The Prime Minister ratified the planning of chemical industry development in Vietnam till 2020, in vision to 2030.Accordingly, this planning facilitates investment attracting, efficient natural resource exploiting, etc. from localities in order to develop chemical industry sustainably and in accordance with socioeconomic development strategy.The planning also sets target growth rate of average value of chemical production from 14 – 16%, making up 14% in 2020 and 15% in 2030 of industrial production value.Reported by D.Thanh – Translated by Ngoc Huynh