Firm instructions needed to reach annual growth goal: PM

This year’s economic growth rate goal of 5.8 percent is unlikely achievable in the absence of firm instructions and high resolution.
This year’s economic growth rate goal of 5.8 percent is unlikelyachievable in the absence of firm instructions and high resolution,Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stated.

Chairing theGovernment’s monthly July meeting in Hanoi on July 30-31, the PM askedfor all-out efforts from ministries, sectors and localities to realiseall goals and targets set for the year when none of them will beadjusted.

The Government members agreed that greater effortsmust be in place for the 5.8 percent growth goal, suggesting solutionsto eliminate bottlenecks to operations of businesses and markets andbetter the investment and business environment.

They reasserted theneed to reduce the country’s dependence on a single market and acertain partner, speed up the disbursement of Foreign Direct Investmentand Official Development Assistance, and reinforce the combat againstcross-border smuggling.

They agreed that special attention shouldbe given to the restructuring of State-owned enterprises, pointing outthat the process remains slow.

According to the Prime Minister, therestructuring, especially at big economic groups and weak-performingcommercial banks, must continue sternly.

The Government willorganise a national conference on restructuring public investments in abid to gather more strength to hasten the work in the coming time, hepledged.

Among the efforts to be made from now to the end of thisyear for the set goals, the PM asked for continuing streamliningsignificantly administrative procedures.

He mentioned to thoserelating to tax, customs, business registration, land and construction,requiring ministries and relevant agencies to evaluate the one-stop shopmodel for a nationwide application as soon as possible.

PM Dungdeclared that the Government will issue its own resolution on taxsolutions to remove hindrances to businesses, along with proposing theNational Assembly consider the application of preferential corporate taxtreatment for the supporting industry, among others.

He remindedministries, sectors and localities of providing adequate treatments tosocial welfare beneficiaries, mountainous residents, ethnic minority andnatural disaster-affected people.

Regarding the issue ofVietnamese workers in Libya, the Government head asked the Ministry ofLabour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairsto keep a close watch on how the situation develops and prepare plans toensure the workers’ safety. As many as 1,750 Vietnamese workers weresent to work in Libya in 2013.

He requested ministries, sectors andlocalities to pay attention to maintaining political security, socialorder and firmly safeguarding national independence and territorialsovereignty.-VNA


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