Decision No. 240/QD-TTg approving the master plan on socio-economic development of Lai Chau province through 2020.

This Decision approves the master plan on socio­economic development of Lai Chau province through 2020 with the following principal contents: 1. To exploit to the utmost the province's internal resources, with supports from the central level and the whole country, to accelerate economic growth and sustainable development, raise growth quality and narrow the development gap between Lai Chau and other provinces. 2. To concentrate all resources on building socio-economic infrastructure facilities; to restructure the economy for commodity production development; to promote to the utmost border-gate economic advantages; to regard hydropower, forest economy, minerals and industrial tree products (rubber latex and tea) as key and long-term commodity products. 3. To properly organize the relocation and resettlement of people for the construction of hydropower projects in the province. To closely combine economic development with eco-environmental protection. To step up the planting, tending and protection of watershed forests in the Da river basin to protect water sources for national big hydropower works. To associate economic development with conservation and promotion of traditional cultural identities as well as tangible and intangible cultural values of different ethnic groups in the province. 4. To concentrate resources on building a new countryside in line with the master plan and the sectoral development orientations: Agriculture, forestry and aquaculture.