Socio-economic development master plan of Ben Tre province till 2020

I. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
1. Overview objective:
To build Ben Tre by 2020 with a good socio-economic development commensurate with the localities in the region; Average per capita income is average. Continuing to promote the advantages of the location adjacent to the southern key economic region and the strength of developing garden and marine economy to gradually improve the people's material and spiritual life, developing synchronously the structure infrastructure, culture - society and human resources; promote international integration, strengthen development links, especially with localities in the Mekong Delta and the southern key economic region.

2. Specific objectives:
a) Regarding economic development:
- The average economic growth rate will reach 13.8% / year for 10 years, of which the period 2011-2015 will reach 13% / year, and the period 2016-2020 reach 14.5% / year. per capita will be around USD 1,600 by 2015 and around USD 3,300 by 2020; HDI index is about 0.9.
- The economic structure will be shifted towards increasing the proportion of industry, construction and services and gradually reducing the proportion of agriculture. It is expected that by 2015, the structure rate of agriculture - industry, construction - service sector will be 30.3% - 27.4% - 42.3%, by 2020 it will be 19.2% - 32.6 % - 48.2%.
- Export turnover will reach USD 675 million in 2015 and about USD 1.4 billion in 2020, an average increase of 20% / year. The budget revenue in the area increases an average of 13% / year at constant prices. Savings among the people by 2020 will reach 22% of GDP; Full-time ICOR is about 2.8.

b) Social development:
- Average population growth rate 0.4% / year; the urbanization rate will reach around 25% by 2015 and around 30% by 2020. By 2020, the road density will reach 1.2 km2; telephone density reaches 90 telephones / 100 people; 99% of households use electricity; The rate of clean water supply reaches 100% in urban areas and 95% of rural households use hygienic daily-life water.
- Completion of secondary education universalization by 2015. From 2012, 100% of teachers will meet the standards; by 2020, over 66% of the total number of trained laborers will strive, by 2010, 100% of officials of all levels will graduate from upper secondary schools and be trained in politics and professional skills. expand the vocational training system, Professional High School, College and University.
- Developing a reasonable balance between general and specialized hospitals, expanding the medical examination and treatment network by population clusters, modernizing traditional medicine hospitals; building more specialized centers, centers for diagnosis and high technology treatment; to renovate and upgrade medical facilities and equipment at district, town and ward levels; strengthen health ministries, especially doctors for rural areas. By 2020, it will reach 10.3 doctors / one thousand thousand people and 30.7 beds / ten thousand people.

- Complete construction of the provincial cultural house, the provincial gymnasium and gymnasium. By 2020, 95% of communes, wards and towns will complete the system of cultural centers - traditional houses - libraries - broadcasting, physical training and sports.
- Strive to 2020, over 98% of cultural families and over 80% of wards and communes achieve cultural titles and standards. Forming new urban areas and rural residential areas, ensuring that every citizen has a house; Communes basically completed the criteria of building a new countryside; poor households fell to less than 3% according to the new standard, the number of employed laborers accounted for 77.5% of working age people, reserve laborers accounted for 5.5% of unemployed laborers accounted for less than 1%.

c) Regarding science and technology:
Developing science and technology, striving to 2020, the technology of management and management contributes 20% of the additional GDP, the rate of technological innovation is 205 / year.
d) Regarding environmental protection:
- Protection and improvement of the environment in urban, rural, industrial and agricultural areas, especially in submerged areas - tidal flats.
- Striving for new urban areas and newly built industrial complexes with waste collection system, of which over 65% will be treated.

II. ORIENTATIONS FOR INDUSTRY AND FIELD DEVELOPMENT
1. Development of agriculture, forestry and fishery:
- Developing garden and marine economy; strive to grow at an average rate of 6.3% / year, focusing on key products with the main goal of production efficiency and product quality, forming and sustainable development of regions. specialized farming, focusing on agricultural and aquacultural production, concentrated scale goods and standardization of farming systems, meeting market demands, creating a stable foundation for economic growth and development. develop products with strategic and specific characteristics: fruits, coconut, fish and shrimp, fruit trees, ornamental flowers, pork, beef.

- Stabilize the area of ​​rice cultivation in about 25,000 ha, in combination with developing systems of crops and sugarcane. Identify the garden economy as a key development industry with the scale of 54,000 hectares of coconuts and 33,600 hectares of fruit trees, focusing on the comprehensive exploitation of products on brand and production efficiency, and reaching the target to achieve Certification standards for fruit products.
- Innovating the method of organizing the production of handicraft villages combined with high-tech farming techniques for the production of ornamental flowers and fruit tree varieties in Cai Mon in order to improve economic efficiency and position on the market.
- Developing the herd of pigs both in quantity and quality on the basis of increasing the raising scale, promoting farm and concentrated farming. To strongly develop cow raising to a leading scale in the Mekong river delta, to form a concentrated breeding and supply region for cow breeds. Stably develop poultry in the direction of application, attaching importance to the development of industrial farming combined with strict epidemic sanitation.

