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Pandemic response strategy should cover aid for economic recovery: NA committee

The National Assembly (NA)’s Committee for Economic Affairs has asked the Government to carry out a pandemic response strategy that includes support for economic recovery and development.
Pandemic response strategy should cover aid for economic recovery: NA committee ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –The National Assembly (NA)’s Committee for Economic Affairs has asked theGovernment to carry out a pandemic response strategy that includes support foreconomic recovery and development.

The committee made the requestin a report verifying the outcomes of the Government’s implementation of thesocio-economic development plan for 2021 as part of the 15th NA’s secondsession that opened on October 20 morning.

The report, delivered by chairman of the committee Vu Hong Thanh, emphasised that the fight against COVID-19has been carried out in a drastic, comprehensive, and timely manner, resultingin important outcomes, and that the governance of the macro-economy has reapedmultiple successes this year.

However, it also demandedthe Government to rectify the shortcomings in the COVID-19 prevention and control,and provide a detailed and practical report on supply chain disruptions and the shortages of workersand experts in some localities and industrial parks.

Pandemic response strategy should cover aid for economic recovery: NA committee ảnh 2Chairman of the NA's Committee for Economic Affairs Vu Hong Thanh. (Photo: VNA)
The Government was askedto map out solutions to workers leaving big provinces and cities, measures forattracting them back to their workplaces, and ways to create jobs for those whohave returned to their hometowns.

For the remaining monthsof 2021, the NA's Committee for Economic Affairs requested the Government to exertutmost efforts to combat COVID-19, protect people’s health and lives, and quicklyaddress difficulties and obstacles.

The Cabinet also needsto strongly promote the disbursement of public investment capital, guaranteesocial security, reopen schools, and promptly prepare a programme on economicrecovery and development to be submitted to the NA.

It should consider thefeasibility of the GDP growth target of 6 - 6.5 percent for next year and give amore detailed and persuasive explanation of the budget overspending and export -import balance, according to the committee./.
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