The Government’s regular meeting - June 2006
GOVERNMENT ________ No. 13/2006/NQ-CP |
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Hà Nội, July 07, 2006
RESOLUTION
The Government’s regular
meeting - June 2006
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On June
30 and July 1, 2006, the Government convened its regular meeting for June 2006 to
evaluate the socio-economic situation and review the guidance of the Government
in the first six months as well as discuss the missions and the working program
for the second half of 2006.
1. In the first six
months, the Government has concentrated on directing the implementation of the
promulgated Working Program; institutionalized and implemented the policies and
guidelines of the Communist Party and the State in all fields such as economy,
national defense and security, foreign affairs, and administrative reform; further
perfected the regulations on socialist-oriented market economy; actively
integrated into the international economy; promoted the mobilization of
investment capital for development to improve investment efficiency, avoid loss
and waste in construction investment; intensified the popularization of social
work; at the same time, timely and effectively dealt with adverse changes in the
market price, natural calamities and epidemics; and continued the
administrative reform, prevention of corruption and prodigality, and thrift
practice.
The
Government as a whole, the Prime Minister and all members of the Government
have showed their high sense of responsibility and determination to effectively
direct and handle their assignments; well implemented the Resolutions of the Party
Central Committee, the National Assembly and the Government to ensure a
comprehensive and consistent performance, both stabilizing macroscopic balance
and timely and effectively dealing with unexpected and urgent problems. The
co-ordination between the Government and the agencies of the Party, National
Assembly, Fatherland Front and the mass organizations has been maintained with increasingly
effective and practical activities. With the drastic management in combination
with intensified inspection and supervision, the Government’s guidance and
management has attained significant achievements.
The
economic growth rate (GDP) has remained fairly high (estimated 7.4%);
industrial production value has been kept at a high level. Despite unusual climatic
changes and epidemics for crops, poultry and cattle, the agricultural
production has been stabilized. Export turnover has reached a high growth rate.
Service activities have continued to develop. The investment in social
development and foreign direct investment have kept increasing. The collection
of State budget has been fairly high; the State expenditure has basically met
the proposed demand. Monetary and credit activities have been stable. The
consumer price index during the first six months of 2006 has increased by 4%,
lower than that of the same period in 2005 (5.2%) and under control. The
preparations for the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and international
economic integration have developed smoothly. Achievements have been gained in
many fields: culture-information, education and training, science-technology,
environmental protection, job generation, poverty alleviation, disease
prevention, national defense and security, and socio-politic stability.
2. Nevertheless, the
economic growth rate (GDP) in the first six months was lower than the same
period last year (7.6%) and lower than the set norm (8.0%). In order to reach the
whole year’s norm of 8%, the growth rate in the second half must be higher than
8.6%. Agricultural production has encountered many difficulties, its growth
rate quite low. Production cost in many industrial branches was still high,
leading to the weak competitiveness of many products. The domestic market still
contained some latent factors causing price fluctuations, particularly that of
oil, petrol and the primary input materials for production and business. Economic
growth mainly was unstable; growth quality and competitiveness low. There were
many loopholes in the management mechanism of the construction investment. Some
social issues still faced sharp difficulties, especially job generation, provision
of skilled labor to industrial parks, export processing zones, and labor
export; improvement of working conditions; food safety; prevention of diseases
and industrial accidents; complicated development of crimes, social evils and
traffic accidents; improper settlement of complaints and denouncements.
The
projects within the working program in the first six months have been fulfilled
with low efficiency; many projects prepared with low quality; the institutions set
up slow. There have remained a large number of instructive documents regarding the
realization of effective laws and ordinances; some documents bear contradictory
and inadequate regulations.
3. Along with the
advantages, the difficulties and challenges in the last six months are rather
great, requiring the drastic efforts from all levels, branches and businesses
of every economic sectors. Thus, the principal mission in the Government’s guidance
and management in the last six months is to continue the effective
implementation of assignments and solutions mentioned in the National Assembly’s
Resolution and the Government’s Regulation 01/2006/NQ-CP, at the same time, to
bring into play the achievements gained in the first six months, to effectively
implement the assignments and solutions in many fields such as socio-economy,
national defense and security, foreign affairs and administrative reform,
namely:
3.1. To
promote the development of production and business, enhance the economic growth
rate. To promptly promulgate an adequate and comprehensive set of instructions
and to well implement the laws on business and investment, contributing to the drastic
development of business of all kinds. To further check and reject inappropriate
regulations, especially “minor licenses,” which impede investment, production
and business activities.
