Overall situation under good control: PM

Despite many difficulties, Vietnam has managed to keep the overall situation under good control with stable macro-economy and ensured major balances, including a trade surplus of over 10 billion USD, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh while chairing a regular government meeting on December 1.
Overall situation under good control: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Despite many difficulties, Vietnamhas managed to keep the overall situation under good control with stablemacro-economy and ensured major balances, including a trade surplus of over 10billion USD, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh while chairing a regular government meeting on December 1.

PM Chinh noted that in November, the world situationcontinued to develop in a rapid and complicated way with increasing risk factors withworld-wide effects. Inside the country, many measures were implemented to ensurethe healthy development of specific markets such as securities and real estate,corporate bonds and banking, while there was a local shortage of petroleum, drugsand medical supplies.

In that context, the Government, ministries, sectors andlocalities rolled out timely measures, including the formation ofworking groups to solve specific issues, said the PM.

As a result, the economy was kept stable with State collectionexceeding the target by over 276 trillion VND (11.19 billion USD). At the sametime, the political stability, social order and safety have been also ensured, thecountry’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity maintained, and external relations strengthened, he stated.
Overall situation under good control: PM ảnh 2An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA)
The Government leader held that there will be more difficultiesand challenges in the future, while there is only one month left to completeall  the yearly targets set by the National Assembly, requiring the application offlexible solutions.

Meanwhile, it is necessary to continue to deal with emergingproblems such as the shortage of petrol, medicine and bio-products, and keep marketsstable, while ensuring a warm and safe Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival for thepeople and the supply of commodities.

At the meeting, the Government will evaluate thesocio-economic situation in November and the first 11 months of 2022, theimplementation of socio-economic recovery and development programme, thedisbursement of public capital so far this year, and the conduct of the threenational target programmes.

Particularly, a draft resolution on tasks and solutions forthe implementation of the socio-economic development plan and State budgetestimate for 2023 will also be discussed./.
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