State President visits Ha Tinh province

Ha Tinh (VNA) - State President Nguyen Minh Triet has told the central province of Ha Tinh to work up its favourable conditions for industrial development for faster growth.

Meeting with provincial authorities on July 4, President Triet highlighted
the fact that Ha Tinh has led the country in terms of foreign investment
attraction in the year's first half with a single project whose first phase
costs 7.78 billion USD.

Besides the giant Vung Ang Steel Complex project, which is slated to kick
off construction on July 6, the province also houses the country's several
key projects, such as the Vung Ang Economic Zone, the Thach Khe iron ore
mining project, the Vung Ang thermo power centre, the Cau Treo international
border economic zone and the Ngan Truoi-Cam Trang
hydroelectricity-irrigation work.

The President also urged the coastal province to make the best use of its
seafood resources as Ha Tinh is among 11 localities in the country with
remarkable potentials in the field.

He asked the provincial leaders to pay more attention to reducing poverty as
89 percent of the province's population is living in rural and remote areas
and GDP per capita is only half the national average.

In the first half of the year, Ha Tinh province posted a GDP growth rate of
9.07 percent. It obtained rises of 15.1 percent in industrial production
value, 9.2 percent in food output, 9.1 percent in aquatic product output,
and 22.5 percent in export earnings.

During his three-day visit, President Triet had a working session with the
provincial judicial reform steering committee on July 3, at which he
required the province to adopt preferential treatment and organise
re-training courses for its judicial staff to enable them to meet
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