Decision 89/1998/QĐ-TTg

DECISION No.89/1998/QD-TTg of May 7, 1998 approving the overall program for socio-economic development and enhancement of security and national defense in the border area of 33 communes and one district township in Ha Giang province.

The target area encompasses 33 communes and one district township of Meo Vac, Dong Van, Yen Minh, Quan Ba, Hoang Su Phi, Vi Xuyen and Xin Man districts, covering an area of 118,514 hectares inhabited by 71,000 people in 11,930 households.

The objectives of the program:

- On the economic plain: To boost the agricultural and forestry production; to transform the structure of cultivation plants and domestic animals along the direction of production of commercial agricultural and forest products;

- On the infrastructure construction: To give priority to the investment in the upgrading, renovation and construction of road system, especially routes leading to the border-gates and border corridor; to continue the construction of irrigation works, small-size hydro electric power plants, water supply projects, information and communications projects, radio and television broadcasting stations, commune schools and medical stations;

- On the social plain: To concentrate efforts on settling urgent issues, especially those concerning education and healthcare;

- On the security and national defense: To quickly and definitely complete the land mine sweeping in areas so as to put such land into agricultural production, to strengthen population quarters near the border; to invest in the construction of border-guard stations and border check-points.

The People's Committee of Ha Giang province shall set up the program steering committee headed by a vice president of the provincial People's Committee. Basing itsself on the objectives of the program, the provincial People's Committee shall direct the formulation of specific investment projects to be included in the overall program on the basis of the selection of priority objectives for each commune.- (Summary)