Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has demanded ministries, heads of sectors, and leaders of localities to promote decisive and effective actions to ensure the tasks and targets for 2025 and the 2021–2025 period are achieved with the best possible results, creating momentum for successfully implementing the resolution of the coming 14th National Party Congress.
He made the request on December 6 while addressing the Government meeting that reviewed the socio-economic situation in November and the first 11 months of 2025.
The Government leader commended all-level authorities, sectors, and localities for their enormous efforts to weather difficulties and challenges to secure significant results in most areas during the first 11 months, helping to achieve the targets for 2025 and the 2021–2025 period.
Outlining focal tasks for the time ahead, he asked ministries, sectors, and localities to stay steadfast in maintaining macro-economic stability, containing inflation, and guaranteeing major balances of the economy to create a solid cornerstone for fast and sustainable growth. In particular, a proactive, flexible, timely, and efficient monetary should be continued and closely coordinated with an appropriately expanded and focus-driven fiscal policy and others, while policy response be made in a proactive, timely, and effective manner.
Urging traditional growth drivers to be renewed and new impetuses strongly promoted, he asked for 100% of the planned public investments to be disbursed, decrees on the establishment and operation of the International Financial Centre in Vietnam be issued, both FDI and private investment further attracted, and the detailed state budget allocation and public investment plans for 2026 carried out opportunely.
With regard to consumption, PM Chinh said measures must be devised to strongly fuel the domestic market, particularly e-commerce; ensure sufficient supply of essential goods; stimulate consumption during the year-end period and festive season; exempt or reduce more taxes, fees, and charges; and adamantly combat smuggling and trade frauds.
Besides, drastic efforts should be exerted to foster exports, including diversifying products, markets, and supply chains, and speeding up negotiations to soon ink free trade agreements with the partners Vietnam has reached consensus with.
Greater actions were also required to have the “yellow card” warning over illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing removed in 2025.
To enhance new growth drivers, he asked ministries, sectors, and localities to boost reforms to turn institutional frameworks into a competitive edge; facilitate science – technology, innovation, and digital transformation; further develop the green economy, circular economy, creative economy, free trade zones, and new business model. It is also necessary to create favourable conditions for new areas such as semiconductor, artificial intelligence, and renewable energy; and step up regional connectivity, urban development, and the capitalisation of underground, outer, and marine spaces.
He also demanded implementing the Politburo’s Resolutions 57, 59, 66, 68, 70, 71, and 72 in a timely and fruitful fashion; promptly submitting new resolutions on the state-owned economy, FDI, and culture to the Politburo for approval; perfecting legal regulations on planning to match the two-tier local administration model; and boost administrative procedure reforms more strongly.
The PM urged continued efforts to tackle difficulties and hindrances facing long-delayed projects and to settle poor-performing banks.
In his remarks, PM Chinh asked for completing the repair of over 34,000 houses damaged in recent natural disasters before the end of this year and finishing the reconstruction of 1,628 houses before January 30, 2026 so that all people can enjoy a merry Lunar New Year.
He also requested efforts to help flood-hit people recover livelihoods and essential infrastructure while upgrading the early warning system and improving local authorities and communities’ resilience to natural disasters.
In addition, the PM gave directions regarding cultural, social, defence – security, diplomatic, and international integration affairs./.
