Introduction

 

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Distance to traffic hubs

Duc Hoa Industrial Park III 

Viet Hoa, Duc Lap Ha Commune, Duc Hoa District, Long An Province. 

Center of HoChiMinh city: 40km 

Tan SonNhat airport: 32km

Sai Gon port: 40km

An Suong bus station: 27km

Tan An town: 50km

Long An international port: 60km

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​Source: Long An Economic Zone Authority (LEAZA)​

​2. Promote to the maximum the potentials and advantages of the province; exploiting and using effectively all resources for fast and sustainable socio-economic development and environmental protection; promoting the economic mechanism transition, increasing the growth rate and the competitiveness of the economy.

3. Developing the economy together with ensuring the social progress and justice, protecting the natural resources and environment to step by step increase the living standards of the people, reduce the number of poor households; developing health, culture, education and training. Focusing on training the high-quality human resource to meet the demands of the market, linking the human resource development with the development and application of science and technology.

4. Combining the economic development with the political security and social order protection; ensuring the security and national defense with the location of Long An located in the border region of Mekong River Delta region and in economic integration of Southeast Asia Region and the world.

II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

1. General objectives

- Developing Long An to become the province with sustainable and harmonic development between the urban and rural areas; having hi-tech level, synchronous and modern infrastructure system; high-quality human resource; strong national defense-security, ensured social safety and order. Aiming at becoming an industrial province by 2020.

2. Particular objectives

a) Economic:

- The average economic growth rate for period 2012 – 2030 reaches 12.5%/year in which increases to 13%/year for period 2012 - 2020.

- By 2015: the average GDP per capita reaches VND50 million/person/year (around USD2,400); the ratios of the agricultural, industrial and service sectors in the GDP are 28%, 41%, 31% respectively; the revenue for state budget in the province accounts for 10% GDP; the investment capital mobilized from the state budget accounts for 28.5%.

- By 2020: the average GDP per capita reaches VND 80 million/person/year (around USD3,800); the ratios of the agricultural, industrial and service sectors in the GDP are 15%, 45%, 40% respectively; the revenue for state budget in the province accounts for 10.8% GDP; the investment capital mobilized from the state budget accounts for 29.6%.

- Vision to2030: the average GDP per capita reaches VND172 million/person/year (around USD8,000); the ratios of the agricultural, industrial and service sectors in the GDP are 7%, 48%, 45% respectively; the revenue for state budget in the province accounts for 10.8% GDP; the investment capital mobilized from the state budget accounts for 29.6%.

b) Social:

- By 2015:

The natural population growth rate is below 1.2%; the percentage of malnourished children under 5 years is less than 16%; 100% commune health stations meet the standard and 90% communes meeting the national standard on health; providing compulsory preschool education for children of 5 years; 40% - 50% communes, towns, wards meeting the standards of compulsory high school education; 50% schools meeting national standards; the percentage of poor households in accordance with the national standards is less than 3%; the percentage of trained labor is 60%.

Aiming at the objective of 20% (about 36 communes) meet the criteria of new rural commune; 50% communes, wards, towns have the cultural and sports centers; 30% communes, wards, towns meet the cultural standards; 90% of urban households and 95% rural households can access hygienic water and 99.25% households can access power .

- By 2020:

Aiming at reducing the birth rate to 1.46%; the average life expectancy reaches 76 years; the percentage of malnourished children under 5 years is less than 12%; the number of patient bed/10,000 people is 20 beds; the minimum number of doctor/commune is 1 and 8 doctors/10,000 people;

The percentage of poor households in accordance with the national standards is 1%; the percentage of trained labor is 65%; the unemployment rate in urban areas is3%; the ratios of the labors in 3 areas of I, II, III are 28.1%, 37.8%, 34% respectively; the percentage of trained labors is 628,600 and jobs are created for 180,000 people;

The percentages of children going to school are as follows: 100% at primary schools, 95% at secondary schools, 70% at high schools. The percentage of schools meeting national standard is 70%; the number of people with college, university or higher degrees/1000 people is 170 people;

Aiming at the objective of 50% (about 83 communes) meets the criteria of new rural commune; 90% cultural houses at the provincial level; ensuring 100% of districts, city have the cultural, sports centers, 75% communes, wards, towns have the cultural, sports centers; 100% households can access hygienic water and 99.7% households can access power.

- Vision to 2030:

The birth rate reduces to 1.5%; the average life expectation is 78 years; the percentage of malnourished children under 5 years is less than 10%; the number of patient beds/10,000 people is 30 beds; the number of doctors/commune is 3 doctors at the maximum and 10 doctors/10,000 people.

The percentage of trained labors is 70%; the unemployment percentage in urban areas is 2%; the number of trained labors is 762,720 people and jobs are created for 190,000 people;

Aiming at the objective of 100% kindergartens meets national standards; the number of people with degree, university and higher degree/1000 people is 200 people; having 95% cultural houses at the provincial level.

c) Environmental protection:

- Ensuring the green coverage percentage by  2015 reaches 21% and maintained unitl 2020, 2030; increasing the forest coverage percentage to 15% in 2015 and 17%, 19% in 2020, 2030 respectively; the area impacted by the flood (flooding more than 1m) in 2015, 2020, 2030 is 25%, 23%, 20% respectively.

