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Master plan on socio-economic development of the Central key economic region to 2020, vision to 2030 

 Wednesday, October 26,2016

AsemconnectVietnam - The Central key economic region (including 5 provinces and cities: Thua Thien - Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh) has a special important role in strategy of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security for the Central coast region and the Central Highlands.

MASTER PLAN ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTRAL KEY ECONOMIC REGION TO 2020, VISION TO 2030

I. Position and role
The Central key economic region (including 5 provinces and cities: Thua Thien - Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh) has a special important role in strategy of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security for the Central coast region and the Central Highlands.
To build the Central key economic region to become strong maritime economic center, creating position to go to the sea to firmly protect sovereignty of sea and island of the country. Focusing on developing a variety of high added value services such as import and export, tourism, fisheries, oil and gas, transport...; developing sea port, port services and sea, river-sea transport; developing fleets, industry of shipbuilding and ship repairing... developing island economic in accordance with island location, potential and advantages of each island.
The Central key economic region is also an important bridge in international economic and culture exchanges, a goods transit point with the Central Highlands and the most convenient sea gateway for localities in southern Laos and northeastern Thailand and northeastern Cambodia through east-west economic corridor.
II. Development viewpoints
1. Socio-economic development of the Central key economic region must be in consistent with socio-economic development strategy of the whole country, Vietnam's marine strategy, master plan on socio-economic development of north Central and Central coast region to 2020; ensuring consistency with development plans of sectors and fields.
2. To promote maximum potential and comparative advantages of the region about political-economic geographic location, natural resources, particularly marine resources and culture values of localities in the region in order to promote economic restructure, growth model transform towards sustainability. Focusing on developing strongly advantage industries and high quality service and tourism at international and regional level associating with development of urban systems in order to narrow gap with other key economic regions of the country.
3. To promote human factor, considering as an important development resources of the region. Focusing on training and development of human resources, especially high quality human resources which have reasonable structure to meet market demand, associating development of human resources with development and application of advanced science, technology.
4. Economic development goes together with ensuring social justice, improving quality of living of the people; gradually narrowing gap in living standards between areas and among ethnic minorities in the region.
5. To develop sustainably, harmoniously between objectives of economic development, social development and ecological environment improvement with protection of water resources, forests, coastal and marine environment, towards green sea. Associating closely economic development with building potential of national defense - security, maintaining firmly sovereignty and protecting territorial integrity, independence of the country. Improving capacity of flood disaster prevention and adaptation to climate change.
III. Development objectives
1. Objectives to 2020:
1.1. Overall objectives:
To build the Central key economic regions to become dynamic development region with high and sustainable growth rate, being driving force development region for entire north Central and Central coast region, being an important sea gateway of the Central Highlands, development triangle area of Cambodia - Laos - Vietnam and east-west economic corridor.
Being industrial region associating with the sea and modern service center; material, culture and spirit living of the people, health of the people will be improved basically; sovereignty of the sea, island of the country will be protected firmly; maintaining firmly national defense, security and social order and safety; ensuring ecology, living environment, not being polluted; reducing to a minimum level damages caused by natural disasters, effects of climate change and sea level rise.
1.2. Specific objectives:
- Economic
+ Economic growth rate hits about 8%/year in a period to 2015 and about 9%/year in a period of 2016 - 2020. By 2020, GDP per capita achieves about VND 80 million, equivalent to about USD 3,600,  1.1-1.2 times higher than average level of the country. Total GDP of the region in 2020 is higher approximately 2.3 times than that in 2010 (at constant prices).
+ Economic structure shifts towards increasing proportion of industry - construction to GDP to 44.5% in 2015 and 45% in 2020; proportion of service sector to GDP rise to 40.5% in 2015 and 43% in 2020; proportion of agriculture to GDP drops to 15% in 2015 and 12% in 2020. Striving to increase the region's contribution level to the country's budget revenues to 6.5% in 2015 and 7.5% in 2020; reducing proportion of agricultural workers to total labor force to around 31.4% in 2020.
+ Average growth rate of export value reaches about 18%/year in 2015 and above 20%/year in a period of 2016 - 2020; average rate of technological innovation hits 20-25%/year.
- Social - culture.
+ Average growth rate of population of the region maintains 1.1%/year by 2020. By 2015, total amount of population of the region hits 6.5 million people and about 6.9 million people by 2020.
+ By 2015, hit universalization standard of pre-school education for children of 5 years, rate of school aged pupil reaches 95% for primary education, over 50% of primary schools hits national standard, 100 % of primary school teachers achieves standard and do not have temporary classrooms; striving to 2020, 100% of primary schools meets national standards; education and vocational training sector of the region achieve development indicators of the sector equaling average level of the whole country.
