​Attending were Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; the Vice Chairmen of the provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments, branches.

The meeting

Based on the guidance of the Central Government and the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee has focused on monitoring, directing the prevention and control of pandemic and deploying solutions to stabilize and develop in industries and fields. However, the pandemic situation is very complicated because Binh Duong is an industrially developed province, bordering Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai; have a large number of foreign workers, especially laborers, experts from China, Korea, Japan etc.

By March 24^th, 2020, Binh Duong province has not recorded any positive case of Covid-19. Accumulated from the beginning of the epidemic to the present, there are 21 suspected cases sampled for testing samples, as a result, 18 cases were negative with Covid -19, 03 remaining cases have not had test results; the number of isolated cases is 3,435 cases. Currently, 1,075 cases related to people returning from the disease area are being isolated.

In general, the pandemic has disrupted the supply chain of many domestic and foreign products and goods; the domestic product consumption market plummeted; contracts of sale of goods with foreign countries are interrupted; lack of foreign experts due to immigration restrictions; labor supply also has many fluctuations etc. thereby affecting the industrial production of the province, especially the textile, footwear, electronics etc.  However, during the pandemic, most businesses have been proactive in source of raw materials for production by the end of March 2020, therefore, in the first quarter of 2020, the production activities of industrial enterprises in the province have not been affected much by the disease. Estimated industrial production index in the first quarter of 2020 increased by 6.14% over the same period last year; 1.02% lower than the 7.16% increase of the first quarter of 2019.

Mr. Dang Minh Hung - Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments, branches check the prevention and control of Covid-19 disease at JDT Vietnam Co., Ltd., Rach Bap Industrial Park (An Tay commune)

Facing the complicated disease situation, the province has issued the Plan of reserve of essential goods to respond to when a pandemic occurs, ensuring sufficient reserves and quality of essential goods at 10 supermarkets and more than 200 convenience stores; therefore, in the past time, virtual scarcity has not occurred, causing market fluctuations. Particularly for medical equipment items (masks, hand sanitizer gels and other medical devices), enterprises are committed to increase the number of medical equipment items and sell them at the listed prices to serve the needs of people in the province. Total estimated retail sales of goods and services in the first quarter of 2020 increased by 11.65% over the same period, 3% lower than the increase of the first quarter of 2019. Export turnovers in the first quarter of 2020 were estimated at USD$ 5,839 million, up 3.6% over the same period, lower than 9.8% compared to the increase of the first quarter of 2019. Import turnover in the first quarter of 2020 is estimated at USD$ 4,200.1 million, up 4.3% over the same period, 1% lower than the increase in the first quarter of 2019.

Leaders of Department of Health supervise the Covid-19 disease prevention and control at the Dau Tieng District Health Center

Speaking at the conference, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam emphasized that the current prevention and control of Covid-19 has entered a new phase, requiring greater determination and responsibility of both the political system and the entire population in the province. In this spirit, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee requested the Party Committees, authorities, departments, agencies and mass organizations from the province to grassroots levels to continue to thoroughly understand and seriously implement the guiding documents of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Prime Minister, the National Steering Committee, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee on Covid-19 disease prevention and control, regard this as a top important task, absolutely not subjective, neglect, irresponsibility; strictly handle organizations and individuals that do not seriously implement their responsibilities and tasks in disease prevention and control. Effectively deploy tasks and solutions to remove difficulties in production and business, ensure social security and provide maximum support for enterprises according to their competence; promote communication on disease prevention and control on the mass media, focus on positive results, good models, cooperation and responsibility of the community; detect and strictly handle cases of posting false and untruthful information on the pandemic situation.

Besides, continue building and perfecting the anti-disease options at different scales, especially in the coming days when repatriated citizens receive more isolation and health monitoring in the province.

