MoIT sets nine tasks in 2018

The Minister made the announcement at a conference to summarize the sector's performance in 2017 and set its tasks for 2018. The event drew the attendance of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

Minister Tuan Anh said that 2017 marked not only a challenging year for the sector but also fundamental transformations that it made in the sector reform. 

Specifically, industrial production index picked up 9.4%, higher than the rate of 7.4% in 2016, outstripping the preset goal. 

Last year, Vietnamese export exceeded US$ 200 billion, jumping over 21%. The MoIT led others in streamlining administrative procedures and business and investment conditions; personnel  apparatus. 

Especially, in 2017, the ministry cut 675 unnecessary business lines and streamlined 183 out of 508 administrative procedures. 

Nine key tasks for 2018

Addressing the event, Minister Tran Tuan Anh stressed nine key tasks including:

Firstly, building and perfecting regulations to facilitate investment and business; rallying resources for industries and trade; cutting business and investment conditions; streamlining administrative procedures; and improving online public services;

Secondly, restructuring the Ministry in line with the Project which was passed by the PM; implementing the fourth industrial revolution; 

Thirdly, reviewing and balancing national energy resources;

Fourthly, fundamentally resolving shortcomings and weaknesses for inefficient projects;

Fifthly, handling issues on export, trade promotion, and export market development;

Sixthly, supervising and guiding the implementation of Viet Nam’s international commitments in a more effective and sustainable manner; 

Seventhly, reorganizing market management forces; 

Eighthly, effectively conducting the Strategy on domestic trade development by 2025 with a vision towards 2035;

Ninthly, speeding up SOEs equitization and State capital withdrawal.  

By Kim Loan