This year’s economic growth rate goal of 5.8 percent is unlikely
achievable in the absence of firm instructions and high resolution,
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stated.
Chairing the
Government’s monthly July meeting in Hanoi on July 30-31, the PM asked
for all-out efforts from ministries, sectors and localities to realise
all goals and targets set for the year when none of them will be
adjusted.
The Government members agreed that greater efforts
must be in place for the 5.8 percent growth goal, suggesting solutions
to eliminate bottlenecks to operations of businesses and markets and
better the investment and business environment.
They reasserted the
need to reduce the country’s dependence on a single market and a
certain partner, speed up the disbursement of Foreign Direct Investment
and Official Development Assistance, and reinforce the combat against
cross-border smuggling.
They agreed that special attention should
be given to the restructuring of State-owned enterprises, pointing out
that the process remains slow.
According to the Prime Minister, the
restructuring, especially at big economic groups and weak-performing
commercial banks, must continue sternly.
The Government will
organise a national conference on restructuring public investments in a
bid to gather more strength to hasten the work in the coming time, he
pledged.
Among the efforts to be made from now to the end of this
year for the set goals, the PM asked for continuing streamlining
significantly administrative procedures.
He mentioned to those
relating to tax, customs, business registration, land and construction,
requiring ministries and relevant agencies to evaluate the one-stop shop
model for a nationwide application as soon as possible.
PM Dung
declared that the Government will issue its own resolution on tax
solutions to remove hindrances to businesses, along with proposing the
National Assembly consider the application of preferential corporate tax
treatment for the supporting industry, among others.
He reminded
ministries, sectors and localities of providing adequate treatments to
social welfare beneficiaries, mountainous residents, ethnic minority and
natural disaster-affected people.
Regarding the issue of
Vietnamese workers in Libya, the Government head asked the Ministry of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
to keep a close watch on how the situation develops and prepare plans to
ensure the workers’ safety. As many as 1,750 Vietnamese workers were
sent to work in Libya in 2013.
He requested ministries, sectors and
localities to pay attention to maintaining political security, social
order and firmly safeguarding national independence and territorial
sovereignty.-VNA