To promote
the reform of state-owned enterprises. To concentrate in solving difficulties
for the enterprises, particularly non-State ones in order to facilitate their
development. To pay attention to the vocational training, observe labor laws,
ensure the industrial safety and hygiene in the enterprises. To take necessary measures
to speed up agro-forestry and aquaculture.
To
intensify epidemic prevention in agricultural production, first and foremost
the mouth-and-foot pandemic, to actively prevent the recrudescence of the avian
influenza as well as encourage the concentrated husbandry, restore the herds of
cattle and poultry after the pandemic.
To
actively forecast and prevent natural calamities, minimize the impacts caused
by natural calamities on the people’s life and production. To check the dyke
protection projects, repair the water reservoirs, dams and riverside projects;
reinforce the dykes at the important places, especially the Red River Dyke
system and breakwaters in the North and the northern part of
To
promulgate appropriate policies and mechanisms, promote the diversified
development and exploit the strong points of services, particularly finance,
insurance, credit, tourism, transportation in order to create a new
development, improve the quality of service products and their competitiveness
in domestic and international markets.
3.2. To
continue guiding the promotion of export, especially products of advantages and
large market-shares. To better carry out the trade promotion, expand the
traditional markets; at the same time, search for new export markets. To boost the
market trend forecast, particularly in big markets.
The
functional ministries and branches should provide more market information and
trade promoting supports to enterprises. To set up and widely popularize the
bilateral agreements signed with the United States and other countries, specify
the advantages and challenges emerging after the WTO accession so that the
enterprises can be active in making use of advantages in production and export
as well as proposing solutions to minimize negative impacts of economic
integration. To promote and encourage the standardization and mutual
recognition in technical standards, food safety and quarantine system between
3.3. To increase
development investment and investment efficiency is the decisive solution to
the growth rate. To quickly disburse the investment capital from the State
budget, ODA capital, State credit, government bonds, and government securities
for education. To instantly solve any problem impeding investment activities in
mechanism, policy and thinking.
To further
devolve in licensing and managing foreign direct investment. To simplify, publicize
and clarify administrative procedures in investment, especially regulations on
land, construction, customs, and tax, in order to lower investment costs, raise
the competitiveness of investment environment, thus taking advantage of
favorable international conditions to create new foreign investment waves to
3.4. To
be active in joining the WTO and to effectively carry out international
commitments. To check and perfect mechanisms and policies to ensure an equal
and consistent business environment for enterprises, both domestic and foreign,
in all economic sectors. To continue the roadmaps of tax reduction, study
policies and mechanisms to provide reasonable support to domestic production
within the framework of international commitments; build up the project on improved
competitiveness, make use of opportunities, and overcome challenges when
becoming a WTO member. To successfully organize the APEC Leaders’ Meeting and
welcome APEC leaders to Vietnam, thus improving Vietnam’s position in the
region and the world, as well as promote bilateral cooperation with big
partners in APEC.
3.5. To
stabilize macroscopic balances of the economy, to control and stabilize the domestic
market, to ensure that the price growth rate is lower than the GDP growth rate;
to avoid price escalation and lack of goods; to intensify market management,
prevent and strictly deal with unreasonable price increases, restrict the chain
impacts of the increase in oil and petrol price.
To
organize a good network of agents linked with big manufacturers and distributors
to assure the price control. At the same time, to practice thrift, reduce
consumption of raw materials. To strictly control price fixation and cost prices
of exclusive products, especially primary materials.
To ensure
the management of financial policy in combination with monetary policy,
stabilize macroscopic balances. To carry out monetary policies in a careful and
flexible way; to frequently use monetary policies as tools in well serving
economic development goals and restraining inflation. To regulate and stabilize
the exchange rate, interest and balance of foreign currency; to ensure the
sufficient supply of foreign currency in the import of important materials,
particularly oil and petrol, iron and steel, and some other essential chemicals
and materials.
To take measures
against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit commodities; to avoid loss in
tax collection and other revenues to the State budget. To strictly control the
spending from the State budget, avoid the spending higher than the estimate, advance
and borrowing without payment, especially in construction.
