The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) will work harder to give a boost to the country’s economic locomotives, especially Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, and four key economic regions to achieve breakthrough growth in 2019, Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has said.
Both the CPTPP and EVFTA trade pacts, expected to come into effect this year, are set to increase the access that Vietnamese farm produce enjoy in demanding overseas markets.
A few years ago, Samsung, a world-leading electronics company, encouraged local Vietnamese firms to produce spare parts for its factories.
In 2019, Vietnam’s wood and forestry industry aims to gross USD10.5 billion in exports, up USD1.2 billion compared to the previous year.
The Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has set the goals of 1.7 percent production growth and USD21 billion in export revenue for the cultivation sector in 2019.
(CPV) - In 2018, the overseas Vietnamese work continued to be paid special attention by leaders of the Party and the State. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with the activeness and positiveness of related agencies and Vietnamese representative missions abroad, this work has made a remarkable change in many aspects.