Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) With the efforts, the Government expects to create apremise for the first months of 2022, thus bringing the country to the newnormal, the leader said.
To that end, Chinh asked ministries, agencies andlocalities to focus on building a strategy on economic recovery and developmentin the new normal as from October 1, and another strategy on pandemiccontainment.
He urged ministries and agencies to flexibly combinethe fiscal policy with the monetary policy, better control inflation, ensuremajor economic balances, accelerate the disbursement of public investment andODA loans, ensure the circulation of goods and traveling of people, work harderto remove the “illegal, unreported and unregulated” (IUU) fishing “yellowcard”, and optimise opportunities presented by free trade agreements (FTAs).
The PM ordered removing roadblocks to projects,increasing IT applications and digitalisation, ensuring social welfare andimproving the efficiency of the communication work to create social consensus.
Although the pandemic has been basically brought undercontrol, with decreases in infections and fatalities in Ho Chi Minh City and itsadjacent localities, vigilance should be maintained while recoveringsocio-economic activities according to the set roadmap, Chinh said.
He stressed the need to fight negative phenomena,corruption and group interests in the pandemic combat, saying the procurement ofmedical equipment must be transparent, avoiding losses.
The leader took note of economic achievements in Septemberand the first nine months of this year, with GDP growing 1.42 percentyear-on-year, and FDI increasing 4.4 percent to reach some 22.15 percentbetween January and September.
He also pointed to limitations and difficulties suchas GDP in the third quarter decreasing sharply (6.17 percent), droppingdomestic collection, and low disbursement rate (47.38 percent).
Also at the meeting, the PM had an online working session with authorities in 63 central-run cities and provinces across the country as well as 705 districts, towns and cities on the prevention and control of COVID-19.
Participants discussed building temporary instructions to safely and flexibly adapt to and control COVID-19.
Regarding crowds of migrants leaving HCM City and the southern province of Binh Duong for their hometowns, the PM called on them not to move freely to prevent pandemic spread.
Relevant localities should encourage labourers to stay in the cities where they are working to get vaccinated and continue joining socio-economic activities in the host cities, he said./.
VNA
