타잉화성(Thanh Hoa) 개요 1. 위치 : 타잉화성은 베트남 북중부에 위치하며, 하노이에서 남쪽으로 150Km, 호치민에서 북쪽으로 1,560Km 떨어져 있음. 북쪽은 썬라성, 화응에안성, 서쪽은 라오스, 동쪽은 북부만과 인접 2. 면적 및 인구 : - 면적: 11,133.4 km² (2009 년 기준) - 인구: 3,405,000 명 - 인구 밀도: 306 명/km2 3. 행정구역 : 타잉화성은 1 개 도시, 2 개 읍, 24 개 현으로 구성 4. GDP 성장률 2008 년 2009 년 2010 년 11.3% 10.8% 20.8% 2008 년 2009 년 2010 년 575 달러 720 달러 810 달러 5. 1 인당 GDP 6. 경제구조 (2010 년 기준) 농, 임, 어업 공업, 건설업 서비스업 계 3% 47.4% 49.6% 100.0% 7. 산업생산가치 (2010 년 기준) 국영기업 민영기업 외투기업 계 26,450 만불 13,035 만불 4,225 만불 44,210 만불 1 THANH HOA’S OVERVIEW I. NATURAL CONDITIONS 1. Eco-geographical position Thanh Hoa is located in the North - Central Region of Vietnam, about 150 km south of Hanoi and 1,560 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh Hoa borders Son La, Hoa Binh and Ninh Binh provinces to the North; Nghe An province to the South; Hua Phan province, Lao PDR, to the West; and faces the East Sea with its coastline of 198 km to the East. 2. Terrain Thanh Hoa terrain is diversified, lowering from the West to the East, divided into 3 typical areas: - The plateau and mountainous region has a natural area of 839,037 ha, accounting for 75.44 % of total area; the mountainous region has the mean attitude of 600 m – 700 m and the grade of more than 25; and the plateau region has the mean attitude of 150 m – 200 m, and the grade of 15 - 20. - The plain region is annually deposited by the alluvials from Ma, Chu, Yen and Hoat Rivers, having favorable natural conditions, with total area of 162,341 ha (accounting for 14.61 % of the province). The Ma River Delta is the third largest ones in Viet Nam, after the Cuu Long and the Red River Deltas. - The coastal region has its natural area of 110,655 ha (accounting for 9.95% of the province) and 102 km coastline, is relatively flat. Along the sandy coastline with an average height of 3-6 meters, there is a famous Sam Son beach, and vast land resource suitable for development of aqua- culture, industrial parks and sea economic services. 3. Population: 3.45 million people Thanh Hoa is the third most populated province nationwide, after Ha Noi capital and Ho Chi Minh City, there are 7 ethnic groups harmoniously living in Thanh Hoa, including: Kinh, Muong, Thai, Mong, Dao, Tho and Hoa. The ethnic minority groups mainly live in the mountainous and bordering districts of the province. 2 4. Climate Thanh Hoa is located in a tropical monsoon area with 4 seasons. - The annual average rainfall is approximately 1,600 - 2,300 mm, and approximately 90-130 rainy days/year. Relative moisture is from 85% - 97%, average sunny hour is approximately 1,600-1,800 hours. Average temperature is 23oC - 24o C and gradually lowers in mountainous areas. - Wind directions: North West and East West in winter, East and East South in summer respectively. Characters of climate and weather conditions in Thanh Hoa province: high rainfall, high temperature, plentiful sunlights. These are favorable conditions for agriculture, forestry and aqua-culture development and hydro-power exploitation. 5. Administrative structure Thanh Hoa province has 27 administrative units including 24 districts, 2 towns and one city, distributed into: mountainous region with 11 districts, midland and plain regions with 8 districts, Bim Son town and Thanh Hoa city; and coastal region with 5 districts and Sam Son town. The natural area of Thanh Hoa city is 75.9 km2 with its population of 176,900 people. Thanh Hoa city is the economic and administration centre, transportation hub to all the districts in the province and neighboring provinces. II. POTENTIAL AND ADVANTAGES A. NATURAL RESOURCES 1. Land resource Thanh Hoa province covers a total natural area of 1,112,033 ha, of which the agricultural land is 245,367 ha, the forestry land is 553,999 ha, the aquaculture land is 10,157 ha, and the unused land (of which various kinds of land are suitable for planting cereal, industrial trees and fruit trees) is 153,520 ha. There are 8 major types of soil, of which the rather large area types of soil are below. - Acrisols: This type of soil covers an area of 717,245 ha (accounting for 64.6 percent of the natural land area of the province) and is mainly distributed in mountainous and midland districts such as Quan Hoa, Ba Thuoc, Nhu Xuan, 3 Thuong Xuan, Cam Thuy, Ngoc Lac, Thach Thanh and Lang Chanh. It is suitable for developing industrial crops, forest trees and fruit trees. - Ferralsols: This type of soil covers an area