The impressive bright spots in the picture of 2019 and the Government's key mission in 2020 mentioned at the Government's National Conference with localities yesterday (December 30) show the brightness of our country. as well as belief in new opportunities in 2020 and in the years to come.
Attracting FDI is one of the bright spots of the province in recent years. In the photo: Producing tire announcement yarn at Kolon Industries Binh Duong Factory (Bau Bang Industrial Park). Photo: Quoc Chien
Achieve comprehensive and positive results
In 2019, implementing the conclusions of the Central and the resolutions of the National Assembly, with the motto "Discipline, integrity, action, creativity, breakthrough, efficiency", the Government issued the Resolution No. 01 and 02, and drastically directing ministries, branches and localities to implement synchronously and effectively the tasks and solutions set right from the beginning of the year with the main objective of maintaining macroeconomic stability. , control inflation and focus on solving difficulties for production and business, and promoting growth.
According to the Government's report, in the context of global economic and trade decline, our country's economy continued to grow rapidly, notably our country's economic growth (GDP) reached 7.02%, exceeding the The target is 6.8%, one of the top high-growth countries in the region and the world. In addition, in 2019, inflation was controlled at a low level of 2.79% - the lowest level in the past 3 years; import-export turnover reached 517 billion USD, the highest ever; trade surplus over 9.9 billion USD, this is the fourth consecutive year of trade surplus; Foreign direct investment (FDI) reached over 20 billion USD, the highest ever; the number of newly established enterprises also reached a record level, over 138,000.
In 2019, Vietnam is among the countries with the highest growth rates in the region and in the world; increase GDP scale to about 266 billion USD; on average, nearly 2,800 USD / person. Meanwhile, the socio-cultural fields continue to be interested in development investment, achieving many important and clear results. The whole country focused on well implementing the policies for people with meritorious services, ensuring social security, creating jobs and reducing poverty sustainably. The rate of poor households according to the new standards will reduce to around 4%, 1% lower than in 2018; Health insurance coverage rate will reach over 90%; more than 54% of communes meet the new rural standards, reaching the goal 2 years earlier than planned ...
In the economic field, restructuring is more substantive; key sectors and fields still develop stably and positively in the context of being affected by many difficulties of the global economy. Regarding industry, production increased sharply; ensure energy security; strongly develop renewable energy sources. For agriculture, continued to develop stably. Regarding the construction of new rural areas, in the year, there were outstanding results, outstandingly, there are now 8 provinces and cities with 100% of communes meeting the standards; 54% of communes and 111 districts met the standard, completing the goal nearly 2 years ahead of schedule.
The service sector maintained a relatively high rise; total retail sales of consumer goods and services reached nearly 5 million billion dong, up 11.8% over the previous year. Vietnam's competitiveness rating was assessed by the World Economic Forum 10 levels and 3.5 points higher than 2018 - the strongest increase in the world. Promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship, newly established enterprises increased both in number, registered capital and number of employees compared to 2018. Specifically, the number of newly established enterprises reached a record level (over 138,000 enterprises), the average registered capital per enterprise reached 12.5 billion dong; The total newly registered capital is about 1.7 million billion dong.
Binh Duong has achieved many impressive results
In 2019, the provincial leaders strengthened the direction and administration of the implementation of tasks and solutions of the Government, ministries and branches, along with the efforts of all levels, sectors, businesses and people, thus helping the economy. - The provincial society continues to develop and change positively. During the year, gross domestic product (GRDP) increased by 9.5%; GRDP per capita reached VND 146.9 million; economic structure of industry - service - agriculture - product tax minus product subsidy with the proportion of 66.8% - 22.4% - 2.6% - 8.2%.
In 2019, Binh Duong ranked third in the country, after Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in terms of attracting FDI with a total capital of more than 3.073 billion USD, up 50% compared to 2018, exceeding 119.57% compared to only targets in 2019. Up to this point, Binh Duong ranked second in the country, behind Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City on attracting FDI, with 3,755 valid projects, total registered investment capital of 34.23 billion USD.
Mr. Tran Thanh Liem, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, said that in 2020, aiming to deploy the new smart platform, the province will focus on the creative application of international models that are suitable for practical conditions of the province. In addition, the province will create favorable conditions for all levels and branches to coordinate with enterprises to concentrate resources on implementing a number of new and long-term projects, opening new breakthroughs in the future.
Along with that, the province focused on strengthening and strengthening the model of "three houses" (Government - school - business house). Accordingly, the province supplements and consolidates the organizational structure of Smart City Binh Duong; enhance the continuous cooperation between government agencies, businesses, schools - research institutes in activities. The province also promotes the spirit of proactively proposing, coordinating research, reviewing the work already done to review and evaluate the achieved results of the project. On that basis, specific steps are proposed for projects under the Binh Duong Smart City Scheme.
At present, the province's promotion of the development of science and technology industrial park is one of the key and key projects in 2020 which is expected to contribute to creating a fundamental breakthrough for the establishment. innovative ecosystems to attract investment in high value-added production, gradually building high-tech production in strategic industries of the region. In addition to the development of modern and synchronized infrastructure, it is also important that the province develops soft institutions through incentive policies, modern governance systems and promotion of the formation of ecosystems. Innovative attitude based on close cooperation and interaction among creative innovation entities in the region. From there, promptly meet the development requirements in the "three houses" cooperation relationship, contribute to promoting and creating motivation for the province's strategic industries to develop sustainably; at the same time support timely domestic and foreign technology companies to shape and develop sustainably in the province.
Reported by Tieu My – Translated by Vi Bao