City to focus on quickly, sustainably developing wood processing industry and forestry exports (08:06 17/09/2018)
Accordingly, the Municipal People’s Committee received Announcement No 325/TB-VPCP dated August 29th, 2018 of the Government Office on conclusion of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the conference to discuss measures to rapidly develop timber and forestry processing and exports.
Accordingly, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested to develop timber and forestry processing and exports rapidly and sustainably on the basis of intensive and extensive international integration into international and regional market; use legal sources; apply advanced science and technology; train high quality human resources and develop supporting industry system effectively, striving to early become a timber producing center with good quality in the region and the world.
To get the above goals, one of the key missions and measures is to encourage afforestation, use of technology in producing, caring for forest and processing, preserving timber products for domestic consumption and export.
Additionally, it is necessary to train human resources; encourage businesses to strengthen the application of science and technology in timber and forestry processing industry; save raw materials, reduce the cost, increase productivity, effectiveness, and competitiveness, especially focus on products’ value, and quality so as to meet requirement of international market.
More efforts must be made to strengthen the popularization and encourage people and enterprises to change the awareness about using timber products from legal resources.
Regarding the above task, the Municipal People’s Committee assigned the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to take prime responsibility and cooperate with relevant departments, sectors and units to carry out the PM’s direction and; report to the Municipal People’s Committee as regulated.