- Aiming at the objective of by 2015, 80% of domestic and industrial solid waste and 100% health solid waste are collected and treated; allocating 100% production establishments causing environment pollution out of the urban areas and residential areas; 100% enterprises commit to protect the environment.

- Raising the awareness of the community and strengthening the capacity for the relevant parties on environmental issues; protecting and exploiting in sustainable way the natural resources; reducing the population and  environmental degradation.

- Ensuring the national defense, security, keeping the political stability, controlling the increase and gradually reducing the crimes and social evils.

III. DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATIONS OF SECTORS, INDUSTRIES

1.Developing agricultural, forestry and fishery sectors: Developing comprehensively aiming at producing high-quality products, protecting the ecological environment and following sustainable development. It is aimed at the average growth rate of 5.7%/year for period 2011 – 2020 and 4.8%/year by 2030; the ratios of the agricultural, forestry and fishery sectors are 82% - 4% - 14% respectively in 2020 and 78% - 6% - 16% respectively in 2030.

- Agriculture: defining rice as the key product to ensure the national food security; following intensive and specialized production, applying advanced technology, using high-quality varieties to increase the production value per unit of farming land and meet the demand of the markets; paying attention on the after-harvesting processing and increasing the quality of export rice. Increasing the production of key products of the province such as sugarcane, vegetables and fruits to meet the standards for domestic consumption and export; step by step controlling the diseases and ensuring the sustainable agricultural growth rate; conforming to the technology procedures in all phases including production, processing to consumption.

Developing animal breeding (pig, cow, livestock) with the suitable scale to meet the demand for domestic consumption; applying advanced breeding technology, producing high-quality products, ensuring food hygiene and safety; strictly controlling diseases and animal pollution from animal breeding activities.

- Forestry: maintaining and protecting the available forest resources to ensure the sustainable forest development; conserving the environment for the wild life, valuable and rare genes in combing with ecological tourism development, especially the specialized forests in which Dong Thap Muoi Region plays an important role in reducing the impacts of climate change and seawater rise. Protecting and issuing suitable policies to maintain the reasonable area of protective forests, combining the forest development with national security in border districts. Exploiting the forest resources reasonably, encouraging investment and production activities and sustainable forest development.

- Fishery: Developing the aquaculture activities in Dong Thap Muoi Region aiming at ecological environment control and protection. Studying to establish the suitable aquaculture models (clubs, cooperatives, economic organizations, farms etc.) to protect the benefits of the parties and promote the goods production; investing in developing the infrastructure to apply the technology in aquaculture.

2. Industrial development

- Developing the industry in sustainable way shall have the impacts on the agricultural and service sectors and become the socio-economic driving force for the province. Aiming at the growth rate of 14.2%/year in 2015, 14.4%/year in 2020 and 13.6%/year in 2030. Paying attention on developing the industries to diversify the products, industries with high percentage of high technology, green and clean criteria.

- Ensuring to provide the suitable infrastructure services for the development of sectors, international business activities; constructing high-quality industrial parks to call for foreign investments; establishing the industry development policies with clear and detailed implementation mechanism, promoting the available resources; ensuring to provide the trained and high-quality labor force at reasonable cost; developing the new sectors to create the key sectors for industrial development of the province in the general background of the industry development of Vietnam.

- Encouraging the industries in accordance with the policies of the province, supporting the existing industries in the South Key Economic Zone such as: high technology, knowledge industry, research and development, environment, new material-based industry, electronic and software production, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), energy batteries, power production system from hydro etc. developing the agricultural tool industry basing on the existing and relevant agricultural production sectors in the province.

-Focusing on developing quickly, effectively and investing in the infrastructure, attracting the investments into the existing industrial parks and complexes, linking with the construction of waste treatment works, ensuring the green and clean environment.

3.Trade, service and tourism development

Aiming at the growth rate of 17%/year by 2020 and 15.3%/year by 2030.

- Trade, service: developing high-quality and diversified services to meet the demands of the people; improving the infrastructure and services to provide the modern and convenient facilities for the users; balancing the service quality in urban and rural areas.

Developing urban centers with competitive capacity to provide the suitable services combined with space development. Establishing the service centers to exploite the advantage of being located in the gateway of Mekong River Delta Region and South Key Economic Zone. Improving the services serving for industrial development, urban service development such as logistics service, technology and information, utilities, market research, financial service etc.

- Tourism: Developing the comprehensive tourism system including information provision, infrastructure and transport service, high-quality accommodation, diversified cuisine; entertainment areas, high-quality serving human resource. Diversifying the tourism products, promoting the cooperation in tourism development with other provinces in the Region, especially with Ho Chi Minh city and provinces of Cambodia. Tourism development models: ecological tourism, trade village tourism with the cultural values etc.

