The Government's regular meeting – October 2009
GOVERNMENT ________ No. 54//NQ-CP |
___________________________________ Hà Nội, November 11, 2009 |
RESOLUTION
The Government's regular meeting – October 2009
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On October 29-30, 2009, the Government convened its regular
meeting of October to discuss and decide the following issues:
1. The Government reviewed and adopted reports on: Socio-economic
performance in the first ten months of 2009, domestic and global economic
forecast in the coming time; results of the implementation of the Government’s
policies on economic stimulus and social security and policy proposals for the
time to come; development of tertiary education and solutions to better training
quality; results of the one-year enforcement of the Resolution adopted by the 7th
Plenum of the 10th Party Central Committee on agriculture, peasantry
and rural development; the National Goal Program on rural development in the
period of 2010-2020; Inspection, settlement of accusations and complaints, and
anti-corruption in October; Administrative reforms in October; the realization
of the Government’s September meeting resolution; and the Government’s October
working program Those reports were presented
by Ministers of Planning and Investment, Education and Training, Agriculture
and Rural Development, Home Affairs, Government General Inspector; and Minister-Chairman
of the Office of Government.
a) For socio-economic situation in the reviewed period and
the results of the implementation of the Government’s policies on economic
stimulus and social security, the Government judged: Despite direct impacts of
the global financial crisis and economic downturn, positive socio-economic
achievements were gained thanks to the Party and State’s sound leadership, the drastic,
proper and effective instructions of authorities at all levels, and the aggregate
efforts of the whole political system, business community and people. Economic downturn
was curbed; economic growth rate climbed up on a quarter-by-quarter basis; industrial
production significantly rebounced and continuously grew over the past nine consecutive
months; agricultural production increased stably; service sector, especially in
the local market got a relatively quick growth pace; the society’s total investment
capital considerably rose; macro-economic stability was sustained, consumer
price index increase was reined in, social security continued to be ensured, employment
and living hardships have been easing; admimistrative reform, settlement of accusations
and complaints and the fight against corruption saw progresses; socio-political
stability, social order and national security-defense were secured; people’s confidence
in the Party’s leadership and guidelines, State’s management and the Goverrnment’s
instruction was improved.
Beside the above positive sides, the national economy still faced
challenges: slow recovery in investment, production, export, and tourism;
unstable macro-economic balance; severe natural disasters causing great losses to
people; and low living-standard of a large part of population, etc.
The Government was unanimous in continuing to enforce its
solutions and policies in the rest of 2009 to recover a higher and firm growth rate
in 2010 than that of 2009; maintain macro-economic stability and control inflation.
Economic stimulating policies must be closely attached to economic restructuring
towards higher productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the
national economy while ensuring social security as well. Based on that stance,
the following solutions should be deployed drastically:
- The Ministry of Planning and Investment, in collaboration
with the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies, will (i) calculate and balance
the volume of total social investment capital for 2010 as submitted to the
National Assembly, especially sources from State budget and governmental bonds
for socio-economic infrastructure development so as to facilitate the mobilization
of foreign and domestic capital; and (ii) put forward solutions to manage and use
capital sources effectively, reduce the dispersion of capital.
- The State Bank of Việt Nam and the Ministry of Industry
and Trade, upon their competence and in collaboration with relevant ministries,
agencies and localities, will consider the continuation of policies on interest
rate incentives, stipulated in the PM’s Decision 443/QĐ-TTg dated on April 4,
2009, Decision 497/QĐ-TTg dated on April 17, 2009 and Decision 131/QĐ-TTg dated
on January 23, 2009 in favor of growth recovery, economic restructuring,
macro-economic stability, and proper reduction of assistance scope; then submit
final policies to the Government for approval and issuance in December this
year.
- The State Bank of Việt Nam, in collaboration with relevant
agencies, will continue monetary and exchange rate policies actively, flexibly
and cautiously on the basis of market rules, keeping the growth of the total means
of payment and credit at reasonable rates, controlling trade deficit, reining
in the recurrence of high inflation for the macro-economic stability; cooperate
with relevant ministries and sectors to design and submit to the Government for
promulgation, in the fourth quarter of 2009, of a Decree on credit for agricultural
and rural development, curtailing procedures to facilitate in favor of rural
households, farm-owners and collectives to access to loans.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade, in collaboration with
relevant agencies, will remove obstacles in procedures lending loans of
interest rate incentives under the PM’s Decision 497/QĐ-TTg dated on April 17,
2009 and give instructions on some regulations of the Decision in line with the
real situation.
