DECISION No DECISION No. 168/2001/QD-TTg OF OCTOBER 30, 2001 ON THE LONG-TERM ORIENTATION, 2001-2005 FIVE-YEAR PLAN AND FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRAL HIGHLANDS THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the September 30, 1992 Law on Organization of the Government; At the proposal of the Ministers of Planning and Investment; Finance; Agriculture and Rural Development; Industry and the Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, DECIDES: Article 1.- The long-term orientation, 2001-2005 five-year plan and fundamental solutions for the socio-economic development of Central Highlands (which embraces the provinces of Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Lam Dong) aim to bring into full play the region�s potentials, geographical advantages as well as natural conditions, creating a dynamic development with high and sustainable growth rate, protecting the ecological environment and proceeding to make it one of the dynamic economic regions of the whole country; to step by step improve and raise the living standards of people, first of all, in deep-lying, remote areas inhabited by ethnic minority people and areas meeting with exceptional difficulties; to build a strong and clean political system and an equitable, democratic and civilized society, contributing to the maintenance of security and defense. The major development targets are: 1. The gross domestic product (GDP) in 2005 shall double that of 2000, with the average growth rate of about 9%/year, in which the industrial production shall grow by 16%/year, the agricultural and forestrial production by 7%/year, service sector by 12%/year; the average per-capita gross production shall increase by 1.5 fold over 2000. 2. The economic restructure shall be effected along the direction of diversification, specialization, efficiency and high competitiveness, gradually increasing the industrial, construction and service proportions and gradually reducing the agricultural, forestrial and fishery proportions in the GDP, which shall be 22, 25 and 53 respectively by the year 2005. In agriculture, efforts shall be concentrated on the development of farm produce which can substitute the import goods, such as maize, soybean, cotton, tobacco, milch cow,� while continuing to develop the agricultural products of export advantage, such as coffee, rubber, pepper, cashew, paper pulp, timber, vegetables, flowers� along the direction of highly intensive farming, raising the quality and efficiency, thus contributing to raising the export turnover so as to achieve the average per-capita export turnover of USD 200/year by 2005. 3. By 2005, there shall be no more hungry households, no more communes meeting with exceptional difficulties; the rate of poor households shall fall to below 13%; and 100% of people with meritorious services shall have a living standard equal to or higher than the average level of the people in the same commune of residence. 4. Almost all communes will have motorways to the commune centers, have post and cultural spots and basically have clean water from drilled wells, taps or storage tanks for people; and 90% of the communes will be supplied with electricity. 5. All health stations will be provided with adequate conditions (electricity, water, equipment, machinery, medicines, health workers) in order to ensure primary healthcare for people. 6. To complete primary education universalization and illiteracy eradication in communes which have not yet reached the standards therefor. By 2005, 30% of the communes and all cities, provincial capitals and district towns will reach the junior-high education universalization standards; 18-20% of the laborers working in various sectors of the national economy will have gone through training; each district will have at least one boarding school; almost all districts, provincial capitals, district towns and cities will have short-term job training establishments. 7. To better settle the social issues, raise the population�s intellectual level and markedly improve the living conditions of people, particularly ethnic minority people. 8. To well maintain the political security and strong national defense. Article 2.- Orientations for development of branches, domains I. Regarding agricultural and forestrial production To reach the average annual growth rate of 7% on the basis of restructuring production along the direction of large-scale, concentrated and specialized commodity production suitable to the ecological conditions of each locality, doubling the output per acreage unit of arable land over 2000. 