4. Social sectors

a) Education and training:

- Continue to invest in physical facilities for the schools from kindergartens to universities, increasing the school, classroom network especially in rural, remote, border areas and auxiliary works serving for education and training and considered this as a priority objective of the Province.

- Increasing the qualifications and capacity of the teachers, improving the teaching and learning methods to meet the diversified demand in term of skills and quality as well as to create the legal background and promoting the internal forces for education development.

- Constructing the suitable vocational training structure to meet the demand of the economy, the training must be linked with job creation after training; diversifying the vocational training methods to improve the quality; paying attention on providing vocational training for rural labor, strengthening the network of the vocational schools; increasing the cooperation, association on training with other provinces in the country and foreign countries.

b) Health:

-Developing synchronously the health network; gradually improving the quality of the professional quality and ethics for medical staffs; modernizing the physical facilities, medical equipment, disease examination and treatment, prevention; upgrading the preventive health centers at district level; promoting the socialization to attract the investment capital in investing and constructing the clinics disease treatment associated with relaxation therapy;

- Paying attention on constructing the healty society, increasing the quality of the preventive health system, constructing the health care system for the people; increasing the effectiveness of health communication and education, environmental sanitation, food safety and hygiene;

-Aiming at the objective of implementing the universal health insurance and population, family planning policies, increasing the population quality.

c) Culture, Sports:

- Constructing the advanced, healthy culture with national identity, creating high-quality and typical cultural products of the province; focusing on establishing the synchronous cultural system at all levels, restoring the cultural, historical relics and preserving the traditional cultural values of the nations; 

- Paying attention on developing the sports movements; paying attention on training, fostering high performance athletes; promoting the socialization, attracting the investments for physical facilities and increasing the physical education in the schools.

d) Poverty reduction, job creation and social security:

- Continue the investments into rural infrastructure, gradually finishing the necessary infrastructure such as schools, health stations, traffic roads, commune centers, power, water, irrigation systems for the poor commune and areas with economic difficulties. Developing rural economy, especially farm and household economy, rehabilitating and developing trade villages, developing labor-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises in rural areas; issuing the policies to serve for creating jobs and developing agricultural and fishery production.

e) Science and technology

- Increasing the management by standards and quality of the product and establishing the advanced quality control system; expanding the cooperation in science and technology; standardizing the key agricultural products of the province (rice, dragon fruits, peanut, shrimp etc.)

- Promoting the application of the achievements of science and advanced technology such as biological technology, after-harvesting technology, creating the innovation in varieties of plants, animals of high productivity and value; gradually mechanizing the agricultural production phases. Supporting the enterprises to innovate and apply the technologies at the traditional trade villages;

5. Infrastructure development:

a) Traffic

- Developing the traffic infrastructure aiming at creating modern infrastructure and increase the connection with big urban centers, centers with high growth rates and the regions in the province; ensure the safe, effective transportation of the cargoes and passengers as well as protecting the environment and avoiding such issues as traffic jams, traffic accidents, air pollution; establishing the suitable organization mechanism and institution to create and manage the transportation network and transportation services effectively.

- Developing the traffic network (road and waterway) effectively with high competition and connecting with the regional traffic networks to create the conditions for Long An province to become the real gateway connecting Mekong River Delta region and the South Key Economic Zone; upgrading, improving the rural traffic roads, preventing floods and creating conditions for safe and smooth circulation of the means of transportation; developing the suitable public transport services to meet the demands of the people.

b) Irrigation

- Upgrading and improving the irrigation system in districts of Duc Hoa, Can Duoc and Can Giup to create the conditions for agricultural production; constructing the additional water receiving Canals from Phuoc Hoa Lake; studying to prepare the plan for exploiting the groundwater source; planning to exploit the water from Hong Ngu Canal to supply water for irrigation for the region between Vam Co Dong River and Vam Co Tay river.

c) Power supply

- Upgrading and constructing the power network synchronously, increasing the capacity of the substations to stabilize the power supply source; studying,  constructing the power projects using other energy sources such as: wind, solar etc. at suitable locations;

-Developing the power distribution system to the industrial areas, complexes, tourism areas, residential areas and centralized production areas; gradually undergrounding the urban power system; focusing on rural power network development.

d) Water supply, drainage and environmental sanitation:

-Focussing the investments in upgrading and newly constructing the domestic water supply system for the urban areas to ensure the clean water demand for domestic and production activities of the people; for the rural areas, ensuring the access to hygienic water of the people; basing on the ability to mobilize the capital for each phase, preparing the plan for upgrading and expanding the water treatment plants, transmission and distribution network; implementing effectively the rural clean water and environmental sanitation programs.

- Constructing synchronously the drainage, wastewater collection and treatment systems, especially in urban areas, industrial complexes, preventing the flooding situation in urban areas; collecting and treating health solid waste at the hospitals, health stations; studying to construct the centralized landfills at the urban areas.

e) Information and communication

- Increasing the quality, diversifying the services, providing new services. Applying information technology in constructing the online communication system from the city to the districts

-Modernizing, expanding the network in combination with applying advanced technology in post and telecommunication sector; ensuring the information security to meet the socio-economic development demand.

