INTRODUCTION 1. Necessity of the thesis In the material manufacturing sectors of the national economy, industry is an important material production industry, a breakthrough stage in the process of economic restructuring and construction of material and technical foundations of the socialism to successfully implement the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country. Industrialization is an indispensable stage of every nation in the development process. Since the Third Party Congress, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always considered industrialization as the central task of the whole transitional period to socialism. For our country, from an outdated agricultural economy, in order to advance to the socialism, it is necessarily to undergo industrialization, and the Communist Party of Vietnam always affirms that the industrial economy plays an important role. In recent years of renovation, along with stable growth, the Vietnamese economy has undergone a strong restructuring, the trend of this process is that the industry is rapidly increasing in association with the development of sectors in the direction of diversification, step by step forming a number of key and spearhead branches with high development speed, favorable market conditions, exportability, and bringing in great economic value, etc. However, besides the achieved results, the development process of Vietnamese industry has also revealed many limitations and shortcomings such as low level, mainly developing in width and too many spearheads, so it is unclear what is the priority and what is the breakthrough. It still depends on foreign direct investment enterprises and is unstable. The competitiveness of the industrial sector is still weak, while the growth rate of industrial production value rather high, the growth rate of added value is still low, the localization rate of the product is not high, most of the industrial exports in our country are raw materials or processed goods (footwear, textile and apparel), assembly (electronics, computers) while percentage of manufactured products is very low, etc. Thai Nguyen is a province in the Northern midland and mountainous region, adjacent to Hanoi capital, with advantages of geographical location, favorable climate, mineral resources, rich forest resources and abundant and highquality human resources to develop a diversified economy towards the industrialization and modernization. Over the past 50 years of establishment and development, Thai Nguyen industry has had a relatively complete structure with the presence of most industries, many of which are relatively developed compared to other localities such as mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mining, production of construction materials, processing of agricultural, forestry and food products, etc. The developed industrial economy brings in high economic value; some key products and specific characteristics of the province have been formed; and jobs for local labor force are generated, etc., thereby contributing to economic restructuring in the province. However, besides the achieved achievements, the industrial economy of Thai Nguyen province is still developing unsustainably, the growth rate is unstable, the industrial establishments are slow to renovate technology, the competitiveness of products and enterprises are not high, mainly exporting raw materials and products; unreasonable distribution of industrial zones. The planning of industrial parks and industrial clusters is still inadequate, the staff still reveals many weaknesses, etc. Recognizing the importance of the industrial economy to the development of the province, implementing the policies of the Party and the State, Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee has had timely guidelines, policies and measures to promote the industrial development. Studying the process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Partys leadership in industrial and economic development in the period 1997 to 2015 in order to affirm the truthfulness and creativity in the guideline and direction of the Provincial Party Committee; assessing the advantages and disadvantages of the process of leadership and direction; on that basis, drawing out historical experiences for the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee to apply it to leading the industrial economy development in the new period. In order to contribute to clarify these things, the PhD student chose the topic Thai Nguyen Provincial Party led the industrial economy development from 1997 to 2015 as a historical and specialized doctoral thesis for the major of History of the Communist Party of Vietnam. 2. Research purpose and task
1 INTRODUCTION Necessity of the thesis In the material manufacturing sectors of the national economy, industry is an important material production industry, a breakthrough stage in the process of economic restructuring and construction of material and technical foundations of the socialism to successfully implement the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country Industrialization is an indispensable stage of every nation in the development process Since the Third Party Congress, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always considered industrialization as the central task of the whole transitional period to socialism For our country, from an outdated agricultural economy, in order to advance to the socialism, it is necessarily to undergo industrialization, and the Communist Party of Vietnam always affirms that the industrial economy plays an important role In recent years of renovation, along with stable growth, the Vietnamese economy has undergone a strong restructuring, the trend of this process is that the industry is rapidly increasing in association with the development of sectors in the direction of