Chủ Nhật, 12/04/2020, 09:27 (GMT+7)
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Tien Giang:

To set up a economic growth scenarios after the Covid-19 epidemic, salinity and drought

ABO – On April 9, Tien Giang People's Committee (PPC) organized an online meeting of the PPC’s members to adopt solutions to overcome difficulties to promote economic and social development after the Covid-19 epidemic as well as salinity, drought.

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Chairman of the PPC Le Van Huong chairs the meeting.

Speaking at the conclusion of the meeting, comrade Le Van Huong suggested that the Agriculture sector continue to provide irrigation water for agricultural production, especially fruit trees, ensuring that the salinity of the tree area will be improved at the end of the drought. This plantation is still growing well and gives a high yield.

At the same time, he directed a number of issues on budget revenue - expenditure; visiting and supporting production - business, taxes for businesses and cooperatives that are facing difficulties due to Covid-19 epidemic; the Provincial Department of Planning and Investment was assigned to coordinate with the relevant units to complete the provincial economic growth scenario in 2020 after controlling the Covid-19 epidemic and salinity, drought according to the opinions of participants at the meeting; speeding up the disbursement of public investment capital from the state budget, etc...

Due to the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as prolonged salinity and drought, the economic and social development of the province was affected. The growth rate of the first quarter of 2020 reached 3.9 percent (the whole country increased by 3.8 percent), lower than the same period in 2019 (5.6 percent).

With a determination to grow by 7 percent by 2020, the province will focus on the construction sector, in which investment is mainly on the construction of key public investment projects and projects calling for investment; stabilizing the agricultural sector; developing less impacted industries.

In the context of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as salinity and drought, public expenditures will be prioritized for disbursement to ensure stability, maintenance and growth conditions for the next period, etc... classifying enterprises and business households to suspend operations to encourage and create favorable conditions for these production and business units to resume operation soon, etc ...

By VAN THAO – Translated by HUU CHI

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