At the plenary sitting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly debated an overall plan onsocio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous andextremely disadvantaged areas, during a plenary sitting in Hanoi on November 1,the 10th day of sitting of the ongoing eighth session.
Deputies agreedon the need to build the plan and to integrate ethnic-related policies into anational target programme during the 2021-2030 period, targeting ethnicminority groups in extremely disadvantaged communes.
The Party and State have paid attention to investment policies in ethnicminority-inhabited and mountainous regions, they said, noting higher growthrates recorded in the localities.
They also focused their discussion on limitations in socio-economic developmentin these areas and solutions to the problems.
Regarding capital for the implementation of the plan, some suggested mobilisingall social resources and devising investment attraction policies.
After the discussion, Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic MinorityAffairs Do Van Chien clarified issues raised by the deputies.
In her closing remarks, NA Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong said the NA’sStanding Committee will instruct relevant agencies to perfect the overall planbefore submitting it to the legislature.
In the afternoon, lawmakers looked into a draft resolution on the removal offines for late tax payments and late tax payments for insolvent taxpayers,delay in the issuance of mineral and water resources exploitation rights, amongothers.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha and Minister ofFinance Dinh Tien Dung joined the discussion.
The NA is scheduled to hear reports on crime combat, execution of criminaljudgements and anti-corruption on November 4./.
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