1. On food production: The output will reach about 1.5 million tons, focusing on the development of hybrid maize (particularly maize of high protein), high-yield manioc with a view to promoting the region�s strengths so as to ensure food for people and produce animal feed for husbandry, and industries using manioc raw materials. a/ Rice: To focus on the application of intensive-farming measures and raise the rate of using hybrid rice strains on the existing paddy acreage, expand wet rice acreage only in areas where conditions permit. Particularly to give priority to the construction of medium- and small-sized irrigation works for on-spot food production by people in deep-lying and remote regions. b) Subsidiary food crops: Central Highlands has great potentials for strong development of subsidiary food crops such as maize, manioc. It is necessary to formulate regions producing maize, particularly cross-bred maize along the direction of concentrated and specialized production in order to reach the output of 1 million tons/year by 2005. To formulate concentrated manioc regions where conditions permit, ensuring raw materials for manioc-processing industry. 2. On industrial plants: a/ Coffee: Not to expand the acreage, to put the coffee areas which cannot be irrigated under other crops of higher economic efficiency. To convert part of the area being under robust coffee into area cultivated with Arabian coffee where conditions permit. To focus on intensive farming and strain improvement on the remaining areas. The People�s Committees of the Central Highlands provinces shall devise the existing coffee acreage, work out mechanisms and policies and guide in detail the reduction of coffee acreage for cultivation of other crops. Vietnam Coffee Corporation, the Central Highlands provinces will, by 2005, complete the investment in building (preliminary, refined) processing establishments, post-harvest foundations such as sun-drying yards, heat-drying establishments,� in order to raise the product quality, standards and competitiveness on domestic and world markets. b/ Rubber plant: Only to continue with new cultivation as planned under the AFD capital-borrowing project within the State rubber companies and small rubber farms borrowing WB capital (agricultural diversification project), prioritizing the growing in border regions. To continue with the investment, intensive farming on the existing acrease. By 2005, to have some 120,000 ha. Vietnam Rubber Corporation and the Central Highlands provinces must complete the investment in upgrading the processing establishments (for preliminary processing of rubber) and restructure the products to meet the market demands so as to formulate the rubber latex- processing industry by 2010. c/ Tea plant: To focus on intensive farming on the existing tea acreage. To cultivate tea on new areas only where conditions permit, chiefly in Lam Dong. To gradually replace the existing tea varieties with new ones of yield and quality suitable to domestic and foreign markets. By 2005, the acreage is expected to reach about 23,000 ha. To continue building new processing establishments and upgrading the existing ones, raising the product value, quality and competitiveness on the market. d/ Cashew: By 2005, the cashew acreage will reach about 31,000 ha, which will later increase to 60,000 ha, based on the betterment of the old cashew gardens and the acreage expansion to appropriate soil areas for intensive farming of high-yield and high-quality cashew in order to reach the output of over 30,000 tons of nut/ year. To invest in the construction of cashew nut- processing establishments compatible with the on-spot raw material regions, in order to create more jobs for people. e/ Sugarcane: To continue expanding new sugarcane acreage in order to ensure the adequate supply of raw materials for the existing sugar factories. To practice intensive farming, raising the percentage of area under new sugarcane varieties of high yield and high sugar content and expanding the irrigated sugarcane acreages in areas where exist irrigation works. f/ Cotton: It is necessary to quickly develop cotton as substitute for import raw materials. To link the cotton development to the investment in the construction of irrigation works such as upstream Easuop, downstream Easuop, Ia Lau, Ia Mo, in order to formulate the concentrated specialized and highly intensive farming area. To strive to achieve around 25,000 ha by the year 2005, then gradually to over 50,000 ha; to widely use crossbred cotton varieties of high yield, high cotton fiber quality, and high productivity per acreage unit. g/ Mulberry: To focus on restoring the mulberry acreage and silkworm raising in Lam Dong. After 2005, to basically ensure the adequate supply of raw materials for spinning and silk weaving plants already built in the region. To maintain the acreage of about 5,000 ha with the application of advanced methods to raise the mulberry productivity and achieve the silkworm output of about 2,000 tons. h/ Pepper plant: which remains to be plants of high economic value in Central Highlands has strongly developed in recent years, thus formulating highly concentrated specialized commodity production region; it is necessary to focus on intensive farming, raising the quality of existing pepper. i/ Tobacco: To be grown in areas with favorable conditions, with high-yield and high-quality strains suitable to the market demand and taste, ensuring the adequate supply of raw materials for cigarette factories while being able to export cigarette raw materials. 