The planning and investment sector has sketched out 13 major tasks for 2021, focusing on introducing measures to support the implementation of socio-economic targets in the 2021-2025 period, economic restructuring, and renovation of the growth model.
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The planning and investmentsector has sketched out 13 major tasks for 2021, focusing on introducing measuresto support the implementation of socio-economic targets in the 2021-2025 period,economic restructuring, and renovation of the growth model.
According to Deputy Minister of Planning andInvestment Tran Quoc Phuong, the sector will give proposals on specific policiesto continue to remove obstacles and support businesses and people affected byCOVID-19.
At the same time, it will coordinate with relevantagencies in regulating fiscal and monetary policies as well as other policiesto facilitate aggregate demand, removing difficulties facing production andbusiness, promoting growth, maintaining macro-economic stability, reining ininflation, and ensuring major balances, he told an online conference on January8.
He also underlined the immediate implementation of themid-term public investment plan in the 2021-2025 period as soon as it is approved.
Meanwhile, the sector will continue to effectivelymobilise and use investment resources, focusing on optimising the internalstrength of the economy.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment will introducemeasures to speed up the restructuring of the transport services sector, thusenhancing the capacity and reducing logistics costs, while supporting theefficient implementation of free trade agreements.
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It will also strengthen the data connection, integration and sharing as well as the use of e-documents and e-signatures as well as online meetings,while speeding up the design and approval of national, regional, provincial, urban, and rural planning schemes in the 2021-2023 period.
Along with expanding effective models of cooperatives andencouraging private enterprises, the sector will also work to support the transformationof the industrial sector, focusing on a number of spearhead sectors and new,high-tech, and supporting industries.
Phuong underscored that the sector will continue strengtheningthe reform of administrative procedures and the single-window mechanism, thusenhancing the quality of services./.
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Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong (Photo: VNA) 
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