of 37,826 ha (accounting for 3.4 percent of the natural land area of the province) and is distributed in 700 meter altitude area of Quan Hoa, Lang Chanh, Thuong Xuan, and Nhu Xuan districts. It is suitable for the development of long-term industrial crops, forest trees and fruit trees. - Fluvisols: This type of soil covers an area of 191,216 ha (accounting for 17.2 percent of the natural land area of the province) and is distributed in the delta and coastal areas. It is suitable for developing rice crops, subsidiary crops and short-term industrial crops. - Salic Fluvisols and arenosols: These types cover an area of 41,700 ha (making up 3.74 percent of natural land area of the province) and are distributed in coastal areas. They are suitable for the development of sedge crops, subsidiary crops, forest trees and aquaculture. 2. Forest resources Thanh Hoa is one of rich forest resource provinces that forest area is 484,246 ha of which the estimated wood volume is around 16,64 million cubic meters. Annual exploitation of wood volume can be from 50,000 to 60,000 cubic meters. Bamboo forest area (in which there are many types of bamboo such as Nua, Luong, Vau and Giang) is 188,622 ha with more than one million trees inside. Artificial forest contains many kinds of tree, for example eucalyptus, casuarina, pine, cinnamon, rubber trees etc. Bamboo exploitation capacity is one million ton per year. Thanh Hoa has the largest area of Luong forest in the country (Luong is a slender and long – sectioned bamboo) that covers an area of 70,000 ha. Annually, forest area is grown around 4,000 – 5,000 ha inclusive 110,000 ha for paper and wood materials, 12,000 ha cinnamon trees, and 3,000 ha lac. Especially, Ben En national park where rare fauna and flora gene pools are preserved is in the southwest of the province. It has been being an attactive tourism destination. 4 3. Human resources - The number of working age people was 2,270,000 in 2010 (accounting for 65.5 percent of the total provincial population). The number of people employing in the national economy was about 2,045,000 (accounting for 86 percent of the number of working age population). Most of which worked in the agriculture and forestry sectors (1,124,700 people), the orthers were in industry and construction sectors (470,300 people), and in service sector (450,000 people). The percentage of rural labors of working age population was 55. Thanh Hoa people are laborious, creative ,hard-working and studious. The labour force are young and abundant with quite high general knowledge base, and the number of students graduated from high schools and secondary school is increasing more and more. The percentage of educated human resource rhythmic increased year after year, it was 19.6 in 2000, 27 in 2005, 31 in 2007 and 40% in 2010. There are 2 universities, 6 colleges, 14 vocational high school in Thanh Hoa now. Every year they train about 1,720 engineers and bachelors of economics; and 11,000 technicians who can meet the workforce demand for enterprises and investors. Thanh Hoa has been accelerating and improving quality of education and vocational training depending on the social needs and strives to get the goal that the proportion of educated human resource will reach more than 55 percent in 2015. 4. Mineral resources Thanh Hoa has plentiful and diversified mineral resources. There are 296 mining sites and points containing 42 kinds of minerals, some of which have big reserves such as wall tile stone (2-3 billion cubic meters), limestone for cement production (370 million tons), clay for cement production (85 million tons), chrome (about 22 million tons), serpentine (15 million tons), iron ore (2 million tons), refractory ceramic materials (including kaolin, quartzite, glass sand), in addition to gold, mineral sand and other minerals. 