"The longest road in Vietnam is from words to actions"

"A voter from Thai Binh told me that we had to wait too long. The longest road to Vietnam is not from Muc Nam Quan to Ca Mau Cape, but from the words and actions of many levels of government and civil servants."

National Assembly Delegate Vu Tien Loc.

National Assembly Delegate Vu Tien Loc (Thai Binh Delegation) said as at the discussion session before the National Assembly on April 1.

Discussing the issue of socio-economic development in the 5 years (2011-2016), Mr. Vu Tien Loc said that disguised unemployment or under-employment is the biggest problem of the economy. This situation is also causing many consequences for socio-economic development in our country.

To relieve this pressure, the economy needs to create tens of millions of new jobs in the next 5-10 years. Therefore, Mr. Loc suggested that the task of creating new jobs, decent jobs for people, must be identified as the top priority task in the annual and 5-year socio-economic development plans.

Mr. Loc also suggested that the 2016-2020 5-year plan should be a 5-year national startup plan, 5 years for the whole country to focus on developing businesses.

“One of the important contents of this action program is to clearly define the roadmap and quantitative targets to be achieved in institutional reform, improving the business environment and enhancing our country's national competitiveness in comparison with other economies, not just comparing ourselves to ourselves, or the mother singing and the child praising,” said Mr. Loc.

Despite issuing many policies to improve the business environment, according to Mr. Loc, the Government and the Prime Minister have not been successful in establishing enforcement discipline in their administrative system.

Many industry commanders and heads of some localities have not seriously implemented the action program to carry out institutional reforms according to the Government's resolution.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the agency assigned to monitor and urge the implementation of Resolution 19, has just reported at the March meeting of the Government. 18 ministries, branches, and 50 provinces and cities have not submitted reports on the implementation results of this resolution in the first quarter as required.

“The heat and urgency of reform on many important issues of the country have not left the Government meeting room and the Government Office campus”.

To overcome this situation, Mr. Loc proposed that the new Government, based on a preliminary review of the implementation of Resolution 19, update and develop a comprehensive action program to reform institutions, improve the business environment, and enhance national competitiveness for the entire 5-year term and submit it to the National Assembly.

This is the right time for the National Assembly to consider a resolution on such a reform action program and ensure consistency, higher implementation capacity, and at the same time strengthen the National Assembly's supervisory role in promoting institutional reform.

“I think that by doing this, the National Assembly will be able to join hands with the Government in promoting reforms, overcoming the resistance of interest groups and the inherent stagnation of some administrative agencies and will create a second wave of reforms in our country's economy.”

Mr. Loc shared: A voter from Thai Binh told me that we had to wait too long, the longest road back to Vietnam is not from Muc Nam Quan to Mui Ca Mau but from the words and actions of many levels of government and civil servants.

“Voters expect the 14th National Assembly and Government to be a National Assembly and Government of action so that the longest road in Vietnam will always be the road from Muc Nam Quan to Ca Mau Cape.”

According to bizlive