(VOV) – Over 200 delegates gathered at a conference in Hanoi on December 8 to discuss ways to promote investment and assistance for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
The delegates, from relevant ministries, businesses, embassies, international bodies and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs), heard a report on Vietnam’s socio-economic development and policies aimed at attracting investment and foreign aids for the ethnic minority areas.
In addition, they outlined orientations and measures to implement a project on strengthened international cooperation to support socio-economic development in the region and a national program to mobilize aids from foreign NGOs in the period 2013-2017.
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised international organizations and partners for their great support for the socio-economic development in the ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Vietnam.
The Deputy PM emphasized the need to devise proper policies to pool all resources from the state, development partners and communities to upgrade transport infrastructure, reduce poverty and ensure social welfare.
He also underscored the importance of the application of advanced technologies in the agro-forestry sector and development of of cooperative models with foreignpartners.
The focus should be on promoting eco-tourism, culture, history; mining, mineral processing and building small and medium-sized irrigation projects associated with hydroelectric power plants, Phuc noted.
At the conference, foreign NGOs committed to fund US$200 million for 261 charity programmes and and development assistance projects in the next three years. while Viettel and the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) pledged US$480 million to help stimulate socio-economic development in 2015.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