6. Natural resource and environment protection

- Minimizing the environmental pollution in industrial, agricultural production, service and urban development; promoting the application of clean technology in economic sectors; improving the environmental depression and environmental quality; protecting the biodiversity and ecological environment.

-Managing and protecting strictly and effectively the natural resources, especially land, forest and minerals. Controlling closely the use and treatment of chemicals, pollutants at the business production establishment and households.

7. National defense and security.

- Strengthening the national defense and security; promoting the general strength of the entire political system to construct the people's national defense and security.

- Constructing and developing effectively the national defense methods, managing closely the prevention national defense force to ensure the quality and quantity; combining with the socio-economic development of the province in the development investment planning, plans, programs and projects.

IV. DEVELOPMENT SPACE ORGANIZATION ORIENTATIONS

1. Urban-Rural development

a) Urban development

- Developing the urban area linking Tan An-Ben Luc to support the effective transport and developing the urban areas along the corridor.

- Developing Duc Hoa Urban Area as the role of the service center of the Northeast Region; Can Giuoc Urban Area will be proposed to provide the services for ports (Hiep Phuoc and Long An) as well as the inland area; establishing Moc Hoa Urban Area to be the development center of Dong Thap Muoi Region, developing the border gate to provide the facilities for trade activities through the border.

- Strengthening and upgrading the urban areas such as Can Duoc, Tan Tru, Thu Thua, Hau Nghia, Dong Thanh, Thanh Hoa, Tan Hoa, Tan Hung and Vinh Hung.

b) Rural development

Developing the rural centers to link with: Thanh Hoa-Tan Thanh Urban Complex; Dong Thanh-Hau Nghia Urban Complex; Moc Hoa – Binh Hiep Urban Complex, ensuring the development of high-quality urban services to improve the living standards of the rural people.

Developing Vam Co Dong and Vam Co Tay ecological corridor, ensuring the water supply for domestic and production activities and serving for the transport of the province as well as creating opportunity for developing other ecological activities, meeting the demand of the urban, rural people and tourists.

2.Development of economic zones:

- Zone 1 (Food security, tourism and border gate economy zone): including the districts of Vinh Hung, Tan Hung, Moc Hoa, tan Thanh, Thanh Hoa, Chau Thanh and a part of Thu Thua district, where has the competitive advantage in agricultural production and tourist attraction.

Aiming at developing strongly agricultural, forestry, fishery sectors and ensuring the industrial development to serve for agriculture, rural development; developing services, industries at the border gate economic zones; developing ecological tourism; developing Moc Hoa Urban area to ensure the exchange of trade and service with Dong Thap Muoi Region and Tan An city.

-Zone 2 (Ecological Buffer Area): located between two rivers of Vam Co Dong and Vam Co Tay. This zone is defined as the area to protect Zone 1 from the impacts of the excessive urban and industrial development activities of Zone 3; creating the special landscape in terms of land use and combing the urban and rural features; reducing pollution for Vam Co Dong River and Vam Co Tay River and restoring the space for development orientation after 2020.

In the short run, Zone 2 is defined for agricultural development with the seasonal land fund for industrial development, ecological urban area, interprovincial transfer area. The center of the Zone is Thua Thua town to connect with many economic sub-regions of the province, connect the land border and sea port. Focusing on controlling the development of Zone 2 and only permitting the development in the planned areas along the roads and some other defined areas.

- Zone 3 (Urban and Industrial Development Zone) consists of Vam Co Dong River and districts of Duc Hoa, Ben Luc, Can Giuoc, Can Duoc and a part of Tan Tru district in the downstream, Tan An city and a part of Thu Thua district.

Aiming at urban development and general industry to create the central urban development corridor in Ben Luc-Tan An and typical industrial urban areas in Duc Hoa, Can Giuoc, Can Duoc.

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Distance to traffic hubs

12 km from Phu My Hung residential area.

19 km from Ben Thanh market, the central of Ho Chi Minh city.

25 km from Tan Son Nhat international airport.

35 km from Long Thanh international airport (2015).

Source: Long An Economic Zone Authority (LEAZA)

​​In addition, there is 01 Continuing Education Center at provincial level, 01 Provincial General Technical and Vocational Center, 15 District and City Distance Learning Centers, 05 Foreign Language-Informatics Center. 100% of communes and towns have the Culture-Sports-Education centers for the community.

The province has 01 school for disabled children, 03 professional intermediary schools (Long An Economic-Technical Intermediate School, Health Intermediate School, Vietnam-Japan Intermediate School), 01 professional college (Long An Teacher Training College), 02 private universities (Long AN Industrial Economic University, Tan Tao University), 30 vocational training centers.

There are 80 communes, towns, wards strictly conforming to the compulsory pre-school education for children of 5 years old (reaching 41.6%) and 1 district.

