Innovation to improve the quality of the population in the new era.

After more than 20 years of implementation, the Population Ordinance has revealed limitations and has not met the demands of practical realities.

The Ministry of Health is proposing the development of a Population Law to meet the requirements of population work in the current situation. Informing the reporter about the necessity of developing a Population Law in the current context, Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung - Deputy Head of the Legal and Inspection Department, Population Bureau (Ministry of Health ) said that the Population Ordinance was promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly in 2003 and amended in 2008. After more than 20 years of implementation, the Population Ordinance is the first and highest legal document in the implementation of population work. The Population Ordinance has comprehensively regulated population matters and, together with other laws, has created a legal framework for population work to be managed by law. The Population Ordinance has contributed to improving the effectiveness of state management and stipulating the responsibilities of agencies and organizations in implementing population work. The Population Ordinance has had many positive impacts in regulating population issues.

Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung - Deputy Head of the Legal and Inspection Department, Population Bureau (Ministry of Health).

Furthermore, Mr. Hung argued that the Population Ordinance has revealed several shortcomings and limitations, failing to meet the requirements of population work in the new situation. This is especially true after Resolution No. 21 of the 12th Central Committee was issued in 2017. For example, there is a lack of specific regulations on the rights and responsibilities of the entities involved in population work; a lack of regulations on priority policies, priority groups, and priority levels for policy beneficiaries in using population services; the maintenance of replacement fertility rates is not yet truly stable, with a trend towards declining birth rates; and there is no comprehensive solution to effectively implement the golden population structure... “Vietnam has entered a period of population aging, but there are still no regulations to adapt to population aging and, in the future, an aging population; the quality of the population and the quality of human resources are not yet guaranteed,” Mr. Hung said. Therefore, Mr. Hung believes that new regulations are needed to improve the quality of the population in the coming period.

According to Nguyen Viet Hung, Deputy Head of the Legal and Inspection Department of the Population Bureau, new regulations are needed to improve the quality of the population in the coming period.

In addition, while health check-ups, marriage counseling, screening, diagnosis, and treatment for the newborn and young children have been implemented, there are still no specific regulations to help improve the quality of the population and human resources in the future. Population distribution also remains problematic, and this issue needs to be addressed in the Population Law. Furthermore, the organizational structure and funding for population work have hindered effective implementation in the past and also need to be regulated in the future Population Law. Mr. Hung added that the Ministry of Health has been tasked by the Government with drafting the Population Law, with the Population Department (Ministry of Health) as the lead agency. “We are drafting and planning to include six key policies in the draft Population Law: maintaining the replacement fertility rate; bringing the sex ratio at birth back to a natural balance; adapting to population aging and the elderly population; rational population distribution; improving the quality of the population; and integrating population factors into socio-economic development plans,” Mr. Hung said. According to Mr. Hung, these are the six fundamental policies in the draft Population Law, which is currently being finalized, and the Population Department is submitting it to the Ministry of Justice for review. Once the Ministry of Justice completes the review, it will be submitted to the Government in December 2024.

According to the Ministry of Health, it is necessary to develop a Population Law to replace the Population Ordinance in order to create the highest legal basis for institutionalizing the Party's guidelines, policies, and strategies on population work in the new situation, directly addressing the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Resolution No. 21; to implement measures to address the trend of population aging in the coming years, taking advantage of the period of the golden population structure to serve the sustainable development of the country; aiming for Vietnam to have a high-quality population, a large workforce, and high income by 2045... enhancing Vietnam's role and position in the world.

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