The Prime Minister requested to abolish at least 30% of business investment conditions and reduce at least 30% of administrative procedure processing time.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 56/CD-TTg dated May 4, 2025 requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on reducing and simplifying administrative procedures according to Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP dated March 26, 2025 of the Government.
In particular, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to focus on organizing the review, reduction, and simplification of administrative procedures related to production and business activities and internal administrative procedures, ensuring the abolition of at least 30% of investment and business conditions, reducing at least 30% of the processing time of administrative procedures, 30% of the cost of complying with administrative procedures, completing the implementation of 100% of the approved plan on decentralization of authority to handle administrative procedures...
Telegram on organizing high school graduation exams and general education entrance exams in 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Official Dispatch No. 58/CD-TTg dated May 8, 2025 on organizing the high school graduation exam and general education entrance exam in 2025.
The telegram requests the Secretaries of the Provincial and Municipal Party Committees and requests the Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to direct the Party committees, authorities and relevant organizations in the area to participate in effective coordination with the Education sector to carefully prepare the necessary conditions, have contingency plans for all unusual situations, not to let any stage of the Examination and Admissions at the beginning of the level occur without strict management and supervision and without a responsible person; direct the Provincial Inspectorate to urgently develop an inspection and examination plan at all stages and steps, especially the stage of assigning responsibilities to participating organizations and individuals...
Ensuring production, consumption and export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in the context of global trade fluctuations
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 59/CD-TTg dated May 8, 2025 requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on directing the assurance of production, consumption and export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in the context of global trade fluctuations.
In order to proactively respond to the impacts of trade instability, ensure stable production and consumption of agricultural, forestry and fishery products, and improve people's income and living standards, the Prime Minister requested the Ministers of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, Industry and Trade, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Science and Technology, the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, and the Chairmen of the People's Committees of centrally-run provinces and cities, according to their assigned functions and tasks, to continue to closely monitor the situation and developments in global trade, proactively direct and promptly and flexibly deploy appropriate and effective solutions to proactively respond to challenges caused by trade instability; provide timely information so that enterprises producing, trading and exporting agricultural, forestry and fishery products can proactively have solutions to proactively and flexibly adapt to import policies and tariff policies of importing countries in order to stabilize production and export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products...
Plan to proactively respond to climate change, strengthen resource management, and protect the environment
Resolution No. 122/NQ-CP of the Government promulgating the Plan to implement Conclusion No. 81-KL/TW dated June 4, 2024 of the Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution of the 11th Central Committee, Session 7, on proactively responding to climate change, strengthening resource management and environmental protection (Plan).
The plan sets a target that by 2030, investment will be made to complete the infrastructure system to respond to climate change, prevent and combat natural disasters; control greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring that the total national greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 15.8% compared to the business-as-usual scenario (BAU); planning, managing and exploiting sustainably, using national resources economically and effectively; 100% of areas with particularly serious soil pollution will be treated, renovated and restored...
Mechanisms and preferential policies for the National Innovation Center
The Government issued Decree No. 97/2025/ND-CP dated May 5, 2025 stipulating preferential mechanisms and policies for the National Innovation Center.
The Decree clearly stipulates incentive mechanisms and policies for the National Innovation Center (Center): Labor incentives; investment credit incentives; land incentives and creation of operating premises at Hoa Lac High-Tech Park...
According to the Decree, foreigners working at the Center in the following cases are not required to obtain a work permit:
To perform labor contracts with the Center in managerial, executive, expert and technical positions that Vietnamese workers cannot meet according to the Center's needs.
To carry out labor contracts with organizations and enterprises operating at the Center in managerial, executive, expert and technical positions that Vietnamese workers cannot meet according to production and business needs.
The order, documents and procedures for confirming that foreign workers are not subject to work permit issuance as prescribed above shall be applied according to the provisions of the law on labor, the Law on the Capital and relevant laws.
New regulations on budget preparation, management and use of regular state budget expenditures for repairing and upgrading assets
The Government issued Decree No. 98/2025/ND-CP regulating the preparation of estimates, management, use and settlement of regular state budget expenditures for purchasing, repairing, renovating and upgrading assets and equipment; spending on renting goods and services; repairing, renovating, upgrading, expanding and constructing new construction items in invested and constructed projects and other necessary tasks.
