Efforts exerted to equitise 432 State firms

The complete equitisation of 432 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) will be the core task of the Steering Committee for Business Innovation and Development in 2015, announced Committee Head and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh during the release of the group’s main tasks for 2015.
The complete equitisation of 432 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) willbe the core task of the Steering Committee for Business Innovation andDevelopment in 2015, announced Committee Head and Deputy Prime MinisterVu Van Ninh during the release of the group’s main tasks for 2015.

This year, the committee will continue consulting with the Governmentto improve policies on arranging, innovating and restructuring andsupervising State firms.

In the first quarter,the group will focus on inspecting and determining the enterprises to beequitised and in the third quarter it will design a master plan onrestructuring SOEs from 2016-2020 to be submitted to the Prime Minister.

Accelerating the completion of a master plan onthe rearrangement of agricultural and forestry companies by the secondquarter of this year will also receive major attention.

The restructuring of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) will be the focus of the committee this year.

It will also intensify information dissemination to create consensusamong sectors, enterprises and people in restructuring SOEs.-VNA

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