b) Textile and garment

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- Encouraging the establishment and development of textile and garment industry group in potential areas; promoting joint production among related companies in the chain, from material supply to finished product distribution;

- Constructing material supply centers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and big cities to timely supply to the companies in the industry;

- Reinforcing the training system for textile and garment industry, particularly embroidery, dyeing, designing and fashion.

c) Food processing

- Reviewing, finalizing the plannings on material areas and food processing networks for every branch of the food processing segment to be in line with concentrated development of competitive and high value-added branches;

- Establishing and refining related mechanism and/or policies to connect food processing factories and/or enterprises with the material areas by means of production and distribution joint contracts, support farmers to approach and apply technical advances, make a close connection within the chain of production, processing and distribution;

- Improve the capacity on scientific research and technological application for agricultural research organizations, particularly the research institutes involving in competitive commodities such as: Rice, coffee, aquatic products.

d) Agricultural machinery

- Focusing on development of the projects on agricultural machinery manufacture, critical part and spare part production, investment inclining to high technology;

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- Encouraging and attracting foreign agricultural machinery manufacturers to invest and/or cooperate with domestic companies to manufacture agricultural machinery and supply parts, spare parts in line with the development of mechanical industry and agricultural machinery industry;

- Issuing policies on support for domestic companies to invest in the manufacture of agricultural machinery and/or equipment and spare parts to improve localization of the sector.

dd) Tourism and related services

- Upgrading tourist infrastructure, particularly commercial port system, international flights, to connect to potential markets and public services;

- Improving tourist visa policies; developing the systems of e-visa issuance, visa issuance at the border checkpoints; expanding visa exempted subjects aiming at potential tourist markets; simplifying customs, immigration procedures;

- Organizing short-term programs of awareness raising and training aiming at the entities involving in the value chain of tourism; tourist trainings, tourist profession fostering courses addressing the employees working for tourist service agencies;

- Intensifying joint-departmental management measures applied to food and beverage and/or tourist shopping companies, supporting local areas to promote the brand names of their produce, handicrafts, and souvenir items for tourists.

2. Developing the branches of competitive commodity production, tourism and related services

a) Reviewing development strategies, plannings of various sectors/fields and local areas/territories, simultaneously popularizing the orientation for foreign investment attraction by sector/business field, local area/territory in line with the establishment and/or development of such industry groups; enhancing strategic investment promotion activities and setting forth appropriate stimulating, supporting policies to attract the companies to the sector establishment and development at potential areas;

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c) Encouraging and supporting the development of research, scientific and technology application agencies; human resource training entities, particularly those focusing on high-tech workers for related industry groups; establishing counseling and/or research centers on specialized technology serving activities of industry groups in potential areas;

d) Reviewing, adjusting and establishing human resource development plans for all sectors in the way to segment them to be in line with sectoral strategy on competitiveness enhancement; developing the training and capacity building programs for high-grade worker vocational and training centers, in preparation for training of international-standard skilled workers to meet the demands of local industry groups;

dd) Upgrading and establishing typical industry groups in selected areas such as:

- Household electronics in Binh Duong; audio and visual electronics in Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Hanoi City, Hai Duong; IT products and related services in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang;

- Fiber weaving, textile and garments in Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Ninh Binh, Bac Giang; textile and garment in Ho Chi Minh City (specializing in material supply and services) and the middle region (specializing in ODM);

- Aquatic product processing in the Southwestern provinces [Mekong Delta]; aquatic and agro-product processing in coastal and highlands provinces; agro-product processing in northern midlands provinces;

- Agricultural machinery and equipment in provinces/cities such as: Hanoi, Hai Duong, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Dong Nai;

- Hai Phong – Quang Ninh tourism area for tourism products such as sightseeing tourism products and eco-tourism; Da Nang – Thua Thien Hue – Quang Nam tourism area for coastal retreat tourist compounds including recreational activities, sightseeing and cultural heritage tours; Khanh Hoa – Binh Thuan tourism area for long-stay coastal retreat tourism products, urban recreation activities, landscape discovery tours, sea sports; Binh Dinh – Phu Yen – Ninh Thuan tourism area for coastal retreat tourism products with wildlife nature; Ho Chi Minh City – Ba Ria – Vung Tau tourism area for coastal retreat and urban recreational services; Phu Quoc Island tourism area for coastal retreat tourism products, island discoveries.

