Decision No. 893/QD-TTg approving the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Binh Duong province through 2020 and supplemented master plan through 2025.

This Decision approves the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Binh Duong province through 2020 and supplemented master plan through 2025 with the following principal contents: 1. Development viewpoints: Overall viewpoints: To strive to achieve a high economic growth rate and sustainable development based on economic restructuring toward the fast growth of the service sector, faster urbanization and hi-tech development in association with the socio-economic infrastructure system of the southeastern region and the southern key economic region, and to maintain the political security, social order, defense and effective eco-environmental protection. Viewpoint of sustainable development with breakthroughs: - In the next 10-15 years, advantageous and high value-added sectors will be further developed to meet the domestic demand and promote export, and at the same time core enterprises' capacity and competitiveness will be improved toward investment in other localities and foreign countries. - To anticipate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement and the ASEAN Community in the coming time so as to adopt mechanisms and policies to effectively tap opportunities and advantages as soon as possible in the planning period. - To continue the economic structuring toward higher proportions of industry and service and lower proportion of agriculture. To attach importance to agriculture's role in the economy to serve the industrialization and urbanization with orientations to develop an urban hi-tech agriculture. - To concentrate resources for development of a synchronous infrastructure system into an industrialized and modernized one to create a development breakthrough. - To prioritize the development of a number of important works for human use in education, training and health care in order to create major changes in social security in the locality. - To develop economy in synchrony with social development and defense-security in order to ensure stable and sustainable development.
The plan aims at building Binh Duong into a civilized and modem urban center and one of socio-economic development urban centers of the southern key economic region with strong and large spillover effects on neighboring provinces and regions; a centrally-run urban center before 2020 with industrial development toward diversity of hi-tech, clean-tech, environmentally-friendly products with a high localization rate without intensive labor; its trade and service infrastructure will be modernized; its tourism will develop toward diversity of ecological, historical, cultural services with the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity in green, civilized and modem urban centers; and its urban agriculture will be associated with biotechnology and transfer of biotechnology.