National Assembly Chairman Vương Đình Huệ attended a conference to announce the provincial master plan of Hà Tĩnh for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050 and promote trade and investment in Hà Tĩnh Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Doãn Tấn

HÀ TĨNH — National Assembly Chairman Vương Đình Huệ on Sunday attended a conference to announce the provincial master plan of Hà Tĩnh for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050 and promote trade and investment in the central locality.

NA Chairman Huệ lauded Hà Tĩnh as the second locality to complete and announce the provincial master plan after Bắc Giang.

He highlighted Hà Tĩnh's great natural advantages with 137-km coastline, a number of UNESCO-recognised intangible heritages, and rich historical tradition.

Hà Tĩnh also holds an important strategic position as a gateway to sea of the East-West economic corridor connecting with Laos and Thailand. It is home to two key national economic areas - Vũng Áng Economic Zone and Cầu Treo Border Economic Zone. Vũng Áng-Sơn Dương is one of the largest deep water seaports in the region.

He noted that the locality's GRDP growth had been high at over 9 per cent in the 1991-2022 period. Last year, its economic scale reached nearly VNĐ93 trillion (US$3.96 billion), while its per capita GRDP hit VNĐ70.5 million. Hà Tĩnh has also been a bright spot of the country in new-style rural area building.

Under the provincial master plan for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, Hà Tĩnh aims to become a development pole of the north central and central coastal region. The province will strive to become a new-style rural province in 2025, one of the localities with highest GRDP in the country in 2030, and a modern industrial province with comprehensive development as a growth pole of the region and the whole country in 2050.

NA Chairman Huệ held that in order to fulfil these targets, Hà Tĩnh should continue to implement resolutions and directions of the Party, NA and Government, while focusing on boosting four major sectors of steel manufacturing and power generation; agriculture, forestry and fisheries; logistics; and tourism.

At the same time, Hà Tĩnh should strive to enhance its productivity and provincial competitiveness, and roll out measures to complete targets set in the master plan.

It needed to publicise the approved master plan to draw investors, while supervising the implementation of the master plan and reporting its difficulties during the process, he said.

Hà Tĩnh should also continue to apply necessary solutions to reach all socio-economic and security-defence goals set for this year, tighten administrative disciplines, and pay greater attention to enhancing education and training quality as well as corruption prevention and combat, said the NA leader.

Particularly, the top legislator asked Hà Tĩnh to improve the operational efficiency of people-elected agencies, and further promote its traditional and historical values.

According to Secretary of the Hà Tĩnh Party Committee Hoàng Trung Dũng, at the event, 15 projects worth nearly VNĐ10 trillion ($425.8 million ) and 25 memoranda of understanding with a total investment of over VNĐ210 trillion ($8.94 billion) were signed. He pledged that Hà Tĩnh would do its best to optimise local potential and advantages, and build a healthy investment environment. — VNS