Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at a working session with the Standing Board of the Ha Giang province Party Committee (Source: VNA)
Ha Giang (VNA) – Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc described poverty reduction as the leading political task of thenorthern mountainous province of Ha Giang.
At a working session with the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committeeon November 27, the PM said although poverty rate in Ha Giang dropped by 5percent, the number of poor households in the locality has remained high.
Pointing to shortages and backwardness in local socio-economic infrastructure,along with small economic scale, PM Phuc asked Ha Giang to continue to applyinformation-technology, build trademarks and seek resources for infrastructuredevelopment.
At the same time, Ha Giang should make all-out efforts to improve budgetcontributions, he stressed.
The leader also asked the province to better spread start-up spirit, stronglyrestructure the economy and revamp the operational apparatus.
Taking into account Ha Giang’s proposals, PM Phuc assigned the Ministry ofTransport to roll out a plan to mobilise capital for the construction of aroute linking Ha Giang with Hanoi-Lao Cai Expressway.
Earlier, the PM made a field trip to the Thanh Thuy International Border Gateto examine the implementation of export-import procedures and administrativemanagement at the border gate.
As of October 2017, total export-import turnover via the border gate reachednearly 2.53 million USD, up 266.7 percent year-on-year.
While in Ha Giang, PM Phuc visited a 110 USD project on milk cow breeding andhigh-tech milk processing in Phong Quang commune, Vi Xuyen district. Onceoperational, the project is expected to generate job for thousands oflabourers, both directly and indirectly.
He also visited and presented gifts to a number of families of revolutionarycontributors, social beneficiaries and war invalids in Ha Giang city. -VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at a working session with the Standing Board of the Ha Giang province Party Committee (Source: VNA) 
