PM orders measures to put an end to free emigration by 2025
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has reiterated his viewpoint of not encouraging free emigration and ordered legal, harmonious, flexible and comprehensive measures to address the issue.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the conference (Photo VNA)
Dak Lak (VNA)– Pr𓆏ime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has reiterated his viewpoint of notencouraging free emigration and ordered legal, harmonious, flexible andcomprehensive measures to address the issue.
While addressing anational conference in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak on December 9,PM Phuc said free emigration is a global matter, not only in Vietnam, citing statisticsof the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as saying that the number of emigrantsworldwide reached 207 million in 2017. The PM pointed tonegative consequences of free emigration, which, he said, could affect nationaldefence, security and social welfares and order of localities and the wholecountry. “The ultimate purpose ishow to help migrants have stable lives and production, children go to school,and old people receive health check-ups and treatment, with no one being leftbehind”, he said. The government leadernoted that more than 100,000 migrants have yet to register for permanent residenceand over 20,000 households have not been stabilised, so the rate of propertyremains high. PM Phuc asked the localauthorities to encourage people stabilise their lives by improving infrastructureand enabling them to develop production as well as taking land managementmeasures to avoid encroachment. He set the target of puttingan end to free emigration by 2025, stabilising the lives of disadvantagedhouseholds, and completing 32 settlement projects.
The Government leaderalso requested the provinces to increase the effective management of landoriginating from forestry farms, address the lack of productive land, controlfree emigration, maintain social order and security and ensure legal interestsof people.
He agreed in principle to add around 2.5trillion VND (107.2 milliꦦon USD) from the central budget reserve in 2019 and 2020for population stabilisation and settlement projects.
The PM reminded relevant ministriesand relevant sectors to quickly restructure and develop agricultural andforestry companies, and ensure national defence and security, especially inborder and remote areas. According to the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Development, more than 66,700 households freely migratedto provinces in the Northwest, Central Highlands, and Southwest regions from2005. The flow of emigrants hasreduced strongly in recent years thanks to the implementation of the Party andState’s policies. In 2013-2017, as many as 17,510 free migration householdswere assisted to stabilise their lives.-VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the conference (Photo VNA)
