PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng urges Hà Giang to escape from poverty

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng visits soldiers and policemen in Hà Giang - Photo: VNGOVNet

Reporting to PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Secretary of the Hà Giang Province Party Committee Hoàng Minh Nhất said, in 2007, his province aims to gain a per capita income of VND 4 million/year; restructure the economy in the new order of priority: services, industry-construction, and agro-forestry and fishery; bring the proportion of poor households down by another 5%; keep up national security and defence as well as socio-political stability; and assist ethnic minority people with access to housing and land to live and make a living on, and particularly water to use daily.

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng told them that although the province’s economy was reported to be growing, the nature of that growth was unsound. Economic restructuring moved at a snail's pace. As much as 44% of the households are in poverty. The province must draw up lessons from its management of capital construction and bring to light corruption and negative cases involved, he insisted.

The PM asked ministries and central agencies to lend Hà Giang a helping hand so that it can boost production and reduce poverty, do the good job of maintaining social security and order, fulfil the planting of border markers, and help evicted people to resettlement in life and production after their removal for the building of 30 reservoirs, each costing VND3 billion. He told Hà Giang to allocate forest land plots to poor households and provide them with enough grains to get by. He said hydroelectricity, mining, agriculture and animal husbandry are the province's strengths which should to be harnested for development. The province must pay more attention to education and training, and vocational training, he told local leaders.

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng gives gifts to ethnic people in Đồng Văn District - Photo: VNGOVNet

Earlier, PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng had made a tour of Hà Giang's four northernmost limestone border districts of Quản Bạ, Yên Minh, Mèo Vạc, and Đồng Văn. He presented gifts to local people in Đồng Văn District, home to 17 different ethnic groups residing scattered in 19 communes and towns. Representing the Communist Party, State and Government, PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng praised the local ethnic people for having lived in unity and working hard to improve their living standards, thus helping to create socio-political stability. He said he was happy to see motorways run to communal centers and the popularization of secondary education completed.

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and children in Đồng Văn - Photo: VNGOVNet

The PM confirmed that the Government has been doing something to help the province economically, especially northernmost districts in limestone mountains, wanting them to quickly settle down, improve their living conditions, and have access to water and land for living and production.

In the afternoon of February 11, PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng drove to Phú Thọ Province where he offered incense to the Hùng Kings - the Vietnamese’s ancestors - at their temples and planted a tree there in memory./.

By Xuân Hồng