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Socio-economy in the first 6 months - the highlights of investment attraction, trade surplus

From the beginning of the year to June 15, the province attracted 1 billion 317 million USD of foreign investment (FDI), up 81% over the same period, reaching 94.1% of the year plan. Until now, the whole province has 3,629 FDI projects with a total registered capital of 33.63 billion USD. This is one of the outstanding results given by the Provincial People's Committee at the regular June meeting with the contents of the report on the socio-economic situation, national defense and security in the first 6 months of the year; key tasks in the last 6 months of 2019; Thematic report on the results of the 2018-2019 school year organized by the provincial People's Committee yesterday (24-6).

Industry continues to make a major contribution to the provincial economy. In the photo: Production line of Pungkook Saigon Co., Ltd (Song Than Industrial Park, Da An Town). Photo: Phuong Le

Attract FDI to exceed the 5-year plan

According to the Provincial People's Committee, in the first 6 months of the year, the provincial People's Committee implemented drastically the resolutions and instructions of the Government, the Prime Minister, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Council on the tasks of socio-economic development and national affairs. room - security; summarize some breakthrough programs of the Provincial Party Committee in the period of 2016-2020. As a result, most of the main targets of socio-economic development proposed by the province have grown highly compared to the same period last year.

Notably, up to now, some major socio-economic targets of the province have reached and exceeded the 5-year plan (2016-2020), with outstanding FDI attraction reaching USD 8.4 billion (according to the proposed plan). is over 7 billion USD). In the past 6 months, the province's total development investment capital was estimated at VND 40,623 billion, up 12.02% over the same period. For domestic investment, from the beginning of the year to June 15, the province attracted 27,337 billion dong of business registration capital. So far, the province has 39,307 domestic enterprises with a total registered capital of VND 328,315 billion.

In the last 6 months of 2019, the province continued to improve the business investment environment; develop policies to support start-up and innovation businesses; encourage business households to switch to businesses. The province also set up a scheme to build a number of hi-tech industrial parks in Bau Bang district, industrial clusters to support the needs of investors; continue to organize meetings and dialogues with business leaders and industry associations to promptly solve difficulties and obstacles and support enterprises to develop.

Trade surplus reached 3.4 billion USD

The report of the provincial People's Committee also stated that in the last 6 months, most of the major evaluation indicators of the province have improved on the scores and rankings on the national ranking table. The industrial, commercial and service sectors of the province continued to grow steadily. Specifically, the industrial production index of the province is estimated to increase by 8.08%; total retail sales of goods and service revenue is estimated at VND 111,415 billion, up 15.8% over the same period last year; export and import turnover continued to grow well, maintaining a trade surplus of 3.4 billion USD.

Besides, the province has completed the national target program on new rural construction at the commune level. The management of land, natural resources, environmental protection, forest fire prevention and flood prevention continues to be concerned by the province.

Regimes and policies for the subjects continue to be concerned by the authorities and branches in the province to implement fully and promptly. The provincial People's Committee also directed the functional industry to pay attention to labor training and job creation; along with the work of health care for people, ensuring food hygiene and safety, being paid attention to regularly and regularly. In the field of culture, cultural activities, festivals, gymnastics and sports, communication information is well organized by the province, serving the entertainment and entertainment needs of people well.

The quality of education is improved

According to the Provincial People's Committee, the school year of 2018-2019 the quality and efficiency of education - training are increasingly consolidated and gradually improved. The facilities, equipment and schools are paid attention by the province in the direction of standardization, ensuring sufficient numbers, meeting the teaching and learning needs of teachers and students in the locality.

In the school year of 2018-2019, the whole province has 654 educational institutions (an increase of 26 bases compared to the previous school year), the rate of public schools is up to 79.63%, the rate of public schools meeting national standards is 71.08%, the percentage of students graded fairly, good at secondary school level reached 54.88% and high school reached 59.84%. At the national excellent student contest in 2019, the province achieved 29 prizes / 54 candidates.

In order to meet the learning needs of the children in the province, not to let the schools organize 3-shift lessons, the provincial People's Committee directed the education and training sector to coordinate with the local authorities to implement many solutions to the school. , teachers, such as implementing the plan to increase the number of classes / schools, increasing the number of students / class, reducing the number of classes per day per day. Besides, the provincial education and training sector guides units to implement teacher and teacher contract transfer to meet teachers in response to the increase in students, schools and classes. Along with that, the province strengthened the work of socialization of preschool education to solve in time the needs of child care and raising today ...

Speaking at the conclusion of the session, Mr. Tran Thanh Liem, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee asked functional departments to strengthen inspection and control, not to spread African swine cholera; relevant levels and branches shall fully and promptly implement social security policies for national target groups and programs on sustainable poverty reduction. Besides, he also suggested that the branches and localities pay attention to vocational education and job creation; pilot online vocational education system and organize skills training at provincial level in 2019.

For the field of education, Mr. Tran Thanh Liem asked to ensure the organization of the 2019 national high school exam transparent, safe and in accordance with regulations; well prepare schools, teaching and learning equipment and teachers to serve the new school year 2019-2020; correcting the status of tutoring and extra classes. With regard to ensuring political security, social order and safety, all levels and concerned branches shall implement solutions to grasp the situation and be ready to promptly handle arising situations; completing the scheme of mobilizing the regular police to assume the titles of commune police ...; improve the effectiveness of foreign affairs, closely manage public officials to go abroad according to regulations; successfully organized the Horasis 2019.

Reported by Phuong Le – Translated by Vi Bao

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