President meets with HCM City voters

President Truong Tan Sang underscored the Party and State’s consistent policy of global economic integration, saying that only an open-door strategy can stimulate development, at a meeting with voters in Ho Chi Minh City’s districts 1 and 3 on October 11.
President Truong Tan Sang underscoredthe Party and State’s consistent policy of global economic integration,saying that only an open-door strategy can stimulate development, at ameeting with voters in Ho Chi Minh City’s districts 1 and 3 on October11.

President Sang said a range of solutions have provedeffective over the past time with inflation being curbed. However,business shut-downs have ground production to a halt on a large scaleand left inventories piling up, he noted, adding that these need to betackled during the final years of the five-year plan.

Votersshared the view that the socio-economic situation has become stable butmany fields have yet to see significant improvements. Overall, theeconomy remains saddled with bad debts and inventories.

Theyexpressed hope that the legislative body will adopt the draft amendmentsto the 1992 Constitution soon, thus laying a foundation to perfect thelegal values of law documents.

A majority of them suggested theNA pay heed to the pilot urban administration model, which according tothem, should be rolled out across the city quickly.

They alsotook the occasion to call for transparent information on petrol, gas andelectricity so that it will be easier for them to supervise theGovernment’s operations.

The same day, Head of the Party CentralCommittee’s Organisation Commission To Huy Rua met with voters in DongKy ward, Tu Son town in the northern province of Bac Ninh.-VNA

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