In parallel with the task of disease prevention and control, sectors and levels in the province continued to focus on drastically implementing the objectives, tasks of socio-economic, national defense and security for the term 2015-2020 and by 2020, speeding up the implementation to compensate for the decline in value in the first 3 months of 2020; continue to improve the investment and business environment, enhance competitiveness; invest resources in necessary projects; pay attention to solving issues related to culture - society, especially on education.

​Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of the Provincial Standing Committee, Chairman of Provincial Viet Nam Fatherland Front Committee, Head of Provincial Commission for Mass Mobilization; Vice Chairmen, Chairwoman of People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, Member of the Provincial People's Committee; provincial leaders through periods; leaders of departments, agencies, unions, districts, towns, cities and 60 provincial People's Council representatives.

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Delegates of the Provincial People's Council vote to pass resolutions

At the meeting, delegates voted to pass resolutions on: Adjusting the public investment plan in 2020; adjusting the investment policy of a number of public investment projects; Project on establishing Tan Binh town in Bac Tan Uyen district, Binh Duong province.

Accordingly, for the Public Investment Plan in 2020, an additional VND 142,760,000,000 is added from the balance of the 2019 Public Investment Plan for 25 projects, including 17 capital supplement projects and 08 new projects. In addition, adjusting the implementation time of the ground clearance project for upgrading and expanding DT.743 road and the ground clearance project for My Phuoc - Bau Bang construction project.

Tan Binh town of Bac Tan Uyen district, Binh Duong province was established on the basis of changing the status quo of the natural area, population and administrative boundaries of Tan Binh commune. Specifically, the natural area is 28,93km2; population of 9,879 people; administrative boundaries: The North borders Hung Hoa commune, Bau Bang district and Phuoc Hoa commune, Phu Giao district, the South borders Vinh Tan ward, Tan Uyen town, the West borders Chanh Phu Hoa ward, Ben Cat town and the East borders Binh My commune, Bac Tan Uyen district.

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Delegates of the Provincial People's Council vote to supplement the title of Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Council

The meeting conducted additional election for the title of Vice Chairman of Binh Duong People's Council Session IX, term 2016-2021. Accordingly, Mr. Ho Quang Diep - Secretary of the Party Committee of Tan Uyen was elected as Vice Chairman of Binh Duong People's Council Term IX, term 2016-2021.

Mr. Tran Van Nam (3rd from left) - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (3rd from right) - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem(2nd from left)  - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and leaders of the provincial People's Council present flowers to congratulate Mr. Ho Quang Diep (middle)​

​Accordingly, the provincial leaders handed over the decision to mobilize Mr. Ho Quang Diep - Secretary of the Party Committee of Tan Uyen to holds the position of of Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; handing over the decision to mobilize Mr. Nguyen Van Danh - Director of Department of Industry and Trade to work at Party Committee of Tan Uyen, appointment to join the Executive Committee, Standing Committee of Tan Uyen Party Committee and holds the position of Secretary of Tan Uyen Party Committee for the term 2015-2020; mobilizing Mr. Nguyen Thanh Toan - Deputy Director of Department of Foreign Affairs to work at the Department of Industry and Trade and holding the position of Director of Department of Industry and Trade; Mr. Nguyen Hong Nguyen - Deputy Director of Department of Natural Resources and Environment was appointed to join the Executive Committee, Standing Committee of Tan Uyen.

Mr. Tran Van Nam (middle) - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (2^nd from left) - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem (2^nd from right) - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee hand over the decisions on staff work.

On behalf of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam congratulated comrades for accepting the new task; at the same time, expected the comrades to be assigned and appointed to promote the traditions of the units and localities as well as work experience; maintain the political spirit, firm ideology, continue to grow in practical work; maintaining solidarity and internal agreement in a new working position, truly exemplary, pioneering, fulfilling the tasks to develop a  more developed province, worthy of the faith of the Party Committee, the government and the people of the province.​

​The National Assembly Standing Committee also decided to establish 04 wards: Vinh Tan, Phu Chanh, Tan Vinh Hiep and Hoi Nghia in Tan Uyen town.

