The northern province of Hung Yen has been speeding up the process of digital transformation, digital government, and smart city building in association with administrative reform, aiming to improve the quality of its public services.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a directive on the promotion of administrative procedure reform in issuing judicial record certificates, aiming to create convenience for citizens and businesses.
Tax procedures posted the highest score among nine groups of key administrative procedures rated by the report Administrative Procedure Cost Index 2022 (APCI 2022).
The preparation and completion of additional documentation for land-related administrative procedures remain burdensome for businesses, especially in "sub-procedures", according to the 2022 Administrative Procedure Compliance Cost Index (APCI 2022) report.
Future business support policies in the recovery period should focus on the right subjects and provide appropriate support contents to ensure their highest efficiency, according to experts.
Improvements in the group of investment administrative procedures are still slow and not yet in sync with policies to attract investment at the local level.
Each company has to spend about 14.9 hours to complete a cross-border trade transaction and incur direct costs of around 3.8 million VND (165 USD) for logistics services, according to the 2022 Administrative Procedure Compliance Costs Index (APCI) report.
The “friendly authority” model in the northern province of Bac Giang has initially proven effective. The vision is to make government offices more civilized, polite, and friendly, innovating the working style of grassroots-level authority, toward satisfying the needs of citizens and businesses.
The northern province of Hung Yen is pushing forward with administrative procedure reform as part of efforts to build a transparent and modern administration.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has demanded that people and enterprises must be the centre, key player, target, and momentum of administrative procedure reforms.
A national teleconference took place under the chair of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 15 to promote administrative procedure reforms and governance modernisation.
Authorities of Ha Long city of the northern province of Ha Long on August 15 piloted the implementation of administrative procedure at post offices in the locality.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged the business community and associations to take specific solutions and join hands with ministries, sectors and localities to remove difficulties, towards promoting economic recovery and sustainable development.
Vung Tau city authorities in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau have taken on a project promoting the digital transformation of the government, economy and society, according to Tran Ba Viet, director of the municipal Department of Culture and Information.
Since its re-establishment 30 years ago, the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan has been exerting efforts to make breakthroughs towards dynamic and sustainable development.
The 2020 Law on Environmental Protection, which took effect at the beginning of 2022, has timely institutionalized many new policies of the Party and State related to environmental protection.
The revenue to the state budget in the first 9 months of this year amounted to 1,084.7 trillion VND, representing 80.75 percent of the projection and an increase of 10.75 percent over the figure recorded in the same period last year, according to the Finance Ministry.
New regulations in the draft Law on Insurance Business (amended) will help businesses reduce costs and take the initiative in business activities thanks to simplified administrative procedures.
Public investment disbursement of the central city of Da Nang was estimated to reach 3.4 trillion VND (over 149 million USD) as of August, according to the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.
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