Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the working session. Photo: VGP

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session with the standing board of the Party Committee of the south-central province on March 13, Nhan dan (People) reported.

Truong Sa should be a firm wall protecting the national sovereignty over seas and islands in line with Vietnamese and international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, he stressed.

Initially, Khanh Hoa should focus on developing logistics services for fisheries sector and help residents in the district to have a stable life, while reinforcing national defence and security at sea.

According to provincial leaders, last year, Khanh Hoa completed 13 out of 22 socio-economic targets for the year, with State budget collection exceeded the goal by 2 percent to over USD14 trillion.

In 2022, the province aims to speed up its socio-economic recovery and development towards the goal of 8.5 percent in economic growth.

As part of efforts to implement the Politburo’s Resolution 09-NQ/TW on the development of Khanh Hoa until 2030 with a vision to 2045, Khanh Hoa will focus on completing its planning, improving its investment environment, expanding infrastructure system, protecting the environment and ensuring security, defence.

Provincial leaders proposed the addition of development plans in Khanh Hoa’s certain sectors to the national planning, and asked for permission to implement some major investment projects, especially in transport sector.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the working session. Photo: VGP

PM Chinh agreed with the proposals and asked Khanh Hoa to engage in deeper discussions with relevant ministries and agencies.

He said that Khanh Hoa has a strategic and important location in defence and security, along with great potential and advantages for fast, comprehensive and sustainable socio-economic development with harmony with defence and security protection, which can make it the centre of the whole south-central and Central Highlands.

The province also has many favorable conditions for development, including diverse terrain with three bays, a long coastline and nearly 200 islands in different sizes, including Truong Sa archipelago, and various beautiful landscapes, historical relic sites and traditional festivals.

However, Khanh Hoa has yet to optimise its potential and advantages and form a close link with regional localities, he said, adding that the province still has many shortcomings in transport system, human resources and business and investment environment. The PM asked the locality to identify reasons behind the problems and seek solutions, especially in policy.

Khanh Hoa should try to make full use of its prominent potential and competitive advantages, while creating more new opportunities to lure more outside resources, especially in finance, brainpower and governing science for its development, while promoting startup and innovation, he stressed.

Alongside, the province should pay greater attention to personnel training, decentralisation and delegation of power, as well as administrative reform, while improving its investment environment and settle prolonged problems in the management of land and officials.

Khanh Hoa should move towards becoming a service, tourism, health care, science and technology centre of the south central and Central Highlands region, he said, advising the locality to consider the application of the “State management, private governance,” and “public investment, private management”, and “private investment, public use” models.

The PM also urged Khanh Hoa to promptly complete and implement planning for Van Phong Economic Zone and Cam Lam urban area.

On March 12, the PM offered incense in commemoration of naval soldiers who sacrificed their lives while safeguarding Gac Ma Reef in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago (March 14, 1988), VietnamPlus said.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh pays tribute to naval soldiers who sacrificed their lives while safeguarding Gac Ma Reef in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago. Photo: VGP

He paid tribute to the fallen soldiers at the Gac Ma soldiers’ memorial site in Cam Hai commune of Cam Lam district, Khanh Hoa province, during a fact-finding trip to Cam Lam as part of his working visit to this central province.

Earlier on the day, he listened to reports about the planning of a Cam Lam Airport urban area. The Government leader instructed that the planning must aim at turning Cam Lam from a rural and mountainous area into a modern, green and smart city which is also a tourism, service, educational and healthcare centre.

Later the same day, the Government leader visited officers and soldiers of Submarine Brigade 189 and Brigade 162 of Naval Region 4.

Khanh Hoa is determined to achieve economic growth of 8.5%. Photo: Khanh Hoa News

Nguyen Tan Tuan, Chairman the provincial People's Committee, said Khanh Hoa achieved dual goals and achieved many targets last year, such as budget revenue exceeding 2%, and tourism reopening.

In 2022, the province is determined to achieve economic growth of 8.5%, he said, as cited by Khanh Hoa News.

To that end, the provincial People's Committee has issued a plan for socio-economic recovery and development, while ensuring the motto of "adapting safely and flexibly to and effectively controlling the COVID-19 epidemic.”

The province will also roll out social welfare policies, work to control prices and the market, spur the development of key industries and fields, and actively participate in the 4th industrial revolution./.

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