The total personnel of the education sector is 20,221 persons, the high school and secondary school teachers are basically qualified for the teaching job, however, there is still the shortage of primary and kindergarten teachers due to the demand of full-day education.

The personnel and teachers have been standardized and up to now, the ratio of the teachers meeting standards or meeting higher the standard is high: kindergartens: 99.4%; Primary schools: 99.5%; Secondary schools: 99.7%; high schools: 98.8%. The entire education sector has 52 teachers holding master degree, 03 teachers holding doctor degree. ​

​The entire district has 1 town and 16 communes in which Can Giuoc town is the economic, cultural and social center of the entire district. The remaining administrative units are communes of Phuoc Ly, Long Thuong, Phuoc Hau, My Loc, Phuoc Lam, Thuan Thanh, Long Hau, Tan Kim, Truong Binh, Long An, Phuoc Lai, Phuoc Vinh Tay, Long Phung, Dong Thanh, Phuoc Vinh Dong and Tan Lap.

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Secretary of the provincial Party Committee – Pham Van Ranh was authorized to award the second-class Labor Medal of the State President to the representative of Long An Printing Joint Stock Company and Tan Dong Tien Joint Stock Company

Chairman of the provincial People's Committee – Tran Van Can noted and praised the achievements and contributions of the entrepreneur community for the province's general development in the recent years. Over the past time, the entrepreneur and business community in the province has a relative good developments in both number and scale, contributing greatly to the socio-economic development of the province.

Up to now, there are more than 9,342 enterprises operating with total registered capital of VND 223,491 billion in the province. In addition, the province also granted certificate of investment for over 1,411 domestic investment projects with total registered capital of VND 155,368 billion and 863 foreign investment projects with total capital of USD 5,469 million.

Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee – Do Huu Lam was authorized to award the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit to four individuals of Long An Garment Export Joint Stock Company

The provincial leaders pledged to create a favorable and healthy investment and business environment for enterprises to develop stably and sustainably. In addition, the leaders would like that Long An entrepreneurs shall further innovate technologies, machinery, equipment, expand the market, change and create, enhance competitiveness and develop trademark, etc.

On this occasion, Long An Printing Joint Stock Company and Tan Dong Tien Joint Stock Company were awarded the second-class Labor Medal of the State President; 4 individuals of Long An Garment Export Joint Stock Company were awarded the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit.

Reported by Mai Huong

 Translated by Lan Vy​​

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1. Chairman: Mr. Tran Van Can, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee

Date of Birth: 1962

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth: Hiep Thanh commune, Chau Thanh District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 20/2/1985

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: University of Party and State Government Construction

+ Politics: High-ranking

Be responsible for all activities of the Provincial People's Committee, directly responsible for the following sectors: planning, organization - personnel administrative reform, inspection, judiciary, anti-corruption, citizen welcoming and settlement of complaints and denunciations from the citizens, internal affairs, external affairs and border affairs, emulation and commendation. 

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2. Vice Chairman: Mr. Nguyen Van Ut  -  Member of Executive Committee of the Provincial Party Committee

Date of Birth: 30/12/1969

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth: Bình Hòa Nam commune, Duc Hue District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 05/4/1997

Qualifications:

+ Education: Master

+ Profession: Economics

+ Politics: High-ranking

3. Vice Chairman: Mr. Pham Van Canh -  Member of Executive Committee of the Provincial Party Committee

Date of Birth: 1/1/1963

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth: An Nhut Tan commune, Tan Tru District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 21/7/2006

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: Bridge and Road Engineer

+ Politics: High-ranking

To be responsible for specific tasks in the fields of: agriculture-forestry-fishery, agriculture promotion, plant protection, veterinary, programs on construction and development of new rural areas, science and technology, natural resources and environment, clean water, cooperative economy, construction, transport.​

5. Member: Mr. Nguyen Van Bon - Member of Executive Committee of the Provincial Party Committee - Director of Department of Home Affairs

Date of Birth: 1960

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  My Yen commune, Ben Luc District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 30/3/1989

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: Bachelor of Laws

+ Politics: Bachelor 

Mr. Nguyen Van Bon, Director of Department of Home Affairs, is in charge of internal affairs.​

6. Member: Mr. Vo Minh Thanh - Director of the Department of Director of Department of Natural Resources and Environment

Date of Birth: 13/8/1978

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  My Hanh Tay commune, Duc Hue District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 25/4/2006

Qualifications:

+ Education: Master

+ Profession: Law

+ Politics: High-ranking 

​7. Member: Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truyen  – Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ​

Date of birth: March 15^th, 1964
Ethnic group: Kinh
Religion: No
Home town: Vinh Tri commune, Vinh Hung district, Long An province
Admitted as a member of Communist Party of Vietnam on: November 10^th, 1992
Academic level:
+ Education: University
+ Qualification: Administration
+ Politics: Advanced​​​

8. Member: Mr. Le Minh Duc - Director of Department of Industry and Trade

Date of Birth: 11/8/1960

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  Tan Kim commune, Can Giuoc District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 25/2/1989

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: Bachelor of Economics; Bachelor of Party Construction and State Management

+ Politics: High-ranking 

Mr. Le Minh Duc - Director of Department of Industry and Trade​ is in charge of industry and trade.

