Policy support: Efforts to narrow regional gaps

Increasing investment in resources for socio-economic development in mountainous areas was identified by the Da Nang City Party Committee in the Political Report submitted to the 1st Congress of the City Party Committee (term 2025 - 2030). Photo: N.D

Additional tasks and solutions

Based on the comments of cadres, party members and people from all walks of life on prioritizing investment in resources for the development of the western part of the city, the Political Report submitted to the 1st Congress of the City Party Committee added the sixth group of tasks and solutions: "Promoting potentials, advantages and increasing investment in resources for socio -economic development of mountainous areas, narrowing the gap with the plain areas".

Accordingly, in the 2025 - 2030 term, the City Party Committee's Action Program on socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in mountainous areas for the 2026 - 2030 period will be issued. The city will focus resources on building and effectively implementing mechanisms and policies to support businesses and people to create momentum for mountainous development.

Review and complete land use planning (residential land, production land, tourism land) to pilot the construction of concentrated residential areas, small industrial clusters associated with specialized production areas and community tourism development; prioritize investment in population arrangement associated with production stabilization, ecotourism development, climate change response, natural disaster and landslide prevention, and long-term stabilization of people's lives.

Increase investment in developing infrastructure for transport, healthcare, education, information technology, telecommunications in mountainous areas...

In the period of 2025 - 2030, the City Party Committee emphasized the requirement to strengthen the role and responsibility of local Party committees and authorities in leadership and direction, associated with promoting the spirit of self-reliance, effectively implementing national target programs on poverty reduction and sustainable social security, socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; preserving and promoting traditional values, cultural identities associated with improving the quality of life of ethnic minorities...

According to Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee Ngo Xuan Thang, prioritizing investment resources for mountainous areas and gradually narrowing the development gap between the western and eastern regions of the city is of great concern to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee. Because the closer this gap is, the more it affirms the effectiveness of the two-level local government model.

Mountainous traffic must continue to be invested in smoothly, connecting trade; there must be solutions to overcome power outages in the afternoon when it rains to solve work for people. The city must soon have new policies for education and health care in this area.

Health stations in mountainous communes need to be invested in to become satellite hospitals of the city with fundamental policies to attract human resources, equip facilities to ensure medical examination and treatment for people, reduce pressure on the infrastructure of the city center...

Economic models in mountainous areas are still fragmented and small-scale, bringing low income value. Photo: N.D.

Proposal to develop specific policies

It can be seen that the midland and mountainous areas of Da Nang city have great potential in terms of natural resources, culture and geostrategic location, but the exploitation and promotion are still limited. Many localities have organized tours to learn from development models in other places, but the application to practical conditions is still limited and has not achieved the desired results.

Many economic development models are only at the experimental level, failing to promote diffusion and form specific socio-economic products with competitiveness and strength for the economy. This leads to fragmentation, lack of cohesion, and failure to create a common value chain and development momentum for the entire region.

Mr. Dang Tan Phuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, said that investment resources for the region are still scattered, mainly relying on the state budget, while the mobilization of socialized resources has not achieved results. Regional linkages between localities in the region and neighboring localities are not really tight, lacking specific coordination mechanisms, leading to difficulties in forming product value chains and sustainable development models.

“In the new period, the city needs to develop specific mechanisms and policies to mobilize and allocate investment resources reasonably for socio-economic infrastructure. Support investment in connecting transport infrastructure to attract businesses to invest in mountainous areas to solve local employment, increase income, and stabilize people's lives.

"Planning inter-commune concentrated raw material areas to build economic development models according to the chain linking from production - processing - product consumption to replicate according to the "3 together" mechanism between the state, people, and businesses," Mr. Phuong proposed.

For Tra Linh commune, one of the important goals by 2030, the Party Committee of the commune strives to build Tra Linh into a key medicinal industry center of Da Nang city and the Central Highlands region, with Ngoc Linh ginseng as the main crop.

Ms. Ho Thi Minh Thuan, Secretary of the Tra Linh Commune Party Committee, said the city needs to issue priority policies and specific mechanisms for mountainous areas in investing in infrastructure, transportation systems, and attracting businesses to develop the medicinal industry.

"The issuance of policies, plans and investment projects for socio-economic development in mountainous areas should be concise in procedures and easy to implement for beneficiaries," said Ms. Thuan.

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