The People’s Committee of Ninh Thuan province plans to improve its Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) in 2022. (Photo: VNA) According to the PCI 2021 survey results from the Vietnam Chamber of Commerceand Industry (VCCI), Ninh Thuan ranked 49th out of 63 provinces and cities,down 17 notches, and achieved 62.23 points, down 1.21 points (it was 63.44points in 2020).
Ninh Thuan is among provinces with average economic performance.
Deputy Chairman of the Ninh Thuan People's Committee Phan Tan Canh said six ofNinh Thuan's sub-indexes saw their scores and rankings reduced. These arebusiness support services, fair competition, transparency, cost of time,dynamism of provincial leaders and market entry costs.
To improve PCI, Ninh Thuan will build an equal business environment for allsectors, and have suitable solutions to support small and micro businessgroups.
In addition, the province should continue working on administrative procedurereform, especially in the fields of taxes, fees, land and social insurance aswell as reducing the burden on enterprises during inspections.
Canh also highlighted the need to increase business consultation and promotethe role of provincial business associations to consolidate the trust of thebusiness community.
Localities should create mechanisms and policies to support small- andmedium-sized enterprises, such as capital support, information, training andpolicy advice, but should not expect that the economic efficiency of smallbusinesses would be the same as that of big ones, experts said.
Small businesses create job stability and ensure social security along withproviding logistics and products for large businesses, they added.
Canh said the province was determined to promote the application of informationtechnology to reduce the unofficial costs for businesses.
Provincial agencies would provide public hotlines for feedback from people andbusinesses. Provincial leaders and localities need to increase the dialoguewith business communities to solve pressing problems quickly, Canh noted.
At the same time, the monitoring of public officials would be strengthened andcivil servants who caused trouble for businesses or violated regulations wouldbe strictly punished, he added.
He called on all local agencies to step up administrative reforms to improvethe province’s investment environment and position in the Provincial Governanceand Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) and the Public AdministrationReform Index (PAR-index)./.
VNA
