Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA)൲ – Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc has asked officials and public employees to focus on work right after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday and not organise New Year parties and go tofestivals during working hours.
During the first workingsession with permanent Cabinet members following the holidayon February 17, he asked the Health Ministry, the Government Office and localitiessuch as Hai Duong, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to keep a close watch on developments of COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s socio-economic situation, thus offeringtimely recommendations to the PM, the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control, and ministries toeffectively cope with the pandemic.
They were also urged to give ideas on how to boost production and exports-imports amid the pandemic.
Ministries, agencies and localities were askedto carry out projects assigned by the Government and PM from the beginning ofthis year, including those regarding agricultural production and launching a driveto plant 1 billion trees.
PM highlighted a need to call on citizens to install Bluezone app to trackCOVID-19 cases, follow the 5K message [Khau trang (facemask)- (Khu khuan) disinfection- (Khoang cach) distance- (Khong tu tap) no gathering – (Khai bao y te) health declaration] by the health sector, and prevent thepandemic spread in crowded areas such as schools, markets, supermarkets andhospitals.
He directed ensuring five major balances innational development in the first half of this year, the full year and the five-year period.
They include balance between socio-economicdevelopment and improving the Party’s leadership role; balance between rapideconomic development and guarantee of social progress and equality; and balance between internal andexternal strengths, internal and external trade, and between building of anindependent and self-reliant economy and regional and global economic integration.
The two other balances are between short-termpriorities and long-term goals, with ministries and agencies staying consistent with the principle of building a socialist-orientedmarket economy, and between national financial resources and budget balance, public debt, international payment balance and other macro balances.
🌊 The Government Office was tasked with devising a decree on tasks for ministries, agencies and localities following Tet.
The agency reported that the country’s purchasing power during the Tet holiday rose by 3-5percent month-on-month and 7-10 percent year-on-year.
As of February 16, localities earmarked over 5.5trillion VND (239 million USD) to support policy beneficiaries and workers onTet.
🧸 Social safety and order were also ensured during the holiday./.
