Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak
Fostering Rapid, Sustainable, Comprehensive, and Inclusive Socio-Economic Development Based on Four Key Pillars of Growth
In the document, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructs Dak Lak province to foster rapid, sustainable, and inclusive socio-economic development, anchored in four key pillars: scaling up high-quality agricultural and forestry products with a focus on exports; large-scale agro-forestry processing and renewable energy production; expanding urban areas, digital infrastructure, and irrigation systems; and enhancing logistics and digital-based tourism services.
Alongside socio-economic progress, the province is tasked with strengthening the political system, consolidating national defense and security, maintaining social order and safety, and firmly safeguarding border sovereignty. This includes fostering peaceful, friendly, and cooperative relations with neighboring countries.
The province is also directed to pursue environmentally conscious development, addressing climate change, poverty alleviation, and efficient management of land, water, forest resources, and other natural assets. It should actively adapt to climate change and enhance disaster prevention and control measures.
Placing people at the core, the province should strive for sustainable poverty reduction, ensuring equitable development among different ethnic groups residing in the area. This includes a strong focus on ethnic and religious affairs, with the guiding principle of “leaving no one behind.”
Continuously Enhancing the Material and Cultural Life of the People, Aiming to Reach the National Average Level
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed Dak Lak province to continuously enhance the material and cultural life of its people, aiming to reach the national average level. This includes rapid and sustainable socio-economic development, inclusive ecological space development, and promoting ethnic cultural values. The goal is to make Dak Lak an attractive tourist destination.
Buon Ma Thuot city is envisioned as the center of the Central Highlands region, a gateway for regional integration and international engagement. The city should offer its residents a high quality of life, with access to excellent material, cultural, and social services, a safe environment, and enhanced employment and income opportunities.
Strengthening Unity and Ensuring “No One is Left Behind”
The Prime Minister has emphasized the importance of unity and instructed Dak Lak province to focus on six key strengthening areas:
– Strengthening people’s trust in the Party and the State, alongside enhancing the sense of responsibility among citizens and businesses towards the government. This includes effectively implementing the guidelines of the Party and the policies and laws of the State.
– Fostering Great National Unity among the 49 ethnic groups living in the province, embodying the spirit of “leaving no one behind.” This includes mutual support and assistance, especially for ethnic minority groups in remote, border, and disadvantaged areas.
– Mobilizing social resources for investment in development, particularly in transportation infrastructure, industrial parks, and new urban areas, to reduce travel time and costs and enhance the competitiveness of goods.
– Bolstering national defense and security, contributing to a peaceful, friendly, and cooperative border with Cambodia, in line with the spirit of good neighborliness, traditional friendship, and comprehensive, sustainable, and long-term cooperation.
– Investing in high-quality human resources development and facilitating the shift of the labor structure from rural to industrial and urban areas, accompanied by a restructuring of the labor force.
– Strengthening national defense and security to maintain political stability, social order, and national sovereignty.
Transforming Buon Ma Thuot into a Development Hub and the Economic Center of the Province and Region
The Prime Minister has instructed Dak Lak province to promptly develop a plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision towards 2050, aligning provincial planning with regional and national strategies. This includes reorganizing urban spaces to transform Buon Ma Thuot into a development hub and the economic center of the province and region. Effective implementation of the National Power Development Plan for 2021-2030 and the decision on the implementation of the power development plan (Decision No. 262/QD-TTg dated April 1, 2024) is also emphasized.
The province should boost production and business activities, generate employment and livelihoods for its people, and maximize resource mobilization, especially for transportation infrastructure. Enhancing investment attraction and utilization, promoting exports, and stimulating domestic consumption are also key priorities.
Dak Lak is encouraged to unleash new growth drivers, focusing on the digital economy, green economy, circular economy, and climate change response. Completing key transport projects in the Central Highlands region, especially those under the province’s authority, is crucial. Building on the achievements, the province should strive to complete the construction of a 48km section of the Project’s Component 3 (belonging to the Project for Investment in the Construction of the Khanh Hoa – Buon Ma Thuot Expressway, Phase I) by August 30, 2025, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the country’s establishment and the Party Congresses at all levels.
Additionally, the province should attract more investment in agriculture and rural areas, restructuring the agricultural sector towards green and organic practices, and promoting production chains linked to product consumption. Sustaining and expanding traditional craft villages while protecting the ecological environment is also essential. Developing the forestry industry in tandem with forest management, restoration, and development, and increasing revenue from forest environmental services through participation in the carbon credit market, are among the key directives.
Building and Promoting Brands for Key Provincial Products, Such as Buon Ma Thuot Coffee
Dak Lak province is instructed to enhance deep processing to increase the added value of key products, such as Buon Ma Thuot coffee, and to build and promote their brands. Investing in the development of transportation, cultural, and social infrastructure for tourism is also emphasized.
The province should focus on linking tourism destinations through the concept of “one route, multiple destinations.” Improving the business investment environment, supporting startups, fostering innovation, and decisively cutting and simplifying administrative procedures, especially in land, investment, construction, and the environment, are crucial aspects of the directive.
The province should also pay attention to developing cultural, social, and environmental protection fields, ensuring social security, and enhancing the material and cultural life of the people and ethnic groups in the province. Economic development must go hand in hand with social progress and fairness.
Resource management, environmental protection, and climate change response, particularly land management, are highlighted as crucial areas. Efficient and economical use of resources, especially water and land, is essential for long-term development. Maintaining political security, social order, and safety, and building a solid national defense and people’s security foundation are also key directives.
Building a strong and effective apparatus and training a team of officials and public employees with sufficient qualifications, capacity, and prestige are among the key tasks outlined in the document.
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