diversification, step by step forming a number of key and spearhead branches with high development speed, favorable market conditions, exportability, and bringing in great economic value, etc However, besides the achieved results, the development process of Vietnamese industry has also revealed many limitations and shortcomings such as low level, mainly developing in width and too many spearheads, so it is unclear what is the priority and what is the breakthrough It still depends on foreign direct investment enterprises and is unstable The competitiveness of the industrial sector is still weak, while the growth rate of industrial production value rather high, the growth rate of added value is still low, the localization rate of the product is not high, most of the industrial exports in our country are raw materials or processed goods (footwear, textile and apparel), assembly (electronics, computers) while percentage of manufactured products is very low, etc 2 Thai Nguyen is a province in the Northern midland and mountainous region, adjacent to Hanoi capital, with advantages of geographical location, favorable climate, mineral resources, rich forest resources and abundant and high-quality human resources to develop a diversified economy towards the industrialization and modernization Over the past 50 years of establishment and development, Thai Nguyen industry has had a relatively complete structure with the presence of most industries, many of which are relatively developed compared to other localities such as mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mining, production of construction materials, processing of agricultural, forestry and food products, etc The developed industrial economy brings in high economic value; some key products and specific characteristics of the province have been formed; and jobs for local labor force are generated, etc., thereby contributing to economic restructuring in the province However, besides the achieved achievements, the industrial economy of Thai Nguyen province is still developing unsustainably, the growth rate is unstable, the industrial establishments are slow to renovate technology, the competitiveness of products and enterprises are not high, mainly exporting raw materials and products; unreasonable distribution of industrial zones The planning of industrial parks and industrial clusters is still inadequate, the staff still reveals many weaknesses, etc Recognizing the importance of the industrial economy to the development of the province, implementing the policies of the Party and the State, Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee has had timely guidelines, policies and measures to promote the industrial development Studying the process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party's leadership in industrial and economic development in the period 1997 to 2015 in order to affirm the truthfulness and creativity in the guideline and direction of the Provincial Party Committee; assessing the advantages and disadvantages of the process of leadership and direction; on that basis, drawing out historical experiences for the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee to apply it to leading the industrial economy development in the new period 3 In order to contribute to clarify these things, the PhD student chose the topic "Thai Nguyen Provincial Party led the industrial economy development from 1997 to 2015" as a historical and specialized doctoral thesis for the major of History of the Communist Party of Vietnam Research purpose and task 2.1 Purpose of the study The thesis clarifies the leadership process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee for industrial economic development from 1997 to 2015 and summarizes valuable references for the process of industrial economic development in local in the next time 2.2 Tasks of the study - Analyzing and assessing factors affecting the leadership of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on industrial and economic development in Thai Nguyen from 1997 to 2015; - Providing an overview of the Party's views and policies; analyzing the policy and direction of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on industrial and economic development from 1997 to 2015; - Assessing the successes, limitations and causes; summarizing experiences from the process of leading industrial economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015 Object and scope of the study 3.1 Object of the study The object of the thesis is the leadership of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on industrial economic development from 1997 to 2015 3.2 Scope of the study About content: The industrial economy includes many contents Within the scope of this thesis, we focus on the undertakings and direction of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee for the development of industrial economy on the following issues: (1) planning and building infrastructure - techniques; (2) developing industries with advantages, such as: mining industry, processing industry, manufacturing, producing and distributing electricity, gas and water; (3) developing handicrafts, craft villages; (4) planning and expanding industrial zones and industrial clusters; (5) attracting investment and developing human resources for industry in the province; (6) reforming administration, improving investment environment to attract resources inside and outside the province; (7) protecting the environment in the industrial development About time: The study was from 1997, the year of re-establishing Thai Nguyen province, the time of the XVth Congress of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, and by 2015 the year of the XIXth Congress of the Provincial Party Committee About space: Studying the industrial economy development in Thai Nguyen province Literature and