9. Member: Mr. Nguyen Van Hoc  -  Member of Provincial Party Committee - Director of Department of Transport

Date of Birth: 10/2/1961

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  My Thanh Dong commune, Duc Hue District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 08/4/1986

Qualifications:

+ Education: Bachelor

+ Profession: Economics

+ Politics: High-ranking

 Mr. Nguyen Van Hoc  - Director of Department of Transport is directly in transport.

10. Member: Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tiep  -  Director of Department of Education and Training

Date of Birth: 20/12/1966

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  Lac Tan commune, Tan Tru District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 29/8/1991

Qualifications:

+ Education: Master

+ Profession: Education

+ Politics: High-ranking

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tiep  -  Director of Department of Education and Training is directly in charge of  education and training.​​

​ 11. Member: Mrs. Nguyen Hong Mai- Director of Department   of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Date of Birth: 23/8/1969 Ethnic: Kinh Religion: None Place of birth: Long Thuong commune, Can Giuoc District, Long An Province Date of joining the Party: 10/6/1993 Qualifications: + Education: University + Profession: Pedagogy of Literature + Politics: High-ranking

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1​2. Member: Mr. Le Quoc Dung – Director of the Department of Science and Technology.

Date of birth: June 06^th, 1970
Ethnic group: Kinh
Religion: No
Home town: Binh Thanh commune, Duc Hue district, Long An province
Admitted as a member of Communist Party of Vietnam on: September 13^th, 2002
Academic level:
+ Education: Master
+ Qualification: Chemical Engineer, Bachelor of Administration, Master of Political Science
+ Politics: Advanced​​​​​​​

13. Member: Mr. Huynh Minh Phuc – Director of the Department of Health.

Date of birth: February 10^th, 1965
Ethnic group: Kinh
Religion: No
Home town: An Ninh Tay commune, Duc Hoa district, Long An province
Admitted as a member of Communist Party of Vietnam on: August 05^th, 1996
Academic level:
+ Education: Master
+ Qualification: Specialized Doctor for Medical Management
+ Politics: Advanced

15​​​. Member: Mr. Nguyen Anh Dung  -  Director of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Date of Birth: 02/9/1963

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  Tan Kim commune, Can Giuoc District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 12/9/1994

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: Agriculture Economics, Administration

+ Politics: High-ranking 

Mr. Nguyen Anh Dung  -  Director of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism is directly in charge of culture, sports and tourism.

16​​. Member: Mr. Do Thanh Son - Director of Department of External Affairs

Date of Birth: 18/10/1962

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  My Cam commune, Cang Long District, Tra Vinh Province

Date of joining the Party: 25/02/1989

Qualifications:

+ Education: Bachelor

+ Profession: Law

+ Politics: High-ranking

Mr. Do Thanh Son - Director of Department of External Affairs is directly in charge of external affairs.

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17. Member: Mr. Le Hong Nam – Director of the provincial Police.

Date of birth: June 05^th, 1966
Ethnic group: Kinh
Religion: No
Home town: Tan An ward, Thu Dau Mot town, Binh Duong province  
Admitted as a member of Communist Party of Vietnam in: November 1990
Academic level:
+ Education: Master
+ Qualification: Investigation of crimes infringing on social safety
+ Politics: Advanced​

18​​. Member: Mr. Tran Van Trai - Member of Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee - Commander of Provincial Military High Command

Date of Birth: 12/3/1967

Ethnic: Kinh

Religion: None

Place of birth:  Lac Tan commune, Tan Tru District, Long An Province

Date of joining the Party: 29/7/1988

Qualifications:

+ Education: University

+ Profession: Bachelor of Military

+ Politics: High-ranking

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I. LOCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY OF LONG AN INTERNATIONAL SEA PORT

The project has many advantage conditions of site and accessibility

Distance to HCM city center of approximately 30 km by national way 50; To HCM city - Trung Luong highway of 30km; To Hiep Phuoc Port of 7 km by river way.

Adjacent to HL19 (Ben Luc – Tan Tap Road); Tan Tap – Long Hau Highway; and Ring Road No.4.

Distance to estuary of East Sea of 15 km by Soai Rap river way;

Easy to access Vam Co river system and Cho Gao canal which is arterial waterway connected to the Mekong Delta.

Soai Rap River can welcome the 50,000 DWT vessel at the present and 70,000 DWT vessel in the future.

Long An international sea port

II. LONG AN PORT INFORMATION

-           Land area about 147ha.

-            Running 2.6km along the Soai Rap River.

-           Seven international wharves with 1.67 km long to handle ships weighing between 30,000 and 70,000 deadweight (DWT) and six wharves with 0.4 km long for domestic inland ships of 1,000 DWT.