5. Water resources Thanh Hoa has four main river systems: Hoat, Ma, Bang and Yen rivers. The rivers of the Ma system are the Chu and Buoi. The total length of 16 main and branch rivers is 1,072 km, the total of catchment area is 39.756 km2; the yearly average water quantity is 19.52 billion cubic meters. Thanh Hoa has some large 5 lakes which are water supply for the development requirements of Ma River downstream, daily life and industry. They are Cua Dat lake (in Thuong Xuan district) which is the stable water supply for 86.862 ha of cultivated land with the water capacity of 7,715 m3/s; Muc River lake (in Nhu Xuan district) of which water volume is 174 million m3 and Irrigation Area is 11,244 ha; and Yen My lake (in Nhu Thanh district) which has a large water volume that is able to supply domestic and industrial water for the whole Nghi Son Economic Zone and neighboring districts. On the other hand, rivers and streams of Thanh Hoa flow through many rough terrain regions so they have potential ability for hydro-power development. Especially in Ma River, the theoretical power is 12 billion kWh. The underground water resources in Thanh Hoa are very plenty not only of water volume but also of water variety because it is full of deposits of lava and volcanic rocks here. All these water resources are able to serve the production and consumption needs of the province. 6. Historical relic and tourist spot resources Thanh Hoa which is called “The homeland of the national heroes and cultural celebrities” has maintained and preserved a treasure of cultural and historical relics and famous scenic beauty spots such as Lam Kinh ancient capital (in Tho Xuan district) , Citadel of Ho Dynasty (in Vinh Loc district), Ba Trieu temple (in Hau Loc district), Ham Rong - Nam Ngan war relic (Thanh Hoa city), Sam Son beach, Hai Tien resort (in Hoang Hoa district), Hai Hoa beach (the beach which is full with sunshine and wind is in Tinh Gia district), Cam Luong fish stream (the tream has unique kind of fish in Cam Thuy district), Ben En national park (the primitive and romantic park is in Nhu Thanh district), Tu Thuc cave (the cave where there is the legend that Tu Thuc met a beautiful fairy is in Nga Son district), and Tien Nong bird village (in Trieu Son district) etc. Moreover, nature bestows Thanh Hoa upon many spectacular caves such as Bich Dao , Long Quang , Kim Son and Ho Cong etc, and tropical environmental ecosystem that give Thanh Hoa ideal ecotourism destination and enrich Thanh Hoa people’s spiritual life. Thanh Hoa is also mother study land where there are about 1,627 men who were awarded doctorates from the triennial examinations. 240 of them are the unforgotten name, for example Truong Cong Phung, Dao Duy Tu, Le Van Huu etc. Along with this majestic history there are 1,535 relics, of which 134 were in 6 national relics rank, 412 were provincial level and one is under application to be UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage now (it is Citadel of Ho Dynasty). 7. Marine resources Thanh Hoa has 102 km coastline, the area of territorial sea of more than 23,000 square km and seven large and small river mouths which not only are favorable for fishing vessel to come in and out but also are the fishing centers of the province; in these river mouths there are thousands of ha of alluvial soil (a rich mixture of sand and mud deposited by moving water) for aquiculture, sedge crops, windbreak planting, and salt production. It is suitable for raising garrupas, pearloysters and lobsters in saline water in Me and Bien Son islands and mollusks such as arca, oyster etc. in ten thousands of hectares of coastal saline water. The annual harvestable stock of seafood is from 100,000 to 120,000 tons, of which the annual harvestable stock of pelagic fishes is 50,000 - 60,000 tons, that of demersal fishes reaches at 40,000 - 50,000 tons and the rest are shrimps, cuttlefishes etc. The annual harvestable stock of high value seafood is 60.000 – 70.000 tons. B. ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE 1. Transportation Transportation infrastructure in Thanh Hoa province is convenient in railways, roadways and waterways. Thanh Hoa has 92 km length of the Vietnam North - South Railway with 9 stations and 8,000 km of roadways with important national roadway system including National Road 1A (323 km length) running along the plain and coast, National Road 15A (178 km length), National Road 217 (194 km length) connecting Thanh Hoa province with Huaphanh province of Lao PDR, National Road 47 (61 km length), Ho Chi Minh highway (130 km length) and nearly 100% of the communes where automobile roads can lead to district centers. Thanh Hoa has more than1,700 km length of waterway, of which 487 km are utilized for 20-1,000 ton vessels moving. Le Mon port is 6 km far from the center of the city with customs clearance of 300,000 tons of cargo per year and 600 DWT ships can make safe landfalls. Especially Nghi Son deep seaport in Tinh Gia district was planned out more than 10 