While working with the municipal leaders, Mr Manh spoke highly of the city’s major achievements in 2007, including maintaining a GDP growth rate of 12.6 percent, reducing the poverty rate to 1.8 percent and increasing the ratio of services and industries in its economic structure to 98 percent. In addition, its contribution made up 21 percent of the State budget.
Mr Manh asked HCM City to excel in its role as the country’s biggest economic hub by speeding up economic and craft restructuring to develop more rapidly and efficiently while raising its competitive capacity.
To address pressing issues, Mr Manh urged the city to improve the quality of urban planning and management, mostly traffic congestion and flooding, education and training, human resource development, healthcare services, poverty reduction and the fight against social crime.
He asked the city to accelerate administrative reform and successfully implement the pilot project on urban administration to draw experience.
Last but not least, the Party leader reminded Party organisations in the city to launch diverse activities as part of the campaign “Study and Follow the late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example.”
*** The same day, State President Nguyen Minh Triet visited and presented Tet gifts to heroic Vietnamese mothers and war invalids in Hanoi.
Mr Triet thanked them for their great contributions to the country’s revolutionary cause. He affirmed that the Party, State and people are grateful to those people who have provided great services for national independence and freedom so that the Vietnamese people can enjoy a happy life.
The State President also visited the family of war martyr doctor Dang Thuy Tram in Hanoi and the family of war invalid Ngo Nhu Quang in Dai Mo commune in Hanoi’s outlying district of Tu Liem.
*** Also on January 31, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung offered incense to the late President Ho Chi Minh at the Ho Chi Minh relic in Hanoi.
He praised the relic’s officials and staff members for their efforts in preserving President Ho’s invaluable memorabilia and in receiving more than 2 million domestic and foreign visitors to the relic in 2007. He said their silent work has made a practical contribution to the on-going campaign “Study and Follow the late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example” launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
“Following his role model, the Government, together with the entire Party, army and people, is determined to complete the major targets set for the 2006-2010 period in 2008 with the aim of lifting Vietnam out of its underdeveloped nation status soon in line with the Resolutions adopted at the 10th National Party Congress,” said Mr Dung.
Add new comment