Regional approaches to maximise opportunities and deal with challenges in sustainable development of the Central coastal region is the main content of conference on sustainable development of the central coastal region recently held in Hoi An, Quang Nam province.
Addressing the conference, Mr Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Deputy Prime Minister assessed that Central coastal areas of Vietnam have a crucial geographical and economical position. They have lots of potentials and advantages for development. Therefore, Deputy PM Phuc called for the participants to discuss how to well exploit these advantages for this region’s sustainable development.
Deputy PM Phuc also required that to create impetus and find a direction for a sustainable development, local authorities should concentrate on planning, analysing potentials and advantages of the region, as well as elaborate appropriate strategies. He strongly emphasised that based on advantages on natures and traditional customs, provinces and cities in the region should promote developing tourism, improving investment environment, developing the marine economy linked with reducing the poverty rate sharply and sustainably.
Discussion focused on opportunities and threats to the Central sustainable development; infrastructure connectivity; water source management and natural disaster fighting. The discussion also focused on the Declaration of Hoi An, including detailed activities that will be implemented by national and provincial authorities to restrict limitations to the development of the region.
Ms Victoria Kwakwa, Country Director of the World Bank in Vietnam emphasized the importance of coordination in the region in solving challenges: “Managing natural sources like water, rivers, forests, developing infrastructure and constructing hydro plants are some examples of benefits from inter – provincial coordination and partnership”.
According to general target, the central coastal areas will be developed into a fast developing, dynamic and sustainable region. They will be a crucial place in the whole country for international partnership, maintaining political stability and social safety; developing the marine economy linked with national security, island and sea sovereignty.
For the past 10 years, 9 provinces and cities in the region have received over US$2.5 billion from development donors. Currently, programmes and list of plans in the region have the capital of about US$1.83 billion.
In order to reach targets such as improving local people’s lives, reducing poverty especially in ethnic minority; protecting and enhancing people’s health care; minimising impact of natural disasters (floods, drought), protecting ecological environment, effectively responding to climate changes, according to delegates, this region needs huge solutions in priority areas like building completed infrastructure on key economic regions; constructing and renovating important irrigational work; improving urban areas and protecting ecological environment. Besides, it needs to improve quality of education and human resources; increase public investment; develop a transparent financial market. Together with that, it also needs solutions in mechanism, policy; human resources; science and technology; administrative reform and solutions in market cooperation and development, etc.
Quynh Chi
Đăng ký: VietNam News