- To form and stabilize over 31,100 ha of water surface specialized in fish rearing in salinized areas, marine shrimp farming in brackish areas, rotational farming areas and watching rice - shrimp, forest - shrimp farming areas. Compatible allocation of types of intensive, semi-intensive and ecological farming; attaching importance to sustainable development on the basis of standardizing and actively protecting the surface water environment and coastal waters. develop fishing in the offshore direction, protecting inland and coastal aquatic resources. To develop synchronously the fishery infrastructure at 3 fishing ports of Binh Thang, An Thuy and An Nhon.
- Expand, restore and develop 5,100 ha of protection forests and special-use forests in intertidal areas, including Thanh Phu wetland nature area.

2. Industrial and construction development:
- Growth at an average rate of 22.0% / year, which is the basis for ensuring socio-economic development and economic restructuring towards industrialization and modernization.
- Main industries are processing of agriculture - forestry - handicrafts - livestock products, fruit drinks, coconut, shrimp, fish, pork; mechanical engineering and shipbuilding, chemicals, apparel, handicrafts and electrical and electronic products.
- Tasks of industry - cottage industry and handicraft include agricultural and aquatic product processing after harvesting, production of raw materials for agricultural and forestry production, consumer goods production with competitive advantages, and revenue. attract investment and industrial transfer into industrial parks and clusters.

- Main industrial products with development advantages are frozen seafood, semi-processed fruit, coconut products, pure sugar, confectionery, processed meat, animal and aqua feed, and onion wear, export shoes, mechanical products, machines of all kinds, electronic products.
- The total area of ​​industrial parks and complexes will fluctuate between 2,200 ha and 2,600 ha by 2020, depending on investment attraction and industrial development conditions in the locality, including industrial parks. average of 1,800 - 2,200 ha.
- For the construction industry, focusing on embellishment, repair and new construction of public and civil works, mainly state agencies, public welfare works, literary institutions. In addition, there are also residential areas, new residential areas, resettlement areas and residential houses, industrial complexes and industrial - commercial - service establishments.

3. Development of trade in services:
- Growth rate of 16.2% / year; strive to 2020, with a relatively good development compared to other localities in the Region in the fields of commerce, services, tourism, education and training, transportation, finance and banking.
- Trade industry: Prioritize the planning and construction of commercial areas in Ben Tre city and sub-regional commercial areas (Ba Tri, Mo Cay Nam and Binh Dai), wholesale markets, wholesale wholesale markets. capacity of beds, receiving and supplying goods to markets and surrounding areas. To invest in building a model of self-selected shops and adjacent shops in district and city market centers, building supermarkets, wholesale centers and centers specializing in high-class goods; At the same time, to attach importance to the synchronous development of the people's market system, especially in rural areas.
- Striving to increase the export turnover by 20% / year through the expansion of the system of cooperation, joint ventures, economic links with other localities, especially the southern key economic region.

- Transport industry: encourage and support all economic sectors to invest in vehicles, exploit land transport and invest heavily in public transport.
- Tourism industry: To focus on developing eco-tourism and cultural tourist sites in association with gardens and rivers (Con Phung eco-tourism and high-class resorts, tourist resorts and high-class general services) Ben Tre level, Con Quy rural garden tourist area, Thanh Phu eco-cultural tourist village, Vam Ho ecological-tourist-study-and-visit tourist area, plus eco-cultural tourist area Copper Con Con). Building events, tourism associations; forming 4 tourist clusters (Chau Thanh - Ben Tre city, Chau Thanh - Binh Dai, Cho Lach - Mo Cay - Thanh Phu, Giong Trom -Ba Tri) and 4 intra-provincial tourist routes, building tourist routes interprovincial and international.

4. Development of technical infrastructure:
a) Transport: linking with the transport network of the Mekong river delta region and the southern key economic region.
- Development of the Northwest-Southeast transport system linking tubers including National Highway 60 in combination with upgrading district roads into provincial roads: DH.14, Binh Dai - Ba Tri - Thanh Phu, Thanh Hai - My An, Phong Man - Mo Cay Nam town.
- Development of northeast-northeast-southwest transport axes, including national highways 57 combined with upgrading of provincial roads: DT.885, DT.886, DT.887, DT.888 and upgrading University road 10 becomes a provincial road.
- Upgrading district and inter-commune roads, synchronously developing urban roads.
- Investing in upgrading Giao Long port into a seaport to serve the province's goods import and export demand, upgrading Binh Thang and An Thuy ports and completing An Nhon port.