Thus, Binh Duong has 09 district-level administrative units, including: 03 cities, 04 districts, and 02 towns; 91 communal units, including: 42 communes, 45 wards and 04 burghs.

Di An City was established on the basis of the entire 60.1km2 natural area and population size of more than 403,000 people of Di An town. This is the city adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai, there are many works connecting the region such as Hanoi Highway, Dong Nai Bridge, New Eastern Bus Station, Urban Area of Ho Chi Minh City National University etc.

Thuan An City was established on the basis of the entire 83.71km2 natural area and population size of more than 508,000 people of Thuan An town. Thuan An has many large industrial zones, such as Vietnam - Singapore (VSIP I) and Viet Huong, with National Highway 13 arterial going through.

Thuan An officially became a city under Binh Duong province from February 1, 2020

According to leaders of Thuan An city, Di An city, becoming a provincial city, Thua​n An, Di An will mobilize all resources to complete the infrastructure of a civilized and modern city. Besides, cultural institutions, education, health etc. have also been upgraded to serve the needs of the people. In addition, becoming a city, Thuan An, Di An will have many opportunities to attract more people and businesses to invest, live and work in the locality, contribute to improving the income and the level of enjoyment of people's lives.​

​According to BIWASE, Tan Hiep Water Plant, under to Water Supply Branch of the Complex - Binh Duong Water Environment Joint Stock Company with an existing design capacity of 120,000 m³ per day, providing clean water for Binh Duong Complex - Industry - Service - Urban Area, My Phuoc Industrial Zones 1, 2, 3, 4; An Tay Industrial Park, Bau Bang Industrial Park ... However, the demand of water use is increasing because of provincial urbanization. Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to increase the capacity of Tan Hiep Water Plant Project with an additional capacity of 100,000m3 per day.

Mr. Satoshi Ishii said that ADB and JICA expected to provide funding for BIWASE to implement the project of expanding Tan Hiep Water Plant capacity of 100,000 m3 per day; supplying to 74,000 households and industrial areas. The total investment capital of the project is estimated US$ 46 million; in which, ADB and JICA support 16 million USD. This is also the first project in Viet Nam supported by ADB without the guarantee from the Government. Therefore, ADB will consider assessing the financial status of BIWASE and support the project implementation as soon as possible.

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Participants taking group photo

Vice Chairman  of Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Truc expressed his thanks to ADB for its support in water supply and drainage projects in Binh Duong and affirmed that the Tan Hiep Water Plant expansion project is essential for socio-economic development and meeting the urgent needs of local citizens. BIWASE is a competent company, he believes that the project will be implemented smoothly in the near future with the support of ADB.

​Accordingly, departments, agencies, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities formulate action plans to implement Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP of January 1, 2020 of the unit, completing before February 15, 2020. In particular, clearly defining the objectives, tasks, implementation schedule, the unit in charge of implementation focuses on performing the major tasks of continuing to improve the business environment; abolish and simplify the regulations on business conditions; carry out comprehensive reform of management, specialized inspection and connect the National One-Step-Service, ASEAN One-Step-Service; promote cashless payments and provide level 4 online public services; develop innovative and creative ecosystem, supporting and encouraging start-up businesses.

The Department of Information and Communications shall coordinate with the Provincial Propaganda and Training Commission to guide media agencies with propaganda sections on the content of Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP of January 1, 2020 of the Government and this Plan. Departments, committees, branches and People's Committees of districts, towns and cities organize thoroughly grasping Resolution No. 02/ NQ-CP of January 1, 2020 and this Plan associated with the review of their responsibilities in implementing administrative procedure reforms, improving the business environment and competitiveness; overcome shortcomings and weaknesses; promote achievements to propose solutions to successfully implement objectives and tasks of Resolution 02/ NQ-CP.

Chairman of People's Committees of districts, towns and cities before June 10, 2020 and before December 10, 2020, summarize reports, evaluate the situation of implementation, results of implementation in the quarter and the whole year of Resolution No. 02/ NQ-CP, this Plan and send to the Department of Planning and Investment to summarize and advise the Provincial People's Committee to report to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Government Office as prescribed.

​Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee granted the retirement decision according to the regime to Mr. Lam Van Man - Member of the Provincial Party Inspection Committee and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hao - Deputy Director of Construction Department; granted reappointment decision to Mr. Ngo Hoang Luan - Deputy Head of Internal Affairs Division of Provincial Party Committee.

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (right) - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem (left) - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee grant decisions and flowers to retire and re-appoint officials

On behalf of the Provincial Standing Party Committee, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao – Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee acknowledged the dedication of retired comrades to the development of Binh Duong province; at the same time, wished the retired comrades always healthy and continue to make positive contributions in the locality. For the re-appointed comrades, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee hoped the comrades continue developing their capacity with the collective to successfully complete the assigned tasks.

​Chairman Tran Thanh Liem introduced briefly the socio-economic achievements of the province in 2019. The Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) increased by 9.5%; the Industrial Production Index increased by 9.86%; production value of agriculture - forestry - fishery increased by 4%; value added in the service sector increased by 9.8%. Export turnover increased by 15.6% to nearly USD $28 billion with a trade surplus of nearly USD $7 billion. Budget revenue exceeded the set plan and reached nearly VND 60,000 billion. Social security and welfare are guaranteed, the living standard of citizens has been stable and improved with an average income of VND 146.9 million/ person/ year (equivalent to USD $6,500), an increase of VND 16 million compared to 2018.

In 2019, foreign investment attraction of the Binh Duong province exceeded the plan and reached USD $3.29 billion. Currently, the province has over 42,000 domestic enterprises with a total registered capital of nearly VND 358,000 billion; 3,753 foreign invested projects from 65 countries and territories around the world with a total registered capital of USD $34.33 billion, Binh Duong ranked the 2^nd nationwide in term of foreign investment attraction, after Ho Chi Minh City.

Bumin Medical Group specializes in hi-tech health care and would like to explore the investment opportunities in health care. Binh Duong would like to develop to serve the health care service for the citizens as well as the foreigners living in Binh Duong.​

​Attending were Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of Party Central Committee, Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Head of Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Standing Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; Vice Chairmen of Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee and 57 delegates of Provincial People's Council.

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Council considered to supplement the title of Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee for the term 2016-2021. Based on the voting results, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc, born in 1965, Provincial Commissioner, Director of Department of Planning and Investment was elected as Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee, period 2016-2021.

Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of Party Central Committee, Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Head of Provincial National Assembly Delegation presents flowers to congratulate Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc

The provincial leaders congratulate and take photo with Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc

Previously, the 34^th Provincial Party Executive Committee Meeting (Term X) has elected Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Member of Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Head of Organizing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to become Commissioner of Provincial Inspection Commission term X, period 2015-2020 (cum).​

​Specifically, for agricultural land, the land price is equal to the maximum price bracket prescribed by the Government in Decree No.104/2014/ND-CP but ensuring harmony between districts, towns and cities in the province. Supplementing the price list of special-use forest land: equal to the price of production and protection forest land (the maximum level is VND 450,000/ m2).

For non-agricultural land, make adjustments equal to the land price calculated according to the applicable Land Price Adjustment Coefficient (K) in 2019 is being applied (with adjustments to suit between districts, towns and cities), corresponding to an average increase of about 18% compared to the current land price list. Specifically, Thu Dau Mot city will increase on average 10%; Thuan An and Di An towns will increase on average 5% to 30%; Ben Cat town, Tan Uyen town, Bau Bang district and Bac Tan Uyen district will increase on average 5% to 20%. Phu Giao and Dau Tieng districts will increase on average 10%. Supplement the land price list for religious and belief establishments: Applying the price equal to the price of land for production, business, non-agricultural land, not commercial or service land. Supplement the price list of national defense and security land: 65% of the residential land price.