-           Its loading and unloading capacity is expected to reach 2.5 million tons/year in the first phase in 2015, increasing to 9.3 million tons in the 2nd phase and 15 million tons in the 3rd phase.

-           The first wharf have been constructed and expected to finish in the beginning of 2015.

Master Plan of The Long An port project

- Present condition: Area 396 ha, most of the area is agricultural land and residential area. Convenient infrastructure connections.

- Project goals: Integrated industrial parks and infrastructure to attract investments.

- Total estimated capital: US $86 million.

- Investors: the Long An S.E.A Industrial Park Joint. Calling for potential investments to cooperate.

- Progress: 
+ Had Detail plan, scale 1/2000.
+ Carrying out site clearance and constructing infrastructure.

- Uban policies: Have many preferred policies about land rent, tax policy as well as provincial policies.

III. PICTURES

Source: Long An Economic Zone Authority (LAEZA)​

The East Sea tide in Soai Rap estuary has amplitude of high from 3,5 to 3,9 m. The process of intruding salt water is deeper and longer into the inland. The reason is the strong operation of tide, northeast wind, less water from upstream and especially many exploitations of surface water in dry season. In the past, Vam Co Tay river had been intruded by salt water in Tuyen Nhon of about 5 km, since 1993, it has reached to Vinh Hung. The salinization has started from January to June with 2 - 4 gam/liters. The salinity of Vam Co Dong river has gradually reduced by the influence of Dau Tieng lake.

Besides, the earth tends to be hotter, facilitating sea level raising, developing the salinization deeply to inland.

The salinization has changed the ecological system of region which has been stable for many years, resulting in the influence to production and daily life of people. To reduce this process, should not exploit too much in dry season and the investment in irrigation systems should consider the impact of salt water intrusion on the general ecological system.

At the end of Mesozoi and in Kainozoi, Da Lat zone was activated forcefully. In Neogen – Quaternary, this region involving Mekong basin was subsided forcefully and filled up by terrigenous sediments . In Long An province, it mainly developed formations of sediments of Neogen Quaternary:

Sediments of conglomerate, sandstone, clay siltstone of Can Tho formation (N₂¹ct) have large area of allocation.

Gravelstone, sandstone, siltstone, claystone of Nam Can formation (N₂²nc) have large area of allocation.

Formations of stream deposition including pebble, gravel, grit, sand, clay, kaolin of Cu Chi formation (aQ₂³cc) are allocated mainly in Loc Giang, Duc Lap Thuong, My Hanh Bac, Hoa Khanh Dong, An Ninh Tay communes under Duc Hoa district.

Formations of sea and rivers depositions including silt, clay with few gypsum of Moc Hoa formation (amQ₂¹mh) are allocated mainly in areas of Duc Hue, Moc Hoa, Vinh Hung, Tan Hung districts.

Formations of stream deposition including pebble, gravel, grit, sand, clay kaolin of Hau Giang formation (mQ₂¹hg) are allocated mainly in areas of Tan Thanh, Moc Hoa, Tan Hung districts.

Formations of sediments of Middle-Upper Holocen (aQ₂²-3) including stream deposition (sand, silt, clay), river - marsh (silt, clay, remains of plants and peat), are shelf deposits, alluvial flat and river bed deposit, allocating most of areas of districts in Long An province.

According to result of geological survey at the ratio of 1:200.000, it is recorded that there are 2 main fault systems in the North Western - South Eastern direction and North Eastern - South Western direction. These fault systems were found according to geophysical materials and indirect geological signs.​

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Long Hau industrial zone in Can Giuoc district - a bright sport in FDI attraction in Long An (Source: VNA)

According to Can, the province has stepped up investment promotion both inside and outside Vietnam, targeting big groups.

It has also implemented administrative reform well, improved the business and investment climate, and increased its ranking on the provincial competitiveness index, especially in the fields of investment, land, taxation, customs, and labour.

In addition, Long An has regularly organised dialogues with investors to help them deal with difficulties and speed up the implementation of projects, while at the same time working to build a convenient, open, and transparent business and investment environment.

Attention has been paid to intensifying tax inspections over foreign-invested enterprises to detect violations early in order to ensure equality in tax declaration and payment for businesses.

Since the beginning of the year, Long An has granted investment licences to 51 projects worth 193.8 million USD. Moreover, 91.1 million USD has been added to 50 existing projects in the period. To date, the province has attracted 928 FDI projects with a total registered capital of over 5.9 billion USD, mainly in the fields of garment and textiles, footwear, and food processing.

Taiwan (China) ranks first in both the number of projects and capital amongst the 37 nations and territories investing in the locality, with a total of 192 projects worth 1 billion USD. It is followed by the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, and Singapore.

The export turnover for FDI enterprises enjoyed an average growth of 27.6 percent per year during 1996-2016, with the value hitting 2.6 billion USD last year. The number of foreign-invested exporters rose from 18 in 1996 to 300 at the last count.

Nguyen Van Tieu, Director of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment, said that FDI enterprises have made significant contributions to the locality's industrial production and exports. Their contributions to the State budget have increased year after year, but only accounted for 22 percent of the province's total budget collection in 2017. 

