Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the Cabinet meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Permanent Cabinet members on December 18 looked atthe Government’s draft Resolution No.1, which sets leadership and managementorientations for the whole year of 2021.
The document puts forth 11 major tasks and solutions divided into nearly 200tasks to be assigned to departments and agencies.
The delegates expressed their approval for those orientations, saying 2021 isof significance as it marks the first year of the implementation of theresolution to be adopted at the 13th National Party Congress.
Some suggested assigning greater tasks to each ministry, agency and locality,devising mechanisms to promote innovations, further ironing out snags facingprojects, and adding the initiative to plant 5 billion trees to the resolutionso that it can be materialised in early 2021.
Presiding over the meeting, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed theGovernment’s attention to people and investment attraction.
Ministries and agencies must define development requirements, targets andorientations, particularly major institutions, mechanisms and policies toaddress new issues and create development momentum for each sector.
The resolution should chart growth scenarios, as well as main tasks, targetsand solutions, covering investment, export and consumption, the Governmentleader requested, reminding ministries and agencies that safety, job and incomeremain the public’s concern.
According to the PM, the plans on planting 5 billion trees and sustainablesocial welfare need specific measures.
He also mentioned the US Treasury Department’s labelling Vietnam, along withSwitzerland, as a currency manipulator, in accordance with the US Department ofFinance December report on the macro-economic and foreign reserve policies ofthe US’s trade partners.
He assigned the ministries and ministerial-level agencies to continue joininghands with US partners to maintain their cooperation in the time ahead, thus bringingpractical benefits to people and businesses of both sides./.
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