wharfs for access of 50,000 DWT ships with customs clearance of 23 million tons of cargo per year. This seaport has a 7 favorable location and is covered by breakwater, therefore, frequency of exploitation of which the unit is day/year is very high. Now the Wharf No. 1 and the Wharf No. 2 are invested to build for access of 10,000 DWT and 30,000 DWT ships respectively with the total customs clearance of more than 10 million tons of cargo per year. Thanh Hoa will have a grade 4C civil airport of which the detailed plan was approved at the Decision No. 3384/QD – BGTVT dated November 25th, 2010 and the location is in Hai Ninh commune, Tinh Gia district with the total area of 213 ha; 1.3 km far from National Road No.1A; along the coastline; 30 km south from the center of Thanh Hoa city; and 20 km north from Nghi Son Economic Zone. 2. Water supplies Water supply system has been widened more and more to meet the demand of households and industrial production. Presently, Thanh Hoa city there are two existing water supply plants, which are Mat Son and Ham Rong, with the total capacity of 30,000 m3 per day and up to 50,000 m3 per day under the upgrading plan for ensuring a sufficiently clean water supply for Thanh Hoa city, Sam Son town and Le Mon and Dinh Huong industrial zones. A water supply plant is now under Province’s construction with a proposed capacity of 90,000m3/day to provide water to Nghi Son Economic Zone and surrounding towns. 3. Power supplies Thanh Hoa power supply system has been improved both in quantity and quality, ensuring stable supply to households and production units. The local national power network include 508 km of high voltage lines, 3,908 km of medium voltage lines, 4,229 km of low voltage lines, 9 110/35/6-10 KV transformer stations, 38 intermediary stations and 2,410 distribution stations. Up to now all city, towns and districts; 98.97% of communes; and 97% households have access to the national power network. + Hydropower resourse development - Cua Dat hydropower plant includes 2 turbines operating in May, 2010 with the actual capacity of 97 MW. - Ba Thuoc 1 and Ba Thuoc 2 hydropower plants has the designed capacity of 140MW. 8 - Muc River hydropower plant has the designed capacity of 2000 KW and the guaranteed capacity of 600 KW. - Trung Sơn hydropower plant has the designed Capacity of 260 MW. + Nghi Sơn I and II thermal power plant has the total capacity of 1800 MW. 4. Post and Telecommunications + Post and telecommunications Thanh Hoa has a post-office centre and 91 post-offices’ branches, 04 multiservice agencies, 565 Village Post Office Cultural Centers in towns and districts. The ATZ-G5 and electronic switchboard TDX-1B (6.400 telephone numbers) could contact rapidly and conveniently in domestic and foreign. The microwave and optical cable system allow widening and using the modern telecommunication means such as Telex, Fax, Internet, 3G network etc. to serve information in domestic and foreign. By 2010, all communes and wards had telephones; mobile phone network covered 27/27 of districts, towns and city, average of 56 telephones /100 people. Striving by 2015 for that 100% of communes will be supplied telephone and broadband internet services; 70% of communes will have public internet access points; 100% of state management agencies will supply concrete guidance handle by Internet; and 100% of public administrative services will be posted up in e-portals. + Radio and television Press, radio and television system has widely spread all over the province. The percentage of the population covered by radio signals was 99, increased 2 and the percentage of the population covered by television signals estimatedly reached at 95 in 2010; that helps people to get the information about economics, culture and politics; besides and enterprises in advertising their products to all social classes of people in the province. 5. Banking Commercial banking system in the whole province consists of Vietinbank, BIDV, VBSP, Agribank, Saconbank, ACB, VIB Bank, Techcombank, VPBank, Maritime Bank, GP Bank etc. At present, The banks are renovating and diversifying forms of capital mobilization, applying modern technology in express 9 and inter-bank and international payment, ensure safe and effect. The annual total of credit capital mobilization, loan turnover and dept surplus increase 20%, 17.3% and 17% respectively. 