Socio-economic development master plan for Bac Lieu province up to 2020

I. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives
To strive to build Bac Lieu basically to become a province with a highly sustainable and highly developed industrial industry associated with the development of industry and services, with a synchronous and modern infrastructure system; material and spiritual life of the people is constantly improved, with an advanced culture imbued with national identity; have strong national defense and security, ensure social order and safety; determined to make Bac Lieu soon become one of the developed provinces in the region and the whole country.

2. Specific objectives:
a) Regarding economy:
- The average economic growth rate will reach 13.5-14% / year in the period of 2011-2015 and reach 12 -12.5% / year in the period of 2016-2020. GDP per capita will reach about VND 38.8 million in 2015 and about VND 82.1 million in 2020.
- Restructuring economic structure towards increasing the proportion of non-agricultural sectors; by 2015, the proportion of agriculture - forestry - fishery will reach 36.4%, non-agricultural sectors will reach 63.6%; by 2020, respectively, 31% and 69%.

-   To strive to achieve an export turnover of over 380 million USD by 2015 and around 900-1,000 million USD by 2020; total turnover of goods and services will grow at an average rate of 22% / year; budget revenues at current prices will increase by an average of 16-16.5% / year in the 2011-2015 period and 19.5% / year in the 2016-2020 period; gradually raising the ratio of budget revenue to GDP to 8.1% in 2015 and 8.2% in 2020.

b) Regarding society:
- The rate of natural population growth in the 2011-2015 period will reach 1.12% / year and in the 2016-2020 period, around 1.0% - 0.9% / year; reducing the average rate of poor households every year by about 1.5% - 2%.
- Strive to create new jobs for about 13,500-14,000 employees each year; the percentage of trained workers reaches 50%; the percentage of malnourished under-5 children to drop to 15%; There are 25 beds / ten thousand people; 20% of communes will meet new rural construction criteria; rate of households having access to electricity is 98%.

- Strive to 2020, the urban unemployment rate is below 4%, the working time fund is used in rural areas 90%; high school education universalization at the prescribed age reaches 90%; The percentage of trained workers reaches about 65-70%; the percentage of malnourished under-5 children to reduce to 10%; reach 7 doctors and 1 university pharmacist / ten thousand people; There are 32 beds / ten thousand people; 95% of children were fully vaccinated with 8 - 10 vaccines; 95% of hamlets will be recognized as meeting cultural standards; 50% of communes meet the criteria for building a new countryside; rate of households having access to electricity reaches 100%.

c) Regarding the environment:
- Strive to 2015, 70% of the population has access to clean water; 85% of solid waste chat, 100% of medical waste is collected and treated.
- By 2020, 85% of the population will have access to clean water; 100% of solid waste is collected and treated; 100% of industrial production facilities will have standard waste water treatment systems; to basically complete the renovation and upgrading of rainwater drainage and waste water treatment systems of cities and towns and national target programs on clean water and rural environmental sanitation; relocation of establishments polluting the environment into industrial parks, cum and points.

II. ORIENTATIONS FOR FIELD DEVELOPMENT
1. Regarding rural, forestry and fishery:
To comprehensively develop towards the direction of producing high-quality and efficient goods in association with deep processing industry and consumption markets to raise the value of agricultural products. To strive to achieve an average growth rate of over 6.5% / year in the agriculture, forestry and fishery industry in the 2011-2015 period and 5% / year in the 2016-2020 period.

-   Agriculture: Develop towards intensive farming to increase crops, increase the annual land use coefficient to about 2.5 encroachment; identify rice as still the key crop, forming high-quality production areas; shift production models, combining rice - shrimp, rice - forest rotation ... suitable with the ecology of each sub-region; gradually increase the proportion of vegetables in cultivation, and strive to reach 2.7% by 2020; to form concentrated food and fruit tree production zones, research and develop a number of suitable industrial plants for deep processing industry; accelerate the application of science and technology to reduce production costs, increase productivity and product quality; conducting synchronous mechanization, focusing on breeding.

