The Government's regular meeting - April 2006
Government
No. 06/2006/NQ-CP |
Hà Nội, May 4, 2006 |
Resolution
The Government’s regular meeting of April 2006
On April 26, 27 and 28, 2006, the Government held its
regular meeting to discuss and decide on the following issues:
1. The Government listened to the Minister of Planning and
Investment presenting the plan of socio-economic development during the period
2006-2010.
The overall target of the five year plan 2006–2010 is to
boost the rate of economic growth, improve the quality, efficiency and
stability of the development; increase the accumulation, which lay the
foundation for the country’s industrialization and modernization; improve the
standards of materialistic and spiritual life of the people; eradicate the
country’s image as an underdeveloped country and make the country an industrial
and modernization-oriented country in 2020; ensure the stability of the
political state, social order and safety, preserve the independence, the
sovereignty, the territorial integrity and the national security; improve the
country’s status regionally and internationally.
The five-year plan during 2006-2010 was established with the
following targets: continue to make use of the inherent advantages and the
lessons drawn from the achievements gained during the 20 years of restoration
and development, remarkably the lessons of liberate and promote the productive
forces, take advantage of all national potentials, attract foreign investment,
complete the structure of market economy, keep the stability of political
state, take advantage of the chances, the tendency towards peace and
cooperation in the region and the world;
take interest in solving social issues, improving education and
training, science and technology, especially training the people in order to
increase the productivity, the quality of labor force and maintain the stable
and high growth rate.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment was entrusted to
receive the suggestions in the meeting to complete the draft plan of
socio-economic development of the five year period 2006-2010; the Minister of
Planning and Investment, on a proxy of the Prime Minister and on the behalf of
the Government to submit the Assembly the draft plan.
The MPI directed and coordinated with other ministries and
relevant agencies to draft the Resolution of the Government issuing the
Government’s Action Program to implement the Resolution of the 10th
Party’s General Assembly and the Five-year Plan 2006-2010, and submitted the
plan to the Government in the session of June 2006 after the plan
had been passed by the National Assembly.
The Five-year Plan 2006-2010 ratified by the National
Assembly needed to be concretized into the specific five-year plan of each
branch of activity and locality in accordance with the target and orientation
of the plan of national socio-economic development.
2. The Government listened to the Minister of Resources and
Environment presenting the Five-year Plan of Land Use during 2006-2010.
During the period 2001-2005, our country basically achieved
the targets of the Plan of Land Use passed by the National Assembly. During the
period of 2006-2010, with the demand for enhancing the country’s industrialization
and modernization, the effective use and exploitation of land play a more
important role. However, the project and plan of using land has not been
completed, the result of the project is poor. The project makers have not
examined thoroughly the influences on the economy, the society and the
environment; the project was carried out carelessly in some localities.
In order to take full advantage of land resource for the
sake of the country’s stable development, the project and plan of using land
during the five years 2006-2010 need concrete guidance on both local and
national scales. The Plan of Land Use during the five years 2006-2010 must
seriously consider the thriftiness and effectiveness of the implementation; the
policy should restrict the exploitation of land for wet rice cultivation while
developing a good irrigation system for industrial and urban areas; reserve
land for essential infrastructures such as schools, hospitals and buildings of
culture and sport; encourage and support the exploitation of wild lands,
treeless hills, flooding lands and fallows for socio-economic development on
local and national scale; improve the communication and dissemination of the
planning of using land and increase the people's knowledge of the law on land
using; develop the policy of compensation; clear the ground and speed up resettlement
to ensure the process of reclaiming land for the purpose of national security
and socio-economic development; adopt the policy to protect the legitimate
rights, stabilize the life and employment of the people resettling.
The Ministry of Resources and Environment was assigned to
receive the suggestions in the meeting to complete the Draft Plan of using land
during the five years 2006-2010; the Minister of Resources and Environment, as
a proxy for the Prime Minister, submit the Draft Plan to the National Assembly.
3. The Government listened to the Governor of the State Bank
of
The policy supporting the needy areas is the Party and
State's consistent approach. During the period 2006-2010, the supportive policy
emphasizes on improving social areas, developing production and infrastructure
for the purpose of comprehensive development of the areas.
In order to detach policy credit from commercial credit for
the sake of State-owned commercial banks doing their business in the market
economy, the Government unanimously transferred the mission of offering
preferential loans to economic organizations and households in needy areas from
the national commercial banks to the Development Assistance Support and Bank of
Social Policy without transferring the former loans.
The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) was entrusted to consider and
add the programs, projects and occupations of economic organization in needy
areas in the list of projects proclaimed in the Government's Resolution on
investment credit for development; and submitted to the Prime Minister the
mechanism for loaning business households (not including poor ones) in the
needy areas so that the Bank of Social Policy could work effectively.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the MoC
arranged the capital so that the Development Assistance Fund and the Bank of
Social Policy could adopt the policy of preferential credit for needy areas.
4. The Government listened to the Minister of Commerce
presenting the projects of investment credit for development; export credit and
the establishment of the Vietnamese Development Bank.
