The 8th session of the National Assembly is underway in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly acknowledged and highlyappreciated the outcomes achieved in implementing the NA’s resolutions onsocio-economic development and State budget in 2019 during a live-broadcastdiscussion on October 31, the 9th working day of the legislature’s 8th session.
The NA began the important discussion on socio-economic and State budget performancein 2019 and plans for 2020 on October 30. The discussion is being broadcastlive on national television and radio and the NA’s TV channel.
Most opinions approved the Government’s reports on the matters and theNA Standing Committee’s verification reports, saying that the reports havecreated a comprehensive picture of the country’s socio-economic situation in2019 and proposed solutions and tasks on socio-economic development in2020.
The deputies, however, contributed their ideas with a view to furtherperfecting the reports, calling for more assessment of growth sustainabilityand quality and pointing out many outstanding problems in socio-economicinfrastructure, education-training quality management, poverty reduction and new-stylerural area building, development gap among regions, environmental pollution,along with the complicated developments in the East Sea, among others.
They also suggested solutions to promoting rapid, stable and sustainablesocio-economic development in the time ahead.
During the discussion, Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh,Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Minister of FinanceDinh Tien Dung and Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung took thefloor to explain further issues of NA deputies’ concern.
On November 1, the NA is slated to consider the master plan onsocio-economic development in ethnic minority, mountainous and especiallydisadvantaged regions in the morning. The sitting will be broadcast live onnational TV and radio.
In the afternoon, the NA will look into a draft resolution on handling tax debts and fines on overdue debtsof tax payers who have no longer been able to pay to the State budget, thedeferment of payment of mining and water resource exploitation fees, and theuse of 20 percent of the balance of the medical insurance fund in 2015./.
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