IV. ACTION PLANS

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a) Human resource training and development

- Supporting the connection among training centers, particularly between vocational training centers and companies through joint training programs; counseling details of the training programs; increasing the time of theory practice;

- Supporting vocational training centers in capacity building for trainers, regular upgrade of information and knowledge to meet labor demands of the companies;

- Promoting international cooperation, making good use of the support and/or cooperation programs with international organizations to build the capacity for vocational training centers.

b) Investment attraction

- Setting forth preferential policies to attract companies to invest in input stages, supporting industrial development for the production of competitive commodities in order to elevate the value chain of products and establish industrial clusters for such products;

- Setting forth preferential policies, attracting foreign direct investment, particularly from large investor groups and/or multi-national investment groups, to the projects/fields related to high-level production technology transfer and joint supply chains in connection with domestic companies;

- Setting forth typical preferential mechanisms to encourage companies to invest in various production sectors.

c) Scientific and technological development

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- Promoting the application of transferred research results from national scientific and technological projects to the companies’ production and business activities; establishing and developing scientific and technological projects to upgrade the value chains of competitive commodities of the sectors;

- Supporting the capacity building carried out by specialized research agencies; investing to increase equipment and facilities for scientific and technological research agencies so that they are qualified for acquiring and controlling new technologies, being technologically creative to cater the development of prioritized industries and/or fields;

- Supporting companies in their researches, application, renovation of technologies and/or equipment to improve production outputs, quality and competitiveness, to be included in the global value chains, and their application of advanced management systems, harmonization of production and technical standards with international standards.

2. Supporting sub-plan executed through prioritized projects for the development of the above-mentioned synchronous development and upgrading Plan

a) General projects

- Reviewing development strategies and/or plannings of various sectors/fields and local areas/territories, simultaneously popularizing the orientation for foreign investment attraction by sector/fields, local area/territory to support the upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities, establishment and development of industry groups;

- Refining the mechanism and/or policies to support investment attraction and upgrade of value chains of products, upgrade and development of industrial lines, tourism;

- Building capacity for research, scientific and technological development agencies to upgrade the value chains of competitive commodities;

- Supporting the connection between training centers and industrial/services companies on human resource training to upgrade the value chains of products, upgrade and establish  industry groups;

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- Pilot development and upgrading the value chain of competitive commodities of electronics – IT industry;

- Pilot development and upgrading the value chain of competitive commodities of the textile and garment industry;

- Pilot development and upgrading the value chain of competitive commodities of the agricultural machinery industry;

- Pilot development and upgrading the value chains of competitive commodities of food processing industry;

- Establishing logistics system to promote sectoral connection for rice production, supply, processing and consumption in the Southern region;

- Pilot development and upgrading the value chains of competitive commodities of the tourist and related services industry;

- Raising awareness and improving tourism manners;

- Upgrading commercial ports serving tourism.

(Refer to the Appendix of this Decision for details of the projects)

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1. Ministry of Industry and Commerce:

a) Taking the lead and cooperating with related Ministries, departments, agencies and People’s Committees of the provinces to develop the Action Plan of the synchronous development and upgrading Plan mentioned herein and specific assigned duties, projects;

b) Establishing a Management Board led by the Minister of Industry and Commerce and constituted by representatives of the related Ministries and departments, to develop the mentioned Plan. Operation regulations of the Management Board and its Standing Office shall be decided by the Minister of Industry and Commerce;

c) Expediting, inspecting and supervising the implementation of the synchronous development and upgrading Plan and submitting yearly summary report to the Prime Minister; evaluating, preliminarily and finally, the implementation and efficiency of the mentioned Plan; and proposing the issues and/or duties stated in the Plan to be amended and/or supplemented to the Prime Minister when required.