The MoC was entrusted to receive the suggestions in the
meeting, consult the MPI, MoC, State Bank of Vietnam and the State Panel of
Negotiators for Vietnam's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the
other relevant offices to decide on the list of projects, commodities needing
the capital from investment credit for development, State export credit; ensure
the concreteness, openness, explicitness, practicality and the conformity of
the projects with the WTO's regulations and Vietnam's commitments in the
international treaties; draft the Resolution of investment credit for
development and export credit and then submitting it to the Prime Minister.
The Government decided to establish the Vietnamese
Development Bank on the basis that the Development Assistance Fund was
rearranged to support the projects of investment credit for development and
export credit. The Vietnamese Development Bank's missions of raising capital, repaying,
managing and dealing with risky loans and credits as well as the organization
and the staff should follow the regulations in conformity with the demand and
scale of activities of the Bank.
5. The Government listened to the Minister of Planning and
Investment presenting the Report of managing and using the capital of the State
Budget.
During the period 2001-2005, thanks to the policy reform and
the improvement in the investment environment, many resources of capital inside
and outside the country were invested in the country's development, which made
a crucial contribution to the achievement of socio-economic targets set in the
plan. The capital generated from the State Budget played an essential role in
developing socio-economic infrastructure, which created good conditions for
attracting the capital from the other sectors of economy for investment and
development, and gradually bringing about changes in the economy structure so
that it operated towards industrialization and modernization orientation to
achieve the targets of social engagement, poverty reduction and improvement in
the people's life.
However, there have been problems in the management and use
of the capital from the State Budget. The planning, plan approval, investment
assessment, supervision, management of budget capital, ODA capital, mechanism
of bid have not been integrated, the concrete responsibilities of individuals
have not been defined, the relevant offices have not properly cooperated and
worked irresponsibly, which resulted in ineffective investment, prodigality and
loss.
In order to overcome the problems of managing and using
capital from the State Budget, the planning and management of projects for
socio-economic development and branch development should be improved, powerful
sanctions should be issued to increase the responsibilities of the involved;
reform of administration in construction investment and bid should be boosted,
the "closed situation" of construction investment should be
prevented; examination, supervision and strict punishment of infringement in
the law of managing and using capital should be enhanced.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment was entrusted to
receive the suggestions of the meeting to complete the report of managing and
using the investment capital of the State Budget; direct and coordinate with
the ministries, branches, and localities and submit it to the Government to
issue the Resolution of planning socio-economic development; instruct the ministries,
branches and localities to perform their functions with necessary methods to
overcome the difficulties and effectively manage the use of capital from the
State Budget according to the Program of Actions for thrift practice and
corruption prevention.
6. The Government listened to the Minister of Industry
presenting the Report of emigration and resettlement related to the project of
Tuyên Quang hydroelectricity.
The project of Tuyên Quang hydroelectricity will bring about
significant benefits. Together with the hydroelectric plants Hòa Bình, Sơn La,
Thác Bà, the Tuyên Quang hydroelectric plant will regulate the source of water
in Tuyên Quang, the Red River Delta in flood and drought seasons and increase
the power supply for the economy. The Tuyên Quang hydroelectric plant is a
central national project which requires the movement of a large population.
Therefore, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly should be reported
to pass the policy before the Government ratifies the overall project of
emigration and resettlement.
The Ministry of Industry was assigned to direct and
coordinate with the relevant offices to receive the suggestions of the meeting
to complete the Report of emigration and resettlement related to the project of
Tuyên Quang hydroelectric plant, and submit it to the Prime Minister to examine
before submitting to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
7. The Government listened to the Minister, Chair of
Government Office presenting the Project of organizing, defining missions,
authority and mechanism of operation of the Central Steering Committee in
relation with preventing and fighting against corruption.
The Government Office was entrusted to direct and coordinate
with the relevant offices to receive the suggestions of the meeting to complete
the Project; consult Government members, submit to the Prime Minister for
examination before submitting to the Politburo for consideration and the
Standing Committee of the National Assembly for issuance.
8. The Government listened to the Minister of National Defense
presenting the Draft Ordinance of changes and addition related to some terms in
the Ordinance of the reserve force.
Together with the Law of Military Services, the Ordinance of
reserve forces and legal documents instructing the implementation have
established the legal corridor to carry out the missions of reserve forces.
During the ten years of implementation, the establishment and mobilization of
reserve forces made contributions to the strength of national defense. However,
the Ordinance of reserve forces needs to be adjusted to fulfill the mission of
defending the country in the new context.
The modification and addition of the Ordinance have to
closely follow the Resolution of the 10th Party Congress of forming
the People's Armed Forces to carry out the strategy of defending the country;
ensure its integration with the Law of Military Services, and the related laws
and ordinances; provide the legal basis for solving the problems, enhance the
capacity of the reserve forces which can work with the regular army to meet the
requirement of reinforcing the national defense, and protecting the
accomplishments of the country in the new phase.
