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Administrative reform must centre on people, enterprises: PM

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the third session of the Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform on February 3, stressing that administrative reform must centre on people and enterprises.
Administrative reform must centre on people, enterprises: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the third session of the Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh chaired the third session of the Government’s Steering Committeefor Administrative Reform on February 3, stressing that administrative reform mustcentre on people and enterprises.

At the meeting, connected with 63provinces and centrally-run cities via videoconference, participants reviewedthe obtained results, pointed out shortcomings and difficulties, and proposed focalsolutions and tasks for promoting the work.

The PM, who is also head of thesteering committee, said administrative reform was identified by the Party andState as one of the targeted strategic breakthroughs.

It is meant to create favourableconditions for people and enterprises; reduce the time needed for civilservants and public employees to perform duties; help fight corruption andnegative phenomena; cut down input costs and improve the competitiveness ofgoods and services; and create an open, transparent, and clean administrativeenvironment, he noted.

Highlighting some key tasks for 2023and beyond, he said 2023 is designated as the year of digital data, and theGovernment is aiming for a national data centre to be built, so all ministries,sectors, and localities must take actions to develop their own databases.

Administrative reform must be carriedout strongly, constantly, and effectively in line with the Party’s guidelinesand the State’s policies and laws, and put national interests above all, hesaid, asking ministries, sectors, and localities to step up administrativereform in tandem with innovation, digital transformation, and improvement ofthe business climate and the national competitiveness.

Administrative reform must centre on people, enterprises: PM ảnh 2An overview of the event. (Photo: VNA)
PM Chinh asked for focus on overhaulingregulations, eliminating administrative procedures, cutting down time and administrativeexpenses, bettering the quality of online public services, and winning highersatisfaction from people and enterprises – the centre of administrative reform.

He demanded ministries, sectors, andlocalities set up concrete tasks and measures to make a breakthrough in administrativereform, adding that they need to strongly implement the programme on reducingand simplifying regulations on business activities for 2020 - 2025, boost thereform of administrative procedures, modernise leadership and governancemethodology, reform the implementation of the single-window mechanism inhandling administrative procedures, and continue reviewing business conditions topropose scrapping unnecessary, unfeasible, or vague ones.

The Government leader also toldmembers of the steering committee to immediately get down to business to helpachieve political and socio-economic targets for 2023./.
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