For urban residential land, routes of type I in position 1 of Thu Dau Mot city include: Yersin, Bach Dang, Cach Mang Thang 8, Binh Duong Boulevard, Dieu Ong, Dinh Bo Linh, Doan Tran Nghiep, Hung Vuong, Nguyen Du, Nguyen Thai Hoc, Quang Trung and Tran Hung Dao have the highest land prices of VND 37.8 million/ m2. The routes of type II in position 1 of Thu Dau Mot city have land prices ranging from VND 20-25 million/ m2.

The decision also supplements 27 sections and routes; raising the adjustment coefficient (D) 45 routes; reducing the coefficient of 02 routes; lifting 5-lane road types; correcting and renaming 21 routes; adjusting the first point and the last point  of 5 routes.

Thus, Binh Duong land price list in the period of 2020-2024 adjusts land price increase in proportion to land price according to Land price adjustment coefficient K, an average increase of 18% compared to the current land price list. Ensuring the effectiveness of the stability and development policies of the real estate market in the past time in the province according to the Directive No.11/ CT-TTg dated April 23, 2019 of the Prime Minister on a number of solutions to promote the stable and healthy real estate market development. This is an appropriate solution to the unreasonable situation of the agricultural land price frame stipulated by the Government as currently. Continue to consistently implement guidelines and policies to enhance investment attraction and cooperation; creating an increasingly favorable and competitive investment environment under Action Program No.34CTr/ TU of December 15, 2016 of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee on investment attraction  renovation in the 2016-2020 period in Binh Duong province. Maintain an advantage in attracting investment, raising the provincial PCI and the competitiveness of local business. Consistent with the fluctuation of the real estate market in recent times and forecasts of the situation in the near future. In addition, it helps to increase budget revenues, reduce the loss of state assets in localities with large land fluctuations such as Thuan An and Di An towns and limit the big disturbance in the real estate market. Gradually build the price list of land types closer to the common land prices in the market. The minimum price in this land price list is guaranteed to be higher than the minimum price in the price bracket prescribed by the Government for 2 urban areas (Thuan An and Di An town are grade II city) if recognized in the near future. Therefore, there is no need to adjust the land price list if these two cities are officially recognized. ​

​At Chu Van An Secondary School, NTT Viet Nam has awarded 10 scholarships to students with outstanding achievements in the 2018-2019 school year and 60 sports suits for the school's football team.

NTT Viet Nam's leaders and delegates present scholarships and take photos with Chu Van An Secondary School's students

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NTT Viet Nam's leaders and delegates present gifts to Chu Van An Secondary School

In addition to awarding scholarships, the Coach Board of Japanese Omiya Ardija football club has conveyed the experience, skills in playing football and inspired students who love this sport. It is known that Omiya Ardija Football Club is a professional football club in Japan, owned by NTT East Japan Group, curren​tly a partner of Viet Nam Technology and Telecommunication Joint Stock Company (VNTT Viet Nam) in building Binh Duong smart city in the fields of telecommunications and information technology.

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The coaches of Omiya Ardija Club of Japan share their skills in football with Ngo Thoi Nhiem and Chu Van An Secondary School's students

Mr. Tomoaki Kanazawa - Head of Operations Division of NTT Viet Nam in Binh Duong said, over the past years, in addition to business development, NTT Viet Nam has always had activities with Binh Duong authorities to take care disadvantaged people, contributing to ensure social security in the province. Besides, NTT Viet Nam also aimed to organize cultural exchange and sport activities in order to improve the physical strength, the skills to play football and arouse the passion of football among students in Binh Duong province.

​Participants were leaders of Department of Foreign Affairs, Planning and Investment, Education and Training, Culture, Sports and Tourism, Becamex Coporation and Becamex Tokyu Company.

At the meeting, Standing Vice Chairman Mai Hung Dung briefed the provincial socio –economic development. Japan is the biggest investor in term of the investment capital with total capital of 5.6 billion US dollars among 65 countries and territories in Binh Duong province. He appreciated the Japanese companies in Binh Duong for their businesses, social responsibility, and policies for employees.

