Overcoming local interests, term-based thinking successfully carries out tasks

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of December 29, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the Government continued the online conference program with localities. Also attending were Deputy Prime Ministers.

Attending the meeting at Nghe An bridge were comrades: Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, representatives of leaders of a number of departments, branches and sectors of the province.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Deputy Prime Ministers attended the Conference. Photo: Baochinhphu.vn.

At the Conference, the ministers continued to discuss, report and debate on matters within their management scope, and at the same time made recommendations to the Government on a number of urgent current issues.

The Minister of Finance said that the budget revenue has reached 100.7% of the estimate, and the local budget is expected to exceed VND70,000 billion by the end of the year. The Government assessed this as an impressive figure, and at the same time commended localities, sectors, tax departments, etc. for their efforts to exceed the budget revenue target.

Minister Dinh Tien Dung also recommended that the Government continue to focus on directing specialized inspection work. According to the head of the Ministry of Finance, the time for export procedures was reduced by 35 hours, and for import procedures by 32 hours, saving about 600 million USD (according to calculations by the World Bank). However, while customs procedures account for 28% of customs clearance time, specialized inspection accounts for 72%.

The Minister of Finance stated: “To shorten the time for specialized inspections, 87 documents must be revised and supplemented, but we have only been able to complete 24 documents. Without revising regulations on specialized inspections, it will be very difficult to reduce customs clearance time.”

Nghe An Customs officers inspect import and export goods at Cua Lo Port. Photo: Archive

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development emphasized that 2016 was the most difficult year for agricultural production in the past 50 years, but with the attention of the Party, State, Government, and the efforts of localities, the impact of natural disasters was minimized and growth momentum was gradually regained.

In 2017, Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong assessed that the challenges facing the agricultural sector were somewhat more severe, including: protectionist policies of countries, climate change, natural disasters, epidemics, etc. From there, the Minister proposed to synchronously deploy solutions, focusing on removing bottlenecks in agricultural production...

Leaders of Nghe An province attend the online conference. Photo: Thu Giang.

Within the framework of the Conference, some guests also expressed their opinions, basically agreeing with the above reports, and proposed some cooperation contents in 2017.

Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan - Politburo member, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front highlighted three contents that the Fatherland Front has accompanied and supported the Government in the past year, including: communication; mobilizing people to carry out emulation movements; and supervision and criticism.

In 2017, he proposed the following contents of coordination between the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the Government: promoting creative emulation, applying science and technology, increasing productivity, quality, improving the effectiveness of international integration; continuing to pay attention to food safety and environmental issues, conducting satisfaction assessments of people in all provinces and cities, supporting people through programs such as Tet for the poor, houses for flooded areas;...

Producing clean vegetables at the International Clean Vegetable and Fruit Production and Supply Company in Nghia Son Commune, Nghia Dan District - Nghe An. Photo courtesy of Nghe An Newspaper.

After 1.5 days of the Conference, listening to the opinions of 16 provincial leaders, 10 ministers, guests and members of the Government Standing Committee, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc concluded the Conference, welcomed and highly appreciated the enthusiastic opinions of the delegates, requested the ministers to continue to respond to the localities about the recommendations, requested the localities and ministries to receive each other's opinions to perform well the assigned tasks.

The Prime Minister commented that in the past year, we have strived to exceed 11 targets, approximately achieved 2 targets, inflation index, CPI, budget revenue all exceeded the National Assembly's assigned targets, social trust increased, which is a great encouragement for the Government and localities. He highly appreciated the efforts to overcome difficulties of members of the Government, all levels, sectors, localities, especially the people and businesses, reaping good results in the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress.

View of the bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thu Giang.

In 2017, the Prime Minister emphasized that the whole country must actively move, especially the political system at the grassroots level, to overcome many challenges, focus on directing, stabilizing the macro economy, controlling inflation, improving productivity, competitiveness, etc.

"Leaders of ministries, branches and localities must overcome local interests and term-based thinking to successfully carry out assigned tasks," said comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The Prime Minister also directed and assigned tasks to Deputy Prime Ministers, ministries, branches and localities to coordinate, deploy and successfully complete the key tasks set for 2017.

Thu Giang