This morning, the National Assembly began an extraordinary session to decide on four urgent matters.

The National Assembly will meet online for the entire session via videoconference from the National Assembly House to 62 National Assembly delegations from provinces and centrally-run cities (the National Assembly delegation of Hanoi will meet at the National Assembly House bridge).

Before the opening of the session, at 7:15 a.m., leaders of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, and National Assembly deputies attending the meeting at the National Assembly House bridge laid wreaths and visited President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum.

At 8:00 a.m. the same day, the National Assembly held a preparatory meeting to discuss and vote to approve the agenda of the first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly via software installed on the iPad.

At exactly 9:00 a.m., the National Assembly convened the opening session of the first extraordinary session at Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House. The opening session was broadcast live by Voice of Vietnam (VOV1), Vietnam Television (VTV1) and Vietnam National Assembly Television for voters and people nationwide to follow.

National Assembly decides on 4 urgent issues

The National Assembly will consider and approve 1 bill and 3 draft resolutions under a shortened process at 1 session.

Specifically,Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Public Investment, Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model, Investment Law, Bidding Law, Electricity Law, Enterprise Law, Law on Special Consumption Tax, Law on Civil Judgment EnforcementThe proposal submitted to the National Assembly for approval this time aims to fully institutionalize the Party's policies and guidelines and overcome difficulties and problems arising in practice.

According to the Government's Submission, the draft Law aims to strengthen decentralization for localities in investment activities, public investment and investment under the public-private partnership model; Removing some difficulties in: implementing the selection of contractors and investors for projects using ODA capital and preferential loans; corporate governance activities, investment, production and business activities of enterprises; the process of organizing the execution of judgments in cases where the judgment debtor has assets in many places, contributing to increasing the rate of execution of judgments on money, creating conditions to shorten the time, reduce costs and effectively handle the assets subject to execution.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of state management of cybersecurity, legally recognize the business activities of cybersecurity products and services; encourage capital attraction, effectively implement the policy of socializing investment in construction of the national power transmission system, etc.

A very important content is that the National Assembly considers the draft.Resolution on fiscal and monetary policies to support the implementation of the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program.

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic being extremely complicated and seriously affecting the country's socio-economic development, timely support policies with breakthroughs and spillovers, quickly implemented, and suitable for special situations will help the economy recover soon and create a foundation for development in the remaining years of the 2021-2025 period as well as the next period, preventing Vietnam from falling into economic recession and declining growth drivers in the long term, while demonstrating Vietnam's strong commitment to support and reform, increasing the confidence of people, businesses and the country's credibility with international organizations.

The emphasized viewpoint is to ensure consistency, persistently maintain macroeconomic stability, enhance the autonomy, resilience and adaptability of the economy; Have a large enough scale, have key and central objectives to solve urgent problems, avoid wasting resources; Be designed and implemented quickly and promptly, the resources given must be absorbed to the maximum; Have an implementation period mainly in 2022-2023 with an appropriate roadmap to recover and stimulate the economy; Mobilize, manage and allocate, use resources reasonably, transparently, publicly, fight negativity, group interests...

For draftResolution of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Can Tho city, contents include: state financial and budget management; land management; local adjustment of general planning for construction of functional areas, local adjustment of general urban planning; income of cadres, civil servants, and public employees; Dredging combined with product recovery of Dinh An - Can Tho maritime channel; Production, processing and consumption linkage area of ​​agricultural products of the Mekong Delta in Can Tho.

Faced with the fact that Can Tho's economic development is not commensurate with its potential and advantages, the design of specific mechanisms and policies is essential for the city to truly become the driving force of the Mekong Delta as well as an "ecological, civilized, modern city imbued with the cultural identity of the Mekong Delta" in the near future.

The final content presented to the National Assembly this time is:North-South Expressway Construction Project, Eastern Region, Phase 2021-2025.

The investment objective of the Project is to complete and put into operation the North-South expressway in the East with large capacity, traffic safety, high speed; connecting economic and political centers, economic zones, key industrial zones, especially key economic regions, enhancing the competitiveness of the economy in the context of deep integration.

According to the Government's Submission, the preliminary total investment of the Project is 146,990 billion VND, expected to start construction in 2023 and basically complete in 2025./.