Communications on sustainable development, national competitiveness to be intensified
10/9/18
The Prime Minister has recently approved a communications program to promote the country’s good, time-honored and motivational values, encouraging people from all strata to join hand in realizing the sustainable development goals and raising the national competitiveness.
Under Decision 1045/QD-TTg dated August 17, the communications program on sustainable development and national competitiveness must be practical and suitable to the national development in different periods and in line with the national action plans to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The program aims at raising the awareness of agencies, organizations, enterprises and people about sustainable development and national competitiveness, which are incorporated in socio-economic-cultural development and environmental protection targets, and publicizing policies on and solutions to achieve the set targets of sustainable development and national competitiveness improvement in each period of national development.
The communications program focuses on four main domains.
The first domain is about guidelines and policies on sustainable development and national competitiveness improvement.
The second domain covers sustainable economic growth, green growth, clean and renewable energy development, food safety and sustainable agricultural and rural development targets.
The third domain is about socio-cultural development targets in parallel with economic development, social progress and justice, creation of equal opportunities for all the people to access to development resources and enjoy basic social services and welfares.
The last domain is about environmental protection with reasonable exploitation and economical, efficient and sustainable use of the country’s natural resources; living in harmony with the nature, and pollution mitigation; and improvement of the awareness, responsibility and capacity of people to cope with climate change and control natural disasters.
The Ministry of Information and Communications will take the prime charge for organizing the implementation of this program and directing central press agencies and relevant units to carry out communications activities, especially via the telecommunications network and Internet.
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Political topicalities raise a need for development of a new concept of the competitiveness and revealing relationships between sustainable development and competitiveness.
It is generally recognized that continued competitiveness and economic growth are essential factors for supporting living standards and wellbeing.
Strong internationalcompetitiveness creates the resources that enable material improvements in living standards and resources for investm ents that promote both individual wellbeing and national competitiveness.
Competitive regions and cities are places where both companies and people want to invest and to locate in .
For a firm, competitiveness is the ability to produce the right goods and services of the right quality, at the right price, at the right time. It means meeting customers’ needs more efficiently and more effectively than other firms do.
Competitiveness can only be sustained if an appropriate balance is maintained between these factors which can be of a conflicting nature.
Competitiveness – the ability to compete in markets for goods or services. This is based on a combination of price and quality.
The set of institutions,policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country. The level of productivity, in turn, sets the sustainable level of prosperity that can be earned by an economy.
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