Vietnam's maritime policy until 2020

(Baonghean.vn) - Question 48. Summarize Vietnam's maritime policy up to 2020?

Reply:Resolution 09-NQ/TW dated February 9, 2007, "On Vietnam's Maritime Strategy to 2020," has defined the guiding principles for Vietnam's maritime strategy to 2020 as follows:

- Vietnam must become a strong maritime nation, comprehensively developing all maritime industries with a diverse and modern structure, creating rapid, sustainable, and highly efficient development with a long-term vision.

- Closely integrate socio-economic development with ensuring national defense and security, international cooperation, and environmental protection; combine the development of coastal and island areas with the development of inland areas in the direction of industrialization and modernization.

- To utilize all resources for socio-economic development and marine environmental protection in a proactive and open manner, fully and effectively leveraging internal resources; to take advantage of international cooperation to strongly attract external resources on the principles of equality and mutual benefit, and to firmly protect the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the country.

- The overall goal is to strive to make Vietnam a strong maritime nation by 2020, enriching itself from the sea, firmly ensuring national sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction over the sea and islands, making a significant contribution to the industrialization and modernization process, and strengthening the country.

- The specific objectives are to comprehensively build and develop the economic, social, and scientific-technological sectors, strengthen national defense and security; striving to ensure that by 2020, the marine and coastal economy contributes approximately 53-55% of the country's total GDP. Effectively addressing social issues and significantly improving the lives of people in coastal and marine areas; achieving a per capita income twice that of the national average. Along with building several international seaports of regional significance and forming several strong economic groups, several strong economic zones will be established along the coast; a unified, effective, and efficient maritime management agency will be built, and international cooperation in maritime fields will be expanded.

According to the Q&A on Vietnam's Law of the Sea

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