Japanese ambassador Umeda Kunio expressed his impress of the socio –economic achievement of Binh Duong and wished to continue to enhance the cooperation between Japan and Viet Nam in general and with Binh Duong in specific in areas of economics, culture, education, …Especially, the Viet Nam - Japan U13 international teenager football tournament kicked off in December 20th, 2019 in Binh Duong province.

Standing Vice Chairman Mai Hung Dung expressed his sincere thanks to Japanese ambassador to Viet Nam for his support and wished to receive his cooperation in strengthen the relation between Binh Duong and Japanese partners in the future.

​Attending were Mr. Cao Van Chong - Vice Chairman of Vietnam Football Federation (VFF); Mr. Le Huu Phuoc - Standing Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial propaganda and training commission; Mr. Dang Minh Hung - Vice Chairman of the PPC; representatives of some departments, branches and a large number of fans.

Parade to welcome the tournament

The provincial People's Committee commends the teams and individuals who have made great contributions to the organization of the Tournament

The tournament will take place from December 14 to December 18, 2019, with the participation of 4 teams including U20 Vietnam, U22 Myanmar, U20 Cambodia and the host - Becamex Binh Duong (B.BD). The four teams were divided into 2 pairs (including B.BD against U22 Myanmar, taking place on December 14 and U22 Vietnam against U22 Cambodia, taking place on December 15) to compete in the knockout format. The two winning teams will play in the final, on December 18 and the losing two will compete for third place on December 17. Winning only 2 games is the champion, but the reward for the winning team is still VND 500 million as before. The second and third teams receive VND 300 million and VND 150 million respectively.

Mr. Dang Minh Hung - Vice Chairman of the PPC delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Tournament

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Dang Minh Hung - Vice Chairman of the PPC believed, the teams will play hard, honest, noble and united, giving the audience beautiful matches, at the same time believe that the Tournament will continue to be maintained and developed stronger, in order to contribute practically to the football development of the province particularly and the whole country generally, becoming an important event to introduce the image and dynamic development of Binh Duong province to domestic and international friends.

Match between B.BD and U20 Myanmar

After the opening ceremony, the first match between B.BD and U20 Myanmar took place. After 120 minutes, the two teams d​ecided to win or lose with a penalty shootout 11m. As a result, B.BD won with a score of 5-4 and won the right to compete in the final. B.BD's opponent will be the winner in the match between U20 Vietnam and U20 Cambodia, taking place tomorrow afternoon (December 15).​

​GRDP increases by 9.5%

According to the report, in 2019, Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) of Binh Duong Province increased by 9.5%. The economic structure of industry - service - agriculture - product tax minus product subsidy with the proportion of 66.8% - 22.4% - 2.6% - 8.2%. GRDP per capita reached VND 146.9 million.

Total budget revenue is estimated at VND 57,300 billion, reaching 105% of the provincial People's Council's estimate, up 14% over the same period. Total local budget balancing expenditure was estimated at VND 20,535 billion, reaching 100% of the provincial People's Council's estimate, up 12% over the same period.

In 2019, the industrial production situation continues to develop; internally moving in the positive direction; Processing and manufacturing industries play an important role in the industry. The industrial production index is estimated to increase by 9.86% over the same period. Domestic trade operates stably, goods are abundant, quality and prices are stable. Total retail sales of goods and services reached VND 227.805 billion, up 19.2% over the same period.

Import and export turnover maintains growth; the structure of export goods has been improved towards increasing manufactured and processed products and agricultural products. Export turnover is estimated at USD $27 billion 781 million, up 15.6%. Import turnover is estimated at USD $20 billion 795 million, up 10.6%; The province's trade surplus in 2019 reached nearly USD $7 billion.

Up to November 27^th, 2019, the province has attracted VND 56,702 billion of domestic business registration capital (up 3.3%); Accumulated to date, the whole province has 42,269 registered enterprises, total registered capital of VND 357,680 billion. Foreign investment attraction reached USD $3 billion 67 million (exceeding 119% of the year plan, up 49% over the same period); Accumulated to date, the province has 3,753 valid foreign-invested projects with a total registered capital of USD $34.23 billion.

Social security is concerned

Policies and regimes for people with meritorious services, social beneficiaries, the poor, children in special circumstances and labor workers, especially holidays, celebrations are done promptly and fully. The whole province mobilized VND $986 billion from many sources of capital to take care of the subjects; building and repairing 30 gratitude houses and 120 great unity houses, with a total budget of over VND 9 billion. Currently, the province has 3,808 poor households (accounting for 1.31%) and 2,790 near-poor households (accounting for 0.96%) according to the multi-dimensional criteria of the province.

At the same time, the province has paid attention to protecting, caring for children, gender equality, preventing and combating social evils; reviewing and arranging appropriately the vocational training system; creating additional jobs for 45,400 people (reaching 100.8% of the plan). Completing the census of housing and population in 2019, on April 1^st, 2019, the province's population was 2,411,796 people; the average population growth rate in the period of 2009-2019 was 5%/ year.

In the school year 2018-2019, education and training have been improved, the quality of teaching and learning at all levels has been improved; developing teachers and educational management staff about professional capacity, skills to build and implement education plans according to student capacity development orientations. As a result, 99.99% of students completed the elementary program; 95.95% of high school graduates; 29 national contests for excellent students; National high school graduation exam ensures safety, seriousness and compliance with regulations, the graduation rate reaches 95.17%. The socialization, especially the socialization of preschool education (accounting for 67.8% of non-public schools) has been carried out actively, synchronously, attracting resources to participate. The health sector has developed a plan to invest in equipment and materials, improve human resources quality and transfer advanced technologies for medical examination and treatment at all levels; renew styles and attitudes to serve patients. Up to now, 89% of the population has participated in Health Insurance.

Activities of propaganda, encouragement and organization of activities to celebrate the New Year, national holidays, major anniversaries and local political events took place vigorously and widely. Communication and science technology activities continue to be ensured smoothly and effectively.

Foreign affairs and international integration have been carried out proactively and comprehensively, creating favorable conditions to attract investment, promoting foreign economic relations and cultural exchanges. National defense and security in the province are guaranteed. The province has actively monitored, grasped the situation and implemented an effective and definitive plan to handle the violations of the law.

Strive to successfully achieve the targets and tasks in 2020

In addition to the achieved results, Binh Duong's socio-economic situation in 2019 still has some shortcomings and limitations. That is, the rate of disbursement of public investment capital was low compared to the adjusted plan in 2019, until November 15^th, 2019, the disbursement value reached VND 5,033 billion, reaching 40.3% of the adjusted plan in 2019; a number of key projects have focused on directing but are still slow and encounter many obstacles in the stage of site clearance, investment procedures, especially key traffic works; a number of new and extended industrial park projects are still slow in implementation. Rubber price is still low, African swine cholera appears in many livestock households, and the weather is abnormal. Some housing projects are still slow in implementation. The situation of infectious disease has increased, lack of medical supplies and medicine in some health facilities; Unmanaged and ineffective use of a number of invested health facilities; social insurance participation rate is low compared to the labor force; exploitation and use of cultural and sports constructions, learning functions of grassroots community have not promoted synchronously and effectively; Entertainment activities have not yet been organized to meet the needs of the people.

To successfully accomplish the objectives and tasks of socio-economic development, defense and security in 2020, the whole province strives to increase the industrial production index by 9.55% compared to 2019; industrial development associated with urban development, stabilizing the growth rate and playing an important role in promoting the development of other industries and fields; value added of service sector increased by 10.1%, total retail sales of goods and services increased by 19.9%, export turnover increased by 15% compared to 2019; production value of agriculture - forestry - fishery increased by 4%; encourage urban agriculture, high-tech application agriculture, organic agriculture; scaling up and promoting the effectiveness of effective agricultural cultivation models; thoroughly review and handle shortcomings in land management, especially related to public land, in order to prevent illegal sale of land lots; review, manage and plan the relocation of production and business establishments using toxic chemicals and environmental pollution out of urban centers and concentrated residential areas.

