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Sun, 08/03/2008 - 00:37
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Expanded Hanoi eyes high GDP growth

Hanoi (VNA) - The expanded Hanoi will strive for a GDP growth rate of 11.5-12 percent in addition to an average per capita income of 1,500 USD in the remaining five months of the year.

It will also target a rise of 18-19 percent in social investment, an export growth rate of 22-23 percent, budget collection of 62.2 trillion VND or 5 percent over the estimation, 122,000 new jobs, and the number of poor households below 5 percent in the period.

Those goals were approved by the People's Council of the expanded Hanoi at its first session after the capital city's administrative boundary expanded to include neighbouring Ha Tay province and parts of Vinh Phuc and Hoa Binh provinces.

At the closing session on August 2, the new Hanoi People's Council affirmed that it would instruct relevant agencies to fulfill those new socio-economic targets and continue to deploy inflation control measures and ensure the implementation of social welfare policy.

The council also vowed to focus on addressing issues related to agriculture and rural development and improving the quality of the environment in addition to accelerating the implementation of major State-funded construction projects, infrastructure development in urban and rural areas as well as preparations for the 1000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The new Ha Noi People's Council adopted eight important resolutions relating to its 162-member list for the 2004-2009 term, the number of its deputies, the number of its permanent members, the verification of its election of position titles, its tenure name, the city's socio-economic, security and defence tasks in the remaining five months, budget estimation, and structure of agencies of the municipal people's committee.

Ngo Thi Doan Thanh, chairwoman of the former Hanoi People's Council, was elected chairwoman of the new council while Nguyen The Thao, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, was elected chairman of the Municipal People's Committee.

The new Hanoi has its boundary tripling the former capital city's
geographical size and its population doubling.

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