Vietnam’s 2017 achievements are prerequisites for sustainable development
President Tran Dai Quang in an interview said that what Vietnam has achieved in 2017 have created important prerequisites for the country to continue implementing successfully objectives and tasks set by Vietnam`s Party.
The President said that 2017 was the first time in many years Vietnam had met and surpassed all 13 socio-economic development goals set by the National Assembly. The macro-economy was stable, inflation was controlled, and budget collection and major balances of the economy met their respective targets. While GDP grew at 6.81%, export-import reached the highest-ever turnover of US$425 billion and a record of over US$33 billion of foreign direct investment was attracted. He also highlighted encouraging attainments in social affairs, particularly poverty reduction and health care, enhanced defence and security, and ensured political security and social order and safety, along with significant outcomes in the building of the Party and the political system.
He also described 2017 as a special year in Vietnam’s diplomatic history, underlining the huge success of the APEC Year 2017, with its peak being the 25th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. As the host of the Year, the country made a historic milestone in the economic-political connection progress in Asia-Pacific while showing its stature, firmness and wisdom.
The APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in the central city of Da Nang on November 6-11 turned Vietnam into the focus of the world’s attention. It saw the presence of all leaders of the APEC economies, the leaders of the guest nations of Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, and more than 11,000 delegates. Over 21,000 people attended activities of the APEC Year 2017.
He told the press that what Vietnam achieved in the APEC Year 2017 also laid a foundation for the country to elevate bilateral relations with partners. Historic visits and tens of talks and bilateral meetings took place during the Week. Particularly, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China Xi Jinping paid a State visit shortly after the party’s 19th national congress. Meanwhile, Donald Trump became the first US President to make a State visit to Vietnam in the first year of the term.
In 2017, Vietnam bolstered cooperation with neighbouring, regional and major countries as well as nations it has traditional ties with, the leader noted, adding that leaders of Vietnam and other countries made a number of mutual visits. Notably, there were tens of high-level visits between Vietnam and leading regional and global nations. It was the first time in history Vietnam had welcomed the leaders of China and the US on their State visits in one day.
Amid the global economy’s unstable recovery and growing trade protectionism, Vietnam strongly promoted economic, trade and investment ties with other countries in both bilateral and multilateral aspects and greatly helped with the shaping of economic-trade connections in the region. During the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, the country played an active role in maintaining and promoting the negotiation on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Meanwhile, in ASEAN, Vietnam paid a critical contribution to the enhancement of solidarity, consensus and common voice in the region’s strategic issues. Security-defence dialogue and cooperation mechanisms with neighbouring, regional and major countries, Vietnam’s active engagement in multilateral forums on security-defence, and its participation in UN peacekeeping operations increased the political trust between Vietnam and other countries, thus helping to raise the nation’s standing and prestige in the international arena.
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