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English: To realise the objectives set for developing telecommunication systems in rural areas, Ngô Xuân Lộc, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam signed the Decision No. 447/QĐ-TTg on June 1st (first), 1998, approving the Central Vietnam Rural Telecommunication Network Project, which was financed by an ODA loan from the Japanese government for fiscal year 1997. Telecommunications technology and the telecommunications industry is not only a significant factor of economic development but also a key economic sector in and of itself. It would thus help in eradicating the gap between rural and urban areas and has aided in ensuring better communication from the central to local governments and vice versa. Thus, improving the telecommunication system in rural areas has become an urgent requirement for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s process of national industrialisation and modernisation. The rural telecommunications improvements project has made profound contribution in terms of the restructuring of the economy, the enhancement of production, the alleviation of poverty, and raising the intellectual standards of the Vietnamese people. The physical record belonged to the collection of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Prime Minister’s Office, and it is now kept in National Archives Center No. 3 under the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam.