Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (R) welcomes Vientiane Governor Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi officials shared experience inadministrative reforms with officials of Laos’s Vientiane capital city at a discussionon March 27.
Vientiane Governor Sinlavong Khoutphaythounesaid Laos has just begun administrative reforms while Hanoi has obtainedinitial outcomes in this work. Vientiane wants to learn from Hanoi’s experienceto build a synchronous and modern administration, thus helping to promote localsocio-economic development.
Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee NguyenDuc Chung said the capital city considers administrative reforms as one of thethree breakthroughs to be achieved between 2016 and 2020. Informationtechnology is the main tool to carry out administrative reforms with a view toimproving the management, steering and effectiveness of the apparatus.
By the end of 2016, Hanoi had basically finishedreorganising departments and public service companies and eliminating old ITprogrammes. It has also designed a single IT system used by the municipal leveland 584 communes, wards and towns.
As a result, Hanoi ranked second in ITapplication in administrative reforms and climbed to the 14th place in terms ofthe provincial competitiveness index among 63 provinces and cities nationwide.
Administrative reforms have also helped toattract investment, Chung said, elaborating that in 2016, foreign investmentwas estimated at 3.11 billion USD, almost 4 times higher than in 2015.Meanwhile, the city is the top destination for domestic investment with a totalregistered capital of 439 trillion VND (19.27 billion USD).
He said Hanoi is willing to assist Vientiane inadministrative reforms and IT training for public officials and civil servants.It will also help the capital city of Laos to establish an institute for socialstudies and build a roadmap for bilateral cooperation.-VNA
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