-   Reorganize the husbandry towards the farm with appropriate scale, ensure safety in disease prevention; raising the proportion of animal husbandry in the value of agricultural production about 28% per year and 30- 31% in 2020.
- Aquaculture: Expanding the area of ​​aquaculture on the basis of ensuring synchronous investment in infrastructure to meet the demand for intensive farming, developing models of rearing shrimp - fish and shrimp - rice; diversify cultured aquatic products such as shrimp, fish, crabs, clams, blood cockles ... expand the scale of seed production, select good breeds and high productivity to meet the needs of localities in the region; develop the fishery sector in terms of exploitation, rearing and processing. Gradually modernize offshore fishing fleets; encourage all economic sectors to invest in increasing the number of fishing vessels in offshore fishing grounds; well organize fishery logistics, especially at sea services to reduce production costs.

-   Forestry: Ensure a stable forest area of about 8,300 hectares, including 389 hectares of Bac Lieu bird sanctuary, protection forests besides sea goats, and 2,780 hectares of mangrove forests along the seagrass.
- Stabilize concentrated salt production with scale of 2,500 ha by 2020. Concentrate scientific and technical applications in production, especially spreading salt production model, in order to increase productivity of moon salt production.

2. Industrial development:
- Develop based on the advantages of abundant labor resources, land conditions and sources of agricultural and aquatic raw materials. Striving to 2015, the proportion in GDP will reach about 31.7% and in 2020 will be 35 - 36%; promoting domestic and foreign investment attraction for industrial development, at the same time, strengthening and consolidating and developing local small and medium-sized industrial establishments in order to create a premise for forming large-scale industrial establishments. large production.
- Concentrating on developing advantageous industries such as: Agricultural and aquatic product processing industry, energy industry, salt industry and salt production, apparel, mechanics to produce agricultural tools for production. Agriculture; consolidate and improve handicraft activities, form handicraft clusters in the center of the commune, produce raw materials for industrial parks.

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3. Trade and service development:
To strive to achieve a growth rate of about 19.4% / year for the 2011-2015 period and 16-17% / year for the 2016-2020 period.
- Complete the trading system, focusing on rural market development; mobilizing all economic sectors to invest in building a system of wholesale markets, people and supermarkets to create a distribution network to meet the needs of the people; expand the consumption market, especially the export market.
- Diversifying types of tourism, including promoting eco-tourism, cultural-historical activities, festivals; associating tourism with advertising, introducing historical traditions and potentials of the province; calling on all economic sectors inside and outside the province to invest in tourism infrastructure; associating with localities to form intra-regional tourist networks and national tourist networks; strive to 2015, attracting about 1 million tourists; By 2020, attract about 2 million visitors.

-   Developing types of freight and passenger transportation constantly improving the quality of customer service; enhance the development of road and waterway transport services in combination with building a system of warehouses and ports.
- Developing a variety of financial and banking services, improving the operation quality and competitiveness of credit institutions according to the market principles in order to well serve economic sectors and people.

4. Social fields:
a) Labor and employment:
- Focusing on developing and replicating employment creation models, supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, craft villages, especially types of businesses that attract many laborers; develop job introduction centers, increase employment transaction activities in the market. Develop a vocational training plan to meet the labor needs of industrial zones, clusters and economic zones.

b) Education - Training:
- Encourage the development of the preschool education system in both public and private forms; universalize education for 5-year-old children; focus on investing in learning equipment, strive that by 2015, 30% of primary schools in the province will reach national standards, secondary schools will be 20%, high schools will be 17%; By 2020, these rates shall be 70%, 50% and 40% respectively. Pay attention to training scientific and technical staff with high qualifications.
- Improve the quality of vocational training; focus on forms of direct vocational training, rural vocational training, residential vocational training for ethnic youth; organize a diversified vocational training model suitable to the characteristics of each target group; complete the vocational school system.

c) Health and community health care:
The fight for all people to enjoy primary health care services and gradually improve the quality of health care for everyone; reduce infection rate, improve quality of medical examination and treatment. Continue to consolidate the grassroots level of health care, adopt policies for physicians and physicians at the commune level; implementing population and family planning programs.
Promote preventive medicine, proactively prevent epidemics, environmental sanitation, strengthen quality management and food safety and hygiene.