6. Trade and services Thanh Hoa trade network has been expanded larger and larger; urban supermarket and rural market systems have been developed fast, commercial civilization has many changes. Enterprises belonging to economic components and business individuals participate in commercial sectors aiming at meeting the demands of people’s daily life and production development. Supermarket and shopping center system and markets in economic centers are invested for construction and are in operation such as Hapro supermarket and Tay Thanh market in Thanh Hoa city; Thieu Hoa shopping center in Thieu Hoa district; Yen Dinh agricultural produce market in Yen Dinh district; and warehouses and commercial stores in the mountainous districts for instance Ngọc Lac, Lang Chanh, Quan Son and Ba Thuoc. Annual average growth rate of export turnover for stage of 2006-2010 was 27.15 %. Insides, major export goods of the province consist of agricultural products, accounted for 10.47%; maritime products. accounted for 16.98%; industrial and handicraft products, accounted for 38.04%; and minerals and construction materials, accounted for 11.56% etc. Export markets have been expanded larger and larger; beside traditional markets like Japan, South East Asia and China; several products have been exported to America, Europe. 7. Healthcare, education and vocational training + Healthcare: Province and district hospitals have been invested in upgrading and rebuilding; all communes have medical stations which meet the standard of people’s healthcare and first aid treatment and emergency medical care. In the province, by now, Thanh Hoa General Hospital and Hop Luc General Hospital which have been invested in infrastructure, modern medical products and high level skill staff meet the standard of medical examination and treatment to serve people in the province and foreigners. By 2010, there are 75% of the communes meeting national standard for healthcare and reached 18 hospital beds per 10,000 people. 10 + Basic Education: Thanh Hoa has completed compulsory intermediate education before the deadline and is now implementing compulsory secondary education. Every year, local students win many prizes in Vietnam’s National Excellent Student Contest and The International Science Olympiads and the number of students admitted to universities more and more increases. Thanh Hoa always maintains being in the top class of the provinces where the number of students getting sample scores, highest scores at university entrance examination is largest. Besides system of state schools, system of private schools are strongly developed, many schools achieved the national education standards. Currently, Thanh Hoa private school at the international standard is equipped with modern facilities and about to put in to operation, this school is able to train the children of foreign specialists coming to work and live in Thanh Hoa city. + Higher Education: The quality of professional education and vocational training has been enhanced; the connection between enterprises, employers and training facilities for human resource development has been strengthened based on social demands. Hong Duc university has focused on investing in building several high quality faculties and fields of study; the province has been promoting the establishment of Thanh Hoa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thanh Hoa University of Physical Education and Sports, Thanh Hoa Culture Art and Tourism university based on existing colleges; the network of vocational training facilities is supplemented and adjusted; Nghi Son Vocational School and Technical School will be early completed to serve labor exports; training quality and ability has been improved, the training structure of vocational training facilities and centersand district-level regular education centers have been reformed to meet the social demands. 8. Urban Area Network Thanh Hoa has one city, two towns and 24 rural district seats, has been constructing a lot of new urban areas aiming at meeting the demands of industrial/commercial/service development. Thanh Hoa province currently has 26 urban development projects with the total areas of 447.5 ha approved by Provincial People’s Council. 