Introduction

 

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Secretary of the Party Committee of Long An Province has a working session with investors and leaders of relevant departments

Tan Lap floating village located in the heart of Dong Thap Muoi sub-region (also known as the Plain of Reeds) which covers more than 135 hectares of core area and 500 hectares of buffer area. 

The floating village has been known as wetlands with its habitat of indigo forests, lotus, lily, water hyacinth, typical rice of the area; and as the home of many wildlife as birds, stork, fish...

Tan Lap floating village has a special location for tourism exploitation and development being just about 60 kilometers of the northwestward of central Tan An city and about 100 kilometers of the westward of Ho Chi Minh City.

In the past, the Tan Lap floating village was managed by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; after that it was transferred to the Thap Muoi Tourism Company under Tran Thai Group in 2016 for investment and exploitation following the socialization form. 

At present, investors are carrying out construction works, renovating some works including 5 kilometer-long road through the indigo forest, cable car system for visitors, and 32 hotel- rooms on based of renovation of observation tower (including nine floors with 38 meters high). 

Besides, they have also expanded many functional areas as environmental educational center, natural conservation area, wild bird sanctuary, floating houses on piles, park-restaurant area, marina area...

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Many tour operators discover Tan Lap floating village. Photo: Le Duc

The leader of Thap Muoi Tourism Company said that although the Tan Lap floating village does not officially put into operation, it receives around 200 visitors per day, and around 1,000 arrivals per day on weekends.

Secretary Pham Van Ranh said that with the interference location between the Southeast and the Mekong Delta region, bordering with Ho Chi Minh City, located on the national tourism route of Ho Chi Minh City – the Mekong Delta and trans-Asia travel route connecting with Cambodia through the provincial border, Long An has an important strategic position in trade and tourism; in particular, the province has identified Tan Lap floating tourist village as one of the key tourism projects of the province and the region.

During the survey, Secretary of the Party Committee of Long An Province Pham Van Ranh appreciated the efforts and determination of investors in concentrating resources, speeding up the construction adding that the leaders of the province and related departments and agencies will create the most favorable conditions for the Tan Lap floating tourist village to early be completed and officially put into operation before the Lunar New Year of 2018.

On-site visit the investment works

At the same time, Secretary of the Party Committee of Long An Province Pham Van Ranh asked the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to continue coordinating with the Tran Thai Group, Thap Muoi Tourism Company and other potential investors to research and form tours connecting from Ho Chi Minh City to the key tourism projects in the province: 

Ecotourism sites of Rach Cat-Can Duoc, Tan Lap floating village, Center of Conservation and Development of Medicine of Dong Thap Muoi, Lang Sen Wetland Reserve, key historical-cultural relic sites of the province which would contribute to the formation of typical tourism products of Long An, meeting rising demand for short-term excursions, typical ecotourism in Dong Thap Muoi …of this potential market from Ho Chi Minh City and the neighboring provinces./.

Source:  http://news.baolongan.vn/

​/. Road traffic :

Until the end of 2004, roadways in province was 1.698km, in which asphalt roads were 474km, accounting for 27,9%, gravel roads were 1053km (62%), other kinds of roads were 171km (10,1%) (excluding rural roads). Total length of bridge was 15.799 m long/346 bridges, in which concrete bridges were 7.099 md/123 bridges, girder bridges were 6812 md/194 bridges, others were 1889 md/29 bridges. Density of road by area increased from 0,198 Km/Km² in 1991 to 0,285 Km/Km² in 2000 and 0,359 km/Km² in 2004.

Density of road by population increased from 0,667 Km/1.000 persons in 1991 to 0,957 Km/1000 person in 2000 and 1,130 km/1000 person in 2004.

In general, roadways system is prioritized to invest, helping actively to develop production and improve living standard of population. However, there also remain some roads not satisfying the demand of transportation, lacking of synchronism between roads and bridges, not forming uninterrupted branches of roads.

Most of the Southern communications network has not been increased, mainly improved, upgraded and expanded, except some rural roads. In Nothern region, the communications network has developed rapidly, contributing to reclaimation, reallocation of population. To date, traffic roads are, however, quite scattered in this region, province road only has some roads just for cars, branches of roads accessible to residential clusters have not been built yet. Therefore this has influenced to travel and organization of life of rural people.

At present, the system of bridges and roads have been built synchronously in term of capacity in most of main roads from province to district and roads to industrial zones. However, there still remain some roads with low-capacity bridges, constraining the development of cargo transportation.

In recent years, although border belt ways have been invested, they are mainly small-scale rural roads, asynchronous bridge roads, inluencing to the national defense and smuggling fighting.

In recent years, the construction of rural transportation has become a big movement, combining from the budget and contribution of population. At present, 156 over 188 communes have car roads to the center (accounting for 83%), 32 communes under 7 districts do not have car roads to center, including 18 roads with total length of 126 km and 140 bridges/6637m long.

In recent years, the investment in traffic industry has been constantly increased. However, the annual budget for maintenance is low. Therefore the roads are degrading quickly. According to economists, it is necessary for capital given priority to maintain other than to invest in building. It will bring socio-economic efficiency.

In recent years, the roadways system has been considered and invested by the province, but in general it is not extensive and synchronous, influencing to the investment attraction and socio-economic development of province.

2/.Waterway traffic:

Since 1995, the waterways network has not increased, with scale of 2.559 km. Density of waterways by area was 0,59 Km/Km² and by population was 1,8 Km/ten thousand of people with main waterways of Vam Co river, Vam Co Dong, Vam Co Tay, Rach Cat river . . .

Besides, on rural waterways, especially districts in Dong Thap Muoi, people can travel by boats from house to house, from region to region and boats are the main means of transport, means of living of many families in Dong Thap Muoi. Communes where do not have car roads to center will travel by waterways.

However, the waterways network, at present, still depends mainly on natural advantage, not developing the existing potentials, lacking in support system such as marking buoy, local waterways signal. The phenomena of appropriation of flow and way of boats, breach of protective corridors of local waterways such as construction of house and building materials yard, holding a market, etc. have not controlled properly. Many waterways have had great siltation through development in many years but they have not dredged and influenced to travel capacity of means.

​The groundwater deposit in Long An is also not various and the quality is poor, mainly found at the depth of more than 200 meter. The ground water contains many ion to harden the water and reduce the quality of the water. The main water source ​​is the surface water from lakes, rivers. The clean water program funded by UNICEF supports to drill some wells in the areas with water shortage.

 Water supply:

Communication System​ supply system of Long An running through the flow of Vam Co river, Vam Co Dong River and Vam Co Tay River is also contaminated with saline and alum.

Long An is supplied with the clean water from Tan An Water Plant with the capacity of 15,000m3/day for the residential areas in the center of Tan An City and the neighboring areas. Up to now, thanks to the investments from many different capital sources such as State Budget (strategy program, program 135), loans, Unicef capital, OECF capital, all towns in the provinces are supplied with clean tapped water. The percentage of households accessing clean water accounts for 77% with the total number of 1,085,634 people.

In the rural areas, the domestic water supply source is depending on the available water sources with untreated water, therefore, the quality and hygiene of water are not yet ensured. The clean water program funded by UNICEF can only help more than 50% of the population of the province access the clean water.

 Drainage/sewerage:

The majority of the urban areas and residential areas have not yet provided with the complete drainage system. Domestic wastewater and rainwater are directly discharged to the surface water source through the traffic culverts. The province has not yet constructed the drainage and wastewater treatment system separately. The total km of the culverts is only 10.5% of the total length of the roads. The demand for the future investments for the drainage and sewerage systems is very high, especially for Tan An City, towns, small towns and other centers in the province.

 The program to mobilize all resources to construct the traffic, power, water infrastructure system serving for the industrial development has been implemented synchronously by Long An Province at all levels, sectors

 Progress of water supply projects:

 1. The projects listed in the Plan for mobilizing all resources to invest in traffic, water, power infrastructure to serve for the industrial development:

 - Hoa Khanh Tay Water Plant located at Duc Hoa Thuong commune, with the capacity in phase 1 of 40,000 m³/day, in phase 2 of 80,000m³/day, it is planned to commence the construction in early 8/2013.

 - Phu My Vinh 2 Water Supply system, located at Duc Hoa Thuong commune with the capacity in phase 1 of 50,000m³/day, in phase 2 of 200,000m³/day, the investment report is under preparation.

 - Tan Tao Water Plant: the land use criteria are considering because the plant has the construction location moved from Binh Hoa Nam commune, Duc Hue district to Hoa Khanh Tay commune, Duc Hoa district.

 -Kenh Dong Water Supply system: invested by Phu My Vinh Compnay, however, in accordance with the report from the investor, the water supply network of the company shall not take the water from Kenh Dong but use the water from the plant in Duc Hoa III – Viet Hoa Industrial Park and Hoa Khanh Tay Water Plant.

 - Tan Kim Groundwater Plant invested by Holland  Water Supply Co., Ltd. is operating with the exploitation capacity of 1,500 m³/day (in addition to the project in Truogn Binh commune, this company also has the another plant operating with the capacity of 2,000m³/day).

 - Phuoc Vinh Dong Groundwater Plant: calling for investment.

 2. Other projects

 +Bao Dinh Water Plant Project, located at Nhi Thanh commune, the planned capacity of 60,000m³/day, the investment report is under preparation by Long An Water Supply One Member Co., Ltd.

 + Water Supply Project invested by Duc Hoa Water Supply Co., Ltd, taking clean water from Ho Chi Minh City following provincial road 825 to supply water to Tan Do Industrial Park with the estimated capacity in phase 1 of 15,000m³/day, phase 2 of 40,000m³/day, the investment project is under preparation by the investor.​

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Distance to traffic hubs

Roads:

Ho Chi Minh city center 45km

Phu My Hung Urban center 35km

Long An Province center 18km
Ports:

ICD Hiep Phuoc Port 30km

Cat Lai Port 43km

Long An International port 23km

Cai Mep Thi Vai Deep Port 74km
Airport:

Tan Son Nhat Airport (HCMC) 42km

Source: Long An Economic Zone Authority (LEAZA)

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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)​

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The scene of the working session of the People's Committees of Tien Giang and Long An provinces

Tien Giang and Long An are two of the provinces in the Southern key economic zone and share multiple waterways and roads connecting the two provinces. However, the potential for development between the two provinces is still great in all fields, so the meeting between leaders of the two provincial People's Committees and departments was to better understand the importance of linking and cooperating socio-economic development of both provinces.

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Chairman of Long An People's Committee and Chairman of Tien Giang People's Committee speak at the working session.

At the meeting, the departments of Tien Giang and Long An provinces preliminarily reported the results of linkage and cooperation in recent years, as well as remaining problems that need to be resolved. Mr. Tran Van Can and Mr. Le Van Huong highly appreciated the linkage and cooperation of socio-economic development in the past time. At the same time, they raised many ideas that the two provinces should jointly study and plan to implement cooperative projects, thereby improving the performance of socio-economic development of Tien Giang and Long An provinces.

Reported by NT

Translated by Lan Vy

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The Mayor, Mr. Darrel Steinberg and the secretary of provincial Party Committee, Pham Van Ranh (right)

In the spirit of sincerity and friendship, on behalf of the Sacramento City Government, the Mayor Darrel Steinberg expressed his pleasure to welcome the delegation of Long An province.

Mr. Pham Van Ranh expressed his gratitude for the warm and respect welcome of the Mayor and his colleagues for the delegation, and generally informed of the location and role of Long An in the key economic zone in the South as well as in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, highlighted the socio-economic achievements and redundant land for development of the province.

The signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding between the two localities

At the end of the talks, Mr. Pham Van Ranh and the delegation witnessed the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding between the Mayor of Sacramento City, Mr. Darrel Steinberg with the Vice Chairman of Long An People's Committee, Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc.

Accordingly, the two sides agreed to create all favorable conditions for the development of trade, promoting the investment from Sacramento City in Long An province in the fields of hi-tech agriculture, industry, solar energy; at the same time, making efforts to promote economic cooperation through trade, tourism, human resource training, etc. activities between the two localities.

It can be said that, this is an important event, opening up a new prospect for strengthening cooperation between the government and people of Sacramento City (USA) and Long An province (Vietnam), enriching and diversifying the province's foreign affair activities, contributing to strengthening of the friendly and cooperative relationship on the basic of respect for independence, sovereignty, equality and mutual benefit between the two countries in the new integration and development period.

On this occasion, the delegation conducted the investment promotion and witnessed the signing of investment cooperation between businesses in Long An province and the United States in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland Cities on the fields of preservation and processing of agricultural products, hi-tech electronics, solar power and survey of waste treatment technology./.

Reported by Nguyen Ba Luan

  Translated by Lan Vy ​

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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)​

Vam Co Dong river starts from Cambodia, through Tay Ninh province and to Long An province: area of basin of 6.000 km², the length through province of 145 km, the depth of 17 - 21 m. Thanks to water source passed from Dau Tieng lake with the flow of 18,5 m³/s, it supplements the irrigation for Duc Hue, Duc Hoa, Ben Luc districts and reduces the process of salinization of Vam Co Dong river through Soai Rap estuary. Vam Co Dong river connects with Vam Co Tay through horizontal channels and connects with Sai Gon, Dong Nai rivers by Thay Cai, An Ha, Rach Tra channels, Ben Luc river.