research methodologies 4.1 Literature The thesis is based on the theoretical basis of Marxism - Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, guidelines and views of the Communist Party of Vietnam on industrialization, modernization of the country and development of industrial economy 4.2 Material source - Party and State documents, resolutions and directives on industrialization and modernization in general and industrial economic development in particular - Documents, resolutions, decisions, reports, action programs of the Party Committee, the People's Council, the People's Committee, the Department of Industry and Trade and some departments, agencies and branches of Thai Nguyen Province - Statistics of Department of Statistics, Department of Industry and Trade and a number of departments, branches and sectors of the province - Published works, themes, schemes, articles, magazines, theses, and dissertations related to the topic 4.3 Research methodologies The thesis uses specialized and interdisciplinary research methods, which mainly use historical and logical methods, and combined research methods such as statistics, collation and analysis, comparing and summarizing the process of industrial economic development in Thai Nguyen, specifically: The historical method is used to clarify the leadership process of industrial and economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015 through two stages The logical method is used to clarify the relationship between guidelines and measures with the process of directing the implementation and the achieved results Evaluating the advantages, limitations and some experience in the process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party leading the development of industrial economy from 1997 to 2015 Other methods such as: analyzing, comparing and synthesizing reality to clarify the issues raised by the thesis New contributions of the thesis - Systematizing views, policies and direction of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on industrial economic development from 1997 to 2015 - Assessing and evaluating of achievements and limitations in leadership activities of industrial and economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015 - Drawing out experience from the process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party leader in industrial economic development from 1997 to 2015 so that it can be applied in practical leadership and direction Scientific and practical implication of the thesis Contributing to summarizing the leadership of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party about developing industrial economy; a key area of the local economy The dissertation's findings will contribute to the scientific foundation for identifying the system of viewpoints, policies and solutions for leading industrial economic development in the locality during the period of accelerating innovation and international integration 6 The thesis can be used as a reference in the propaganda, research and teaching of the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the history of Thai Nguyen Province Party in the renovation period The structure of the thesis In addition to the introduction, conclusion, list of references and appendices, the content of the thesis consists of chapters: Chapter Overview of research situation related to the thesis topic Chapter Thai Nguyen provincial Party led the development of industrial economy from 1997 to 2005 Chapter Thai Nguyen Provincial Party leader promoted the development of industrial economy from 2006 to 2015 Chapter Comments and some experiences Chapter OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY SITUATION RELATED TO THE THESIS TOPIC 1.1 Research situation related to the thesis topic 1.1.1 Group of works on industrial economic development in general Research works on industrial economic development in Vietnam Firstly, studies mention the process of formation and development of industrial economy Secondly, the work group mentions the Party's guidelines and policies; and State policies on industrial economic development Thirdly, a number of works offer solutions and forecasts about the development trends and prospects of Vietnam's industrial economy in the future Fourthly, studies on industrial development towards sustainability Fifthly, studies on industrialization and modernization The industrialization is an inevitable way to transform from a self-sufficient, self-sufficient and closed agricultural economy with mainly manual labor to the industrial economy Sixthly, studies address specific industry issues Studies on industrial development of several countries around the world China, Japan, South Korea and East Asian countries are always the concern of Vietnam to refer and choose new directions for the industrial economy 1.1.2 Group of works on industrial economic development in localities Each locality, due to the characteristics of each province, with its own advantages has led industrial development and achieved great results such as Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Da Nang, Bac Ninh, etc These are materials that we can learn and refer to give policies, tasks and solutions for industrial development on the basis of available conditions and strengths in the locality 1.1.3 Group of researches on industrial economic development in Thai Nguyen province Firstly, researching and developing industrial economy in the sustainable socio-economic development of Thai Nguyen province Secondly, the process of economic restructuring towards industrialization and modernization Thirdly, studying the development of Thai Nguyen industry Fourthly, studying the impact of factors on the industrial and economic development of Thai Nguyen province Fifthly, studying solutions for industrial economic development in Thai Nguyen province Sixthly, studying