d) Culture, physical training and sports:
- Perform synchronously between the planning and construction of institutional systems, in order to facilitate cultural and information activities. To strive for the target that by 2020, 100% of districts and cities will have cultural and sport centers, libraries, sports grounds, traditional houses and entertainment centers, meeting the requirements of organizing activities. information and sports activities.
- Developing the physical training and sports movement in all strata, agencies and unions of the society; promote socialization, increase resources for investment in infrastructure; improve physical education in schools; attaching importance to training and fostering the sports force of achievement in participating in regional and national competitions.

e) Poverty reduction and other social security issues:
- Implement synchronously, comprehensively and effectively hunger elimination and poverty reduction programs; building solutions and models of poverty reduction, creating conditions for the poor to develop production; adopt policies to encourage communes and households to escape poverty, encourage enterprises to vocational training and job creation for the poor; labor structure shifted from agriculture sector to non-agricultural labor force in both rural and urban areas.
- Promote the prevention and combat of social evils, strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the campaign to build a healthy commune / ward without social evils associated with the campaign "All people unite to build new cultural life ”; socialize the work of gratitude, mobilize the entire population to participate; take care of people with meritorious services to the country; take care of training, vocational training, creating jobs for children under family policy.

f) Science and technology:
- Research and implement solutions to exploit and use natural resources in a sustainable manner; widely apply new scientific and technological achievements such as biotechnology, post-harvest technology, creating a breakthrough in plant varieties and animals with high yield and value; promote the application of new technologies for mechanization in the agricultural production process.
- Assist enterprises in technological innovation and application of technologies in traditional trade villages to create a fundamental change in productivity, quality and efficiency in a number of important economic sectors such as: Aquaculture Production and processing of agricultural and fishery products. Developing technology market, implementing hi-tech application and development strategy and forming a number of high-tech industries.

5. Infrastructure development:
a) Traffic:
- Continue to invest in building and upgrading road transport infrastructure, especially the system of "horizontal roads", coastal roads, rural roads, and bridge systems in order to create transparency throughout the province. . To coordinate with the ministries and central branches in allocating and investing in a number of important transport routes, creating favorable conditions for socio-economic development.
- Gradually complete and modernize the urban transport infrastructure; researching to build urban bypasses, bridges over canals and rivers to create conditions for redistributing population and regulating too high traffic density in Gia Rai and Ho Phong areas; invest in upgrading a number of roads for new towns.

b) Irrigation:
- Building a multi-goal irrigation system, gradually adapting to climate change and sea level rise; combined with transport development, natural disaster mitigation and prevention; at the same time, it must ensure the control of salinity, alum drainage, keeping and directing freshwater for the specialized sub-region of rice; study and build appropriate water intake and drainage systems, prevent and limit the spread of epidemics, and ensure environmental sanitation for aquaculture for sustainable development.
- Irrigation zoning must be closely linked with zoning of agriculture, forestry, fishery and salt production, with production characteristics of each sub-region.

c) Electricity supply:
Complete the wind power plant according to the project progress; research and invest in building thermal power plants and planned high-voltage grid system; continue to improve the medium and low voltage electricity network to meet the electricity demand for agricultural and industrial production, especially industrial parks, concentrated industrial shrimp farming areas, tourist areas ...

d) Post and telecommunications and information technology:
- Continuing to build a synchronous and modern post and telecommunications infrastructure with large coverage with large flux and advanced technologies to meet the requirements of information technology service development and application; ensure smooth communication in all situations, safety and security; deploy automation in providing a number of provincial services. Striving to 2015, the density of Internet service subscribers will reach 15 subscribers / 100 people, 129 telephones / 100 people, 100% of commune cultural post offices will be provided with broadband internet services; ducted 35 - 45% of peripheral network infrastructure; by 2020, to reach 20 internet service subscribers per 100 people, underground 60-70% of network infrastructure and reach about 150 telephones / 100 people.

e) Water supply, drainage and environmental protection:
- Investment in water supply systems to meet the needs of daily life and production in urban areas and industrial parks; promote the effectiveness of existing clean water supply projects in the area; studying rural water supply models suitable for each sub-region.
- Investing in constructing sewage treatment plant for Bac Lieu city, industrial zones, some urban areas and concentrated residential areas; waste treatment and recycling plant for Bac Lieu city; waste treatment for hospitals and health facilities; implementing investment projects under the Program to cope with climate change and rising water.