In order to exploit potentials, strength of local area, the Party congress of Lao Cai province orients the development of Lao Cai province up to 2015 as follows: paying attentions to agriculture development and building new rural area are key points, taking indsutrial development to break through; developing commerce and service is key mission; taking culture and education to be driving forces for economic and social development; considering economic growth and development along with the protection to environment, ecology and sustainable development
Mission and social and economic development in the period 2011-2015: Annual GDP average growth rate: 14%; GDP per capita: 38.4 million Dong, economic structure: Agriculture – Forestry and aquatic products: 24%; industry – construction” 41,1%; service: 34.1%, etc
To carry out above mission, Lao Cai province issued 7 social and economic development programs including: develop industry and build urban infrastructure; develop commerce, service, tourism; develop agriculture, forestry and build new rural area; develop human resource; develop society and culture; national defence – security; improve management qualification, fighting forces of the Party. Programs are concretized through 27 projects for one important mission of social – economic development as follows:
* Develop industrial zones, industrial groups as well as small scale industry:
Lao Cai province will focus on economic development quickly and sustainably, taking indsutrial development as breaking point with the mission:
- Improve industrial production up to 2015 to gain 5.200 billion Dong
- Average growth rate in 5 years of the period 2011 – 2015: 18.65%
- Build and expand Tang Long industrial zone to become key nationa; metallurgy and chemical industrial zone. The planning and development of two new concentrated industrial zones (Tan An and Tan Thuong industrial zone – Van Ban district, industrial zone at the West of Lao Cai City).
- Give priority to develop the industry of deep mineral exploiting and manufacture with modern technology, ensure to be friendly with the environment and saving usage of natural resources; pay attentions to auxiliary industrial development for industrial zones and groups in order to grow product’s value, competition and effectiveness.
* Develop traffic and urban system:
Complete the construction of Noi Bai – Lao Cai highwaym, improve highway 4E, 4D, 279, construction of Giang Dong bridge, Pho Rang brigde; improvement of railway Lao Cai – Hanoi; Research and setting up the Lao Cai airport investment project according to the Decision on Lao Cai airport planning from the minister of transportation (Decision No 2771/QD-BGTVT dated 05/12/2011); improving and repairing provincial roads, developing rural traffic
Develop center urban of Lao Cai City to become the urban at grade II, expand out Sa Pa to be tourism town and become ket tourism area of whole nation, invest for improving Pho Lu town to become key tourism area of whole country.
* Develop commerce, service and tourism
- Play well the role as connection bridge of Con Minh – Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong economic corridor, speed up the growth rate of importing and exporting quota through Lao Cai – Ha Khau international border gatel invest to improve border economic zone, the centre is Kim Thanh commercial and industrial zone. Strive up to 2015 that value of importing and exporting quota gains 2-3 billion USD.
- Develop and focus on tourism economic development quickly and sustainably, affirm Lao Cai tourism trademark and become one of ten most attractive tourism places in Vietnam with the mission: total tourists coming to Lao Cai is 2 million movements.
* Develop agriculture, forestry and build new rural area
- Develop strongly commodity and agricultural production following with the concentration trend with the manufacture industry and comsuption market. Improve production of trees for commodities such as tea, fruits, vegetable, tobacco, etc
- Develop the rate of covering forest in 2015 to gain 53%. Focus on forest development for production, planting rubber tree, building material grounds associated with the construction of forest product manufacture factory with advanced technology
- Focus on forces for improving new rural area; develop until 2015 to gain 36/144 communes meeting with national standards on new rural region.
* Train career for labors
- Train high qualified staffs, train associatied with recruitment demand of companies, projects in the region. Develop to increase labor rate passing through career training up to 42.9% in 2015 (2010 has 27.8%)
- Develop the foundation of Phan Xi Phang University to train human resource with high qualifications to service for provincial social – economic development.
* Sectors should be paid for attentions to the investment in the period 2011-2015:
Lao Cai province gives priority and promotes the investment into following sectors:
- Auxilliary industrial and manufacture industry, especially, deep mineral manufacture in provincial region.
- Invest to develop material ground and build manufacture factories of agricultural, forestry - aquatic products and medicine.
- Build storages, land port, etc to service importing and exporting commodities
- High class ecological tourism zone, restaurant, hotel, entertainment and relax resorts.
- Produce product, spare parts, assembly and repair agricultural machines; - - - Produce, process components, semi-products and services for final production companies;
- Produce new products, materials replaced for importing and exporting commodities produced mainly by domestic materials;
(Source: extracted from the resolution from the party’s congress of Lao Cai province at the 14th time)