Socio-economic development master plan of An Giang province till 2020

Socio-economic development goals:
- The average GDP growth rate in the 2011-2015 period will reach 12.5% and the whole 2011-2020 period will reach 12.5%.
- GDP per capita will reach USD 2,200 by 2015 and USD 3,500 by 2020.
- Export turnover in 2010 reaches USD 700 million, in 2015 reaches USD 1.2 billion and in 2020 reaches USD 1.8-2 billion.
- Economic structure by 2015: agriculture - forestry - fishery accounts for 25.24%; industry - construction sector accounts for 17.56%; service sector accounts for 57.20%.

Total social investment in 5 years from nearly 162 trillion dong
- Population size until 2015 is about 2,206,689 people; natural population growth rate in 2015 will be around 1.07%, the average population growth rate will be 0.44% / year.
- Create jobs, create more jobs in 5 years about 178,000 workers, of which female workers account for nearly 47.8%; an average of over 35,000 employees annually; the rate of trained laborers reaches 50%; The percentage of trained workers reaches 40%.

Development orientation of economic sectors and fields
Agriculture - forestry - fishery:
Ensuring the area of wet rice cultivation according to the agricultural development planning, ensuring national food security and developing the commodity production orientation. The development direction is to improve crop productivity and produce clean agricultural products, including wet rice.
- Maintain the viewpoint "to turn the fishery industry into one of the key economic sectors of the province", but focus the fishery development focus on improving product quality. Aquatic area and output may not increase, but the value and revenue do not decrease.

- Identify rice and tra and basa fish products as special products, strategic products of the province; pay attention to developing a number of other products of high economic value.
- Building a high-tech institute to research plant and animal breeds in the whole Mekong Delta region.
- New rural construction with 19 criteria according to Decision 491 / QD-TTg dated April 16, 2009 and 20 criteria under Decision No. 1036 / QD-UBND dated June 7, 2010 of An Giang Provincial People's Committee.
- Paying attention to local water reserves for consumption and production.

Industry - handicraft industry:
- To complete the construction of concentrated industrial parks, including Vam Cong industrial park (Long Xuyen city) with an area of 500 ha, Hoi An industrial park (Cho Moi district) with an area of 100 ha and a number of industrial, small-scale industry. other district level, high technology priority.
- Expanding Binh Hoa Industrial Park to 281.7ha and Binh Long Industrial Park to 180.6ha.
- To strive to fill industrial parks by 2020 with priority and encourage the development of hi-tech industries.
- Mechanical manufacturing and repair industry: Continuing to research and mechanize the stages of sowing, harvesting, plucking and improving drying equipment to meet the quality requirements of the goods; improve the capacity of manufacturing agricultural machines.

- Mining industry and construction material production: Exploiting mineral resources in close association with protecting ecological environment and tourist landscape; improve the quality of construction materials products of the province, increase competitiveness in the domestic market and export.
- Developing garment, leather and footwear, electronic assembly and information technology industries for domestic and export markets.
- Traditional small-scale industries: Developing handicraft products for tourism and upgrading An Giang's specialty specialties.
- Wood and forest product processing industry: Enhance the commercial value of forest products, especially products from planted forests, to meet consumption and export demands.

Trade - service - tourism:
- Trade: City area development. Long Xuyen and Chau Doc town become big and dynamic trade centers of the province; Tan Chau - Vinh Xuong and Tinh Bien - Tri Ton - Nui Sap areas into economic "locomotives" of the province to entice other regions to develop.
- Complete the general planning and complete investment in infrastructure of border-gate economic zones, including 2 international border gates: Tinh Bien, Vinh Xuong and 2 national border gates: Khanh Binh and Vinh Hoi Dong.
+ Tinh Bien border gate trade area: Calling for investment attraction to expand and build synchronous infrastructure in association with population distribution and development of import-export business services.
- To develop O Ta Soc tourist resort (Tri Ton district) in combination with That Son mountain tourist area (Tri Ton district) and medicinal products grown in That Son mountain region in order to form a continuous tourist route.

-Tourism: Promote the combined resources of tourism development and development to become a key economic sector of the province; diversifying tourism products, promoting joint ventures and associating with domestic and international tourism agencies; develop key tourist areas: Sam Mountain, Cam Mountain, Nui Co To, Nui Giai, Uncle Ton's memorial area and My Khanh entertainment area; developing intra-provincial tourism routes: Long Xuyen - Cho Moi - Chau Thanh - Thoai Son, Chau Doc - Chau Phu - An Phu, Phu Tan - Tan Chau and Tri Ton - Tinh Bien, Can Tho, Kien Giang, Dong Tower, Ca Mau, Mekong Delta Tourism Association, TP. Ho Chi Minh City and expand cooperation and links with the tourism industry of the province - a friend of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand ...

Social fields:
- Education and training: Gradually perfect the system of facilities to meet the educational development objectives; strive to 80% of primary school teachers have college degrees, 90% of high school teachers will have university degrees and 20% of high school teachers will have postgraduate degrees. Besides, investing in developing An Giang University into a center to provide high quality human resources for the province; At the same time, to build and expand a network of schools and vocational training institutions.
- Public health and health care: Implement national health programs well, take care of health care for the whole people.