+ Rate of underweight malnutrition children of under 5 years old fell below 10% in 2020; mortality rate of children under 1 year of age drops to 14.0 ‰ by 2015 and less than 11.0 ‰ by 2020. Coverage rate of health insurance is over 75% by 2015 and 80% by 2020.
+ By 2020, creating jobs for about 150,000 employees, unemployment rate in urban areas is less than 4%; rate of using working time in rural areas hits over 85%; rate of trained workers achieves 45% by 2015 and 65% by 2020.
+ Rate of urbanization reaches 42% by 2015 and 49.5% by 2020; total amount of urban population of the region will reach 2.7 million people by 2015 and 3.4 million people by 2020.
- Environmental protection.
+ By 2020, over 95% of rural population and 100% of urban population are used clean water; all production and trading facilities apply clean technology or equipped with pollution reduction, waste treatment devices; over 80% of existing production and trading facilities hits environment standards; urban area of grade IV and all industrial parks, export processing zones have concentrated waste water treatment systems; 95% of normal solid waste, 85% of hazardous waste and 100% of medical waste will be treated to meet environmental standards.
+ To raise forest coverage rate to 47% by 2020. Preventing and limiting extent of pollution, degradation and environmental incidents caused by human activity and negative impact of natural disaster; protecting marine, coastal ecosystems and biodiversity, system of national parks, nature conservation areas; actively preventing and avoiding in order to minimize negative impact of storms, floods, natural disasters and climate change.
- National security and defense.
+ To invest in completing system of border transport, border belt road, system of border stations and areas of defense, border residential areas and infrastructure for socio-economic development.
+ To strengthen defense and security capability, maintaining firmly political stability, social order and safety for socio-economic development. Closely linking between socio-economic development, especially the sea, island economic with protecting sovereignty, sovereign rights of sea and islands of the country.
+ To strengthen role of the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, unions in prevention of social evils; promoting dissemination, education and mobilization of the people to strictly execute the State law to limit, roll back traffic accidents.
2. Orientation to 2030:
- By 2030, the Central key economic region continues to be a dynamic development region with high and sustainable growth rate, quality of growth increase day by day; the region has good environment and landscape and being high quality service, tourism and resort center of the country and Southeast Asia region. Having modern economic structure, industry and urban development space associating with the sea. Economic zones of Chu Lai, Dung Quat, Chan May - Lang Co and Nhon Hoi are nucleus, huge development center of the region. Da Nang city, Hue, Quy Nhon become centers of tourism, trade and international exchange of the region and the country, assuming functions of trade services and tourism hub of the Central region and the Central Highland.
- Average economic growth rate in a period of 2021 - 2030 achieves about 9%, average level of GDP per capita hit over USD 10,000/year, 2.5 times higher than that comparing to 2020; proportion of service sector to GDP accounts for over 50%.
- To continue to raise material, culture, spirit living standard of the people in the region; preserving and promoting traditional culture, tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Developing health network to meet requirements of protection of health, basic health care for the people; focusing on health care of the elderly. Developing Da Nang, Hue city to become nucleus of specialized medical center of the Central region.
- System of economic infrastructure such as port infrastructure, tourism zones and areas, industrial parks, border gate economic zones will be invested synchronously and modernly to meet requirements of tourism and trade development and international exchange of the region and the whole country, completing infrastructure of huge cities associating with development of economic zones and suburban areas, promoting economic exchanges on east – west economic corridor, the greater Mekong subregion and triangle development area of Cambodia - Laos - Vietnam.
IV. Development orientation of sectors, fields
1. Development of industry:
- To strive to hit industrial growth rate of 8.5% by 2015 and 9.5% in period of 2016-2020; proportion of industry and construction to GDP accounts for about 45% of GDP by 2020.
- To focus resources on developing industries having potential and advantages associating with the sea such as engineering, shipbuilding and ship repairing. Developing petrochemical industry to become a industrial pillar of the region and one of the largest petrochemical center of the country, contributing to speed up industrial restructure within the region. Developing step by step electronics and modern information technology to support development of other industries; promoting development of supporting industries, processing industry; textile industry, leather shoes industry.
- To form huge industrial center in provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh. Developing industrial clusters along horizontal roads connecting provinces of the region with provinces of the Central Highlands in order to provide consuming products for the Central Highlands and receiving materials of agriculture, forestry to serve processing industry; associating industrial development with formation of urban centers in rural areas.
- To focus on development of small and medium-sized industry, applying advanced technology in accordance with specific conditions of each locality. Developing handicraft towards encouraging traditional industries such as manufacturing handicrafts, production of building materials, civil furniture, food and foodstuff processing.
2. Development of services and tourism:
- To maximize available advantages, potential of localities in the region to develop advantage fields such as: tourism, port services, shipping, international shipping ... Striving to hit growth rate of about 9.1% by 2015 and about 10,2% in a period of 2016 – 2020; proportion of service sector to GDP accounts for 40.5% by 2015 and 43% by 2020.
