(VOVworld) – A conference on investment promotion of the Red River Delta opens in Ninh Binh province on Friday.

Granting an investment license to a local business  (photo: Vu Van Dat/ Vietnamplus)

Speaking at the event, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh praised Ninh Binh province’s efforts to maintain a high economic growth rate this year at over 10% and reduce the poverty rate to below 9% in the context of economic recession. Ninh asked the province to actively cooperate with ministries, sectors, and adjacent localities to attract investment to major projects. He suggested Ninh Binh province to sustainably develop tourism into an economic spearhead sector by 2015. The province is asked to offer suitable mechanism to draw domestic and international resources for infrastructure development, especially transport network in rural areas, contributing to build new rural areas.