Vu Van Anh
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The Government on January 8 issued Resolution 01/NQ-CP with major tasks and solutions to realize the 2025 socio-economic development plan and state budget estimates, requesting authorities, sectors and localities at all levels to concentrate efforts on direction and administration activities to ensure the 2025 GDP growth rate reaches at least 8 percent and strives for a two-digit growth rate (higher than the National Assembly-set targets of 6.5-7 percent and 7-7.5 percent).
Among 12 groups of tasks and solutions set under the Resolution is the group of tasks and solutions to continue removing difficulties for production and business activities, vigorously boosting economic growth.
Making institutional breakthroughs for development
The Government points to the need to further step up the review, supplementation and improvement of institutions together with raising the effect and efficiency of law enforcement; and continue slashing and simplifying administrative procedures and business regulations, removing bottlenecks and creating favorable conditions for people and enterprises.
Particularly, it is necessary to renew the mindset in lawmaking activities toward “ensuring strict management and facilitating development, while mobilizing different resources for development and creating significant room for development”. Whereas, it is suggested to abandon the thinking “banning what is unmanageable”, or “not managing if not knowing”. It is required to prioritize applying the method of “outcome-based management”; and improve the legal system to ensure transparency, completeness and fairness.
In addition, it is a must to expeditiously revise the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents and the Law on Enterprises; further scrutinize, and propose revising, the Investment Law; complete regulations on apparatus, and step up power decentralization to serve restructuring of the state apparatus toward being elite, tidy, strong, efficacious, effective and efficient, and facilitating investment, production, business and digital transformation. Other tasks include proactively and expeditiously establishing the legal corridor and incentive mechanisms for new developments, hi-tech projects, big projects, and new trends, creating a legal framework for digital transformation, green growth and circular economy as well as for fast, healthy and effective development of assorted markets (finance, securities, science-technology, startup, innovation, labor, real estate, carbon credit trading, etc.).
The Government also requires expeditiously reviewing and revising improper, overlapped or incomplete legal provisions; and promulgating breakthrough mechanisms and policies to address complicated matters that cause loss and waste.
The Resolution sets requirements for enhancing the effect and effectiveness of law enforcement, finalizing mechanisms for strict and consistent law enforcement, ensuring the supremacy of the Constitution and law, etc. Authorities should review peculiar mechanisms and policies and pilot models for inclusion thereof in laws, along with power decentralization with a broadened scope and subjects of application. At the same time, attention should be paid to intensifying law-enforcement guidance as well as policy dissemination.
Focusing on digitalization of state management activities
The Resolution requires promoting the national digital transformation in an intensive, extensive, comprehensive and breakthrough manner, particularly formulating open digital institutions, building modern digital infrastructure, wide-spread digital economy, training high-quality human resources, and ensuring cyber security. Efforts should be concentrated on comprehensive digitalization of state management activities, development of digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital citizen. In particular, it is required to resolutely implement Prime Minister Decision 06/QD-TTg of 2022, approving the Scheme on development and application of data on population and electronic identification and authentication serving national digital transformation in the 2022-25 period, with a vision toward 2030.
To move internal governance as well as direction and administration activities of the Government, the Prime Minister and leaders of ministries, sectors and localities to the digital environment; and develop national digital infrastructure facilities, and establish the National Data Center and national and specialized databases.
Other tasks are to establish digital platforms for data connection and sharing among agencies and organizations, aiming to optimize various processes and enhance coordination among ministries, sectors, localities and enterprises.
It is proposed to raise the quality of online public services and digital services for people and enterprises toward providing online public services in whole process on the basis of personalization and data; and intensify supervision and evaluation activities and accountability of state agencies and competent persons in serving the people.
In addition, it is required to renovate and raise the quality of operation of public administrative service centers and single-window divisions at all levels; and increase the digitalization of dossiers and results of administrative procedure settlement.