2.1. Services: Total turnover of social retail goods hits annual average growth rate of about 13%/year by 2015; 16%/year in a period of 2016-2020. Upgrading existing trade centers and forming trade centers, supermarkets in the provinces and cities in the region such as Hue city (Thua Thien – Hue province), Da Nang, Quy Nhon city (Binh Dinh province); completing network of domestic trade from urban area to rural area, from coastal areas to mountainous areas.
- To develop aviation services, international telecommunications, finance, banking services, information technology application services. Focusing on financial services, banking services in economic zone, border-gate economic zones, ports and logistics service of seaports, airports and cities in the region.
- To focus on developing service of science and technology transfer, services of agriculture, forestry and fisheries encouragements to households of agriculture, forestry and fisheries production.
2.2. Tourism: by 2020, striving to become a region having many attractive tourism sites, connecting to system of tourism destination in the country and other countries in region such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia ... and being a frequent destination of international tours.
- To focus on exploitation of cultural heritage, historic sites, marine ecotourism, especially natural landscape in coastal areas attaching to the world heritages such architectural cultural heritage of Hue ancient capital, Hoi An ancient town, My Son relic and Cham culture relic (Da Nang city, Quang Nam province) and natural heritages on road of Hue - Lang Co - Bach Ma - Hai Van - Son Tra - Bana - Da Nang, coastal area from Nam O to Hoi An ancient town.
3. Development of agriculture, forestry and fisheries:
Innovation of models and methods of agricultural production associates with strongly transferring economic structure of the sector; reducing proportion of cultivation, increasing proportion of livestock and aquatic products, creating favorable conditions in terms of mechanisms and funding to develop marine economy.
3.1. Development of agriculture:
- To restructure crops and livestock in accordance with natural conditions of each sub-region towards ensuring safety of production, preventing flood, improving efficiency of each hectare of arable land; maintaining and stabilizing rice land as prescribed, applying and transferring advanced technologies into production and processing, associating production with products consuming markets to set up a link of market of farm - processing - services in the region, achieving high economic efficiency.
- To construct area of intensive cultivation of advantage fruit, industrial trees and vegetable towards concentrated commodity production in accordance with soil, local climate conditions of each region; developing livestock and poultry at farming scale which are suitable with conditions of each localities. Focusing on building newly and expanding many salt fields in Binh Nam, Binh Thang (Quang Nam province), providing salt for consumption demand.
3.2. Development of aquaculture:
- To develop concentrated aquaculture breeding at industrial scale and semi-industrial scale in localities associating with environmental protection, ensuring ecological security of coastal areas, biodiversity conservation of inshore water areas. Focusing on developing seafood breeding with high value (lobster, seahorses, mollusks ...) in accordance with advantages of the region as well as managing well quality of seed and food in aquaculture. Forming fishing centers in Da Nang in association with the east sea fishing grounds and Spratly. Promoting development of aquaculture in shore, coastal lagoons of Tam Giang (Thua Thien – Hue province) and estuary areas from Quang Nam province to Binh Dinh province.
- To construct boat lock, piers and storm shelter within small gulf, estuaries and coastal islands. Selecting foreign advanced technology for processing of fishery products having high trade value. Gradually upgrading fishing fleet of huge capacity equipping modern information system, guiding, fishing device and frozen preservation to improve ability of offshore fishing as well as organizing logistics services (water supply, ice, diesel, purchase preservation of aquatic products, maintenance, repairing ...) to serve fishermen on the sea.
3.3. Forestry development:
To establish permanent forest area, strictly protecting available natural forest resources while promoting new afforestation and taking care for forest rehabilitation, regeneration, planting newly protective forests in critical watershed areas of great river to prevent flood and reduce anti-reservoir sedimentation in reservoir area, hydro lakes and afforesting in coastal area to ensure ecology balance. Strengthening protection and development of national parks, conservation of biodiversity, protection of genetic resources of rare plant and animal.
3.4. Construction of new countryside:
To accelerate construction of new countryside; transferring structure of plants, animals, development of commodity production areas in order to increase their income and stabilize people's living. Considering agricultural, rural economic as satellite development of economic zone and urban area in the region.
4. Development of culture – social field:
4.1. Education - training:
- To promote education and vocational training, especially high quality human resource training to meet development requirements of the region, focusing on training human resources of sea economic. Maximizing available education institutions of colleges and universities; building centers of high quality training for the whole region in cities of Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Hue; building a vocational training center for high technology training in order to train technical workers for industrial parks (in Hue, Da Nang, Quy Nhon and Dung Quat). To prioritize development investment in human resource in fields of service sector and high quality tourism and industries of electronic, software production, computerization and automation ...
- To develop, enhance training capacity of universities of medicine, pharmacy and research institute in the region. Constructing Hue university of medicine and pharmacy to become the region's important university; opening faculty of medicine in university of Quy Nhon.