- The Ministry of Finance will propose solutions to (i) reduce
State budget over-spending in 2010 in the directions of increasing budget
collection, lessening loss of revenue, saving money without slashing budget spending
on socio-economic development tasks that were ratified earlier; (ii) eliminate in
2010 policies on tax exemption and reduction being carried out in 2009; (iii) continue
to delay in the first quarter of 2010 the payment of corporate revenue tax for
small and medium-sized enterprises, enterprises operating in garment, footwear
and leather or those employing a large number of laborers; (iv) suggest the PM amend
the credit guaranteeing mechanism in conformity with the PM’s Decision 14/2009/QĐ-TTg,
dated on January 21, 2009 on guaranteeing long-term credit loans for small and
medium-sized enterprises.
- The Government Inspectorate, in collaboration with
ministries, sectors and localities, will enhance inspection, solving accusations
and complaints, promoting anti-corruption in line with the Government’s adopted
program.
- Ministries, sectors, and localities must continue to direct
the active implementation of the Government’s economic stimulus solutions and
policies; provide sufficient capital to and secure schedule and quality of projects,
particularly those on infrastructure, transport, irrigation, social housing, and
poverty reduction; continue the adopted solutions and policies on social
security, and discover new issues and propose solutions to the PM for
consideration; quickly design specific projects on realizing socio-economic
development plans, missions and targets for 2010, suggest solutions to be
implemented right from the beginning of 2010; concentrate on reviewing and streamlining
administrative procedures in line with the Project 30 in 2010; arrange
delegations to go abroad in a proper and effective way; curb expenses and
reduce ceremonial activities and conferences.
b) Over the past time, our tertiary education system has
been expanding in terms of scope, with various kinds of training facilities. More
public resources have been mobilized, which help to bring about positive
results, including nurturing highly-qualified workforce to serve socio-economic
development, national defense-security and international economic integration.
However, tertiary education still contains shortcomings: State management over universities
and colleges is so slowly renewed that not improve the standard of the whole
education system, nor make full use of creativeness of lecturers, managers and
students; quality of human resource is now a weak point so that requirements of
the country’s socio-economic development are not met.
The Ministry of Education and Training, in collaboration
with relevant agencies, will collect the Cabinet members’ comments and
supplement measures to consolidate and enhance efficiency of State management
over tertiary education, finanlize the report on tertiary education development
as well as solutions to raise quality.
c) Rural development is a long-term process that needs the involvement
of the Party, people and business community. It requires the high consensus,
great efforts and high determination of the whole political system. To realize
the resolutions of the 10th Party Congress, particularly the
resolution of the 10th Central Party Committee’s 7th
Plenum on agriculture, peasantry and rural development, the Government
instructed ministries and sectors to drastically deploy many programs, projects
and measures for comprehensive agricultural and rural development; increase efforts
to reduce poverty; further better material and spriritual living standards of
rural residents; and maintain socio-political stability. However, some plans,
programs, mechanisms, policies and ministerial instructions in the
implementation of the Government’s Action Program to realize the Party Central
Committee’s Resolution 26-NQ/TW have been slowly designed; many new programs
and projects just helped to address some urgent issues in certain fields. There
has not been a comprehensive master plan on rural development to create socio-economic
breakthroughs in rural areas nationwide.
The Government asks ministries and sectors to tighten supervision
over the on-schedule implementation of the projects set out in the Governent’s Action
Program to realize Resolution 26-NQ/TW; allocate resources for urgent programs
and projects, especially the National Goal Program on Rural Development and the
Vocational Training Program for Farmers. Localities will report their one-year
implementation of Resolution 26-NQ/TW and propose new plans and solutions based
on their own experience of rural development, then piloting the new model of rural
development at village and commune levels. The Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development will acquire the Cabenit members’ comments and finalize the Draft
National Goal Program on rural development, then submitting to to the PM for
consideration.
2. The Government listened to the Minister-Chairman of the
Office of Government to present a report summing up the Cabinet members’ comments
on the competence of the Chief Inspectors of the Directorate of Vocational Training and the General Department for Environment in imposing
administrative penalties.
The Ministry of Labor-War Invalids and Social Affairs, in
collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, Government Inspectorate, Office of
Government and relevant agencies, will collect the Cabinet members’ ideas on
the competence for imposing administrative penalties by the Chief Inspector of
the Directorate of
Vocational Training, perfect the Draft Decree on
administrative penalty in the vocational training and submit it to the PM for
signing and issuance.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in
collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, Government Inspectorate, Office of
Government and relevant agencies, will gather ideas of the Cabinet members on
the competence in executing administrative penalties by the Chief Inspector of
the General Department for Environment, perfect the Draft Decree on administrative
penalty in the field of environment protection, then submit it to the PM for
signing and issuance./.
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ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT PRIME MINISTER (signed) Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |