VNA
Socio-economic achievements in 2001
- Gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate increases by 6.8%
- Agriculture, forestry and fishery production value increases by 4.1%
- Industrial production value increases by 14.2%
- Services value increases by 6.7%
- Export turnover increases by 4.5%
- Total investment capital of the whole society increases by nearly 16%
- Consumer price index increases by 0.8%
- Creating fobs for 1.4 million people
- Reducing poor households to 16% (according to new criteria)
(Source: Reports by the government and the General Department of Statistics
on implementation of key socio-economic development targets of 2001.)
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Major 2002 socio-economic targets
- GDP growth rate increases by 7%-7.3%
- Agricultural production value increases by 4.2%
- Industrial production value increases by 14%
- Services value increases by 6.8%-7%
- Export turnover increases by 10%-13%
- Total investment capital of the whole society increases by nearly 32%
- Consumer price index increases by 3%-4%
- Providing vocational training for 1 million people
- Creating fobs for 1.4 million people
- Reducing poor households to 14%-15%
- Reducing birth rate to 0.04%
(Source: Resolution No 54/2001/QH10)
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Major socio-economic targets of five-year
development plan 2001-2005
- Annual GDP growth rate increases by 7.5%
- Economic sectoral structure in GDP by 2005 is estimates as follows:
+ Agriculture, forestry and fisheries volume accounts for 20-21%
+ Industry and construction volume accounts for 38-39%
+ Services volume accounts for 41-42%
+ Agriculture, forestry and fisheries production value increases by 4.8%
+ Industrial production value increases by 13.1%
+ Services value increases by 7.5%
- Export turnover increases by 14%-16%
- Reducing annual birth rate to 0.05%; population growth rate in 2005 is at
about 1.2%
- Creating jobs for 7.5 million people (or an average of 1.5 million people
a year); increasing the percentage of trained labourers to 30% by 2005
- 80% of children within the secondary school age and 45% of children within
the junior high school age go to school
- Basically eliminating families in hunger and reducing the number of poor
households to 10% by 2005
- Reducing the rate of malnourished children to 22%-25%; 40% of demand on
medicines for treatment are produced locally; increasing the average
longevity to 70 years of age by 2005
- Supplying clean water to 60% of rural people.
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People nationwide celebrate New Year
Hanoi streets were decorated colourfully in the warm atmosphere despite the
cold weather. Nearly 500 artists from professional art troupes of Hanoi and
the army and mobile film showing troupes gave nearly 50 performances to
serve the local peoples on the evenings of December 30, 31 and 32, 2002 and
January 1, 2002.
Lines of people flocked to places where cultural activities were taking
place on the night of December 31, including the Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc
Square, the Lenin Memorial, the Indira Ghandi public garden near Hoan Kiem
Lake, Van Dien town and cultural houses in districts.
An art programme entitled �Welcome 2002 Spring� was held on a big stage at
the Ba Kieu Temple with the participation of artists from the Central Song,
Dance and Music Theatre, Thang Long Dance and Song Ensemble, the Circus
Federation, youth musical bands and Hanoi Models� Club and some singers from
Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City people celebrated the New Year with an imposing cultural
and artistic festival, rich in national identity. Thousands of people,
mainly young, flocked to the city centre, particularly from 19:00 hours on
the last day of 2001 to join the New Year celebration in the hope of a
bright future.
The festival took place at the Reunification Park surrounded by four roads,
featuring original songs, dances, melodies by youth musical bands of the
city, the municipal Opera House and the Lotus Art Troupe. Many performances
for children such as circus, puppetry and prestidigitation were also held
there. The area displaying folk culture objects of the South attracted a
great deal of visitors.
200 first foreign tourists from Japan, France, Germany, Australia and
Russia, together with Saigon Tourist, welcomed the New Year at the GRAND
hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. They enjoyed music and dance performances of
Vietnam and other countries.
Other localities including Da Nang city, Quang Binh, Can Tho provinces also
held many cultural activities to welcome the New Year. Roads and streets
were beautifully bedecked with flags and slogans describing the wishes for a
prosperous and happy new year.
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Vietnam to promote regional action plans at AIPO helm
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An reaffirmed that the goal of ASEAN
Inter - Parliamentary Organisation (AIPO) is to promote co-operation and
understanding between member parliaments and assist diplomatic and
co-operative activities of ASEAN governments.
Mr An was speaking while chairing the first meeting of the AIPO National
Steering Committee and Organisation Committee held in Hanoi on December 31,
2001 to prepare for the General Assembly.
Vietnam's stewardship of the AIPO has created more opportunities for it to
advance implementation of commitments made under the Hanoi Plan of Action
and Hanoi Declaration, he stressed.
It will also help the NA bring major orientations to the agenda for the 23rd
AIPO General Assembly that will be held in Hanoi this September, he said.
Hosting the 23rd General Assembly gives the NA a good chance to implement
its lofty responsibilities towards the AIPO while promoting friendly
relations, bilateral and multi-lateral co-operation with other parliaments
of ASEAN, its dialogue partners and other nations, he said.
He asked members of the National Steering Committee and Organisation
Committee and other relevant agencies to carefully plan and co-ordinate with
each other in implementing their assigned tasks, particularly the
preparations for an AIPO conference on preventing drug abuse to be held by
the end of this month.
AIPO General Secretary Vu Mao, who is head of the NA's External Relations
Commission, told the meeting of work done over the four months since Vietnam
took over AIPO presidency last September from Thailand.
He also outlined the work that remained to be done in preparing for coming
events and tasks to be completed in the future. (VNA)
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Navy Command delegation visits Cambodia
A delegation of the Vietnam People's Navy Command, led by Rear-Admiral Do
Xuan Cong, paid an official visit to Cambodia from December 26-30.
During the five-day stay, the Vietnamese delegation held talks with the
Cambodian Navy Command. They were received by Chay Saing Yun, secretary of
State of the Cambodian Ministry of Defence, and General Ke Kim Yan,
commander-in-chief of the Cambodian Royal Army.
The Vietnamese guests also called at the Kompong Som port, the Angkor
Temple, and the Cambodian National Museum and Royal Palace. (VNA)
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Vietnam tourism village opens in Philippines
The Vietnamese community in the Philippines has opened a Vietnamese tourism
village in Palawan, the Philippines.
Visitors to the village can enjoy the beauties of Vietnamese culture, taste
Vietnamese dishes, see Vietnamese music performances, attend Vietnamese
styled weddings with traditional rituals. All of these are organised and
performed by the Vietnamese community in the Philippines.
The unique of Vietnamese village has brought much interests to the media and
the local people.
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Luxembourg helps poor farmers in Long An
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has
distributed US $43,000 granted by the government of Luxembourg to help Long
An purchase rice seeds for poor households.
Long An is one of the localities in the Mekong River delta suffering serious
losses caused by floods.
With the active support of Luxembourg, the Vietnam-based United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) will provide rice seeds to poor households in
Long An in January to serve the upcoming winter-autumn crop.
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