3. Vegetables, flower, fruit and other trees: a/ Regarding vegetables and flowers: To be grown mainly in Lam Dong province, to formulate the concentrated specialized farming regions along the direction of industrial production with modern technologies to produce high-class flowers and vegetables reaching the food safety standards for export (particularly fresh flowers for export) and domestic consumption. By 2005, to reach about 30,000 ha, including some 500-600 ha for flower growing. b/ Regarding fruit trees: To develop trees yielding fruits with outlets and suitable to climatic and soil conditions of the region. c/ Food plants: To bring into full play Central Highlands� advantages for strong development of soybean and assorted beans and peas. To formulate the concentrated specialized farming zones of commodity production, associated with on-spot processing establishments. By 2005, to have some 100,000 ha. d/ Pharmaceutical plants: To continue expanding the acreage in Kon Tum, Da Lat and areas where conditions permit. To protect the precious pharmaceutical zones in Kon Tum. 4. Husbandry and aquaculture: Central Highlands is endowed with more potentials and strengths than other regions of the whole country to develop cattle rearing along the direction of commodity production with high quality, particularly beef cattle and milch cow. To deploy projects on development of high-quality beef cattle rearing in Dak Lak, ensuring the supply of high-quality meat for urban centers and industrial zones. To step by step develop the milch cow rearing in provinces together with the investment in milk-processing establishments. By 2005, to reach a herd of 700,000 bovines, including 5,000 milch cows. To develop husbandry in Central Highlands mainly along the direction of household- and farm-based rearing; while State enterprises and cooperatives shall provide services regarding breeds, veterinary, agricultural promotion, product sale and husbandry product processing. To develop fresh-water aquaculture, chiefly in reservoirs, in order to have more products to be supplied for the local market. 5. Forestry: To strongly develop forestry in Central Highlands is the immediate and long-term task to increase the forest coverage to 65% with a view to protecting the ecological environment, water sources and making forestry a spearhead economic branch, formulating the major raw materials zone for paper industry, the production of artificial board, the production of wood furniture for export and domestic use, contributing to the income increase and job creation. a/ To continue well performing the tasks of forest protection, zoning of existing forests for regeneration, including natural forests, protective forests, national gardens, nature preservation zones, to apply strict measures to protect natural forests. b/ To concentrate on planting economic forests, formulate raw material zones closely linked to establishments producing paper, paper pulp, plank bits, artificial board, wood furniture,... To strive to plant at least 200,000 ha of new forests by 2005, with such trees as eucalyptus, hybrid acacia, pine, bamboo,� ensuring enough raw materials for processing wood products. In the immediate future, to ensure adequate supply of raw materials for Gia Lai MDF plant, paper pulp factories in Kon Tum, Lam Dong and other localities where conditions permit in order to reach the pulp and paper output of 1 million tons/year and the assorted-board output of about 500,000 m 3 / year. To apply scientific and technical advances to hybridization by mode of tissue culture and cuttings in order to quickly develop fast-growing trees (about more than 20-30 m 3 /ha/year or more) with high efficiency. c/ To strongly develop the growing of big timber trees in areas where conditions permit in order to satisfy the consumption demands, including fast-growing big timber trees and some kinds of spacious timber (padauk, sin-dora-wood, boggy starwort, dipterocarpus,�). d/ To step by step contract natural forest acreage to households, communities (hamlets, villages, communes) for management and protection under the community rules. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the third quarter of 2001 submits to the Prime Minister for promulgation the policy on benefits and obligations of people who are assigned, leased, contracted forests and forestry land in order to encourage the forest planters to manage and protect forests. e/ To strictly observe the regulations on timber exploitation according to plans, process and procedures for exploitation of special products under forest foliage, in combination with the development of forest industry in order to increase the use value of forest resources. To combine the forest protection zoning with eco-tourism under the forest foliage. To guide the consumption of domestic wood furniture, replacing forest timber used in construction with other materials; to encourage the replacement of fuel wood used in daily life and material production with other fuel sources. To restrict then put an end to forest slash and burn for farming and forest hunting according to law provisions. For natural forests banned from exploitation, they shall be transferred into special-use forests for strict protection. II. Industrially The industrial development in Central Highlands aims mainly at the industrialization of agriculture, forestry, processing of agricultural and forestrial products, hydro-electric power industry and mining industry. 