Administrative procedure reforms must centre on people, enterprises: PM

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has demanded that people and enterprises must be the centre, key player, target, and momentum of administrative procedure reforms.
Administrative procedure reforms must centre on people, enterprises: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the national teleconference on administrative procedure reforms and governance modernisation on September 15. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh has demanded that people and enterprises must be the centre,key player, target, and momentum of administrative procedure reforms.

He made the request while speaking ata national teleconference on administrative procedure reforms and governancemodernisation on September 15.

The PM highly valued efforts topromote administrative reforms, especially in terms of administrativeprocedures, and governance modernisation by ministries, sectors, localities,associations, enterprises, organisations, and individuals, which have resultedin positive outcomes helping with national reforms and socio-economic recoveryand development.

Pointing out problems andshortcomings that need to be addressed quickly, he stressed that to achieve substantiveoutcomes, it is necessary to have strong determination, great efforts, drasticactions, a breakthrough mindset, a strategic vision, and constant reforms whileidentifying digital transformation as the pillar and impulse for administrativeprocedure reforms and governance modernisation.

“Without exerting efforts to step upadministrative procedure reforms and governance modernisation, we will lagbehind,” PM Chinh emphasised.

The Government leader required that thereforms must be aligned with and assessed based on the reality, and the decentralisation of power should be stepped up to reduce intermediate stages.

He also underlined the need for strictadherence to administrative discipline, the responsibility of agency leaders,and the building and effective use of information systems and data to serve the handling of administrative procedures for people and enterprises.

Ministries, sectors, and localitiesneed to consult people and enterprises while reviewing, removing, andsimplifying administrative procedures to ensure feasibility and effectiveness, thePM said.

He asked for stronger efforts toraise people’s satisfaction about all-level administrations’ performance in handlingadministrative procedures to over 80% by 2023 and over 90% by 2025, the rate ofprocedures solved on schedule at public administrative service centres to morethan 90%, and the rate of people using online public services to 50% by the endof 2023./.
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