4.2. People’s healthcare:
- To consolidate and complete local health network and applying advanced scientific and technology in order to improve quality and efficiency of the people’s health care toward bringing healthcare service to every households; Raising the people's ability of accessing quality health care, focusing on healthcare service for the elderly. Consolidating and developing preventive health network having full of capability of forecasting, monitoring, detecting, controlling and extinguishing disease, including dangerous diseases. Proactively preventing, tackling basically infectious diseases; eliminating leprosy, infants tetanus; proactively preventing cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, mental health, HIV/AIDS ..; ensuring environmental sanitation, hygiene and food safety.
- To strengthen technical equipment for disease preventive system, health care system from communal level to provincial level towards universalized healthcare at commune, district level and gradually implementing specialized healthcare at provincial level. Building specialized medical centers of the region in city of Hue and Danang to provide high quality healthcare services for the people. Expanding and upgrading provincial general hospitals, gradually researching and building specialized hospitals for effective detection and treatment of non-communicable diseases.
- To socialize work of the people's healthcare and disease treatment; diversifying investment capital resources for development of health, healthcare. Integrating target programs in fields of population, family planning and health to improve investment efficiency.
4.3. Culture and sports: conservating, restoring and promoting traditional cultural values to take as foundation for cultural exchanges between ethnic communities in the region; constructing and developing new cultural values, forming a civilized lifestyle, a new culture family in communities. Promoting construction of cultural institutions; upgrading and expanding facilities of sport exercise in localities in the region.
4.4. Reducing poverty, creating jobs and ensuring social security; implementing synchronously, comprehensively and effectively poverty reduction projects and programs, creating opportunities for the poor to access supporting policies on land, credit, vocational training, employment, industrial encouragement, agriculture - forestry – fisheries encouragement and product consuming; focusing on supporting and creating favorable conditions for the poor to develop production, raise income and stabilize living.
5. Development of infrastructure:
To develop synchronously system of economic infrastructure and social infrastructure to be driving force for socio-economic development in the whole region and the Central Highlands. Associating closely investment in transport infrastructure with irrigation and sea dikes; developing synchronously urban infrastructure and rural residential areas.
5.1. Development of transport:
- Roads: upgrading and expanding national road No.1A with scale of 4 motor vehicles lanes and 2 mixture lanes mixture; upgrading transport routes on east-west economic corridor.
- Highway: step by step constructing highway of Hue - Da Nang - Quang Ngai under north-south highway system with scale of 4-6 lanes.
- Railways: renovating and modernizing north – south railway; continuing to study feasibility plans to have plan of construction of new railway with size of 1,435 mm; studying feasibility plan to build north-south high-speed railway; researching to build railway tunnel through Hai Van pass and railway connecting to the Central Highlands.
- Sea ports: continuing to invest in developing synchronously port, port flow, service system in sea ports, transport system connecting ports with national transport system to meet requirements of socio-economic development of localities in the region. Promoting application of information technology in managing and operating system of ports and operations of port services.
- Aviation: continuing to invest in upgrading and expanding international airports of Da Nang, Phu Bai and Chu Lai; upgrading and expanding airport of Phu Cat.
5.2. Development of irrigation, water supply, drainage, fishery infrastructure:
- To raise capacity of water resources assessment study, planning, designing and constructing irrigation and water resources management in river basins, ensuring rational exploitation and use of water resources associating with sustainable development.
- To strengthen and upgrade sea dikes, river dykes; afforesting and maintaining breakwater forest to serve socio-economic development in coastal localities. Upgrading, improving, managing and exploiting effectively existing irrigation system. Continuing to build and upgrade reservoirs in river basin to fulfill task of flood control, providing water for production and living.
- To continue to build and complete systems of water supply to meet living demands in urban centers, residential areas and industrial parks. Studying to construct suitable projects of water supply for rural areas, coastal areas and islands. Continuing to implement projects of sewerage and stormwater in urban areas and industrial parks to ensure environmental standards.
- To invest in building infrastructure of aquaculture, aquatic breeding, fishing ports, storm shelters for fishing boats and rural infrastructure projects.
5.3. Power supply and power supply system:
To review plans, process of flood discharge of hydropower plants in Thua Thien Hue province, Da Nang city, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces... to avoid damage, affecting daily living of the people; investing in building power transmission system (110KV, 220KV, 500KV) and power distribution system to meet increasing demand on power of industrial parks, urban areas and daily living of the people. Surveying and studying application of implementing construction of wind power factories, using solar energy, seawater energy.
5.4. Information technology and communications:
To promote application of information technology in economic development and social activities. Building infrastructure of modern telecommunications networks, broadband, huge capacity and high speed to meet development requirements. Developing information technology and telecommunications to serve mission of socio-economic development, defense, security and social order and safety; effectively serving search and rescue on the sea and in areas frequently occurring natural disasters, floods and storms. Developing telecommunications services to develop marine economy, offshore fishing, safety and rescue on the sea and ensuring national security.
