Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) At themeeting, the leader called for elaborating Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong’s recent article titted “Proud and confident under the Party's gloriousflag, determined to build a Vietnam more prosperous, powerful, civilised and heroicwith a fine and long-lasting culture” penned on the occasion of the 94thfounding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
This isto consolidate national pride, tradition, patriotism, mettle and confidence,and promote the sense of responsibility in order to create new motivation tocomplete assigned tasks, he explained.
Chinhsaid it is necessary to further follow the Resolution of the 13th NationalParty Congress, directions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo andkey leaders, along with the 2021-2030 socio-economic development strategy, the2021-2025 plan, and resolutions and directives of the government and the PM.
Theimmediate task lies with ensuring that the entire population, especiallyremote, border, island residents and disadvantaged groups, enjoy a happy NewYear, he said.
The PMurged maintaining macro-economic stability, taming inflation, ensuring majoreconomic balances, and managing monetary policy in a flexible, timely andeffective way, saying they should go in tandem with fiscal policy and others.
Apartfrom consolidating traditional markets, efforts are needed to seek new ones, hesaid, calling for more attention to controlling budget spending, overspending,public debt, government debt and foreign debt.
Ministries,agencies and localities were asked to forge growth engines, focusing on luringand disbursing social investment sources, and attracting large-scale, high-techforeign direct investment (FDI) projects, particular those in processing,manufacturing, electronics, semiconductors and hydrogen, among others.
Theywere also requested to boost exports, especially of agro-forestry-aquatic products,to major and promising markets; accelerate the negotiations and signing of thecomprehensive economic partnership agreement between Vietnam and the UnitedArab Emirates (UAE) and free trade agreements with Brazil, the Southern CommonMarket (Mercosur - including Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay), andIndia; better tap the Halal market; promote the domestic market; andconcertedly roll out solutions to attract domestic and foreign tourists.
Theleader also touched upon attracting green finance and credit to developrenewable and new energy, and building regional and international financialcentres in Vietnam.
Heemphaised the need to speed up public investment disbursement and theimplementation of the three national target programmes on new-style rural areabuilding, sustainable poverty reduction and socio-economic development inethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, while pushing ahead with theratification of planning schemes.
For projects that are facing obstacles regarding construction material supply, Chinhurged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to immediately amendrelevant regulations.
Ministries,agencies and localities must focus on removing difficulties to production andbusiness, and drastically streamline administrative procedures, he continued.
The leadercalled for greater efforts to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card”on Vietnamese seafood removed and boost services and tourism, saying more heedshould be paid to social welfare, environmental protection, climate change response,and national defence and security.
Othertasks assigned by the PM included stepping up the fight against corruption andother negative phenomena, and enhancing external relations and internationalintegration.
Accordingto a report presented at the meeting, the socio-economic situation in Januarycontinued its positive recovery trend with many remarkable results in allfields.
Inparticular, the macro-economy remained stable, inflation controlled, and majorbalances guaranteed, with the consumer price index (CPI) up 3.37% year-on-year,and exports up 37.7% to nearly 64.22 billion USD with a trade surplus of 2.92billion USD.
Theindex of industrial production (IIP) rose by 18.3% over the same period lastyear, showing a positive trend. Total retail sales of consumer goods andservices grew by 8.1% in the month.
Thecountry welcomed over 1.5 million international visitors, an increase of 73.6% year-on-year.
Thetotal registered FDI capital reached 2.36 billion USD, a rise of 40.2%, with 1.48billion USD disbursed, up 9.6%./.
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