Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) addresses the working session (Photo: VNA)Tuyen Quang (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc has lauded Tuyen Quang’s achievements in recording highest forest coverageratio among localities nationwide at 65 percent, suggesting the province toconsider forestry as a major economic development orientation to escape frompoverty.
The PM had a working session with key leaders of TuyenQuang on February 23 after attending the launching of the tree-plantingfestival in the northern mountainous province.
He stressed that Tuyen Quang should become an important hubof wood industry of Vietnam and the region, asking the locality to mobilise allresources for the goal.
At the same time, Tuyen Quang should expand a number ofother agricultural sectors, he said, suggesting that the province increase thearea of sugar canes for export and call on investors to invest more inagriculture and forestry.
The PM reminded Tuyen Quang, the province to pay greater attention to preserving and promoting unique cultural identities of ethnic minoritygroups in the locality, thus boosting the development of tourism and servicesectors.
PM Phuc expressed delight at dramatic changes that theprovince has made in the past 10 years in both urban and rural areas.
However, he noted that the province has still faced many difficulties in socio-economic development andinvestment attraction, keeping it a poor province.
On the occasion, PM Phuc visited the Tan Trao specialnational relic site in Son Duong district, which comprises 183 smaller relicsites having close relations with the national liberation cause in the middleof the 20th century.
He also visited and presented gifts to Cao Thi Co, a Heroic Vietnamese Mother in Tan Quang ward of Tuyen Quang city and Nguyen Dinh Phung, aformer revolutionary official in An Tuong ward./.
