During his working session with key leaders of the province on January 18, the president asked for stronger efforts to promote local economic growth, requiring focus on fostering administrative reform and infrastructure development.
He said the locality has maintained stable growth in recent years, while its models of building new rural areas proved effective, contributing to improving local people’s living conditions.
However, he noted that Hoa Binh needs to thoroughly solve a number of shortcomings, especially those related to drug trafficking.
Earlier, the State leader visited Tien Phong commune in Da Bac district, home to 560 households who gave up their land to build the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant.
Due to disadvantages in transport and terrain split by mountains, the poverty rate of the commune remains high at 41%. However, education and healthcare services there are still secure.
Expressing concerns over the high rate, the President asked provincial authorities to intensify measures to narrow the rich-poor gap and achieve sustainable poverty reduction.
He suggested learning from experience in fishery planning to improve local lives.
In 2014, the locality raked in over VND10 trillion from agricultural and aquaculture production, reaching a growth rate of 4%. It welcomed 2 million holiday-makers in the year, earning VND700 billion.
Hoa Binh will focus on eight groups of measures towards realising its socio-economic target in 2015, with emphasises placed on restructuring agriculture and forming concentrated areas for goods production.