1. The processing industry: To focus on the completion of investment in the construction of new farm produce processing establishments and the upgrading of the existing ones according to planning so as after 2005 to basically complete the investment in the construction of agricultural, forestrial product-processing establishments and post-harvest technologies, first of all tea, coffee and fruit-processing technologies, and intensive-processing industries which use agricultural and/or forestrial products, including paper industry, wood production, rubber, textile industries,� In the immediate future, to: Complete the construction of Kon Tum paper pulp factory with the capacity of 130,000 tons/year, Lam Dong paper pulp factory with the capacity of 150,000 tons/year and a number of paper mills in other provinces. Complete the construction of Gia Lai MDF board plant with the capacity of 54,000 m 3 /year as scheduled in association with the raw material timber zones and continue developing wood furniture-making establishments in the locality. Invest in the construction of a new large-scale cotton fiber, spinning plant, gradually formulate establishments for garment production and/or order-production in order to create jobs and take part in export. To fully tap the capacity of silkworm, silk-weaving establishments already built in the region in order to raise the quantity and quality of export silk articles. To restore traditional weaving crafts among the population, especially people of ethnic minority. The agricultural and forest product-processing industry must become one of the spearhead economic branches and be given priority in the application of advanced and modern technologies in order to turn out products of good competitiveness on domestic and foreign markets. 2. Hydro-electric power industry: The Central Highlands has great potentials for developing hydro-electric power industry which may achieve the capacity of 2,383 MW, the electricity output of 12.7 billion kWh/year, and mini-hydro-electric power stations with the output of about 1.5 billion kWh/year. To complete the hydro-electric power projects: Ham Thuan Dami for power generation in early 2002, Ialy hydro-electric power station with the remaining turbogenerator being put into operation at the end of 2001. To complete the elaboration of feasible investment projects for hydro-electric power stations within Dong Nai river system (upstream being under Lam Dong province), Se San river system in Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces in line with the general scheme on electricity development in the 2001-2010 period and to the year 2020. To reform the power grids for 4 cities and provincial capitals, to build the second 500 kV transmission line linking Pleiku, Buon Ma Thuat - Di Linh and Phu Lam; to build the 110 kV power transmission line to Ma Drac and Dac Min districts (Dak Lak province). To continue studying the investment in hydro-electric power-cum-irrigation projects; prioritize the investment in small-sized hydro-electric power stations in areas where conditions permit. To complete the construction of power transmission line to 142 communes where electricity is yet available even at the communal centers, ensuring that by 2005 over 70% of the population will be supplied with electricity. 3. Mining and chemical industries: On the basis of taking into account the economic efficiency and possible capital sources, to construct the bauxite mining and aluminium-refining factories in Lam Dong and Dak Lak. To expand the scales of projects on exploitation of tin, gold, precious stones and assorted building materials in the locality. To build a NPK fertilizer plant in Dak Lak. 4. Mechanical engineering industry, handicraft and cottage industry To reorganize the production of the mechanical engineering industry, to make intensive investment by renewing equipment in the existing mechanical engineering establishments. First of all, to increase the mechanical engineering industry�s capacity to repair and manufacture small mechanical engineering products in service of on-spot agricultural and forestrial production as well as farm produce processing. To encourage the development of handicraft and cottage industry in urban and rural areas, particul

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