3.6. To
effectively solve urgent social issues: To intensify the prevention of
epidemics, especially summer diseases and new ones. To well implement the
renovation in education and training, resolutely eradicate negative phenomena
in this field; to well organize the tertiary-level entrance examination; to carry
out the program of school and class solidification; to raise the qualifications
of teachers, education management staff, and vocational training staff; to set
up a complete vocational training system in connection with labor market and
business career of the youth, gradually meeting the demands for highly-skilled
labor force of industrial parks, export processing zones and labor export. To
speed up the poverty reduction and hunger elimination, especially for ethnic
minorities and remote areas; to issue supportive regulations and policies to
help the poor to get out of poverty in a sustainable way. To further control
and restrict the strikes in enterprises, industrial parks and export processing
zones. To take more measures on restraining, then gradually reducing traffic
jams and accidents, restoring traffic safety and order; drastically fight
against and prevent crimes and social evils.
3.7. It
is urgent to continue the administrative reform; practice thrift and avoid prodigality;
intensify anti-corruption. The ministries, branches and localities should carry
out specific actions in their working programs to execute laws on anti-corruption,
thrift practicing and prodigality prevention through effective preventive
mechanisms and strict and clear settlement, creating a change in the awareness
and actions at all echelons, branches and the whole society.
The
Government affirms its determination in the struggle against corruption, prodigality,
and negative phenomena, first and foremost in such fields as land management,
investment in capital construction, management on the State capital and assets
and State-owned enterprises. The leaders of any unit, from the central to local
levels, must bare full responsibilities for preventing corruption and
prodigality, practicing thrift, inspecting the performance of their junior civil
servants. The Ministry of Public Security shall promptly complete the
investigation on the pressing corruption cases. The ministries, branches and
localities must have specific plans to enhance the quality of recruiting,
using, training, and fostering civil servants; to punish any officials who make
use of their competence to harass and annoy the people and enterprises; to expel
the degenerated and corruptive officials out of the apparatus.
In the
last six months, to comprehensively check and evaluate the establishment,
organization and operation of the organizations with consultative and
inter-disciplinary coordinating functions; to propose projects on the rearrangement
of these organizations, especially inter-disciplinary ones headed by the Prime
Minister and the Deputy Prime Ministers, persistently making them effective, streamlined
and useful; to maintain only the really necessary organizations which can
assist the Prime Minister in studying, guiding, and solving important and
inter-disciplinary issues beyond the ministers’ competence. Pursuant to the
similar principle, each ministry, branch and locality must promptly check and
rearrange their own inter-disciplinary organizations. The ministries, ministerial-level
agencies, governmental offices, centrally-administered cities and provinces
must combine administrative reform with anti-corruption, prodigality
prevention, and thrift practice, considering it one of their own main tasks.
3.8. To
create dramatic changes in building institutions and renovating the direction and
management of the Government and State administrative offices. To promptly
promulgate the action program to realize the 10th Party Congress Resolution
and the National Assembly Resolution on the five-year plan 2006-2010. To speed
up the process of studying, drafting, assessing, and investigating; to
strengthen the coordination among the ministries and agencies in building up legal
documents. From now till the end of the year, it is necessary to deal with the unsolved
documents instructing the execution of laws and ordinances.
To study and submit to the National Assembly the revised
Governmental Organizing Law, to supplement new and practical legal regulations
on renovating the Government’s guidance and management. To redefine the
contents and scope of the State management undertaken by the Government in
order to meet new requirements and missions in the context of WTO accession, as
well as socialization and rearrangement of State-owned enterprises; to step by
step streamline the Governmental apparatus and the system of administrative
offices with clear functions, obligations and power, and for effective performance.
To innovate the working manner and the guiding and managing styles in line with
the promulgated regulations; to raise the quality of meetings and reduce
administrative procedures. The ministries whose the leaders are changed must
promptly hand over and stabilize the structural organization to ensure the
continuous implementation of their assignments. Leaders of the State
administrative agencies should diminish the plurality of offices, reduce unnecessary
ceremonial activities and spend more time on directing and supervising main
affairs; timely find out and solve difficulties which impede the implementation
of plans; strive for the successful completion of the missions and plans of the
year 2006.
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ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT PRIME MINISTER (signed) Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |