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The People's Committee of Can Tho City has just held a dialogue session between the government and businesses operating in the city. At the seminar, many recommendations of enterprises reflected difficulties and problems in production and business activities; need help from city government…
Businesses need help
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Ms. Nguyen Thi Kieu Duyen, Director of the Center for Investment Promotion - Trade and Can Tho Exhibition (CPA), said that before the seminar, the CPA coordinated with the Department of Planning and Investment and the Department of Industry and Trade. The city organizes delegations to work with businesses and record comments and recommendations. Accordingly, businesses recommend that the city government should have a solution for commercial banks operating in the area to strictly comply with the direction of the Prime Minister and regulations of the State Bank, ie create favorable conditions for enterprises to access loans. Specifically, the lending interest rate of commercial banks for businesses, short-term loans for priority industries such as rice export is 4%/year, but currently some banks apply 8-9%/year.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Kieu Duyen added that businesses also suggested city leaders to consult with the National Assembly to consider reducing corporate income tax from 20% to 10%; increase the level of income subject to personal income tax from 11 million dong to 20 million dong. Enterprises also said that it was difficult to carry out administrative procedures such as the consolidation of plots to complete the factory construction completion procedures; The Electricity sector should arrange to renovate the line system on weekends to create favorable conditions for enterprises to operate. Many businesses expect departments and sectors to have a hotline number to quickly record and handle the necessary needs of the business.
Mr. Phan Ngoc Tuan, Deputy Director of Kim Xuan Union Joint Stock Company (specializing in industrial nail products), said that the global economic downturn has greatly affected the sales of enterprises. Currently, enterprises in the industry are under fierce competitive pressure from enterprises in countries around the world. Therefore, in order to get the contract, enterprises are required to reduce the price. During this period, enterprises must reduce production costs to create products with competitive prices to achieve orders, maintain factory operations, and create jobs for workers. Therefore, Mr. Phan Ngoc Tuan proposed to be supported on bank interest rates, access more preferential loans. At the same time, the city should be supported such as debt freezing, debt extension to pay social insurance; reduce the frequency of bars, check DN.
Ms. Doan Thi Hong Tham, Director of Hygie & Panacee Company (Can Tho Duoc Tra product), said that now many businesses are facing difficulties, especially small businesses and start-ups. Enterprises need support in terms of investment capital, technological innovation, intellectual property, connection of support funds from abroad, facilities and equipment...
Accompanying to overcome difficulties with businesses
Mr. Tran Viet Truong, Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee, said that the economic situation in the world and in the country has advantages, opportunities and difficulties, challenges are intertwined with many changes that are very fast, complicated and difficult. measure; The consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic still continue to put pressure on all aspects of social life, the disruption of production and consumption supply chains, climate change, natural disasters, etc., greatly affect the process. recovery and socio-economic development, production and business activities of enterprises and people's lives. The City People's Committee has been focusing on directing the drastic, synchronous and effective implementation of the resolutions of the Central Committee, the City Party Committee and the City People's Council. Especially, continue to seriously implement, accelerate the removal of difficulties for enterprises, timely support affected subjects according to regulations, promote production and business activities, and restore growth. and economic development. In the face of uncertainties and unpredictable risks, in the last months of 2023 and 2024, the domestic economy is forecasted to continue to face inflationary pressures, fluctuations in raw material prices, weather developments, epidemics, etc. Unusual climate change, against the law... City leaders look forward to hearing from the business community to continue accompanying and supporting businesses to recover and overcome difficulties.
Mr. Luu Thanh Hung, Vice Chairman of Can Tho Business Association (CBA), said that the common difficulty of enterprises today is accessing the market to find output for products; access to loans due to unsatisfactory credit conditions of enterprises, such as the decrease in value of collateral, the absence of collateral, and unclear measures to ensure debt payment. hidden many risks; medium- and long-term loan interest rates are still quite high compared to the existing profit rates of enterprises... Along with that, the cost of petrol, electricity and water, social insurance, health insurance increased (due to the increase in base salary)... as well. is a great pressure on businesses. Faced with current difficulties, CBA always tries to support members in business activities through activities such as the entrepreneur coffee program; bridge between enterprises and local authorities; connecting businesses with social organizations; provide information to members about legal documents, economic information, business knowledge...
Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Secretary of the City Party Committee, thanked the business community for their efforts to accompany the city, especially in the current difficult situation. In order to improve the efficiency of economic development, in the coming time, it is necessary to strengthen support from the scale of operations, the number of enterprises to the fields of operation of enterprises, promote economic restructuring in the right direction... To support To support businesses more actively, the City People's Committee needs to set up information channels to exchange directly, face-to-face, listen to the difficult problems of enterprises. Set up a special working group to remove difficulties for businesses as quickly as possible, led by the Chairman of the City People's Committee. At the same time, strengthen the initiative in providing information about the city's development orientation so that enterprises can soon have an orientation plan in production and business ...
The Secretary of the City Party Committee emphasized that the city is receiving great attention from the Central Government, especially the Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW dated August 5, 8 of the Politburo on construction and development of Can Tho city. Poetry to 2020, vision to 2030; Resolution No. 2045/NQ-CP dated August 98, 30 of the Government promulgating the Government's action plan to implement Resolution No. 8-NQ/TW of the Politburo; Resolution No. 2021/59/QH45 dated January 2022, 15 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Can Tho city. Currently, Can Tho city as a "great construction site" is implementing many key national and city-level projects, especially highway projects passing through Can Tho city. In particular, the West Ring Road under construction is likened to the East-West Highway axis to develop for Can Tho City, opening up a new development space in urban development, trade, service and industry. … The city is also expanding the port system, opening more space for investment promotion and is a great opportunity for businesses to expand investment and development in Can Tho city.