industrial economic development based on the advantages of Thai Nguyen province Seventhly, industrial economic research in relation to other sectors 1.2 Summary of research results of published works related to the topic and the issues solved by the thesis 1.2.1 Overview of the results of published works related to the thesis topic Firstly, about the materials The scientific researches on issues related to industrial economic development are very diverse Those works have clarified the advantages and achievements as well as difficulties and weaknesses in economic development in general and Thai Nguyen's industrial economy in particular Secondly, on the approach and research methodologies The industrial economy is the concern of many researchers in many historical, economic, political, etc perspectives with different research methods nationwide and in many localities Thirdly, about the content The above studies have mentioned some basic contents as follows: Firstly, the researches mentioned about the process of formation and development of Vietnam's industrial economy in general, despite approaching in many different angles and scopes, but confirming the objective requirements and important role of industrial economy in relation to other economic sectors Secondly, the experience of managing industrial economic development of some countries in the world is a valuable lesson for Vietnam in general and Thai Nguyen in particular Thirdly, at the local level nationwide, the key role of the industrial economy in the socio-economic development process is also mentioned Fourthly, it can be affirmed that the industrial economy in Thai Nguyen has not been given adequate attention by researchers Fifthly, the research results of the works related to the topic are quite comprehensive and profound 1.2.2 Thesis contents needing to focus on solving From the process of analyzing and evaluating the articles and scientific researches on private economy on a national as well as local level, the author of the thesis focuses on researching the following issues: Firstly, analyzing and evaluating to clarify factors affecting the process of leading the industrial economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015 Secondly, systematizing the Party's policy on industrial economic development, the policy of Thai Nguyen province, the process of directing industrial economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015 with the following contents: (1) planning and building infrastructure - techniques; (2) developing advantageous industries; (3) developing handicrafts, craft villages; (4) planning and expanding industrial zones and industrial clusters; (5) attracting investment and developing human resources for industry in the province; (6) reforming administration, improving investment environment to attract resources inside and outside the province; (7) protecting the environment in the industrial development On that basis, highlighting the activeness, initiative and creativity of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee in leading local industrial economic development Thirdly, commenting on the process of leadership, direction and results in the leadership of industrial economic development of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee from 1997 to 2015, based on which draws key experiences to contributing to providing scientific arguments for the completion of guidelines and policies to improve the efficiency of industrial and economic development of Thai Nguyen in the next period Chapter THAI NGUYEN PROVINCIAL PARTY LED THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY FROM 1997 TO 2005 2.1 Policy of the Provincial Party about developing industrial economy from 1997 to 2005 2.1.1 Bases for determining guidelines 10 2.1.1.1 Role of industrial economy for the development of the country Content of industry and industrial economy Industry is a key sector of the modern national economy, including enterprises exploiting and processing raw materials and fuels, manufacturing labor tools, exploiting forests, rivers, seas, and processing products of agriculture, forestry and fishery Industrial economy is the basic economic sector, the foundation of the national economy "Industrial economy is in the field of physical production of social production, with the task of creating goods and products for society, creating products that are production materials and consumer products" The role of industrial economy Firstly, industrial economy is the basic and fundamental economy Secondly, industrial economy produces consumer goods Thirdly, the development of industrial economy creates many jobs, contributing to reducing unemployment Fourthly, industrial economy affects production relations in society Fifthly, the development of industrial economy also creates pervasive motivation, arousing the potential of backward rural areas into industrial zones, dynamically developing industrial clusters 2.1.1.2 Natural and socio-economic conditions affecting the industrial and economic development of Thai Nguyen province In this section, the author presents a number of issues affecting the industrial economic development of Thai Nguyen province, including: Natural condition Socio-economic characteristics Assessment of potentials and advantages for developing industrial economy in Thai Nguyen Difficulties affecting industrial and economic development in Thai Nguyen 11 2.1.1.3 Situation of Thai Nguyen's industrial economy before 1997 and new requirements As one of the major industrial parks of the country with a total of nearly 50,000 cadres and workers, but before 1997, industrial production in Thai Nguyen, besides the achievements, was still underdeveloped The life of officials and employees is difficult, reducing general consumer goods as well as agricultural products, limiting the development