6. Development of science and technology:
- To enhance potential of science and technology to further promote the leading role of scientific and technological development of the region. Strengthening technological innovation towards application of high and modern technology. Giving priority to clean technology, information technology, bio-technology, automation technology and new materials technology, accelerating investment in development of science and technology for development of marine economy.
- To renovate mechanisms and policies of management and development of science - technology. Promoting international cooperation on science and technology. Encouraging and supporting development of scientific – technology enterprises; developing foreign invested research institutes and branches of foreign research institutes in Vietnam.
- To support investment in scientific research to serve production of agriculture, fisheries and forestry. Encouraging import of equipment, modern technologies for key fields, key industrial products at large scale, new production fields and key manufacturing stages which determines quality of products, production of export goods.
7. Management of mining, using natural resource and environmental protection:
- To manage, exploit effectively natural resources, protecting environment and ecological balance. Focusing on developing green, environment-friendly economic. Implementing sustainable production and consumption; gradually developing "clean energy", "clean production", "clean consumption".
- To use agricultural land savings, rational and efficient, improving efficiency of available land. Fully exploiting unused land to put in planting perennial crops, fruit trees; making use of uncultivated land, coastal sandy soils which are less likely to use for production of agriculture, forestry, fishery and put to use for purpose of development of industrial parks, tourism zones, formation of new urban areas. Rationally using water resources; protecting watershed forest ecosystems, forest vegetation protection. Effectively preventing deforestation, forest fires, greening barren hills, developing protective forest and economic forest. Exploiting sustainably and efficiently marine resources while protecting marine environment ...
- To promote research, forecasting, impact assessment and implement effectively solutions for prevention of natural disasters in response to climate change, particularly sea level rise. Building a network of monitoring surface water quality, groundwater in the whole region to inspect and monitor pollution of water sources.
- To upgrade and build a comprehensive system of sewerage, stormwater in urban areas; ensuring that living, production wastewater in industrial parks, hospitals, traditional villages are treated to meet prescribed standards before being discharged into concentrated wastewater treatment system. Collecting and treating waste to limit environmental pollution; in each province in the region, building at least a zone of solid waste treatment with advanced technologies in compliance with conditions of local budget to save land and ensure environmental sanitation.
8. Associating socio-economic development with ensuring national defense and security:
- To associate closely socio-economic development with strengthen social security and defense, building national defense posture, people's security posture, ready to smash plot and tricks of hostile forces.
- To continue to invest in building infrastructure of many sectors and fields which can use to serve both requirements of national defense - security and socio-economic development, especially on island district, island communes in sea and island protection posture and marine economic development. Constructing fishing harbor, coastal mobility road to create a system of infrastructure and services from shore to outpost island to serve offshore fishing, storm protection, protection of security, defense and sovereignty of islands.
- To accelerate upgrading and expansion of border roads; investing in construction of border patrol roads to combine economic development with strengthening national defense and security.
V. Orientation of organizing development space
1. Development of urban areas and rural residential areas
1.1. Development of urban space: associating development of urban networks with development of economic zones, industrial parks, industrial clusters, border-gate economic zones, trade zones, multi-center oriented tourism zones; creating a network of close links among localities in the region with neighborhood region.
- System of dynamic urban areas: key dynamic urban chain of Hue - Danang - Chu Lai Ky Ha - Dung Quat (Van Tuong) - Quy Nhon, out of which, Da Nang city is a nucleus urban area. This will be dynamic urban chain for key Central economic regions and Central coast region.
+ Dynamic urban cluster No.1: Hue - Tu Ha - Phu Bai - Thuan An - Binh Dien, Hue city is central urban area towards becoming centrally-run city.
+ Dynamics urban cluster No.2: Chan May - Da Nang - Dien Nam - Dien Ngoc - Hoi An, Danang city is urban center of key Central economic region and the Central region.
+ Dynamic urban cluster No.3: Nui Thanh - Doc Soi – Chau O - Van Tuong, associating development of Nui Thanh urban area with development of Chu Lai open economic zone and urban area of Van Tuong Doc Soi – O Chau with development of Dung Quat economic zone.
+ Dynamic urban cluster No.4: Quy Nhon city and vicinity, out of which, Quy Nhon city is urban center of south key Central economic region linking with Nhon Hoi economic zone to the east and urban areas in north, west of Binh Dinh province.
- To associating urban areas with general economic zones: city of Van Tuong with Dung Quat oil refinery industrial zone; new urban area of Chan May with trade encouragement zone of Chan May; new urban area of Dien Nam - Dien Ngoc is industrial, education and training area in north province of Quang Nam and having close relationship with city of Da Nang and deep water Tien Sa port; new urban area of Nui Thanh with Chu Lai open economic zone.
