Hanoi (VNA) – The Government should set out a roadmap in order to
ensure economic growth is stable, legislators said on the sidelines of the ongoing
fourth sitting of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on October
31.
Pham Van Hoa, a deputy from the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, said to
meet the growth target of 6.5-6.7 percent for 2018 set by the Government, it is
necessary to pay attention to quality and efficiency of the economy.
Both Hoa and Do Van Sinh, from the central province of Quang Tri, shared the
view that the growth target is reasonable.
“An important task in 2018 is how to downsize the public sector, intensify the
private sector and call for investments, including foreign investments, in all
economic spheres,” Hoa said.
Sinh held that to develop the economy sustainably, apart from promoting the
development of domestic businesses, it is a need to increase Vietnamese investments
abroad.
Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, a deputy from the central province of Quang Binh,
considered monitoring state projects the most drastic solution to dealing with
public debts.
Investments must be channeled into priority areas, he said, stressing the need
to double effort to fight corruption and wastefulness.
Talking about projects that have experienced losses for a long time, Hoa said
businesses unable to recover should be dissolved or frozen.
As part of the fourth sitting of the 14th NA, legislators have spent
two and a half days to mull over the implementation of the socio-economic
development plan and state budget in 2017, the socio-economic development and
state budget and allocate for 2018, and the state finance-budget plan during
2018-2020.
During their discussions, the deputies pointed to illogical GDP growth rate,
which dropped freely in the first months of this year and increased robustly in
the remaining months.