Vam Co Tay river with the length through province is 186 km, water source is mainly received from Tien river through Hong Ngu channel, satisfying the demand of irrigation for agricultural production and daily life of people.

Vam Co river with 35 km long, 400 m wide, emptying into Soai Rap estuary and flowing to the East Sea is the confluence of Vam Co Dong and Vam Co Tay rivers.

Rach Cat river (Can Giuoc River) situated in Long An province is 32 km long, with a small water flow in dry season and poor water quality due to receiving waste water source from urban area - Ho Chi Minh City, having a great effect on production and daily life of people.

In general, surface water source of Long An is not abundant, the quality of water is inappropriate in certain respects. Therefore, it does not meet the requirement of production and life.

According to assessment, reserves of ground water of Long An are not abundant and their quality is different and quite poor. Most of ground water source is in the depth from 50 - 400 meters under 2 horizones, Pliocene – Miocene.

However, the ground water source of province has many useful minerals which are exploited and served for daily life of people in the whole country.

In heavy rain or flood, with hurricane tide, it has often occurred flood in regions along the banks of river, especially lowland. To exploit efficiently surface water resource in Long An, in addition to channel expansion to create source, it is necessary to build more conservatoires in places where do not have sources.

In future, it is necessary to specify the reserves of ground water source, location, the reproductive capacity to have plan on effective and sustainable exploitation and use.​​​

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Chairman of Provincial People's Council - ​Mr Nguyen Van Duoc.

Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Council – Mr Nguyen Thanh Cang

Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Council – Mr Mai Van Nhieu​

Head of Legal Department of Provincial People's Council – Mr Le Son Ha

Head of Economic-Budget Department of Provincial People's Council – Mr Nguyen Huu Tuan

Head of Culture-Social Department of Provincial People's Council – Mr Truong Van Nam

People's Council Office of Long An Province

Addresses:  61 Nguyen Hue Street, Ward 1, Tan An City, Long An Province

Phone number :  (0272). 3553 924

Fax: (0272). 3830 150

Email: dbnd@longan.gov.vn

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Happyland entertainment area has many activities to attract tourists

According to Long An Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in February 2019, tourists to Long An reached more than 450,000 people, increased 9 times over the same period of 2018. Of which, international visitors reached 2,500 turns of people, revenue reached VND 135 billion, increased more than 100% over the same period of 2018.

Vice Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism – Nguyen Thanh Thanh said that, after the Lunar New Year, tourists manly visited ecological tourism sites, cultural and historical relics of the province, especially the number of visitors to Happyland tourism area soared.

With its position as the Western gateway and the vast area of Dong Thap Muoi, Long An is a relatively new destination for near and far tourists./.

Reported by Minh Dang

​Translated by Lan Vy ​

From Japanese side, the opening ceremony had the attendance of Mr. Kawaue Junichi - Consulate General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City; Mr. Kadowaki Keiichi - Chairman of the Japanese Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Exhibition will be organized on the scale of more than 400 standard booths of provinces, cities and enterprises in order to introduce the achievements of socio-economic achievements and tourism development of each locality; promote and introduce potentials, strengths, products and goods; develop brands; and seek partners and consumption markets.

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Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Van Can spoke at the opening ceremony

Speaking at the Opening Ceremony, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Van Can said that Japan is now the third largest economy in the world with much potential on science and technology which is leading in the world. Therefore, the People's Committee of Long An Province desires to continue calling for and attracting investments from Japan into such fields as hi-tech industry; hi-tech agriculture; human resource development etc.

As part of the cultural exchange activities celebrating the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan, which took place in Long An province, it hopes that the "Vietnam - Japan Economic, Trade and Tourism Fair, Long An in 2018" will be the opportunity for enterprises, investors to exchange and study about the cooperation opportunities as well as to introduce the typical products and strengths of Japanese enterprises inside and outside the province to consumers in Vietnam in general and in Long An Province in particular. 

Delegates are cutting the opening band of the fair

Provincial leaders are visiting booths at the fair

Vietnam - Japan Economic, Trade and Tourism Fair, Long An in 2018 will be held until October 21st, 2018.

Reported by TV

Translated by Lan Vy ​​

​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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