- Urban areas associates with specialized functions: constructing tourism urban zones (Hoi An, Thuan An town, Lang Co...); industrial urban areas (Tu Ha, Phu Bai, Dien Nam - Dien Ngoc, Tinh Phong ...); service urban areas for agriculture and forestry production and urban clusters in mountainous areas associates with east –west economic corridor.
1.2. Development of rural residential areas
- To reorganize rural residential areas to ensure landscape, clean environment and traffic safety. Planning, renovating and constructing traditional villages towards sustainable development.
- To implement effectively program of new rural construction, closely linking with national target programs of socio-economic development in the region. Mobilizing resources, especially participation of the people in new countryside construction; constructing rural residential areas with synchronous infrastructure; consolidating and building infrastructure for aquaculture, fishing ports, storm shelters for fish boats and building rural infrastructure projects.
2. Development orientation of economic zones
- Economic zones of Chu Lai, Dung Quat, Nhon Hoi, Chan May - Lang Co will continue to invest in development under adjusted and supplemented development plans. Associating development of economic zones with transferring economic structure of each localities, linking effectiveness of economic development with ensuring social security and environmental protection. Forming core functions of each economic area basing on advantages of each locality and at the same time, using effectively natural resources and ensuring cohesion with development orientation of the region in each phase.
- Chan May - Lang Co economic zone (Thua Thien – Hue province): orienting to develop tourism, services and key industries, clean industry and high tech industry; developing to become a center of huge and modern international trade center of key Central economic region, tourism, resorts center at regional and international level;
- Nhon Hoi economic zone (Binh Dinh province): gradually building to become a growth nucleus, urban centers of industry - services - tourism of key Central economic regions; importance hub of international exchange, contributing to expand market in south Central region, the Central Highlands and being bridge with Cambodia, Laos and Thailand; being national tourism as one of tourism center of the Central coast region.
3. Development of sub-region
3.1. Coastal subregion (key driving force subregion): setting up economic corridor of international free trade along coast region, national road No.1A, national railway and system of sea ports. Developing system of international transshipment port, system of industrial parks, export processing zones, taking advantage of nearing sea port, selecting priority type of industry associating with sea port and trade economic zone. Setting national and international warehousing systems associating with international general sea port system and inter-regional, trans-national transport hub. Establishing and promoting tourism route along coastal corridor, connecting conveniently with mountain tourism zones, cultural heritage and exploration of the ocean. Investing in development of offshore fishing vessels system and aquaculture having high economic value.
3.2. Midland subregion: associating development of technical infrastructure corridor with protecting national defense and security. Focusing on developing industry – warehouse associating with transport corridor of national and international exchange. Associating farming economic development with development of agriculture and forestry, changing plant structure to increase value of agricultural production.
3.3. West mountain sub-region: promoting economic growth and transfer of economic structure to improve basically living standards of the people; associating economic development in west mountainous areas with social stability and ensuring national security and defense of border area. Developing socio-economic infrastructure, primarily transportation systems, forming upland urban areas along Ho Chi Minh road and east Truong Son road; associating development of handicraft-industrial economic clusters with ensuring national defense, security and social order and safety in the border areas.
VI. Key measures on implementing plan
1. Priority development fields.
- To focus on building completely system of infrastructure in the region, especially completing system of infrastructure connecting the region with the Central Highlands, Laos, Cambodia, northeast Thailand; completing system of coastal roads, highways, airports; upgrading existing railway to ensure transport safety during the rainy season.
- To improve system of urban infrastructure, tourism infrastructure; constructing and renovating important irrigation and fisheries projects for production, proactively preventing and adapting to climate change; diversifying and improving quality of services.
- Development of economic zones, industrial parks and urban zones become growth nucleus to promote socio-economic development of localities in the region, associating with protecting ecological environment and sustainable development.
- To improve quality of education - education, vocational training, developing high qualified human resources to meet demand of transferring economic structure in the region towards promoting sea economic development. Promoting application of high technology in field of agricultural production, especially seafood to improve productivity, product quality and production value.
2. Solutions on improving production and business environment and mobilizing resources for development investment.
- To promote administrative reform in localities in the region, continuing to improve investment environment, business environment, creating favorable conditions for economic sectors to participate in socio-economic development. Making well tasks of investment attraction, calling for investment and investment orientation. Promulgating preferential policies under development priority fields in each locality basing on advantages, potential of each locality. Renovating mechanisms and policies to attract maximum financial resources from all economic sectors, especially mobilizing idle capital source of the people to develop production and business.
- To improve effectiveness of administrative reform in direction of transparency and improving quality of cadres and civil servants in order to create a favorable environment to attract investment and handle well administrative procedures. Raising efficiency of management of governmental administration at all levels; clearly defining rights and responsibilities among agencies in order to overcome overlap in performing their assigned functions, while enhancing prevention of bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness in execution of tasks of the State bodies.
