Ministry of Planning and Investment deploys key tasks in 2021

At Nghe An bridge, comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired. Attending were comrade Nguyen Thanh Hien - Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; leaders of relevant departments and branches.

Conference scene at the Ministry of Planning and Investment. Photo: baodautu.vn

INNOVATION, STRONG REFORM

According to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong, in the 5 years from 2016 to 2020, the world and domestic context had advantages, difficulties and challenges intertwined. In particular, the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 has negatively impacted all economic and social activities of the country.

In that context, the Planning and Investment sector in general and the Ministry of Planning and Investment in its role as a general advisory body have made many strong innovations and reforms, proposed action guidelines, advised the Government on specific tasks and solutions suitable to the new situation and together with ministries, central and local agencies, determined to successfully implement the goals, targets and tasks set out in the Resolutions of the Party and the National Assembly, making an important contribution to the overall achievements of the country's socio-economic development.

The Ministry's projects, reports and recommendations are consistent with the Party and State's innovation viewpoint, always taking people and businesses as priority subjects to serve, focusing on removing difficulties, encouraging startups and innovation to make the most of the country's development opportunities; most of the projects, plans and recommendations submitted by the Ministry have been accepted by superiors and announced for implementation.

Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong reports at the Conference. Photo: baodautu.vn

The Ministry has closely monitored and regularly analyzed and forecasted the situation to promptly propose solutions to advise the Government and the Prime Minister in managing socio-economic development; focused on and prioritized the building and improvement of institutions, reviewed and proposed amendments and supplements to legal documents within its management scope, especially institutions related to economic restructuring, growth model innovation; improved growth quality, labor productivity, and economic competitiveness.

In addition, the Ministry has focused on removing difficulties in production, business and investment; proposing solutions and policies to support business development; encouraging start-ups, innovation, and making the most of development opportunities from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

At the conference, the Ministry of Planning and Investment reported on the work of building institutions and laws and some important contents that need to be noted in the implementation of the Investment Law 2020; Enterprise Law 2020; Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model. At the same time, it responded to recommendations and proposals from localities.

View of Nghe An bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

FOCUS ON DEVELOPING TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Concluding the conference, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung emphasized that 2021 is of great significance, starting the development strategy for the next 5 years and 10 years and starting a new development phase of the country, associated with important milestones of the nation. Therefore, the tasks set for the industry are extremely heavy but also honorable and proud.

In order to complete the assigned goals and tasks, the Minister of Planning and Investment emphasized the key tasks. In particular, proactively researching and proposing specific policies to continue to remove difficulties and support businesses and people severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in accordance with practical developments.

Closely coordinate with agencies in effectively implementing fiscal, monetary and other policies to appropriately stimulate aggregate demand, remove difficulties for production and business, promote growth; at the same time, maintain macroeconomic stability, control inflation, and ensure major balances.

Minister Nguyen Chi Dung chaired the Conference. Photo: MPI

The Planning and Investment sector will develop and immediately implement the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period after it is approved. Focus on completing and improving the quality of investment preparation work; resolutely implement solutions to promote disbursement. Selectively attract investment resources from outside, especially FDI capital flows moving within the region and globally.

Coordinate and effectively implement solutions to promote restructuring of the transport service sector, improve capacity and reduce logistics service costs; promote effective implementation of signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs); promptly support businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, to exploit and take advantage of incentives, especially supporting businesses to connect through digital platforms and export through large e-commerce platforms.

Participate in building and perfecting the legal framework for new business types, digital economy, public service provision, etc. to promptly meet the development requirements of the economy. Accelerate and comprehensively implement the digital transformation support program for Vietnamese enterprises, focusing on small and medium enterprises. Encourage the development of medium and large-sized private enterprises; promote start-ups, innovation, support small and medium-sized enterprises to exploit the domestic market and effectively participate in the global value chain.

Comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the Nghe An bridge point. Photo: Pham Bang

Improve the efficiency of the collective economy, with cooperatives as the core; strongly develop the private economy, harmoniously combine economic efficiency with social responsibility and protection of resources and the environment, and promote linkages between domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment will coordinate with ministries, central agencies and localities to remove difficulties and obstacles, speed up the implementation of important projects, key national works, regional linkage projects, promote the role of key economic zones, large cities, especially transport infrastructure projects such as the North-South Expressway, coastal routes, Long Thanh airport... In particular, speed up the establishment and approval of national-level planning, regional planning, provincial planning, urban planning, rural planning for the period 2021-2030./.