of the market for agricultural and forestry products Therefore, the task set out in industrial production in the province must have a higher and firmer growth than other manufacturing industries, making the process of shifting the proportion of economic structure among industries faster toward industry agriculture and service, gradually shifting agricultural labor to agricultural and service labor with the aim of improving the life of all people 2.1.1.4 Party’s guidelines on industrial and economic development Through the Party congresses, it can be seen that the direction of industrialization and modernization have supplemented and adjusted in terms of form, content, tasks and implementation solutions A prominent feature in this period is innovation with important historical events on the path of comprehensive innovation at the Sixth Congress (1986) The adjustment in the policy of industrial development is reflected in the concept, content of industrialization, economic structure policy focusing on implementing three major economic programs, selective heavy industry development, prioritized light industry development; in improving, building and strengthening production relations, implementing policies of multi-component economic structure; The bureaucratic industrial management mechanism that has not created a driving force for development and caused many negative phenomena in society has been replaced by a socialist-oriented market mechanism 2.1.2 Policy of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on developing industrial economy (1997 - 2005) Through the congresses from 1997 to 2005, the thorough policy of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee was: 12 Giving priority to and creating favorable conditions for the industrial economy to develop and restructure the economy along the direction of industry- agriculture, forestry and services; Finding out solutions to improve the efficiency of state-owned enterprises; equitizing underperforming State enterprises; focus on building technical infrastructure for industry; Promoting all potentials, strengths, creating an important motivation to promote socio-economic development, commensurate with the requirements of a key province in the Northern midland and mountainous region The guidelines and policies of the locality have greatly affected the development of industrial economy and accelerated the process of industrialization and modernization in Thai Nguyen 2.2 Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee directed industrial economic development (1997 - 2005) 2.2.1 Construction of industrial infrastructure Regarding industrial electrification Regarding traffic Regarding construction of infrastructure of residential areas and industrial clusters 2.2.2 Implementing mechanisms and policies and creating a driving force for the development of industrial economy Land policy Policies on investment capital and credit Policies on taxes and fees Policies for developing material areas 2.2.3 Directing to accelerate administrative procedure reform and improve investment environment to attract investment in developing industrial economy The task of administrative reform, in general, is expressed in three important areas: Consolidating the organizational structure of the administration at all levels; reforming institution and implementation 13 organization, removing unsuitable regulations hindering the development of production forces; improving the capacity and quality of officials and employees, resolutely fight against bureaucracy and corruption 2.2.4 Developing a number of concentrated industrial parks and clusters in association with small and medium enterprises, and strongly developing rural industries In the province, there have been new industrial zones and clusters with dozens of industrial establishments in operation The direction for the development of small and medium-sized industrial parks with diversified industries in the locality according to the plan aims to combine industrial development and job creation and social issues, ensuring the combination of industrial development according to economic characteristics among localities in the province with environmental protection 2.2.5 Renewing and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of industry In order to renovate and improve the effectiveness of state management of industry, a major issue that needs to be considered is to arrange the renovation of development and improve the efficiency of state enterprises in industry In fact, some SOEs are operating inefficiently and having bulky apparatus, weak production capacity Therefore, SOE renovation and arrangement are required to be implemented early to minimize costs and losses caused by inefficient operations 2.2.6 Developing science and technology and training human resources Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee has implemented the policy of developing science and technology in order to create a unity in the perception of the party committees and authorities at all levels on the position, role and impact of science and technology the province’s industry development planning Paying attention to research and application of scientific and technological advances to production and life 14 activities, activities of science and technology, contributing to positive and effective impacts on improving productivity and quality and quantity of major commodity products, promoting economic restructuring towards industrialization and modernization in localities 2.2.7 Industrial economic development in hand with environmental protection Environmental protection is the responsibility of the entire people, organizations and individuals in the province as well as across the country Therefore, the provincial People's Committee issued Decision No 1593/2002/QD-UB dated June 4, 2002, promulgating the regulation on environmental protection management in Thai Nguyen province Accordingly, when industrial zones are planned to be suitable to specific environmental characteristics, there must be plans to protect the environment with adequate rainwater drainage systems, wastewater and solid waste collection and treatment systems discharging hazardous waste, ensuring greenery area, safe distance to residential areas, full of pollution prevention and environmental incidents Chapter THAI NGUYEN PROVINCIAL PARTY LEADER PROMOTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY FROM 2006 TO 2015 3.1 Bases for determining guidelines 3.1.1 Impact of world, regional and domestic situation Impact of world and regional situation Domestic situation 3.1.2 Party's industrial economic development policy The X Congress of the Party (April 2006) determined to promote industrialization and modernization associated with the development of the knowledge economy, considering the knowledge economy as an 15 important element of the economy and industrialization and modernization To achieve this goal, industry is a leader in innovation, improving technical-technological level as well as knowledge content, in order to increase product value and enhance competitiveness of products This policy was further affirmed in the Platform for building the country in the transition period to the socialism 3.2 Policy of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee on promoting the development of industrial economy from 2006 to 2015 The policy of promoting industrial and economic development of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee in the 2006-2015 period through the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth provincial Party Congress of the Provincial Party Congress was built in a systematic, synchronized and consistent manner with the general trend of the region and the world, while closely following local practical requirements on some basic issues: Developing and expanding industrial zones, attaching importance to developing high-tech industries; Continuing to strongly develop traditional industries and local strengths; Developing industry associated with service development, focusing on quality of growth; Strengthening the state management of industry; Developing industry associated with environmental protection and sustainable development 3.3 Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee directed to promote the development of industrial economy (2006-2015) 3.3.1 Accelerating reform of administrative procedures, raising the effectiveness and efficiency of state management, 16 improving the business environment to attract investment in developing industrial economy Reforming administration Reforming institution Reforming the organization of state administrative apparatus Building and improving the quality of cadres and civil servants Reforming public finance Improving the effectiveness of industrial state management In the period of 2006-2015, Thai Nguyen has made great efforts in implementing administrative reform, implementing the one-door and onestop mechanism in receiving and returning administrative procedure settlement results in close proximity to 100% state administrative agencies in the area The province also organizes PAR Steering Committee meetings, strengthens measures to improve and improve the PAR index, the PAR and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI); announcing the results of surveys on people's satisfaction with the service of state administrative agencies in all communes and wards in the province 3.3.2 Attracting and encouraging domestic and foreign investment for industrial economic development In the period of 2011-2016, the province has set specific goals and tasks that need to focus on important tasks, first of all well implementing the administrative procedure reform, improving the investment environment to improve brand name, promote local image to attract investment to meet the requirements of economic growth, focus on mobilizing all resources for development investment, in the direction of gradually reducing public investment, increasing investment ratio from economic sectors Enterprises are encouraged to invest in technological innovation, especially in the application of high technology in the fields of manufacturing exports and processing of forest products 17 3.3.3 Continuing to build and develop infrastructure - technical systems Regarding infrastructure of industrial parks and clusters, priority should be given to investment in building infrastructures in service of large industrial establishments in the locality, such as: The project on expanding Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel Company phase II, Nui Phao multi-needle mine; planning and organizing the implementation of investment projects on infrastructure construction outside the fence connecting industrial zones and clusters to create an internal and external infrastructure Focusing on mobilizing and rationally using all resources such as targeted support capital from the central budget, loans from the Ministry of Finance, from the provincial budget and advance capital Developing, attracting investment and arranging industries into industrial parks and clusters strictly according to planning, ensuring production efficiency and sustainable development 3.3.4 Promoting the construction of industrial parks and industrial clusters in association with the urbanization process towards modernization Regarding the development of industrial parks and clusters Strongly developing industry in major industrial centers of the province, especially metallurgy, effectively exploiting and increasing local mineral processing, agricultural and forestry processing, mechanics, textiles, local footwear, chemicals and software technology Developing industrial and handicraft services