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Vietnam has never been as strong and powerful as it is now to rise up… We need to have a mindset that must be up first. Only when we carry that mentality will we seize the opportunity.
LTS: Vietnam Week introduces the end of the presentation of Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung with the desire to receive more feedback from readers for development.
Focus on transport infrastructure, energy
In terms of investment, Vietnam needs to focus on transportation infrastructure, energy, overflow projects to improve the competitiveness of the economy and soon form the North-South highway system. No country can develop without a highway.
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| 3 North-South highway projects become public investment and will start from September 2020 |
South Korea, under the presidency of Park Chung Hee, built a 460 km highway in 2.5 years, becoming a miracle for the world.
In Vietnam, what is there besides the 500 kV line, Ho Chi Minh trail? Why haven’t we performed miracles like other countries?
From 2010 until now, we have just built 400 km of motorway, more than 1,300 km more. It takes between 5-6 hours from Hanoi to Nghe An. The highway is not scheduled to be completed until 2030. Meanwhile, the system of seaports, airlines, digital infrastructure, roads … everything needs to be updated.
Maintaining land and forests in the northern mountainous regions and central highlands rather than setting economic development goals too high.
I want to emphasize the need to build a system of reservoirs, from the Central Highlands to the Central Coast, to the Mekong Delta. The Mekong River is blocked from flow to generate hydroelectric power, reducing the amount of water returning to Vietnam, leading to sea level rise, salt intrusion into the continent, affecting production and life of people. If we have a reservoir and interconnected canal, we can store and transfer water to the Mekong delta, An Giang to the southwest, from the Tien River to the Hau River … Without a reservoir, up to 85% of the fresh water flows into sea.
Some localities in the northern mountainous provinces and central highlands find it difficult to attract investment due to their remote location, lack of seaports, and lack of human resources. Should we set a high GDP growth target?
Failing to attract investment, including FDI, can lead to economic transformation and high GDP growth. Therefore, in my personal opinion, it is necessary to conserve the land, conserve people, conserve forests, maintain solidarity and stability rather than setting too high economic development goals in these areas. If not, every location requires the construction of airports, highways, industrial zones … which are very expensive but less effective.
That money can be targeted to driving force areas to help them grow faster, contribute more to the budget, and then regulate those regions to provide health, education, security and defense services. …
Change the mindset of governance and national governance
Changing the national governance and governance mindset is a must. Instead of preflighting, switch to post-verification. If it’s difficult, it should be tested, if possible, it should be replicated, rather than thinking narrowly, too strict that hinders development. In management, if there are problems with documents, it is necessary to handle them flexibly and dynamically for common purposes, not to criminalize economic relationships.
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| Agriculture should be oriented towards organic production |
In terms of agricultural development, we support the development of highly efficient agriculture, not high-tech agriculture. “High efficiency” is associated with the processing and consumer markets; and “high technology” is to speed up production. Speeding up production without knowing who to sell to always leads to a devaluation of the season. Agriculture must be oriented towards organic production, clean production.
Human, material, financial
To develop in any field, there must be resources such as human, material, financial … in which, from the perspective of efficiency, it is necessary to calculate how many resources there are, how to manage them and how to use them. Fruit.
Human resources are of low quality, the proportion of skilled workers is very low. We call to attract investment in high technology but the quality of human resources is that difficult. How do we talk about welcoming the wave of FDI without high-quality human resources? Remember, in the past, Intel invited students from 5 universities in Vietnam to try English, only 40% passed.
Human resources include Vietnamese abroad. We have a skilled and skilled workforce that is still of working age in the localities, but we cannot build a database on this force so that when companies need it, they can mobilize it immediately.
3.8 million hectares of land are dedicated to agricultural development, not just rice cultivation
The use of terrestrial material in many localities remains subjective and wasteful. Many provinces continue to focus on selling land to raise the budget is very worrying because land is a resource that cannot be expanded. Some localities use the land in a very wasteful way, how much investors ask, regardless of whether they do it well or not, regardless of whether they need 500 hectares or 1,000 hectares.
Many localities do not verify, do not appraise, and do not have land allocation rules. The locality allocates a large amount of land to investors, but investors do nothing or only a little to make the land die. There are projects where investors did not contribute money for 17 years and then sold hundreds of billions of VND to other investors. In other words, they eat off the backs of other investors, they eat off the back of the state. After selling all the land, what is the term after, what are the descendants like? I think it is impossible to use the land sale criteria to collect the state budget as an achievement.
We have 3.8 million hectares of rice. If we keep the rice fields too high, there will be no land to develop industry and services. The production of low value-added rice is 10 million VND / ha, while the production of other products is 100 million VND or billions of VND.
This means that rice production is very low value, farmers are very strenuous. Foreigners say that Vietnam is concerned about the world’s food security, while our farmers are poor. It is a matter of thought and certainly needs to be discussed. Personally, 3.8 million hectares of land are for agricultural development, not just for growing rice.
Must have vision
The use of resources is scattered, wasted, works only need to be small, then build large, after finishing construction, not fully exploited. In some places, building a 70m wide road means that it is so big that the plane can land, but nothing to do, all day there are no traffic signs.
There are many provinces that do very great things such as headquarters, monuments, squares, roads … I go to a town saying, you just have to build high-speed roads, you don’t need to build highways, but plan, free space once, in the middle of the division, the separator will be enlarged later, there is no need to clear the ground but still ensure planning.
However, there must be vision. Back to Quang Tri, I advise to have a dynamic axis of 12 km, each side opens 100 m, connecting with the sea, creating a central administrative axis. With 12km of highway, there will be 240ha, which is extremely valuable for development.
Vietnam is both in a thousand years for rapid and sustainable development. If we do not seize the opportunity quickly, we will risk falling further, the development gap with other countries will be greater, caught in the middle-income trap and the goal of becoming a difficult developed country. than. This is a moment that forces us to actively plan and decide on the future of the country.
Never before have we been as strong and powerful as we are now to rise up. Vietnam has signed 12 free trade agreements including EVFTA and CPTPP, we are facing the 4.0 revolution with many opportunities for rapid transformation and resurgence. Therefore, in some developmental problems, we need to have a go first, no follow, go later mindset.
Only when we have that mindset will we seize the opportunity to catch up and progress with the development of the progressive and civilized world.
Your giang
There are many talented people but they have not become the country’s resources
Now where are the talented people? Are they abroad? Many talented people are just experts, researchers, who cannot maximize their capabilities, Minister Nguyen Chi Dung reflected.
