Urgently put the Resolution on private economic development into practice

Also attending were Deputy Prime Ministers : Tran Hong Ha, Le Thanh Long, Ho Duc Phoc, Nguyen Chi Dung; leaders of relevant ministries and agencies.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting of the Government Standing Committee on the draft resolution on private economic development.

Resolution 68 sets the target that by 2030, the private economy will be the most important driving force of the national economy; striving to have 2 million enterprises operating in the economy, 20 enterprises operating/1,000 people; having at least 20 large enterprises participating in the global value chain.

Vision to 2045, Vietnam's private economy will develop rapidly, strongly, sustainably, proactively participate in the global production and supply chain; have high competitiveness in the region and internationally; strive to have at least 3 million enterprises operating in the economy by 2045; contribute about over 60% of GDP.

Resolution 68 sets out 8 main groups of tasks and solutions to achieve the goals of private economic development. These include changing awareness, being consistent in thinking and acting on private economic development; amending legal regulations, especially criminal law, and removing obstacles for private economic development.

In particular, perfecting the legal system, removing barriers to market access to ensure a transparent, clear, consistent, long-term stable, easy-to-comply, low-cost business environment; reviewing and eliminating unnecessary business conditions, overlapping and inappropriate regulations that hinder the development of private enterprises. There are solutions to access resources such as land, capital, science , technology, human resources, etc. for the private economy.

On that basis, the Government drafted a Resolution to submit to the National Assembly for approval and the Government's action program to implement it to quickly put Resolution No. 68 into practice. The National Assembly's draft Resolution was institutionalized into 3 groups.

Group 1, tasks and solutions with relatively clear content, urgent but not yet institutionalized or need to be amended or supplemented immediately, under the authority of the National Assembly and not within the scope of the laws in the content of the 9th Session, 15th National Assembly. This group focuses on 10 specific mechanisms and policies such as: support for access to land, production premises, and housing rental; increased access to capital sources; improvement of human resource quality; tax, fee, and charge policies, etc.

Group 2, tasks and solutions have relatively clear content, need to be institutionalized or need to be amended and supplemented immediately and are within the scope of regulation of laws already included in the content of the 9th Session, 15th National Assembly.

This group includes 8 specific mechanisms and policies such as: ordering, limited bidding, designated bidding, policies to encourage the private economy to participate in key national tasks; preferential legal framework for research and development activities, venture capital funds; bankruptcy issues; acts of competition restriction, monopoly, unfair competition, trade fraud, intellectual property, etc.

Group 3, tasks and solutions are orientational, not urgent and require time for careful research and evaluation to propose the development or amendment and supplementation of relevant laws, and submit them to the National Assembly for consideration and approval.

The draft Action Program of the Government to implement Resolution 68 assigns tasks to the Ministries to review, research, propose amendments, supplements or propose the development of about 30 Law projects; implement about 20 tasks related to reviewing, researching amendments and supplements to Decrees and Circulars in the fields of state management of ministries and branches.

The Action Program also assigns units to carry out tasks related to evaluating and summarizing about 10 Projects, Strategies, Programs and proposing amendments and supplements to report to competent authorities for consideration; ministries, branches and localities organize the implementation of more than 30 regular tasks.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged, commended and highly appreciated the agencies in developing and submitting Resolution 68 to the Politburo for promulgation, as well as in developing the draft Resolution of the National Assembly and the Action Program of the Government.

The Prime Minister emphasized the urgent need to concretize and institutionalize the Party's guidelines in Resolution 68 so that the policies can soon be put into practice; therefore, the draft Resolution must be submitted to the National Assembly at the ongoing 9th Session, in order to immediately resolve urgent issues. With a short time, high requirements, and rich content, it is necessary to choose a suitable and feasible approach.

Analyzing and emphasizing some additional contents for agencies to continue to complete the draft, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to review and focus on the contents that businesses and people are most looking forward to, the necessary and urgent contents, the contents that can be done immediately without requiring many resources, the contents that are "pushes, levers, and fulcrums", bringing great impact and efficiency, truly removing difficulties and obstacles, creating new impulses, new motivations, creating movements and trends for business development, liberating resources and production capacity.

With the determination to achieve the goal of having 2 million enterprises nationwide by 2030, double the current number of nearly 1 million enterprises after nearly 40 years of Renovation, because when enterprises develop, the country develops, the Prime Minister clearly stated that administrative procedures must be as fast as possible, as simple as possible and at the lowest possible cost, especially simplifying procedures for business establishment, dispute resolution and bankruptcy.

The Prime Minister requested to build a mechanism to promote business development to create jobs and livelihoods for people, such as encouraging and creating conditions for business households to become enterprises, small enterprises to become large enterprises, and large enterprises to become larger enterprises.

At the same time, concretize the contents of Resolution 68 on fully ensuring property ownership rights, freedom of business, and equal competition rights; promote public-private cooperation in the forms of public leadership - private administration, public investment - private management, private investment - public use.

Noting that the draft Resolution must promote decentralization to ministries, branches, localities, and investors in ordering works and projects for enterprises to implement with the principle of ensuring progress, quality, no capital increase, and no corruption, waste, or negativity, the Prime Minister pointed out that the mechanism is open but there must be tools to strengthen supervision and inspection.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that in order for people and businesses to feel secure in investing, producing and doing business, it is necessary to specify the content of Resolution 68 on "complying with the principle of clearly distinguishing criminal responsibility from economic, administrative and civil; between legal entities and individuals in handling violations", ensuring the principle that when handling violations and civil and economic cases, priority should be given to applying civil, economic and administrative measures first, allowing businesses and businessmen to proactively remedy violations and damages.

According to the Prime Minister, in cases where the practical application of the law may lead to criminal prosecution or no criminal prosecution, criminal prosecution must be absolutely not applied; in cases where criminal prosecution is required, priority should be given to measures to remedy economic consequences first and this is an important basis for considering subsequent measures.

Assigning Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung to continue to directly direct the drafting of the Resolution, with the spirit of not being perfectionist or hasty, the Prime Minister requested to urgently collect opinions from the business community, continue to complete the draft Resolution in May to submit to the National Assembly at the 9th Session, ensuring the requirements according to Resolution 68 of the Politburo.

The Prime Minister directed the development of a draft Action Program of the Government to implement Resolution 68 with a spirit of high determination, great effort, drastic action, focus, key points, and assignment to ensure "6 clear": clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear authority, clear products.

Instructing the drafting agency to continue to collect opinions from ministries, branches, agencies, especially associations, businesses, and influential subjects, the Prime Minister also noted the need to promote and do a good job of communicating policies on private economic development according to the Resolutions of the Politburo, the National Assembly and the Government's Action Program so that people, businesses, and organizations can understand and effectively implement them.

According to VNA

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