How Thailand is becoming a progressive country in the 21st century
27 September 2021
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During the September 22 online opening of a seminar hosted by the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha revealed the Thai government's plan to in the 21th century into a progressive community with a sustainable economy.
The title of the seminar was “Mission: 13 Goals to Transform Thailand”, of which the Prime Minister highlighted 5 as the most important:
- Restructure the country's manufacturing to become an innovation-based economy. Develop the ability and quality of life of workers to reach the new world standard and develop the quality of life of Thai people for the 21st century.
- Create a society of opportunity and equality. The government, they say, has worked tirelessly to eliminate inequality in many areas, including improving income inequality by introducing the state benefit card to help support the cost of living.
- Create sustainability in Thailand by prioritizing environmental and ecosystem issues over the development of the country in all aspects, including its ability to cope with climate change.
- Prepare Thailand to deal with risks and changes in the new global context while emphasizing the development of quality infrastructures and government management system to provide full access to the people.
- The Prime Minister emphasized that the development of the country is crucial and should be in line with the changes outside the country, along with the conditions of internal factors and the potential of the country in general.
The Prime Minister concluded with “The most important thing that will make the mission a success is not only the development plan alone, but also the cooperation of all sectors, which should be a major driving force to change Thailand”.
Source: Pattaya Mail
Fortunately, someone is still thinking about the top of this country!
Especially the creation of equal opportunities for everyone appeals to me because talents are only used in Thailand if people have money to let children study, but if they can get a job then the elite go for it because they can find the right people with big money. fill bags. Gone are equal opportunities! Well, good luck Lord Prayuth if you want to tackle that. I remember a long time ago when a university lowered the admissions requirements to allow the child of a hotemetoot there…. Well, those elite, right?
Love the comment 'giving priority to environmental and ecosystem issues'! Finally I would say. Are we now going to tackle the political leaders who demolish protected forests for their small farms, the leaders who earn a lot of money from illegal logging in those forests, or are we going to give a ticket to those poor wretches who dump a sofa by the side of the road? ? Think the latter…..
See first and then believe you, Lord Prayuth!
Well Erik, sometimes they really do achieve something… Take that fan-tas-ti-c 'blue flag' prosperity card. Isn't it great, those few bahts, neatly divided into various categories. X baht for consumer goods at certain affiliated shops, Y baht for the metro and so on… It does not matter that there is not always such a shop or metro nearby or necessary. Imagine if we were to pay that money out to the plebs like this, they would all do stupid things! Live the 'khon die', the good people! If one would just listen to them then everything will be better…
Thailand is the world champion of planning. Unfortunately, it often ends there…..
Point one immediately seems like a problem to me?
An innovation-based economy requires critical and 'out of the box' thinking.
Do students have the opportunity to do this at universities?
Maybe Chris can shed some light on it?
Annoying that Google translate now exists and the Thai copy what other countries also write: .
innovation, sustainability, equal opportunities, income equality, all countries write this. For Thailand, these concepts are just as unattainable as our polder model or welfare state.
Another thing that makes me sick: the emphasis is on the development of quality infrastructures and the government management system. Everyone doesn't know what it means at all.
Come on Prayuth, put both feet back on the floor, do something about the annual floods again and accept that half of your workforce is farmers and the other half works in the informal sector.
When I read statements like this I always get flashbacks. https://youtu.be/1c84T7KT-xs
Unfortunately, the mission is doomed to fail unless the government realizes that the business community is not there to sponsor the social workplace for civil servants. They really go overboard with regulations.
A simple example is that if you sell a nut that is simply for sale on the market, then there is no legislation, but if you put those nuts in a bag for sale to a supermarket, there must be an FDA registration. In view of food safety, I understand that, but if you squeeze the nut and want to market the oil and flour as separate products, then the Novel Food legislation applies because the nut is not yet commercially available on a large scale, which means that validated studies must be submitted that can quickly cost 15000 euros per product. going to cost. Eating a nut in its entirety is not a danger to public health, but if you separate it into oil and flour so that you can serve different markets, it will have a nice price tag that is not even in the name of the applicant, so everyone can join for free afterwards. It would help innovation if the government would look at where things could be done more flexibly instead of being made more difficult by low-ranking civil servants.
What do you think of first improving education and especially the English language?