- To mobilize and use effectively the State funds for socio-economic infrastructure development, human resource development, science and technology, environmental protection and implementation of national target programs. Using the State budget to invest in projects of development important infrastructure but difficult to attract outside investors. Diversifying types of investments, boosting investment in form of public-private partnership (PPP) to focus on development of socio-economic infrastructure systems; enlisting maximum ODA funds to invest in development of key large-scale projects of infrastructure.
- To continue to promote FDI attraction in accordance with process of integration. Renovating activities of promoting foreign investment toward focusing on attracting to advantage sectors, fields; directing at potential partners, especially developed countries having modern technology while continuing to expand with partners having invested heavily in the region.
- To develop financial market transparency; promoting socialization of investment in fields of health, education, culture - sports to mobilize maximum resources for development. Continuing to implement policies of supporting infrastructure development of coastal economic zones, border economic zones, creating a breakthrough for development of the region and localities. Developing and promulgating policies of development of projects of disaster prevention and reduction, forest development and protection, development of irrigation works to prevent consequences of floods, droughts, supply water for production and living activities.
3. Human resource solutions.
- To develop plans on training and retraining management staffs of enterprises to have capacity of updating new advances in management science, new technology, knowing to forecast and access market to actively integrate into globalization process and promote development of sea economic fields. Enhancing highly qualified human resource training in fields of education - training, health, culture to raise awareness and healthcare for the people.
- To develop and promulgate policies in order to promote and attract talent, high qualified technical workers to work permanently in localities in the region. Enhancing local human resources training in accordance with speed of transferring socio-economic structure of the region; building policies of occupation training for employees working in industrial parks and economic zones, workers transferring to non-agricultural occupations.
4. Solution of science and technology.
- To give priority to projects of science and technology which serve directly transfer of economic structure towards promoting economic development of the sea. Combining promotion of researching and applying advanced techniques on crop and livestock, preservation techniques and product processing technology with formation of technology centers in key sectors, especially sea economic sector and key products of the region.
- To set up plan on training high qualified technical human resource having capacity to engage in projects of technology transfer towards mastery of technology in fields of biotechnology, electronics, information technology...to gradually increase competitiveness of the economy in line with requirements of international and regional economic integration.
- To encourage enterprises to invest in new environmentally friendly technologies and extending cooperation links between production facilities with institutions of research and application of science and universities to put science into practice of living.
5. Solutions on strengthening development cooperation.
- To promote collaboration among localities inside and outside the region in process of investment promotion, mobilization and allocation of resources, building socio-economic infrastructure, promoting development of fields of marine economy; training, attracting and creating jobs; scientific research and technology transfer; building inter-provincial, inter-regional tours; providing information, building a socio-economic database to serve tasks of development forecast and coordination, environmental protection, response to climate change.
- To strengthen cooperation in cross-border trade with the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, develop border economic zones, constructing network of transport, power supply among localities of Vietnam with localities of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.
VII. Organizing and supervising implementation of the plan
1. Approved master plan on socio-economic development of key Central economic region to 2020, vision to 2030 will be a basis for adjusting, submitting and implementing development plans of sectors, master plan on socio-economic development of localities in the region.
2. The Ministry of Planning and Investment functioning as the main implementer, in collaboration with ministries, agencies and localities in the region, are responsible for:
- To publicize the plan; implementing activities of investment promotion, propaganda to attract domestic and foreign investment, economic sectors to take part in implementation of the plan;
- To monitor, supervise and inspect implementation of the regional plan, monitoring implementation of key programs and projects in the region.
- To research and propose mechanisms and policies of coordination among localities in the region with another region; calling for investment in key projects of the region.
3. Ministries and agencies are responsible for:
- To adjust development plans of key fields, sectors and products in the region in consistent with goals, tasks and development directions of the approved plan.
- To research, build and submit the State competent agencies to issue a number of specific mechanisms and policies in order to successfully implementing objectives and tasks of the plan.
- To coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment in fulfilling and monitoring implementation of the plan; monitoring implementation of key regional investment programs and projects under priority order and in fields of management to promote socio-economic development of the region.
Specific tasks of ministries, agencies as follows:
3.1. Ministry of Transport: directing construction, completion timely important transportation projects in localities in the region; proposing mechanisms to mobilize capital for transport development projects in the region; monitoring implementation of transport projects in line with the approved plans.
3.2. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development:
- To set up and submit for approval agricultural development plan of the region; investing in and attracting investment projects to exploit potential and advantages of the region to develop agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
- To complete construction and consolidation of irrigation and duke systems; directing and organizing production of key agricultural, seafood products in the region; proposing mechanisms, policies and supporting local authorities in the region to build high-tech agricultural parks.
