Danang development plan focuses on tech, tourism

A cyclist rides past a billboard advertising a luxury residential development, opposite the venue where Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economic ministers were meeting in Da Nang.

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The government has approved Danang’s socio-economic master plan for the period through 2020 which seeks to develop the city into one of the country’s biggest metros and a service, port, and transport hub for the central region.

It envisages maintaining annual economic growth at 12-13 percent and export growth at 19-20 percent.

Tourism will be one of the main sources of income for the city at VND2.42 trillion (US$ 123 million) in 2015 and VND3.89 trillion($198 million) in 2020.

Industry will be developed selectively with an emphasis on technology.

Infrastructure will be improved by renovating Lien Chieu and Tho Quang ports, expanding and upgrading Tien Sa port and Danang International airport, and building highways to Quang Ngai Province.

Danang hopes to spearhead economic growth in its neighborhood and achieve per capita annual income of $5000.

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Orbis Flying Eye Hospital finishes mission in Danang

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital – the world’s only airborne ophthalmic surgical and training facility – concluded its ophthalmic surgical techniques transfer and training program for Vietnam’s central coastal city of Danang on Friday.

During the two-week program, 13 leading ophthalmic experts gave direct lectures to 46 ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians at Danang Eye Hospital.

Under the program, 109 Vietnamese and 10 Lao and Cambodian ophthalmologists received online lectures from the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital’s surgery ward and hands-on instruction.

In addition, the two hospitals’ experts performed surgery and provided laser treatment to 56 retina and glaucoma patients. They also provided medical check-ups and treatment to 163 disadvantaged patients, mostly children.

Additionally, the Orbis hospital’s staff joined their colleagues from the Hue Eye Hospital in offering eye examinations to more than 200 children and old people at the Medical Centre in Phu Loc District of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Another 30 cataract patients will receive operations and treatment from Danang Eye Hospital doctors in September under the sponsorship of Orbis.

Founded in 1982, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital has conducted 269 programs in 87 nations. It landed in Vietnam for the first time at Danang Airport in October 2006 and this is the fourth time it has returned to the Southeast Asian nation and the third time to Danang City.

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