NA deputies interested in economic recovery solutions post COVID-19

Legislators continued to question Government members regarding labour, invalids and social affairs, education-training, and planning and investment at a Q&A session on November 11, as part of the ongoing 11th sitting of the 15th National Assembly.
NA deputies interested in economic recovery solutions post COVID-19 ảnh 1Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Legislators continued to question Government members regarding labour, invalids and social affairs, education-training, and planningand investment at a Q&A session on November 11, as part of the ongoing 11th sitting of the 15th National Assembly.

For labour, invalids and social affairs, the deputiesraised queries on the flow of people returning home due to impacts of both theCOVID-19 pandemic and the fourth Industrial Revolution that makes low-skilled workers unemployed.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs DaoNgoc Dung presented five basic solutions, including improving the quality of workforce, forecasting capability, and personnel training.
Speaking at thesession, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam stressed the need to roll outpolicies to ensure rights and interests of the returning labourers, covering housingand social welfare establishments.

In his closing remarks at the session for the minister,NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said Dung has full understanding about matters underthe management of the ministry, and responded to the questions candidly and satisfactorily,while proposing many specific solutions to the current problems.

Party and State leaders have assigned the VietnamFatherland Front to coordinate with Ho Chi Minh City and relevant localities toorganise online ceremonies in memory of people, officials and soldiers who diedof COVID-19.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs shouldjoin hands with the Vietnam Fatherland Front, HCM City and other localitiesin the organisation, he said.

Also at the hearing session, Minister of Planning andInvestment Nguyen Chi Dung cleared up legislators’ concerns over planning andinvestment issues.

The raised questions focused on policies and solutionsto recover and develop the national economy in the new context, along withsolutions to support enterprises, cooperatives and household businesses that are facing difficulties, such as extending tax payments, accelerating thedisbursement of public investment and official development assistance (ODA),and speeding up the implementation of major national projects.

Minister Dung will continue to appear at the Q&Asession on November 12 morning./.
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