Branches and levels focused on implementing the 3-year financial and budget plan 2020-2022. Striving to achieve total state budget revenue of VND 62,200 billion (up 9% compared to the estimated implementation in 2019), total local balanced budget expenditure is VND 22,400 billion (up 9% compared to the estimate in 2019). Estimated total investment capital for development of the whole society is about VND 132,416 billion, accounting for 34.5% of the province's total product and an increase of 15.5% compared to 2019; attracting foreign direct investment of over USD $1.4 billion. Striving to reduce the rate of poor households to less than 1% according to the multidimensional poverty line of the province; create jobs for 45,000 workers, the rate of trained workers reaches 80%. Performing well the work of people's health care; adequately and timely supply of medical equipment, supplies and medicines in medical examination and treatment of diseases at all levels; speeding up the investment of 1,500 provincial General Hospital. Reviewing the investment plan for the network of public schools to ensure the need to improve the quality of teaching and learning; vocational guidance and student orientation in general education; striving for the rate of public schools reaching the national standard of 74.4%. In 2020, continue organizing the organizational structure, streamlining the payroll according to the Provincial Party Committee's Decision No.711-QD/ TU of May 11^th, 2019, Plan No. 4651/ KH-UBND of October 2^nd, 2019. In 2018, the PPC focused on the transition to financial autonomy and equalization of non-business units.

​This is the first time the event has taken place in Vietnam after it has taken place in many places such as Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, and Thailand etc. aims to enable scholars, experts and officials interested in meeting, sharing research and learning experiences in Asian urbanization.

This conference has a larger scale than previous times with the participation and speech of some world-class scholars such as Professor Michael Douglass of the University of Hawaii and many other great scholars from the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Finland and most countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia etc.

Delegates attending the conference

On November 28 and 29, 2019, international and domestic scholars will present over 100 papers focusing on 8 topics including: Climate change and urban resilience; implementable urban governance & sustainable urban finance; smart and green mobility; transformations in land management; livable and smart cities; integrated planning and development; urban slums and affordable housing; urban renewal and redevelopment.

Notably, at the special sessions, there will be presentations on Binh Duong smart city development by Mr. Peter Portheine (Smart Region Eindhoven) and on Vietnam Urban Development Strategy to 2030 by Dr. Nguyen Quang (Director of Vietnam UN-Habitat Program).

Dr. Michael Douglas, Professor of University of Hawaii presents at the conference

According to Dr. Ha Thuc Vien - Vice President of VGU, the AURA selected 15^th AUC. VGU is hosted by several training programs related to urban development and urban sustainable. This is a training program in cooperation with VGU and leading German universities. Besides, the university also has a lot of research related to sustainable urban development. Due the capacity and topic of the conference are related to the content that the university is conducting training, AURA agreed to allow VGU to hold a conference in Binh Duong. Also according to Dr. Ha Thuc Vien, currently for the Asian region, the development of megacities leads to the development of infrastructure and housing,  social service conditions for people in urban areas become challenging issues, therefore, with real-world evidence, Binh Duong needs a new approach in urban management. We do not focus on developing large cities; we should develop urban at small and medium scale so that we have access to modern urban development, which creating an open space for people to live peacefully in an urban environment. The research content at the conference is to share experiences and solutions so that Binh Duong can have a reasonable development orientation, ensuring modern urban development without losing humanistic values and environmental impacts.

Dr. Nguyen Viet Long - Deputy Director of Becamex IDC, Director of Binh Duong Smart City Office discusses the career development orientation for young scientists

Besides scientific events, the conference also organized side events such as a discussion session for young scientists on career development orientation, organized a Ho Chi Minh City development tour for scholars and experts to expand the network of cooperation in domestic and international research, training, and development on sustainable urban development.