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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh addresses the conference__Photo: VNA |
Cabinet leader Pham Minh Chinh on April 6 asked Thua Thien-Hue province to optimize its potential and unique strengths to become an urban area with identity, which develops in a smart, adaptive, green, clean, beautiful, safe, and sustainable manner.
Addressing a conference to announce the master plan of the province for the 2021-2030 period with a vision toward 2050 and promote investment in the province in 2024, the Government leader underlined that Thua Thien - Hue has an important strategic position as a bridge connecting the North and the South, a gateway to the sea of the East - West trans-Asia corridor through Northern Thailand - Southern Laos - Central Vietnam, which brings the locality great potential for marine and lagoon economic development.
Thua Thien-Hue is also a land of spirituality, outstanding people, and rich culture, enabling it to be an attractive tourist destination with a rich history and unique culture with many cultural heritage sites and historical relics of Vietnam and the world, he added.
PM Chinh underlined the need to internationalize the values of the national cultural identities and nationalize the quintessence of the world culture.
Highly valuing the design of the provincial planning and the Thua Thien-Hue urban planning, he asked the province to focus on effectively mobilizing and utilizing resources to promote traditional driving forces of investment, export, and consumption, while creating breakthroughs in new motivations such as green economy, digital economy, circular economy, sharing economy, knowledge economy, climate change response, sustainable development, investment in cultural industry, and entertainment industry.
Meanwhile, the locality should concentrate on enhancing human resources quality and strengthen connectivity with domestic and international regions through transportation systems, production systems, supply chains, culture and tourism, he said.
The PM also highlighted the need for Thua Thien-Hue to strengthen the development of a concerted comprehensive strategic infrastructure system, while increasing industrial promotion to serve the cultural industry, tourism, processing industry, manufacturing, production, and supply chains for the region and the world, promoting the application of science and technology, innovation in production and business, creating stable jobs and livelihoods for people, and securing fast and sustainable growth.
The Government leader called on businesses and investors to share visions and actions with the locality, pioneering in renovation and contributing ideas to the province in administrative reform and improving the local investment environment.
At the event, Thua Thien - Hue authorities granted investment licenses and investment policy approval decisions to 11 projects with a total capital of nearly VND 9 trillion (USD 360.5 million), while presenting research documents for 10 projects with a capital of about VND 120 trillion in the fields of infrastructure, tourism, mechanics, energy, logistics, housing, education, health care, and digital data.- (VLLF)
