Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) –Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered the health, tourism and diplomacysectors to soon study and issue a "vaccine passport" mechanism inorder to promote trade and investment whileaddressing the Government’s regular meeting on March 31.
The government leader demanded the health sector to submit a plan on the matter as soon as possible.
Assessing the implementation of thesocio-economic development plan in the first three months ofthe year, the PM said the country witnessed better outcomes in bothproduction and business with many economic indicators continuing to grow in the context thatthe COVID-19 pandemic has been kept under control.
Accordingly, the nation’s GDP expanded 4.8 percent in the first quarter, whilethe State budget revenue increased by over 30.1 percent. The country enjoyed atrade surplus of over 2 billion USD.
The country has well fulfilled the dual goals ofcontaining the COVID-19 pandemic and boosting production and business,he said, attributing the positive results to the engagement of the entire political system and especially the leadership of the Party.
The PM also noted that Vietnam's diplomaticachievements were confirmed and the country's international prestige enhanced.
He asked for more efforts in preventing the COVID-19, promoting bilateral tradeand investment, while stressed the need to build plans of actions to implement the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.
The Prime Ministerinstructed the Defence Ministry to continue to tighten border management to effectively combat illegal entry in order to prevent COVID-19 abroad from entering Vietnam.
He asked the finance ministry to strengthen budget discipline and cut budget spending, while the banking sector wasrequired to do better in curbing inflation and minimize bad debt.
TheMinistry of Industry and Trade should pay more attention to promote the sales of agricultural products for farmers, and theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development was tasked with directing theprevention of drought and salinity, he said.
PM Phuc told the Ministry ofTransport to continue promoting key projects, especially ensuring that the Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway project is completed in June as scheduled./.
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