Determined to achieve 8% growth

Workers at Nam Chien Hydropower Plant, Muong La district, operate electricity production.

Reporter: Could you please tell us about the tasks and growth targets of Son La province in 2025, which are 8% or more as assigned by the Government?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance: The Department of Finance has reviewed and reported to the Provincial People's Committee on new resources, driving forces, and capacities for growth, and developed a GRDP growth scenario for the province in 2025; reported to the Provincial People's Council to adjust the GRDP growth target in 2025 to 8% in Resolution No. 457/NQ-HDND dated February 20, 2025. Specifically: The growth rate of gross domestic product (GRDP) in the province reached 8%. GRDP per capita reached 61.8 million VND/person/year. Economic structure: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery accounted for 23%; industry - construction accounted for 29%; services accounted for 42%; product taxes minus product subsidies accounted for 6%. The scale of GRDP reached about 82,789 billion VND. Total social investment capital reached 23,000 billion VND. State budget revenue reached 21,532 billion VND, of which local budget revenue (domestic revenue) reached 4,500 billion VND. Local budget expenditure reached 21,218 billion VND. Industrial production index was 100.5% compared to the previous year. Goods export reached 215 million USD; goods import reached 15 million USD...

Reporter: What are the advantages, opportunities, difficulties and challenges in achieving the 2025 growth target of 8%, sir?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance: Regarding advantages and opportunities: Strategic thinking, development vision of a new era - an era of development, prosperity, civilization and prosperity of the nation; the unity of perception and action of the entire political system on stronger, more drastic, revolutionary and comprehensive innovation in economic management; the inheritance and strong promotion of the results achieved in socio-economic development in 2024; the trust of people and businesses in the economic growth prospects of the whole country and the province; opportunities to attract investment and promote trade thanks to the attention to investment in developing the socio-economic infrastructure system in a synchronous direction...

Difficulties and challenges are the world situation is forecast to be complicated and unpredictable; the global economy recovers slowly, risks increase; major countries increase trade barriers and tariffs; the scale and competitiveness of industries, sectors and economic sectors are still weak; in some remote areas, people's lives are difficult, a part of the population is likely to fall back into poverty; extreme weather, droughts, floods, natural disasters, complicated epidemics... affect economic development.

Perspective of Moc Chau High-tech Milk Factory Phase I.

Reporter: Which key industries will contribute significantly to the implementation of the province's tasks and growth goals?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance: To achieve the target of 8% GRDP growth in 2025, efforts are needed in 3 areas, in which the agriculture, forestry, fishery and service sectors need to make a strong breakthrough. Specifically: The agriculture, forestry and fishery sector, in 2025, strives to grow by about 7%. It is forecasted that the weather and climate will be more favorable than in 2024, some areas of fruit trees and industrial trees will increase productivity and output. At the same time, people and cooperatives will increase the area of ​​​​application of science and technology, increasing productivity, output, competitiveness and value of agricultural products.

The industrial and construction sector is expected to increase by 6.6% compared to 2024, of which: The electricity production and distribution sector is expected to maintain the same level as in 2024, with an estimated electricity output of about 13,500 million kWh; the mining industry will increase by 10%; the processing and manufacturing industry will increase by 2% compared to 2024; the construction sector will strive to achieve a high growth rate of about 20.1% on the basis of drastic implementation of solutions to improve the investment and business environment, taking public investment as the leading factor in private investment (public investment capital allocated in 2025 will reach VND 6,301 billion, an increase of 44% compared to 2024). In particular, accelerating the implementation progress of the Hoa Binh - Moc Chau expressway project, Son La province section; Some approved investment attraction projects are being implemented, striving to be put into operation in 2025: Moc Chau high-tech dairy factory completed phase I; completed Moc Chau high-tech dairy cow ecological farm; Vinatea tea processing factory...

Service sector, growth rate is forecasted at about 9.5%. In particular, all sectors in the service sector are forecasted to improve; tourism activities are expected to develop, with high growth, total tourist arrivals reaching about 5.3 million; revenue from tourism activities reaching 6,300 billion VND; real estate business activities recovering and bustling. In 2025, identified as the year of digital transformation, information and communication services will grow higher than previous years...

Production line at BHL Son La Cassava Processing Factory.

Reporter: Could you please tell us about the solutions to carry out the tasks and growth target of the province in 2025 to reach 8% or more?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance: The Department of Finance advises on building a GRDP growth scenario for 2025 every quarter, serving the leadership, direction and operation. In particular, focusing on strongly innovating the thinking of building legal documents on the basis of ensuring state management requirements, closely following reality, taking people and businesses as the center, reforming administrative procedures, reducing compliance costs. Regarding organizational and apparatus reform, resolutely implementing the arrangement of the state apparatus in the direction of streamlining, compactness, strength, efficiency, effectiveness, and efficiency, encouraging and protecting cadres who dare to innovate, dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility for the common good.

Mobilize and effectively use resources for development; accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital from the beginning of the year, striving to achieve 100% of the 2025 plan; form new growth drivers, attract large-scale, high-tech investment projects, invest in important infrastructure works; develop dynamic areas, urban areas, and growth cores of the locality. Focus resources on developing Moc Chau National Tourist Area in a synchronous manner, developing tourism products. Attract investment to develop industrial clusters in the area, Van Ho industrial park; prioritize the development of large-scale concentrated agricultural processing industry, clean industry, and labor-intensive industrial projects. Develop logistics centers in Mai Son - Son La city, Moc Chau - Van Ho and Long Sap border gate economic zone. Encourage investors to develop renewable energy, clean energy: Wind power, biomass power, solar energy... Develop agricultural economy in a concentrated, sustainable direction, applying high technology. Form concentrated raw material areas, high-tech agricultural zones, transform production structure, promote digital transformation and maintain safe food supply chains. Develop science, technology, innovation, digital transformation, high-quality human resources...

Expanding the market and promoting consumption: Implementing trade promotion activities, supporting production and business establishments to consume and export goods, especially the province's key agricultural products. Organizing programs to promote regional linkages in e-commerce, cross-border e-commerce promotion activities with countries in the region, key and potential export markets. Strive for the total value of goods participating in the province's exports to reach 215 million USD, an increase of 8.35% compared to 2024. Of which, agricultural and food products participating in exports will reach 208 million USD, an increase of 9.22% compared to 2024.

With synchronous solutions, the drastic participation of the entire political system, along with the efforts and proactiveness of the business community and each citizen, contributing to promoting production and business, is the driving force for Son La province to achieve the growth target of 8% by 2025.

Reporter: Thank you very much, comrade!

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