according to the strengths of each locality Developing industrial and handicraft services according to the strengths of each locality, striving to 2010, industry - construction will account for 45% or more of GDP Regarding planning and urban development towards modernization The provincial urban planning is suitable for the strategic position of being an economic, political, cultural and defense center in the Northern mountainous region, one of the three major centers of the country on 18 education and training and industrial development center in the North Creating a development space of the whole province in the direction of developing both economic potentials and ensuring the quality of the living environment and harmonizing the investment space for development of population, urban, industrial and tourist area, social technical infrastructure and reasonable distribution among economic population regions in the province 3.3.5 Training, attracting human resources and investing in science and technology Training and developing human resources for industry Continuing training according to the orientation of industry development, handicrafts, common trade villages of the province and the whole country on adjusting labor structure according to economic restructuring, intra-industry transformation, etc Particularly, to pay attention to creating jobs for people in the project area, having their land recovered through the support of vocational training and vocational transmission; help people stabilize their lives, ensure social security, political security in the area Attracting high-quality human resources The preferential and preferential regimes attract those with high academic degrees and academic degrees in the fields and fields of the province which are focusing on development priority Moreover, with the advantage of being the regional center of education and training, Thai Nguyen has many universities, colleges and vocational schools in the province so it can make the maximum use of knowledge resources for industrial development Investing in science and technology The application of information technology in activities of state agencies, in the implementation of information technology industry development programs has been applied by the Province since 2012 Forming a centralized and modern digital content software park, hi-tech 19 information and information technology park, attracting investment and serve the purpose of economic restructuring until 2020 3.3.6 Developing handicrafts and craft villages Promoting industrial promotion activities Supporting to build trade villages Policy and mechanism Activities supporting the development of small industry and handicraft villages include: Industrial promotion program for the period of 2011-2015 implements 163 projects and funding support: VND 26.5 billion, of which: 15 national industrial promotion schemes, billion VND in funding, 148 local industrial promotion schemes, VND 20.5 billion Supporting to build village gate and hold Ceremony for recognizing certificates of merit for 162 trade villages and traditional trade villages; supporting to expand the replication of 03 key trade villages, with a total budget of VND 789 million; voted and recognized 71 typical rural industrial products at provincial level, Ministry of Industry and Trade recognized 10 typical rural industrial products at regional level, 02 typical rural industrial products at national level 3.3.7 Promoting the development of advantageous industries With the potential and locally available conditions that can develop multidisciplinary, the development direction in this period is the following industries: Mining and mineral processing industry Processing industry, mechanical engineering, electronic equipment assembly and metal processing High-tech application industry Light industry, processing of agriculture, forestry, fishery, food, consumer products Textile industry - garment - footwear and consumer goods production Processing industry of agricultural products, foodstuffs and beverages Forest product processing industry Power industry, water and waste treatment 20 3.3.8 Environmental protection ensures sustainable industrial economic development Environmental protection is very important Thai Nguyen Party Committee and government also issued many documents to give urgent solutions to enhance environmental protection in the period of accelerating industrialization and modernization in the province The achieved results of this Project are quite high: nearly 100% of new investment projects have made environmental impact assessment reports, 52 establishments causing serious environmental pollution must implement plans to thoroughly tackle pollution, about over 80% of urban population;; 71% of rural people have access to clean water However, in addition to the achieved results, there are still urgent and unresolved environmental issues, the awareness of environmental protection laws of enterprises has been raised, but still of a nature of coping with increasingly complicated violations, environmental pollution are increasing and difficult to control The problem of environmental pollution in industrial production, mining and mineral processing areas is getting worse Chapter COMMENTS AND SOME EXPERIENCES 4.1 Comments on the process of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party's leadership in industrial economic development (1997-2015) 4.1.1 Advantages 4.1.1.1 Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee has realized the right position, role and the need to promote industrial development, promptly set the leadership policy closely to the local reality 4.1.1.2 In the process of leading the industrial economy development, Thai Nguyen Party Committee regularly follows the practical situation, proactively offers many effective solutions based on local strengths