Hanoi (VNA) – Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh on January 5 outlined tasks for all-level authorities, sectors,and localities to fulfill in 2024, which he called a year for makingbreakthroughs that holds special significance to the successful implementationof the five-year plan 2021 - 2025.

He set the tasks while chairing a nationalteleconference between the Government and local administrations. The event alsosaw the presence of State President Vo Van Thuong and National AssemblyChairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

Inhis speech, PM Chinh held that despite internal and external difficulties andchallenges last year, the socio-economic situation continued recovering withbetter performance recorded month on month and quarter on quarter. Vietnambasically obtained general targets and many important results in differentfields.

However,he demanded steering clear of complacency as a number of problems,shortcomings, difficulties, and challenges remain.

Stressingthe importance of 2024, he asked all-level authorities, sectors, and localitiesto closely follow the conclusions and resolutions of the Party CentralCommittee, the National Assembly, and  the Government to carry out tasks and reachtargets.

Withregard to governance orientations, he emphasised the need to govern in a proactive,flexible, and effective manner; closely and harmoniously coordinate policies;keep a close watch on the real situation and respond to emerging issues in atimely manner; tighten discipline; step up power decentralisation,administrative procedure reform, digital transformation, and the fight againstcorruption and other negative phenomena; and attach the same importance to culturaldevelopment as that to economic, political, and social aspects.

He also underlined ensuring politicaland social stability; consolidating defence and security; building anindependent and self-reliant economy at the same time with active,comprehensive, intensive, substantive, and effective integration into theworld; and firmly maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for fast andsustainable development.

Amongthe key tasks and solutions, the Government leader ordered priority be given topromoting growth, sustaining macro-economic stability, controlling inflation,and guaranteeing major balances of the economy; a proactive, flexible, timely, andeffective monetary policy continued and harmoniously coordinated with thefiscal policy and others; the traditional growth drivers (investment, export,consumption) enhanced; and new growth drivers (such as regional connectivity,science - technology, innovation, digital transformation, green tradition,semiconductor, and hydrogen) promoted.

In addition, it is necessary toconsolidate traditional markets and expand new ones like the UAE, Africa, andLatin America; accelerate public investment disbursement and the nationaltarget programmes; increase the State budget collection and cut spending; andstrictly control overspending, public debts, Government debts, and foreigndebts, he remarked.

PMChinh requested ministries, sectors, and localities substantively conducteconomic restructuring in tandem with growth model reform while developingdigital economy, green economy, circular economy, and emerging sectors. They needto strongly recover and develop industries - especially processing,manufacturing, and semiconductor production - so as to ensure this year’sindustrial production index will increase 7 - 8% and high-tech product exports account for over 50% of the total export value.

Healso asked them to push ahead with the restructuring of agriculture and the creditinstitution system, as well as with the settlement of the four remainingprojects and businesses with slow implementation or poor performance.

Besides, the PM demanded strongly developingcultural and social areas, guaranteeing social security, and improving people’smaterial and spiritual life quality.

Ministries, sectors, and localitiesneed to enhance the management over natural resources, protect the environment,allocate resources for natural disaster and climate change response, anddrastically implement the action plans for realising the commitments made atthe 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) and the Political Declarationon Establishing the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).

Theyalso need to comprehensively boost external affairs and internationalintegration; build and fruitfully carry out action plans for implementing thecountry’s international commitments, agreements, and free trade agreements;effectively hold high-level diplomatic activities; and promote economydiplomacy, cultural diplomacy, foreign information service, and citizen protection,according to the Cabinet chief.

Asthe tasks for 2024 are very heavy but also critical to the realisation of the targetsset in the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress,Government members, ministers, heads of ministry-level and Government agencies,and chairpersons of People’s Committees of localities have to ensure that thespirit of strong, timely, and effective action is thoroughly grasped by theirstaff members, and to strengthen their sense of responsibility, he noted,affirming the Government and PM’s support for ministries, sectors, andlocalities to fulfill the assigned tasks./.