Economy - Society

Education and training of the province has always been paid special attention and guidance of Party committees and local authorities. Facilities for education – training have been upgraded and expanded, the quality of education and training of students according to disciplines and levels have positive changes; the situation of school dropouts due to difficult transportation [...]

Care and protection of people’s health in recent years has had positive developments, facilities serving medical examination and treatment have been interested in upgrading and expanding. The province has completed and put into operation the provincial general hospital, with a scale of 500 beds, contributing to limiting the overload and improving the quality of medical [...]

Ca Mau is the southernmost province of the country – the place where many layers of people go to reclaim land to conquer nature. Ca Mau is a province focusing on 06 religions including Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, CaoDai, Hoa Hao Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhist Sangha in Vietnam. By the beginning of 2017, Ca Mau [...]

The people living in Ca Mau province has 14 ethnic groups, including 03 main ethnic groups including Kinh, Khmer and Hoa. By the beginning of 2017, in the province of Ca Mau, Kinh people accounted for the majority, with about 1.180.000 people, accounting for over 96% of the population and living mostly in parts of [...]

As of early 2017, the population of Ca Mau Province was 1.223.191, with 613.042 males and 610.149 females; a total of 290.846 households. Of which: In urban areas, there are 69.015 households, with 276.385 people. In rural areas, there are 221.831 households, with 946.806 people. Birth rate 14,55 permille. Mortality rate 4,95 permille. The natural [...]

Industry – handicraft production in the province has achieved a relatively high speed, contributing to rapid economic restructuring. Industry has been playing an important role in the economic structure of the province. The whole province now has 6.659 industrial production establishments, an increase of 2.945 establishments compared to the first day of re-establishing the province. [...]

By 2017, the total area of ​​concentrated forests in Ca Mau province has 92.360 ha, accounting for 77% of the forests of the Mekong Delta region, the rate of forest cover and scattered trees is 24,5%, mainly flooded forest. Ca Mau has 3 main forest types: – Freshwater flooded forest (mangrove forests) have an area [...]

Agricultural production in Ca Mau has been shifted towards exploiting rice strengths in key rice areas to ensure food security and converting a part of low-yield rice land to more efficient aquaculture. In the restructuring of production in recent years, agriculture still plays an important role in promoting economic development, meeting food needs and partly [...]

Fishery is a key economic sector of Ca Mau province and has been the leading province in aquaculture, processing and exporting seafood for many years. The total output of fishing and aquaculture in 2016 was estimated at 480.000 tons (530.000 tons plan), equaling 90,6% of the plan, down 4% compared to 2015. In particular, shrimp [...]