Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc praisedthe important role of the Vietnamese business community in national developmentat a ceremony in Hanoi on October 13 to mark the 15th anniversary of VietnamEntrepreneurs’ Day.
In his speech at the event, the PM highlighted the country’s recentachievements such as the elevation of 10 places on competitiveness in the WorldEconomic Forum’s latest report. He attributed the outcomes to the businesscommunity’s contributions.
He affirmed the Party and State will continue promoting institutional reformtoward regional and global standards to create an environment for the businesscommunity’s sustainable growth.
He called for the community to join hands with the Party andState in efforts to fight corruption, reform legal institution, and improve thecountry’s business climate.
He hoped entrepreneurs to promote their national pride,abide by the law, increase transparency, build business culture as well asentrepreneurs’ ethics and social responsibility of enterprises, and propeltoward better competitiveness and innovation, as highlighted in theGovernment’s Resolution 35 on business development.
The PM suggested the community team up with universities andresearch institutes in training a high-quality workforce.
He expressed his pleasure that there were more than 102,000new firms established in the first nine months of the year, with registered chartercapital worth over 12 billion VND (517,250 USD) on average, the highest level to date.
Prosperous businesses mean prosperous nation, he stated.
On this occasion, he congratulated prominent entrepreneurs who were honouredwith Thanh Giong Cup 2019.
First organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce andIndustry in 2006, the Thanh Giong Cup is granted to 100 outstandingentrepreneurs nationwide every three years. The winners are business leaderswho showed distinct contributions to their enterprises and to Vietnam’ssocio-economic development./.
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