Five-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan 2016 - 2020.

The Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan is a planning instrument with a multi-sectoral approach relating to the period 2016-2020, whose overall objectives are: To ensure macroeconomic stability, strive to achieve economic growth rate higher than that of the previous 5 years. To accelerate the implementation of strategic breakthroughs, economic restructuring associated with growth model innovation and improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. To promote cultural development, practice of democracy, social progress and justice, ensure social security, enhance social welfare and improve people's lives. To actively respond to climate change, effectively manage resources and protect the environment. To strengthen national defense and security, stay resolute and persistent in the struggle to safeguard the national independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity and assure political security, social order and safety. To raise the efficiency of external affairs and international integration. To maintain peace and stability, create favorable environment and conditions for the construction and defense of the country. To improve the status of our country in the international arena. To strive to make Viet Nam basically become a modern-oriented industrialized country.