Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a Vietnam-Belgium Business Forum in Brussels on December 15 (local time), within the framework of his official visit to the European country.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 30 chaired a meeting with People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and Vietnamese embassies and representative agencies abroad on vaccine diplomacy.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue asked deputies to propose practical and effective measures to fulfill socio-economic targets for the 2021-2025 period.

The 15th-tenure National Assembly (NA) convened its third session in Hanoi on Monday.

One of the strategic breakthrough issues identified by the 13th National Party Congress is the strong development of science, technology and innovation. Currently, in the context of safe, flexible adaptation to and effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to continue to make institutional breakthroughs for development of science, technology and innovation to create leapfrog changes in labor productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness, meeting the requirements of growth model renewal and economic recovery and development.

Industry continued to prosper last year, with added value increasing by 4.82 per cent compared to 2020, which will be an important factor in boosting national economic growth in 2022.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested intensifying measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic as the number of new cases continue rising across the country, according to a dispatch released by the Government Office on November 7 detailing the PM’s directions on continuing to strengthen the implementation of pandemic prevention and control measures.