b) Irrigation:
- Complete the Northern Ben Tre irrigation system to prevent salinity, create fresh sources and regulate intra-field water in the areas of An Hoa and Bao islands.
- Building irrigation sub-areas to prevent salinity and freshwater in Minh Cu island; after 2020, to completely connect South Ben Tre irrigation work.
c) Electricity, water supply, drainage and wastewater treatment:
- Building a raw water supply system from Chau Thanh - Cho Lach to coastal districts; complete water supply system. By 2020, 100% of urban households and 95 rural households will be provided with clean water.
- Concentrating on investing, upgrading and newly constructing synchronously the system of rainwater collection, collection and treatment of wastewater, especially in urban areas and industrial parks.

d) Communication: developing a modern communication network; accelerate the application of information technology in the fields of production and social life. By 2002, there were 100 telephones / 100 people.
5. Social fields
a) Population development: promoting family planning and reproductive health care to improve population quality; The average population will increase by 0.4% / year in the 2011-2020 period.

b) Education and training:
- Strive for 100% of communes and wards to reach the standard of secondary education universalization by 2015. By 2020, 60% of the province will have preschools, 60% of primary schools, 50% of lower secondary schools and 70% of high schools will reach the national standards. Each district has 1 continuing education center and strives to have 90% of communes and wards have a community learning center.

- By 2020, the whole province will have 2 universities, 2 vocational schools, 3 colleges, 09 continuing education centers and 10 vocational training centers; implementation of vocational universalization program and training compared to the labor force in the urban area accounts for about 66.3%; strive to achieve the ratio of college and university students per 10,000 people (including non-formal forms of training) of 287.

c) Health and people's health care
- Strive for all people to enjoy primary health care services, to have access to and use quality medical services, reduce disease rates, improve physical fitness and increase age longevity.
- New construction of emergency area for Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital and auxiliary works. To equip equipment strictly according to standards for preventive medicine centers, pharmaceutical and cosmetic control centers, health education and communication centers, reproductive health care centers, AIDS prevention centers.

- Newly construct a provincial general hospital with 600 beds and a maternity hospital; upgrade, expand and complete Tran Van An Hospital, Cu Lao Minh, Dan Y District. Upgrade regional general clinics and repair all commune and ward health stations up to national standards. Encourage private investment in the construction of hospitals and health facilities.
- Striving after 2010, 85% of health stations reach national standards and 100% by 2012; by 2015, 100% of cultural health villages. by 2020, reaching 30.7 patient beds / ten thousand people; under-1 mortality rate will be below 3%, and children under 5 will be below 4%; the rate of low birth weight babies under 2.5 kg shall be around under 2%;malnutrition rate among children under 5 years old is about 10%; Maternal mortality ratio is about 11 / 100,000; death rate 037%.

d) Culture - information and physical training - sports
- Development of culture and information with the goal of building new people; strengthening the conservation, embellishment and promotion of the values of national cultural heritages; continue to well implement the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life"; strengthen system of facilities and information force. By 2020, strive to achieve 98% of cultural households, 100% of cultural hamlets, 80% of cultural communes and wards.
- Development of physical training and sports facilities; expand and maintain the movement of the entire people to exercise and exercise regularly in agencies, schools and people; promote the socialization of sports work. To strive for the target that by 2020, the population will regularly practice physical training and sports by 35-40%.

f) Hunger eradication, poverty alleviation, job creation and social security:
- Continue to well implement the national target policies and programs on hunger eradication, poverty reduction, job creation and social security.
- By 2020. Strive to reduce poor households to about 3% according to the new standards; reduce unemployment to less than 1%; raise the working time use rate in rural areas to 95%; creating funding sources for poor laborers to learn jobs, find jobs after training, through job introduction centers and job-training establishments.

  f) Science, technology and environment:
- Concentrating on investment in research and application for transfer of scientific and technological achievements, serving agricultural and rural industrialization and modernization, attaching importance to the application of biotechnology in breeding and breeding. technology for preserving and processing agricultural products.
- Supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and small-scale enterprises in technological innovation, improving quality, added value and competitiveness of products. Prioritizing the development of advanced technologies in agro-forestry-fishery processing; continue to invite management mechanism invitation; socialize investment in science and technology activities;develop science and technology market.

- Raising awareness and responsibility of all levels, sectors, organizations, businesses, owners of production facilities, individuals and the community on environmental protection. Harmonious combination of economic growth and environmental protection; strengthening environmental management, pollution treatment, prevention of environmental incidents in urban areas, industrial clusters, production establishments, trade villages, cattle-poultry slaughterhouses, concentrated residential clusters and lines.
- Rational exploitation of natural resources, paying special attention to preserving the biodiversity of mangroves and coastal beaches.