Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan 2006-2010. Country/Territory Viet Nam Document type Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Environment gen., Food & nutrition, Forestry, Water Keyword Agricultural development Biodiversity Capacity building Climate change Crops/grasses Cultural heritage Sustainable development Business/industry/corporations Disasters Ecosystem preservation Freshwater quality/freshwater pollution Pollution control Poverty Public health Soil conservation/soil improvement Food security Afforestation/reforestation Agro-forestry Forest management/forest conservation Irrigation Geographical area Asia, East Asian Seas, South-Eastern Asia Entry into force notes 2006-2010. Abstract The Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan is a planning instrument with a multi-sectoral approach relating to the period 2006-2010, whose main goal is to: boost the economic growth rate, achieving rapid and sustainable development, quickly bringing the country out of the low development state; improve people’s material, cultural, and spiritual life; boost the industrialization and modernization process and gradually develop the knowledge-based economy, creating foundations to make Vietnam become a modern industrial country by 2020. The main targets are set up so as to ensure sustainable development of the following three axes: economy, society and environment. Full text English