3.3. Ministry of Education and Training:
- To research and propose mechanisms and policies to promote links among educational institutions and enterprises; creating favorable conditions for a number of universities to modernize facilities, develop staff of lecturers and training programs to be equal to those of advanced countries in the region.
- To coordinate with Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and related agencies to construct Da Nang city to become a center of training high-quality human resources for the whole region.
3.4. Ministry of Industry and Trade:
- To direct construction of power station and power supply network in the region under approved schedule and plan.
- To coordinate with ministries, agencies in construction of development strategy of product brandname of Vietnam to serve economic development; chairing and coordinating with local authorities in building a network of wholesale markets, trade centers in the region.
3.5. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment: shall functions as the main implementer and in collaboration with related local authorities in response to climate change and sea level rise; protecting and exploiting natural resources, conservation of biodiversity; guiding, directing localities in setting up land using plan for socio-economic development.
3.6. Ministry of Construction: supervising, monitoring construction of hazardous waste treatment zones, cemeteries, water supply systems at regional scale; coordinating with localities in building drainage systems, waste water treatment in urban areas.
3.7. Ministry of Science and Technology: directing development and implementation of science - technology application in the region; raising capacity of science - technology on scientific research units, educational institutions in the region.
3.8. Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs: directing and coordinating with related localities in construction of vocational training center system, especially high qualified training center at regional scale in city of Da Nang.
3.9. Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism: shall functions as the main implementer and coordinate with ministries, agencies and related localities to complete master plan on development of national tourism zones in the region.
4. People's Committees of provinces and cities in the region:
- To review proactively investment programs and projects; setting up 5 years and annual socio-economic development plan in accordance with the objectives, tasks of the approved plan.
- To coordinate with ministries and agencies to organize activities of investment promotion, propaganda, attracting foreign, domestic investors and economic sectors to take part in implementing the plan.
- To supervise and inspect implementation of development investment projects in the region under their assigned functions, reporting to the Prime Minister.
 
Appendix
List of programs, projects given priority to research and investment in the Central key economic region to 2030
No.
Tittle of program, project
I
Transport infrastructure
1
Road:
- To upgrade and expand national road No.1A: La Son - Lang Co road and building Phu Gia tunnel, Phuoc Tuong tunnel; Hoa Phuoc - Vinh Dien road; Ky Ly - north Tam Ky road, Tam Ky - Nui Thanh road…
- To upgrade national road No.49A (Thuan An port - Ho Chi Minh road; upgrading national road No.49B (My Chanh - Loc Binh);
- To construct highway: La Son - Da Nang; Da Nang - Quang Ngai; Quang Ngai - Quy Nhon;
- Coastal road system from Thua Thien Hue to Binh Dinh;
- To construct south Quang Nam road phase II, 90 km (Tam Thanh - Tam Ky - Tra My - Tac Po - Dac To);
- To upgrade national road No.24 – border patrolling road system bordering Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
2
Airway: upgrading ports of Da Nang, Phu Bai, Chu Lai.
3
Sea port: upgrading and improving port: Da Nang, Chan May, Nhon Hoi, Ky Ha.
4
Railway:
- Upgrading north-south railway;
- Studying to construct railway to the Central Highland.
II
 Electricity supply infrastructure
 
- To build circuit 2 line 220kV Di Linh - Bao Loc - Song May;
- To build line 220kV double circuit along the seacoast Quang Ngai - Quy Nhon - Tuy Hoa - Nha Trang;
- To build 500 KV station in Dung Quat, 220 KV station in Da Nang, Tam Ky;
III
 Irrigation infrastructure
 
- To invest in consolidating, protecting and upgrading existing river dyke, sea dyke in provinces from Thua Thien Hue to Binh Dinh;
- To continue to invest in completing Ta Trach lake (Thua Thien Hue province), Dinh Binh lake (Binh Dinh), Phu Ninh lake (Quang Nam), Thach Nham lake and supporting lake system of Thach Nham lake (Quang Ngai).
IV
 Projects of natural disaster warning and prevention, rescue:
 
- To invest in developing monitoring network;
- To invest synchronously fisheries information system, focusing on managing fisheries boats; center of monitoring and warning sea environment;
- To invest in developing and supporting offshore fisheries, storm shelter combining with safeguard on the sea.
V
 Education and training, vocational training:
- To build Da Nang medicine and pharmacy college;
- To build Hue medicine and pharmacy university to become key university in the region;
- To build high quality human resource training center in Da Nang;
- Central forestry agriculture, construction and electricity college;
- Hue tourism college;
- Vocational training college No.4 – Ministry of Defense;
- Da Nang fisheries center associating with fishing ground of East sea and Spratly.
VI
 Healthcare:
- To build specialized healthcare center in Hue city (Thua Thien – Hue) and Da Nang city;
- To expand and upgrade provincial general hospitals.

L.Giang
Source: moj.gov.vn

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