Hung Yen (VNA)– General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee NguyenPhu Trong extended the best wishes to officials and people of Hung Yen whilevisiting the northern province on February 19 - the fourth day of the lunar NewYear.

Reporting on Hung Yen’s achievements, Secretaryof the provincial Party Committee Do Tien Sy said last year, the provincecollected 1.2 trillion VND (52.86 million USD) for the state budget, 13 percenthigher than the set target. The industry made up 51 percent of the localeconomic structure when Hung Yen was striving to become an industrial provincein the near future.

Hung Yen attracted 255 investment projects in2017, equivalent to the total number recorded in the previous three years, hesaid, adding that it paid due attention to the building of the Party andpolitical system and stepped up the communications, mass mobilisation,examination work, and attraction of young intellectuals to localities.

Applauding Hung Yen’s performances, GeneralSecretary Trong said he can see the reform and development of Hung Yen wheneverhe visits the province.

He offered Tet greetings and expressed his hopethat the Party organisation, administration and people of Hung Yen will maintainsolidarity and bring into play local traditions as well as accomplishments andexperience so as to build a developed and wealthy province.

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Also on February 19, the Party leader and alarge number of local residents attended a ceremony in Hien Nam ward of HungYen city to launch the tree planting festival.

The tree planting festival was initiated by latePresident Ho Chi Minh in the spring of 1960. Since then, it has become acultural practice in every spring with a view to improving the environment andgreening the country.

In Hung Yen, the tree planting festival is anannual activity which has received warm response from local people. In 2017,620,300 trees were planted across the province, including more than 590,000longan, lychee, orange, grapefruit and tangerine trees.

The spring tree planting movement has helpedencourage agricultural restructuring and gear local agriculture towardslarge-scale crop production, thereby greatly contributing to the province’ssocio-economic development.

The same day, Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong Trong laid a wreath at the statue of late Party General Secretary NguyenVan Linh, who made significant contributions to the country’s revolution andreform, in Hien Nam ward of Hung Yen city.

He also visited and extended Tet greetings toworkers of the Hung Long II Garment Joint Stock Company in Lam Son ward of HungYen city.-VNA