The Decree stipulates that for tasks of purchasing, repairing, renovating, and upgrading assets and equipment with a total estimated cost of less than 45 billion VND/task: The Minister, Head of a ministerial-level agency, a government agency, or other central agency (Minister, Head of a central agency) decides or stipulates the authority to decide and approve the task and estimated cost.
For tasks of purchasing, repairing, renovating, and upgrading assets and equipment with a total estimated cost of implementation from 45 billion VND to less than 240 billion VND/task: The Minister or Head of a central agency decides to approve the task and estimated cost.
For tasks of purchasing, repairing, renovating, and upgrading assets and equipment with a total estimated cost of VND 240 billion/task or more:
In case it is not possible to arrange, allocate or adjust in the assigned medium-term public investment plan, ministries and central agencies shall be fully responsible for determining the necessity, objectives and budget estimates for the tasks of purchasing, repairing, renovating and upgrading assets and equipment using regular expenditure funds, ensuring compliance with legal regulations and in accordance with the principles specified above to send to the Ministry of Finance for synthesis.
Prioritize the development of high-quality human resources for the defense industrial complex.
The Government issued Decree No. 99/2025/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Defense Industry, Security and Industrial Mobilization; which clearly stipulates the State's policies towards the defense industry complex.
The Decree stipulates that the Ministry of National Defense shall promulgate a strategy for the development of the defense industrial complex; assign tasks and long-term plans for defense production and manage the implementation of functions and tasks of the defense industrial complex through the core of the defense industrial complex.
Promote joint ventures and associations between components of the defense industrial complex: Issue technical and tactical standards and regulations in the military field for products of the defense industrial complex; Ministries and branches, according to their management functions, are responsible for supporting the provision of databases of enterprises to build the defense industrial complex; create conditions for components of the defense industrial complex to participate in military trade promotion programs, training programs, domestic and foreign survey programs related to groups and specialties of weapons and technical equipment products of the defense industrial complex.
The Ministry of National Defense prioritizes allocating funds to implement domestic and foreign training and development programs to develop high-quality human resources for the defense industry complex, especially human resources serving the research and development of weapons and technical equipment of strategic significance.
New regulations on the development mechanism of gas-fired thermal power projects
The Government issued Decree No. 100/2025/ND-CP dated May 8, 2025 amending and supplementing Decree No. 56/2025/ND-CP dated March 3, 2025 detailing a number of articles of the Electricity Law on electricity development planning, power supply network development plans, investment in electricity project construction and bidding to select investors in electricity business projects.
In particular, Decree No. 100/2025/ND-CP amends and supplements Clause 3 and Clause 4, Article 15 of Decree No. 56/2025/ND-CP on the mechanism for developing gas-fired thermal power projects.
According to regulations, gas-fired thermal power projects using domestically exploited natural gas are operated and mobilized at the maximum level according to gas supply capacity, meeting the binding requirements on fuel, capacity and available power generation output of gas-fired thermal power projects, and the needs and technical constraints of the national power system;
The above regulation applies to gas-fired thermal power projects for which the competent state agency has issued a written notice approving the results of the investor's acceptance of the project completion and has begun operating to generate electricity using domestically exploited natural gas before January 1, 2036. The application of the above mechanism shall continue to be applied until the time the gas-fired thermal power plant no longer uses domestically exploited natural gas for electricity generation.
In case the ability to supply domestically exploited natural gas cannot meet the electricity generation demand of the gas-fired thermal power plant project, the Electricity Seller and the Electricity Buyer shall negotiate and agree on the fuel usage plan and electricity price in the electricity purchase contract according to current regulations.
Establishment of Binh Duong Concentrated Information Technology Park
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung signed Decision No. 890/QD-TTg dated May 9, 2025 to establish Binh Duong Concentrated Information Technology Park.
Binh Duong Concentrated Information Technology Park has an area of 15.47 hectares, located in Binh Duong Industrial - Service - Urban Complex in Hoa Phu ward, Thu Dau Mot city, Binh Duong province.
Binh Duong Concentrated Information Technology Park performs the functions and tasks of the concentrated information technology park as prescribed in Article 4 of Decree No. 154/2013/ND-CP dated November 8, 2013 of the Government.
Source: https://baochinhphu.vn/chi-dao-dieu-hanh-cua-chinh-phu-thu-tuong-chinh-phu-noi-bat-tuan-tu-3-9-5-2025-10225050914460211.htm
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