Implement the 2019 socio-economic development plan in the spirit of breakthrough, daring to think, daring to do

Specifically, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to promptly absorb all opinions expressed at the Government Standing Committee meeting to continue perfecting the draft Resolution of the Government on a number of key tasks and solutions to direct and implement the socio-economic development plan and state budget estimate for 2019 in the direction of closely following and concretizing the assigned goals and tasks in the Conclusion of the Central Executive Committee, the Resolutions of the National Assembly on the socio-economic development plan and state budget estimate for 2019 and in the spirit of breakthrough, daring to think, daring to do, innovation, creativity, determination, action, serving the people, demonstrating the desire to rise strongly; propose and identify key tasks and solutions in 2019 associated with specific targets, higher than in 2018.

At the same time, the Ministry of Planning and Investment studied and absorbed the discussion contents at the 8th Conference of the 12th Party Central Committee and at the 6th Session of the 14th National Assembly, as well as the instructions of key leaders; focusing on handling pressing social issues, emerging bottlenecks and issues of public concern.

The Prime Minister requested that on the basis of promoting and inheriting the positive aspects of 2018, including the structure and form of expression, continue to complete the draft Resolution in a concise manner, including key tasks and solutions associated with assigning specific targets; urgently collect full opinions from ministries, branches, agencies and localities to synthesize and complete the draft Resolution, report to Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue for direct direction; on that basis, continue to complete to ask for opinions from Deputy Prime Ministers to report to the Prime Minister before reporting at the Government Conference with localities on December 28-29, 2018.

Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities urgently give opinions on the draft Resolution with a high sense of responsibility, clarify and propose key tasks and solutions in the sectors and fields under their management that need to be focused on implementing in 2019, and send them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for synthesis and reporting according to regulations.

Previously, the National Assembly passed a Resolution defining the general goals in 2019 as continuing to stabilize the macro-economy, control inflation, improve productivity, quality, efficiency, autonomy and competitiveness of the economy. Main targets: Gross domestic product (GDP) increases by 6.6-6.8%; consumer price index (CPI) increases by about 4%; total export turnover increases by 7-8%; trade deficit ratio compared to total export turnover is under 3%; total social development investment capital is about 33-34% of GDP; poverty rate (according to multidimensional poverty standards) decreases by 1-1.5%, with poor districts decreasing by 4%; unemployment rate in urban areas is below 4%; trained labor rate reaches 60-62%, of which trained labor rate with diplomas and certificates reaches 24-24.5%; The number of hospital beds per 10,000 people (excluding commune health station beds) reached 27 beds; the rate of population participating in health insurance reached 88.1%; the rate of industrial parks and export processing zones in operation with centralized wastewater treatment systems meeting environmental standards reached 89%; the forest coverage rate reached 41.85%.

The National Assembly also approved the 2019 state budget estimate with total state budget revenue of VND1,411,300 billion; total state budget expenditure of VND1,633,300 billion; and state budget deficit of VND222,000 billion.