Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Japan’s experience in developing agriculture, rural areas, and farmers’ living conditions was shared at a workshop in Hanoi on September 6. The event was jointly held by the Vietnam Farmers’ Union, Japan’s Institute for East Asian Studies, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Addressing the event, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed that agriculture, farmers, and rural areas play an important role in the country’s industrialisation and modernisation, as well as in boosting economic growth in a fast and sustainable manner. As such, the Vietnamese Party and State have worked out a range of important policies to comprehensively develop agriculture and rural areas as well as gradually improve farmers’ material and spiritual lives. The Government has put … [Read more...] about Japan shares experience in agricultural, rural development
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National parks focus on eco-tourism development
Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG — "Việt Nam’s nature reserves and national parks are aiming to boost eco-tourism to facilitate both conservation and economic growth, but their efforts have been hampered by a lack of planning, human resources and funds," said Lê Văn Lanh of the National Association for Nature Reserves in Việt Nam. Lanh, speaking at a conference in Đà Nẵng on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the central and central highlands regions last weekend, said just 61 out of the country’s 167 nature reserves had developed eco-tourism services in line with sustainable development goals. Slow planning and poor long-term strategies by State agencies and local administrations had left sites of rich biodiversity facing an uncertain future. He stressed that many tourism services in nature reserves were not actually eco-tourism. Often, tourism merely serves to make money through entrance … [Read more...] about National parks focus on eco-tourism development
Vietnam begins to develop smart cities
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam needs to set up a set of standards on smart urban areas to shape sustainable development of cities, and set criteria for assessing the quality of life and services provided to the community, experts say. To solve the problems arising from rapid urbanization such as traffic congestion, lack of parking space and administrative overload, modern technologies should be used to monitor and support management and bring better life to people. A smart city is understood as an urban area with modern infrastructure and the application of IT that serves the management of the area. In October 2015, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) defined a smart city: “A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and … [Read more...] about Vietnam begins to develop smart cities
Overseas Vietnamese investments important for development – Opportunities – Investment
Thao made this announcement on December 27 at a meeting held by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi. According to Thao, overseas Vietnamese have invested in 52 out of 62 provinces and cities in Vietnam. Also, they currently run about 3,600 businesses nationwide, with some 2,000 projects valued at a combined 8.6 billion USD. The projects concentrate in trading, tourism, construction and real estate fields, besides production of export goods, aquaculture and seafood processing. They bring in an average income of some 20 billion USD to the country annually. Overseas Vietnamese enterprises and entrepreneurs have stakes in domestic banks, such as Techcombank and VPBank, and major property and tourism businesses, such as VinGroup and Sungroup.They have also invested in large manufacturing companies, such as Eurowindow and Masan, as well as the waste processing firm Da Phuoc.Vu Hong Nam, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and … [Read more...] about Overseas Vietnamese investments important for development – Opportunities – Investment
Rural development on agenda for NA
HÀ NỘI - About half of nationwide communes are targeted to meet new-style rural area standards by 2020, deputies said before the second session of the 14th National Assemly (NA) closed in Hà Nội yesterday. Legislators adopted the goal as part of a resolution on enhancing the efficiency of the national target programme to build new-style rural areas along with agricultural restructuring. They also proposed that there should be about 15,000 agricultural co-operatives and co-operatives unions with efficient operations and proper linkages by 2020. By then, the ratio of agricultural labourers is expected to fall to less than 40 per cent of all labourers in the country, and the average income of rural residents is set to be at least 1.8 times that of 2015. NA Deputy General Secretary Lê Bộ Lĩnh said in a report that as of the end of last year, more than 1,500 communes, or some 17 per cent of nationwide communes, met new-style rural area standards regarding electricity, irrigation, … [Read more...] about Rural development on agenda for NA