The figure has yet to meet the enterprises' potential in terms of development investment, he said.

He added that FDI enterprises currently employ some 126,000 labourers, equal to nearly half of the locality's total labourers./.

Source: VNA

      The population around market area has gradually increased, Mr. Mai Tu Thua asked for permission to separate from Binh Luong Tay village and to establish new village Binh Thanh. He also donated a piece of land to build village temple – the precusor of Vinh Phong temple today. Legend has it that, Mr. Mai Tu Thua contributed a lot in the dredge of Tra Cu canal in 1892 and took part in Le Van Khoi rising up and then disappeared. Therefore, his property including the market and land was confiscated and his wife and children were exiled. Binh Thanh village was also changed as Vinh Phong village and the communal house in the village was also moved. Until the French colonialism had occupyed the South and Nguyen dynasty did not have power in the South, the people around Thu Thua market decided to raise money to build Vinh Phong communal house in 1886 and brought the votive table of Mai Tu Thua to worship with 7 Chinese characters: ''ancient sage Mai Tu Thua-Chu Thi''.

       After many times of restoration, most recently in 1998, Vinh Phong temple still reserved architectural style of late Nguyen dynasty. Currently, Vinh Phong temple is located in 1132m² area with 3 layers: stage for classical drama art, stage for practicing martial art, and central chamber facing Thu Thua canal. The central chamber was built in ancient style with 4 pillars structure, double tiled-roof, a pair of glazed terra-cotta dragons (in the position of two dragons fighting over a pearl) located on roof-top. Inside the central chamber, decoration is solemn with 2 layers of balcony, 3 altars, Long Dinh and Lo Bo. External balcony is the masterpiece of Thu Dau Mot craftsmen group dated back to Mau Ngo year (1918). Craftsmen expressed traditional themes on this balcony such as the four supernatural creatures (dragon, unicorn, tortoise and phoenix), four flowers (apricot, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo) and Eagle back to its nest. Above the balcony, there are wood frames structured in carved style with many patterns (Dragon and Horses, Apricot and Deer, Scrolling book, Fish becoming Dragon and Bat …very sophisticated. In front of the main altar is an ancient balcony dated Binh Tuat (1886). With the same theme of four flowers, yet details on this balcony was formed in strong lines and shapes with style of late 19^th century. The special thing about this balcony is the skillful art of vermilion and gilt. Over more than a century, yet this balcony has still been splendid as the early day. The central chamber of Vinh Phong has 2 ancient precious vermilion lacquered and gilded wood horizontal panels and 8 pairs of vertical wood panels dated Binh Tuat (1886) and Binh Thin (1916). Most of parallel sentences are written by the way that 2 first words of 2 parallel sentences are combined as name of Dinh or Thu Thua. Especially, the parallel sentences in the altar of Mai Tu Thua:

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Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee - Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc informed the socio-economic development results in 2017 of the province

At the beginning of the dialogue, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc said that provincial leaders wished representatives of enterprises to share difficulties that they had been during investment, production and business process to strengthen the linkage between the investors and local government to open the opportunities for transparent, equal, effective and long-term cooperation.

Provincial leaders were dialoguing with the enterprises

At the dialogue, representatives of enterprises shared that the open policies, mechanisms for investment environment together with determination for administration reform from the provincial leaders recently had supported them much during their investment and business process.
At the end of the dialogue, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc promised to solve difficulties and obstacles that enterprises had reflected according to the authority of the provincial People's Committee and departments, sectors; particularly, for the matters beyond the jurisdiction of the Provincial People's Committee would report to central ministries, sectors for consideration and resolution.
"Long An always creates the most favorable conditions for investors operating in the province to ensure the highest efficiency" – Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee – Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc confirmed.

      Reported by Mai Huong  

 Translated by Lan Vy​

​Thanh Hoa is a district in Dong Thap Muoi region where is annually impacted by the floods. The establishment and socio-economic development of Thanh Hoa district is closely linked to reclamation and immigration and construction of new economic region in Dong Thap Muoi. The infrastructure is still limited and not synchronous which results in considerable difficulties for the socio-economic development of the district. According to the geographical and economic region classification of Long An province, Thanh Hoa belongs to Sub-Zone IV (including Thanh Hoa, Bac Thu Thua and a part of Tan Thanh district). The main tasks assigned to the distrist is developing agriculture-forestry-fishery, in particularly: stabilizing the production of 2-crop rice (Winter-Spring and Spring-Autumn), rotation production of rice-jute, forestry (indigo) and fresh aquaculture.

Thanh Hoa district has 11 communes-town in which Thanh Hoa town is the center of the district and communes of Thuy Dong, Thuy Tay, Tan Dong, Tan Tay, Thanh Phuoc, Thanh Phu, Thuan Nghia Hoa, Thuan Binh, Tan Hiep, Thanh An (newly established according to the Decree No. 50/2003/NĐ-CP by the Government on the basis of being separated from Thuy Tay commune).​