11 9. Economic and Industrial Zones Thanh Hoa has been approved the plan of seven concentrated industrial zones (IZ), at present, five industrial zones and one economic zone have been established, and invested in technical infrastructure. - Bim Son IZ has the total area of 700 ha; is located in the Northern part of the province, adjacent to National road 1A and the Vietnam North - South railway; is planed out for heavy industrial projects such as mechanical engineering, manufacturing of automobile spare parts and automobile assembling, cement production etc. - Đinh Hương - Tay Ga IZ has the total area of 150 ha, is located in the Northern part of the city, about 2 km far from the city, 3 km far from Thanh Hoa Railway Station, 7 km far from Le Mon Port; is planned out for the projects of production and commercial service, projects of manufacturing and assembling of high - tech product. - Lam Son IZ has the total area of 1,000 ha, is 40 km far from the city, next to National Road 15 and Ho Chi Minh Highway and near Sao Vang military airport etc. - Le Mon IZ has the area of 87 ha, is 5 km east from the city. - Nghi Sơn Economic Zone was established on the Decision dated May, 2006 by the Prime Minister with the total are of 18,000 ha and is now not only the impetus for the development of the North Central region but also the link connecting the Central Region with the North Region, the Northwest Region with Laos and the Northeast Region of Thailand. According to the Decision of the Vietnamese Government, the investors who invested in Nghi Son Economic Zone are entitled many investment incentive policies of Vietnamese Government. Here is a comprehensive and multi-functional economic zone, has favorable location in transportation of highways, waterways, deed seaport. The projects, which has been invested in Nghi Son Economic Zone, are fundamental and heavy industries such as oil refinery and petrochemical industry, high-grade steel industry, shipbuilding and repair industry, thermal power, construction material industry, consumer products, processing and export etc. With Nghi Son- Hon Me island transshipment seaport cluster, in future, Nghi Son will become not only a focal center of seaport; international warehousing and transport; high-quality sea tourism and 12 entertainment combining with development of service industry but also a modern urban. 10. Hotel and Restaurant System Nowaday, Thanh Hoa has system of international standard hotels and restaurants which is able to supply the demand of organization of international conferences and workshops such as Lam Kinh hotel, 4-star standard; Sao Mai hotel, 3-star standard; a large number of 2-star hotels and standard guest house; and many famous restaurants like Da Lan, Da Lan Star, Hoang Nhi Lan etc. 11. Insurance As the province has third largest population in the whole country, Thanh Hoa is considered to be a potential market for all types of insurance. There are top nationwide insurance companies in the province now in operation for sample Bao Viet, Bao Minh, Post-Telecommunication insurance, PetroVietnam insurance, Prudential Vietnam etc. These insurance companies expand their market shares larger and larger and create fair competition to enhance the quality of customer services. C. SOCIO - ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE STAGE OF 2006-2010 - GDP of the province reached 13.7 %. - Per capita GDP in 2010 was $810 (over 16 million VND respectively). - Economic structure transformation by 2010 was Industry - construction, taking 41.4 %; services, taking 34.4 %; and Agriculture – forestry - fishery, taking 24.2%. - Annual average growth rate of value of agriculture, forestry and fishery products achieved 2.6 %. - Annual average growth rate of value of construction and industry products reached 16 %. - Annual average growth rate of value of services was 12.3 %. - Annual average growth rate of turnover and total retail sale of commodities reached 24.9 %. 13 - The value of commodity exports and services in 2010 estimatedly reached $377 million. - In 2010, there were total about 5,940 enterprises, reached the rate of 575 people per 01 enterprise. - For 05 years from 2005 to 2010, 254,000 laborers of which 47,000 abroad to work for a definite time were created jobs. - Nghi Son economic zone, which is the key economic zone of the province, has the total estimated investment capital of $10 billion by now. - Tourism turnover reached 1,200 billion VND. D. SOCIO - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATION TO 2015 AND 2020 I. General Orientation Thanh Hoa province will maximum bring into play and effectively utilize the