Hai Phong must focus on infrastructure: PM

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung promised voters in the northern port city of Hai Phong yesterday that the Government would promote production by cutting interest rates, curbing inflation and reducing credit growth in securities and real estate.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets voters in the northern port city of Hai Phong yesterday, Aug 17. (Photo: VNS)

"The Party and Government are committed to improving the work of social security, particularly in health care and loans to students and others."

Dung said that to have rapid and sustainable development the city should focus more investment on developing infrastructure, including the Ha Noi-Hai Phong expressway, Hai Phong international airport, Lach Huyen port and high tech-industrial zones.

Regarding recent developments in the East Sea, Dung said national sovereignty was an alienable right.

"The Party and Government will continue to use the absolute power of the nation to firmly protect the homeland's sovereignty," he said.

"Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos belong to Viet Nam. So are the economic exclusive and offshore zones which are in line with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea."

During the meeting, the Prime Minister took time to listen to Hai Phong voters' concerns.

Tran Van Thuc, former under secretary of the Hai Phong Party Committee, asked the National Assembly to pay more attention to education and training in the port city so that it could spearhead Government policies.

Dao Van Nhai, a representative for the Hai Phong Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, told Dung of difficulties in accessing credits for production development, largely due to high interest rates.

Police committed to protecting national sovereignty

The new Minister of Public Security, Tran Dai Quang, has requested the entire people’s police force to improve its ability to grasp situations and better advise the Party and State on measures of safeguarding the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

General Quang made the plea at an August 17 online meeting of generations of the police force on the 66^th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Police and the sixth anniversary of the ‘All people Protect National Security’ movement.

During the meeting, Minister Quang asked the police force to closely cooperate with other ministries, sectors, and organizations at both central and local levels to strengthen the whole political system and people in safeguarding national security, maintaining social order and serving the country’s socio-economic development.

Mr Quang also reviewed the 66-year path that the Vietnamese police force has taken.

He said generations of the police force have demonstrated their solidarity and strict self-discipline, their close coordination with other forces, and their high responsibility to the Party, State, and people. They have also actively followed the moral example of late President Ho Chi Minh, he said.

Units in the police force were urged to pay due attention to Party building, increasing discipline and forming a positive internal culture with the aim of building a clean and strong police force.

During the meeting, Colonel Le Thang represented retired police officers to express their confidence in the leadership of the Central Public Security Party Committee.

A young member of the police force, Major Vu Manh Ha, pledged to uphold the force’s traditions and make sacrifices in order to defend national security.

Northwestern region urged to boost economic development

Politburo member To Huy Rua has asked the northwestern region to further develop dairy cow breeding, sturgeon and salmon raising and rubber and cotton planting.
Rua, who is also member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Secretariat and Head of the CPVCC Commission for Organisation, made the request while working with the Northwestern Steering Committee in northern Yen Bai province on August 17.
Rua commended the committee on its efforts to instruct the northwestern localities in poverty reduction and socio-economic, human resources and traffic infrastructure development.
Over the past six years, the northwestern region has recorded an average growth rate of 11.21 percent a year and its economic restructuring has shifted towards reduction in agro-forestry and increase in industry-construction and services.
Investment capital poured into the region increased by 25 percent every year and an average annual per-capita income reached 11.75 million VND.
In his working session with the Yen Bai Provincial Party Committee, Rua said he hoped Yen Bai city will become an urban centre of the northwestern region and the city authorities will pay attention to urban planning to preserve the region’s landscape.

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