2. The Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Investment shall balance and allocate appropriate funds to implement the duties and supporting projects related to the development Plan for connected industry lines and upgrade of value chains of production of Electronics and IT; textile and garment; food processing, agricultural machinery; tourism and related services.

3. The related Ministries and departments:

a) Organizing the implementation of specific assigned duties and/or projects;

b) Reviewing periodically, evaluating implementation outcomes and reporting the progress of assigned duties and/or projects.

4. People’s Committees of the provinces shall:

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b) Cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and related Ministries and departments in implementation of plans and tasks of the Program.

Article 3. This Decision takes effect from the day on which it is signed.

Article 4. The Ministers and Heads of ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies; Chairmen of the People’s Committees of the provinces, and related agencies shall execute this Decision./.

PRIME MINISTER




Nguyen Tan Dung

APPENDIX

THE PROJECTS SUPPORTING THE PLAN FOR SYNCHRONOUS DEVELOPMENT AND UPGRADATION OF INDUSTRIES/SECTORS AND VALUE CHAINS OF PRODUCTION OF COMPETITIVE COMMODITIES: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TEXTITLE AND GARMENT; FOOD PROCESSING, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; TOURISM AND RELATED SERVICES
(attached with Decision No. 32/QD-TTg dated 13 January 2015 issued by the Prime Minister)

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1. Supporting the cooperation in human resource training among training centers and industrial/services companies for the upgrade of the value chains of products, upgrade and establishment of required industry groups

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Objective

Supporting the training, supply of high-quality human resources for the development of competitive commodities

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Target entities

The training centers, companies involving in: Electronics and IT, textile and garment, food processing, agricultural machinery; and tourist services companies.

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Key components

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- Evaluating the qualification of training centers and demand for high-grade human resources, workers for production and development of the industries;

- Reviewing, modifying and proposal the plans for human resource training and development for the mentioned industries;

- Developing and supporting the execution of joint training programs between the training centers, particularly in-house training agencies, and the companies in the industry groups;

- Proposing capacity building plan for training centers, particularly those providing in-house training to the companies of the industry groups.

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Leading and cooperating agencies

Leading agency: Ministry of Education and Training

Cooperating agencies: Ministry of Industry and Trade; Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Science and Technology; and Ministry of Labor – War Invalids and Social Affairs.

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2015-2020

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Funding

State fund, aided funds

2. Reviewing development strategies and/or plannings of related industries/sectors and areas/territories, simultaneously popularizing the orientation for foreign investment attraction by industry/sector, area/territory to support the upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities and development of such industry groups;

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Objective

Unity of the orientation to long-stay investment attraction and competitiveness maximization for related areas/ territories and competitive commodities of related industries/sectors to upgrade the value chains of commodities and develop related industry groups

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The industries such as: Electronics and IT, textile and garment, food processing, agricultural machinery, tourism and related services

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Key components

- Reviewing the strategies, plannings of related industries/sectors/areas/territories;

- Reviewing the current investment attraction orientations by industry/sector and area/territory;

- Promoting the investment attraction orientation by industry/sector (electronics and IT, textile and garment, food processing, agricultural machinery and tourism) and by area/territory which is potential for the development of industry groups and tourism industry.

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Leading and cooperating agencies

Leading agency:

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- The Ministries such as: Ministry of Industry and Trade (on strategies, planning for textile and garment industry); Ministry of Information and Communication (on strategies, planning for electronics and IT industry); Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (on food processing); Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (on tourism and related services).

Cooperating agencies: People’s Committees of related provinces.

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Implementation period

2015

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Funding

The non-income economics fund for related Ministries, departments’ planning

3. Refining the mechanism, policies which support investment attraction and upgrade of value chains of products, upgrade and development of industry and tourism sectors

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Objective

Refining the mechanism, policies which support investment attraction and upgrade of value chains of products, upgrade and development of industry and service sectors

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Target entities

The industries such as: Electronics and IT, textile and garment, food processing, agricultural machinery, tourism and related services

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Key components

- Reviewing the current investment support, attraction mechanism, policies applied to related industries/fields and areas/territories; typical preferential investment attraction mechanisms for the development of industrial zones;

- Reviewing the investment support, attraction demands/requests for upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities and development of related industry groups in potential areas/regions;

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Leading and cooperating agencies

Leading agency: Ministry of Planning and Investment

Cooperating agencies: Ministry of Industry and Trade; Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; People’s Committees of related provinces/cities under Central management.

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Implementation period

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Funding

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4. Building capacity for scientific and technological research and development agencies to upgrade the value chains of products with competitive advantage

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Objective

Building capacity for scientific and technological research and development agencies to support the upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities

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Target entities

Scientific and technological research and development agencies involving in: Electronics and IT, textile and garment, food processing, agricultural machinery and the services companies related to tourism and related services.

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Key components

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- Evaluating the demands for capacity building and development of scientific and technological research and development agencies in the development, upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities;

- Proposing investment, upgrade and establishment plans to support scientific and technological research facilities which assist the upgrade of the value chains of competitive commodities.

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 Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015-2020

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II. PROJECTS BY INDUSTRIES

1. Pilot development and upgrade of value chains of competitive commodities related to electronics - IT

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Objective

Supporting the development and upgrade of value chains of competitive commodities related to electronics - IT

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Target entities

Producers and services companies related to electronics – IT

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015-2020

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Funding

State fund, corporate investment capital and other legitimate funding

2. Pilot development and upgrade of value chains of competitive commodities related to textile and garment

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Objective

Supporting the development and upgrade of selected industries/sectors and value chains of production of competitive commodities related to Textile and garment

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Target entities

Producers and services companies related to textile and garment

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015 -2020

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Funding

State fund, corporate investment, other legitimate grants and funding

3. Pilot development and upgrade of value chains of competitive commodities related to agricultural machinery

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Objective

Supporting the development and upgrade of the industry group value chains of production of competitive commodities related to agricultural machinery

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Target entities

Producers and services companies related to agricultural machinery

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015 - 2020

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State fund, corporate investment, grants and other legitimate funding

4. Pilot development and upgrade of value chains of competitive commodities related to food processing

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Objective

Supporting the development and upgrade of the industry group and value chains of production of competitive commodities related to food processing

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Target entities

Producers and services companies related to food processing

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

Leading agencies:  MARD in cooperation with MST, MIT and People’s Committees of related provinces, cities under Central management.

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Implementation period

2015-2020

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5. Establishing the logistics system to boost regional connection for rice production, supply, processing and consumption in the Southern region

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Objective

Improving value chains of rice with upgraded and flexible warehousing system in connection with mass industrial processing in rice specializing areas in the Mekong Delta region

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Target entities

The companies related to food processing, transportation, logistics in the Southern region;

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015-2020

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Funding

6. Pilot development and upgrade of value chains of competitive products related to tourism and related services

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Objective

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Target entities

Services companies related to tourism

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Funding

State fund, corporate investment, grants and other legitimate funding

7. Raising awareness and improving tourism manners

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Objective

Raising awareness on tourism, professional and efficient servicing skills and conducts for tourism and non-tourism entities involving directly in the value chains of sea tourism with training programs.

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Target entities

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015-2020

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Funding

The National Action Plan on tourism

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Objective

Investing, upgrading selected commercial sea ports adjacent to big tourist centers into sea ports to cater tourists

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Target entities

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Key components

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Leading and cooperating agencies

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Implementation period

2015 – 2020

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Funding

Local fund for infrastructure development