resources; create a breakthrough in economic growth and competition; trengthen the investment in socio - economic infrastructure construction; strive to achieve GDP per capita of the country by 2015; and become one of the top developed provinces in Vietnam by 2020. II. Specific targets - Annual average economic growth rate will reach 17 – 18 %. - Per capita GDP by 2015 will achieve $2,100. - Value added in agriculture, forestry and fishery will increase at 3.5%/year. - Value added in construction and industry will increase at 22.3 % / year. - Value added in services will increase at 16,8 % / year. - Economic structure in GDP by 2015 will be agriculture, forestry and fishery, accounted for 14.4 %; construction and industry, accounted for 49.7 %; services, accounted for 35.9 %. - The annual average rate of capital mobilization for state budget will reach over 8% GDP up. - The total value of export commodities and services by 2015 will reach more than $850 million, annual average growth rate is at more than 17 %. 14 - The total social capital investment for 05 years will reach about 310,000 billion VND. -The trained laborer rate by 2015 will reach more than 55 %. - Annual average poor household rate will reduce from 3 to 4 %. - Annual natural population growth by 2015 will reduces less than 0.65 %. III. Major Programs 3.1. Development program of Nghi Sơn EZ and industrial and hightech zones. The completion of the technical infrastructure will be priority, foreign investment attraction will be strongly promoted to make Nghi son Economic Zone becoming the impetus for the province’s economic growth and key element of the development of the northern region. The existing industrial zones will be filled rapidly and brought into play effectively, the develoment of some more new industrial zones will be planed out, associating with ability, advantage and the needs of regional economic structure transformation. The high-tech zone will be promoted for construction including a high-tech park, a high-tech service urban zone and high-tech human resource training center in the total area of 1,300 – 1,500 ha. 3.2. Agricultural Development and New Countryside Building Programs Clean and high-tech agriculture having capacity, quality, effectiveness and a large number of goods will be constructed; rural industry, services and profession will be encouraged to develop, creating the conditions for labor force structure transformation and promote process of land agglomeration and centralization for huge production. Planning and Performance of new countryside building program will be rapidly promoted; striving to 2015, there will be 20% of number of communes reaches rural new standard (according to the national criteria for new rural by the Government). 3.3. Socio-economic Development Program in the Western and Coastal Regions of Thanh Hoa. 15 Diversified sources of investment capital will be mobilized to construct and upgrade the socio-economic infrastructure; maximizing excavation of potentials and advantages for strengthening the development of agriculture, forestry and aquacultures associating with processing industry; encouraging the development of commercial services; making a breakthrough in economic structure transformation and growth rate, combining with socio-cultural development, enhancing universal intellectual standards, preserving and bringing into play the national cultural identity, reinforcing the country’s defense and security system, improving people’s lives, gradually narrowing the gap between the living standards of mountain people and lowland people. 3.4. Human Resource Development Program Socialization process will be speeded up and resource mobilization will be maximized for scale expansion and quality improvement of education and training. Firstly, human resources education and training will be focused on to meet the development needs in many field such as oil refinery and petrochemicals, steel production, management and operation of thermal power and hydropower plants, manufacture and assembly of electronic components, software production, automation etc; building the cadres and public servants having good moral character and capacity to meet mission requirements in the new period; forming businessmen having wide business knowledge, understanding of law, activity, skill and spirit, and business culture; fostering talent, training excellent leading experts in many fields. 16