Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnamese Government is aiming for the drastic, concerted and effective implementation of solutions to practice thrift and combat wastefulness in 2025 as outlined in its newly-issued comprehensive programme on these works.
The efficient enforcement of the programme, signed by Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc, is expected to create a strong ripple effect, helping the country seize opportunities, overcome challenges, accelerate progress, and strive to achieve the highest possible results for the goals and targets of the 5-year socio-economic development plan for 2021-2025. It aims to increase resources for the welfare of the people, enrich the nation during the new revolutionary period, build a brighter future, and lead the country into a new era of the nation’s rise.
Accordingly, key tasks for this year include striving for a GDP growth rate of 6.5-7%, and potentially 7-7.5%, as well as a per capita GDP of approximately 4,900 USD.
Emphasis will be placed on tightening discipline and order in the management and use of finances and budgets; managing state budget expenditures according to the estimates; practicing thrift, combating wastefulness, and efficiently utilising state financial resources, while mobilising social resources, and restructuring and streamlining the organisational apparatus.
The programme also sets forth tasks to strictly manage the mobilisation, management, and use of loans to cover the state budget deficit and to repay the principal of state debt; regularly review, monitor, and evaluate the issuance of government bonds, linking it with the needs for investment development expenditure and repayment of principal debt; closely control the use of borrowed state treasury funds in accordance with the provisions of the Law on State Budget, the Law on Public Debt Management, and laws on state treasury management; while ensuring the allocation of funds for the full repayment of long-term loans and reporting to the National Assembly in the annual state budget estimates and settlement.
It highlights the need to strengthen the management and use of public assets, ensuring compliance with standards, norms, and regulations, and alignment with mission requirements; and focus on the arrangement and handling of assets, especially land and buildings, in conjunction with restructuring and streamlining the administrative apparatus.
Accelerating the allocation, implementation, and disbursement of public investment, especially for important national programmes, projects, national target programmes, inter-provincial, inter-regional, and international connectivity projects will receive due attention, with focus on reviewing and decisively eliminating ineffective projects, and those that are not truly necessary or urgent, and prioritising funding for key, urgent projects that will drive rapid and sustainable development.
Efforts will be made to complete the restructuring and streamlining of the organisational apparatus according to the set goals and requirements; promote decentralisation and delegation of authority in combination with improving local governance capabilities and self-reliance; review and address the limitations and shortcomings in the legal system regarding thrift practice and wastefulness combat; and speed up digital transformation, and the synchronised and seamless development of science and technology.
Inspection and auditing works will be intensified in the implementation of policies and laws on practicing thrift and combating wastefulness, especially in areas such as land, investment, construction, public finance, public assets, natural resources, and minerals. At the same time, attention will be paid to building a culture of thrift practice and wastefulness prevention within agencies, organisations, and units; and implementing measures to encourage the public to enhance thrift practice and wastefulness prevention in production, business, and consumption./.
