Ben Tre (VNA) – Ben Tre is striving to become one of the provincesleading the Mekong Delta region in terms of the sea-based economy.
The provincial People's Committee has justissued a plan to implement the Government’s Resolution No. 48-NQ/TW on the strategyfor sustainable exploitation and use of resources, and protection of the sea andisland environment by 2030, with a vision to 2050 in Ben Tre.
The committee’s Vice Chairman Nguyen MinhCanh said that in the coming time, the locality aims to become one of theprovinces with strong and sustainable marine economic development, with a focuson developing renewable energy, fisheries and tourism; gradually form a marineecological culture; adapt to climate change; ensure the marine environment;prevent coastal erosion; and preserve and promote the marine ecosystem.
Accordingly, from now to 2030, Ben Tre will prioritise allocating marine space for renewable energy development and newenvironmentally-friendly marine economic sectors while supporting investors toaccelerate investment progress in wind power projects whose planning has beenapproved.
The province is also striving to haveaccumulated capacity and output of wind and solar power of 1,500 MW by 2025 and 3,000 MW by 2030 and to build a green hydrogen plant project.
Ben Tre focuses on developing aquaculture usinghigh technology and biosafety, with a target of reaching 450 million VND(18,300 USD) per hectare of aquaculture products by 2030. The area of marineaquaculture will reach 42,000 hectares, with a total output of 136,000 tonnes,of which high technology will be applied on 5,100 hectares.
The Mekong Delta province will also completeand upgrade the database and fishing vessel monitoring system, developtraditional craft villages, and improve the service quality of fishing ports,storm shelters, fishing ship repair facilities, and logistics establishments.
It expects that total revenue from tourismactivities in the three coastal districts will increase by an average of 25% ayear, and account for about 20% of the province's tourism revenue by 2025 and30% by 2030./.
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