative climate changes on the environment; provide effective support and resolution of environmental incidence caused by natural disasters.
Вьетнам · 2006-07-01