TAILIEUCHUNG - Environmental issues in vietnam’s southern key economic zone after ten years of development
This paper aims to analyze the current pollution of water, air and solid waste in the provinces and cities of the Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ). Based on its findings, some suitable solutions will be suggested to ensure SKEZ’s sustainable economic development in and the harmony between economic growth and development, resulting in a healthy living environment. | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT No. 207, November 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN VIETNAM’S SOUTHERN KEY ECONOMIC ZONE AFTER TEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT by HUYØNH ÑÖÙC THIEÄN, MA* This paper aims to analyze the current pollution of water, air and solid waste in the provinces and cities of the Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ). Based on its findings, some suitable solutions will be suggested to ensure SKEZ’s sustainable economic development in and the harmony between economic growth and development, resulting in a healthy living environment. Keywords: environment, environmental pollution, SKEZ 1. Overview of SKEZ Ten years after the initiation of Ñoåi môùi (Renovation), in late 1997 and early 1998, several provinces were selected to establish KEZs in order to accelerate the country’s overall growth and create a link and coordination in socioeconomic development among EZs. A KEZ can have ability to realize breakthroughs, stimulate national socioeconomic development with great and steady speed, enhance the living standards and attain social equality. The establishment of KEZs serves practical needs in general and the economy’s requirements in particular. Specifically, in the years 1997 – 1998, three Decisions were made on the founding of three national KEZs, namely Northern KEZ (Decision 747/1997/QÑ-TTg), Central KEZ (Decision 1018/1997/QÑ-TTg) and SKEZ (Decision 44/1998/QÑ-TTg). According to Decision 44/1998/QÑ-TTg, SKEZ is comprised of four provinces, namely HCMC, Ñoàng Nai, Bình Döông, and Baø Ròa – Vuõng Taøu. Five years later, in July 2003, three more provinces (Taây Ninh, Bình Phöôùc and Long An) 32 RESEARCHES & DISCUSSIONS were added to SKEZ according to Announcement 99/2003/TB-VPCP dated July 2, 2003. Tieàn Giang Province was supplemented two years afterwards in September 2005 according to Official Document 4973/2005/CV-VPCP from the Government Office, raising the total number of provinces to eight. However, the heart of SKEZ consists only of four original localities: .
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