Quang Tri (VNA) - The central province of Quang Tri, which has the greatest amount of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the country, is working to clear about 3,000ha of land each year to become the first Vietnamese locality to be safe from UXO accidents by 2025. The provincial People’s Committee has issued a plan for implementing an action programme for settling the consequences of UXO in 2021-2025. Beside land clearance, Quang Tri will look to raise 10 million USD annually from foreign non-governmental organisations to address UXO, complete all cluster bomb detection activities, and publicise areas identified as dangerous due to UXO. It plans to help 60,000 people access education on UXO and have 1,300-1,500 UXO victims and their families receive healthcare and livelihood support every year. All local schools are expected to include UXO safety education in their curricula within the next five years. To realise these targets, the provincial administration has devised several … [Read more...] about Quang Tri targets 3,000ha of land freed from UXO each year
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New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade
Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the document sub-committee, has delivered the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s report on documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress, pointing out many new and outstanding issues in the orientations for the next 10 years. He presented the report at the opening session of the congress, in Hanoi on January 26. The overall development goal for the 2021-2025 tenure and subsequent years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, ruling capacity, and combatant strength; build a clean and comprehensively strong Party and political system; enhance the people’s trust in the Party, State, and the socialist regime; inspire aspirations for a prosperous and happy country and bring into play the will and strength of the great national solidarity in combination with the strength of the era; comprehensively and concertedly promote reforms, industrialisation, and modernisation; … [Read more...] about New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivers opening speech at the 13th National Party Congress
Distinguished guests, The whole Congress, Today, in the spring atmosphere, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam solemnly opens in the capital city of Hanoi. Our Party is the vanguard of the working class, of the working people and of the Vietnamese people; each party member is a representative loyal to the interests of the working class, the working people and our nation. On behalf of the Presidium of the Congress and the 12th Party Central Committee, I warmly welcome the 1,587 delegates, representing more than 5 million party members in the country. The delegates are elected elite party members, representing wisdom, belief, unity of will, action, determination, an aspiration to rise and belief in the solidarity and strength of the entire Party, people, and army. In this solemn moment, with infinite gratitude, our Congress sincerely commemorates the great President Ho Chi Minh, the genius leader, the founder, leader and trainer of our Party, the hero of … [Read more...] about PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivers opening speech at the 13th National Party Congress
Vietnamese pin high hopes on 13th National Party Congress
All streets around Vietnam are decorated with flowers, bandroles, posters and flags marking the 13th National Party Congress. The upbeat atmosphere mirrors people’s attitudes and expectations towards the great event of the Party and the entire country./. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese pin high hopes on 13th National Party Congress
13th National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam opens
On preparing the draft documents for the congress, the top leader said that, over the past two years, sub-committees have closely coordinated with research agencies, ministries, and sectors at the central level and Party committees at all levels and local administrations to organise nearly 60 conferences, workshops, and seminars and establish 50 working delegations to make field trips and consult former Party and State leaders and experts. Numerous seminars with the World Bank and several other international organisations were also held, while two delegations were arranged to gather experience from abroad. … [Read more...] about 13th National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam opens