The Ministry of National Defense was entrusted to direct and
coordinate with the Ministry of Justice, the Government Office and the relevant
offices to receive the suggestions of the meeting to complete the Modification
Ordinance adding some terms related to the reserve forces, and submit it to the
Prime Minister for decision on the issue before submitting to the Standing
Committee of the National Assembly.
9. The Government considered the proposal of the Ministry of
National Defense and unanimously allowed Army Corps 16 belonging to the
Ministry of National Defense to borrow 100% of the preferential credit capital
from the Development Assistance Fund to implement the Project of Economic-Defense
Zone EaSup in Dak Lak. The Fund was assigned to help the Corps surmount the
difficulties; the Ministry of Defense examined and instructed Corps 16 to use
and manage the capital legally.
10. The Government considered the solutions to the problems
arising in issuing the certificate of house ownership and right of land use
when selling State-owned houses according to Resolution 61/ND-CP of the
Government on July 5, 1994 submitted by the Minister, Chair of the Government
Office.
In implementing Government Resolution 61/ND-CP dated July 5,
1994, many localities have basically finished selling Sate-owned houses to the
tenants. The issuance of certificate of house ownership and right of land use
to the buyers is widely supported by the public. However, in some localities
where there are much State-owned land, the situation of management is
complicated, the process of selling houses is slow, the procedure of issuing
certificates is problematic. The Government unanimously directs the localities
to make progress in their work and quickly finish the task of selling
State-owned houses to the renters in 2006.
The certificate of house ownership and land use rights,
which came into use in Resolution 60/CP on July 5, 1994, continued to be in use
before the Government makes the new regulation.
11. With regard to the Draft Resolution of the policy
supporting the development of non-State service supply agencies, the Government
unanimously decided not to make any changes in the Draft Resolution to
differentiate the service supply agencies with and without commercial purposes.
The Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Finance were entrusted to continue
to study different criteria and concrete preferential matters for non-profit service
supply agencies.
The Government Office was entrusted to receive the
suggestions in the meeting to complete the Draft Resolution of the policy of
supporting the development of non-State service supply agencies, then
submitting to the Prime Minister for issuance.
12. In connection with implementing the policy for the
redundant laborers due to the rearrangement of the State-owned companies in
2006, the Government unanimously decided to continue applying the policy
supporting the redundant laborers due to the rearrangement of the State-owned
companies, stated in Resolution 41/2002/ND-CP on April 11, 2002 and modified in
Resolution 155/2004/ND-CP on August 10, 2004, from January 1, 2006.
13. With regard to the Draft Resolution with detailed
regulations and instructions of implementing some terms in the Law of Education
submitted by the Minister of Education and Training; the Draft Resolution
instructing the Vietnamese companies to invest overseas submitted by the
Minister of Planning and Investment: the Ministries were entrusted to complete
the Draft Resolutions, consult the Government members and submit it to the
Prime Minister for consideration and issuance.
14. The Government considered the Report of socio-economic
situation, the Report of production, business, services and investment in April
and the first four months in 2006 submitted by the Minister of Planning and
Investment; the Report of commercial situation in April 2006 submitted by the
MoC; the Report of inspection and solution of complaints and denouncements of
the first quarter in 2006 submitted by the Government's Chief Inspector.
In April and the first four months in 2006, the economy
continued to keep growing well: there was a considerable increase in the value
of industrial production, the agricultural production stably developed, the
epidemic of bird flu was effectively controlled; the total income from goods
retailing and the turnover of services increased compared to the same period
the previous year; the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam increased, the
export turn-over, especially the foreign investment continued to increase,
which ensured the regular expenditure on development investment, certain
missions and due loans; the market prices remained stable. Cultural and social
activities were satisfactorily managed and the public order and safety,
maintained.
Besides the positive results achieved in April and the first
four months in 2006, the economy had to face many challenges: the
competitiveness of some industrial products was low, the prices of many goods
were influenced by the changes of the international market, the unusual
phenomena of the weather negatively influenced the production and the people's
life; though there was progress in traffic management, there still existed many
serious traffic accidents; smuggling, commercial fraud, corruption,
prodigality, and social devils were not effectively prevented and limited.
In order to finish the plan of socio-economic development in
2006 and practically celebrate the success of the 10th Party's
Congress, the Government required the Ministries, Branches and localities to
closely watch the socio-economic situation, seriously and strictly direct the
implementation of Resolution 01/2006/NQ-CP on January 16, 2006 of the primary
measurements of carrying out the plan of socio-economic development and the
State Budget in 2006; boost the production, adopt the measures of thrift
practices, reduce production cost, enhance the competitiveness of goods and
services; increase export, control the market prices, restrict the rise in
prices, regulate the investment management and budget use; reinforce the
inspection, examination and supervision of implementing investment projects to meet
the schedule and quality of implementation; organize the talks to the people
and solve the complaints and denouncements satisfactorily, avoid the
complicated, prolonged and multi-level complaints.
The Ministries, Branches and localities took initiative in
establishing the concrete program of actions to implement the Resolution of the
10th Party's Congress aiming at the Ministries, Branches and
localities.
ON BEHALF OF THE
GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER
(Signed)
Phan Văn Khải