Authorities of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are urged to
concentrate on building Hue city into a festival city to help turn
their province into a centrally-run city in the 2010-2015 period as
planned.
Truong Tan Sang, a Politburo member and Permanent member of the Party
Central Committee Secretariat, was speaking at the provincial Party
Committee’s 14 th congress for the 2010-2015 term in Hue city on
Sept. 6.
In its political report presented at the congress, the
provincial Party Committee affirmed that the locality’s annual average
GDP growth rate of 12 percent was a prominent achievement in the
2005-2010 period.
As the province continues with its structural
economic shift, the tourism industry has become its spearhead economic
sector and its per capita income is now over 1,150 USD, the Party
Committee reported.
With properly-invested infrastructure, urban
areas in the locality have been developing as planned and the people’s
living conditions have been improved remarkably, the committee said.
However,
Sang pointed out that Thua Thien-Hue has failed to tap its potentials
and strength to make its economy grow in a sustainable manner.
As
defined for the 2010-2015 period, to become a centrally-run city the
locality needs to focus on promoting its urban development and
completing and modernising its infrastructure system, Sang said.
The
province should boost industrialisation, modernisation and the shift in
economic structure and constantly raise the quality, effectiveness and
competitiveness of its products and businesses in order to attain speedy
and sustainable growth, Sang noted.
He urged Thua Thien-Hue to
capitalize on its advantages to develop three centres, based on culture
and tourism, education and training, and healthcare.
Sang asked
the province to combine its economic development tasks with promoting
cultural development, ensuring social welfare, reducing poverty, growing
sustainably and protecting the environment.
The Party official
underlined the need for the provincial Party Committee to pay special
attention to building the Party and strengthening its political system./.
