Hanoi (VNA) – The Prime Minister has issued a national action plan for implementingthe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,which adopted at the UN Summit inNew York, the US, in September, 2016.

The plan aims to maintain sustainable economic growth, promote socialadvancement and fairness, environmental protection, effectively manage and use naturalresources, proactively adapt to climate change, and ensure that all people canuphold their strength and potential and equally enjoy development achievements,towards building Vietnam into astrong country with prosperous people, and democratic, fair and civilized society.

Vietnam has set to achieve 17 sustainable development goals by 2030, including promotingpoverty reduction and gender equality, education reform, infrastructuredevelopment, industrialisation, urban and rural development, ensuring foodsecurity, increasing social welfare for all people of all ages.

The goals will also focus on boosting sustainable production and consumption;sea-based economic development; climate change adaptation; forest protection andsustainable development; and biodiversity preservation, enhancing globalpartnership promotion for sustainable development; promoting peace, democracy,fairness, equality, and making it easy for people to access justice, amongothers.

To that end, attention will be paid to perfecting the institutional system for sustainabledevelopment in 2017-2020, and completing the building of action plans ofministries, sectors, localities, agencies and organisations, and training humanresources, especially high-quality workforce, while specific projects andprogrammes for the implementation of set sustainable development goals will bedesigned.

Communication campaigns will be intensified to raise publicawareness of sustainable development goals and national action plans forrealising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

All-out efforts must be fostered during 2021-2030, to successfullyimplement Vietnam’s sustainable developments by 2030.-VNA