Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) Given a host of challenges ahead, the leader called onministries, agencies and localities to be resolved to maintain themacro-economy, control inflation and ensure major economic balances.
According to the PM, in June and the first six monthsof this year, the government focused on instructing the implementation ofresolutions and conclusions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo andthe National Assembly.
The government also paid attention to the building andperfection of institutions and laws, with five thematic meetings onlaw-building held, and various documents, resolutions, decisions and dispatchesissued, he said.
Notably, 25 working groups, comprising of cabinet members,had direct working sessions with localities and handled 300 out of 1,000 petitions,and they are working on the remainder, the leader said.
He stressed that thanks to the drastic engagement of theentire political system, people and the business community, and under the Party's leadership, the national socio-economic situation in June continued to showrosy trends, with many fields posting results better than the previous monthand the first five months, saying generally, the second quarter is better thanthe first.
"Many reputable international organisationscontinue to forecast Vietnam as one of the countries with a high growth rate inthe region and the world. Credit rating agencies also maintain and upgradeVietnam's national credit rating," PM Chinh said.
He straightforwardly pointed to existing difficultiesand obstacles, such as lower-than-expected economic growth, challenges faced bybusinesses, job losses, and reduced working hours. Disciplines and regulations have yet to be strictly enforced while many officials and civil servants showedfear of making mistakes and taking responsibilities.
Regarding tasks for July and the third quarter, he askedministries, agencies and localities to prioritise spurring growth in parallelwith maintaining the macro economy and ensuring people’s living standards,continue rolling out the monetary policy proactively, flexibly and effectively,and combine it with the fiscal policy, while raising production capacity of thenational economy.
The above-said working groups need to work harder toreview the settlement of petitions, and settle newly-emerging issues in atimely manner, the PM said, adding that administrative procedures should befurther streamlined to create favourable conditions for people and businesses.
He also urged boosting the three growth engines ofinvestment, consumption and export; seeking new markets and orders; paying moreheed to social welfare; promoting culture, health care, education-training,science-technology, environmental protection, energy transition, green growthand circular economy; strengthening the fight against corruption and negative phenomena; maintaining the political-social stability, consolidating national defence andsecurity, and stepping up foreign affairs and international integration.
Important and urgent issues in the planning work must behandled in a timely and effective manner, PM Chinh went on, adding that theinformation work should be strengthened, especially the dissemination of policies, thuscontributing to raising public consensus.
The government leader also assigned specific tasks toPeople’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces, the State Bank ofVietnam, ministries, groups and corporations./.
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