Improving strategic infrastructure facilities
Under the Resolution, resources should be concentrated for achieving the targets of 3,000 kilometers of expressways and over 1,000 kilometers of coastal roads nationwide in 2025.
Attention should also be paid to tackling difficulties and problems in implementing large-scale infrastructure projects, especially in compensation, support and resettlement work; ensuring the supply of materials, control of prices of materials and land use quotas so as to accelerate the progress and ensure the quality of expressway projects. Authorities should work out breakthrough, practical and efficient solutions, particularly mechanisms and policies, in order to attract investment in infrastructure projects implemented by the mode of public-private partnership (PPP); at the same time, related agencies should report to competent authorities for approval mechanisms and policies to definitely settle inadequacies and problems for a number of PPP projects. Functional agencies should expeditiously proceed with the collection of expressway tolls in order to have resources for continued investment in strategic infrastructure facilities.
At the same time, importance should be attached to the development of cultural, educational, medical and climate change response infrastructure facilities; and development of agricultural and rural infrastructure to serve the restructuring of agricultural sector in association with building new-style countryside. Other tasks are to continue investing in renovation, upgrading or construction of fisheries and hydraulic infrastructure facilities in service of agricultural production, agro-forestry seedling infrastructure facilities, water supply facilities serving production and daily-life activities in rural areas, ensuring the adequate supply of clean water for rural inhabitants.
Restructuring sectors in association with changing the growth model
Regarding industries
To continue with intensified restructuring of industries toward modernization, intensive development, and higher productivity, quality, added value and competitiveness of industrial products with advantages; to prioritize the development and mastery of new technologies, and emerging industries such as chip, semiconductor, artificial intelligence, etc; to strongly develop supporting industries, enhancing connection between the foreign-invested sector and domestic sector; and to research and develop green, energy-efficient, environment-friendly, low-carbon products of building materials, and building materials and structures used for coastal and island facilities.
Regarding agriculture
To continue building the agricultural sector toward “ecological agriculture, modern countryside, civilized farmers”; to vigorously shift from agricultural production to agricultural economy; to develop circular, low-carbon and environment-friendly crop production; and to step up hi-tech livestock production in association with brand building and development, and application of Vietnamese good agricultural practices (VietGAP), promoting models of ecological, green and organic livestock production.
To develop the fisheries sector toward expansion of ecological and intensive, hi-tech, bio-safe aquaculture, widely developing models of chain-based aquaculture with high economic efficiency; to promote industrial-scale mariculture; to gradually reduce coastal fishing output, while raising the efficiency of offshore fishing in conformity with aquatic resource deposits, combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and having the European Commission’s “yellow card” removed.
To protect, develop and efficiently and sustainably use the existing forest areas in order to enrich forests, and maintain the forest coverage at above 42.02 percent; to raise the productivity, quality and value of each type of forests and the special value of forest ecosystems.
To continue implementing the national target program on building a new-style countryside in the 2021-25 period, focusing on development of rural economy with higher incomes for rural population in association with the intensive, efficient and sustainable urbanization process.
Regarding services
To restructure services based on modern technologies, applying achievements of Industry 4.0. To develop a number of services and service products with high knowledge and technological contents and competitive edges; to realize the Scheme on building an international finance center in Ho Chi Minh City and a regional finance center in Da Nang city; and to build free-trade zones in a number of strategic localities.
To develop tourism toward professionalism, modernization, efficiency and sustainability to really become a spearhead economic sector; to form a number of tourist service centers with high-quality tourist products and brands with distinctive images deeply imbued with national cultural identities; to focus on removing bottlenecks in tourist infrastructure, especially dealing with the overload at airports and high air tickets; and to improve railway infrastructure and service quality to serve tourists.
To continue developing multi-modal transportation and logistics services on the basis of applying science and technology, higher capacity, quality and efficiency and lower logistics costs; and to expand networks of exclusive shipping routes, efficiently implementing the agreements on cross-border cargo and passenger transportation.-
