PM Assigns Development Targets in 2016
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently signed a decision to allocate socioeconomic development tasks and plans to eight ministries, namely the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment is responsible for accelerating the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 6.7 per cent in 2016, maintaining consumer price index (CPI) at below 5 per cent, and mobilising total social development investment capital to 31 per cent of GDP.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is assigned to raise forest coverage rate to 41 per cent in 2016.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is tasked with boosting export growth to 10 per cent and keeping trade deficit at below 5 per cent. The Ministry of Health is to increase the number of hospital beds per 10,000 people to 24.5 and the healthcare insurance coverage to 76 per cent.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is required to reduce the poverty rate (under multi-dimensional approach) by 1.3 - 1.5 per cent, reduce unemployment rate to below 4 per cent, and lift up the trained labour force to 53 per cent.
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