Prime Minister: Resolutely cut cumbersome administrative procedures, abolish the request-grant mechanism

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, a National Assembly delegate from Can Tho city, speaks. (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

Continuing the 9th Session program, on the morning of May 23, the National Assembly discussed in groups about socio -economic development, a number of draft laws and resolutions are being commented on.

Fostering new dynamics and refreshing traditional dynamics

Speaking at the group discussion on promoting socio-economic development, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized three strategic breakthroughs in institutions, infrastructure, human resources and four "pillars" including: Resolution 57 of the Politburo on promoting science, technology and innovation; Resolution 59 on proactively integrating deeply into the international community; Resolution 66 on comprehensive innovation in law-making and enforcement, and Resolution 68 on developing the private economic sector.

“In addition to new growth drivers, we need to renew traditional growth drivers,” the Prime Minister stated clearly about export, consumption and investment, in which promoting public investment to lead private investment, promoting social investment and foreign investment.

Regarding the current difficulties in export motivation, the Prime Minister emphasized that we must remain calm, ready to listen, dialogue, and actively negotiate with partners, including the United States, in the spirit of harmonious benefits and shared risks. At the same time, in this context, it is necessary to expand and diversify markets and products.

Regarding consumption motivation, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to have fiscal policy, reduce taxes, fees, and charges; increase revenue, reduce expenditure, especially regular expenditure, increase development investment expenditure; save costs for businesses, including input costs...

Regarding new drivers for growth, the Prime Minister emphasized digital transformation, green transformation... The Party, State, and National Assembly have recently issued Resolutions on this issue, ministries, branches, and localities need to focus on deployment and implementation.

The most important thing is the state transition.

Regarding the implementation of the two-level government model, the Prime Minister said that the most important issue is to change the state, from passively receiving people's needs for processing, it is necessary to change to a proactive state, actively serving people and businesses; reducing administrative procedures, reducing intermediaries, enhancing data connection...

"Regarding the maximum reduction of administrative procedures, the Government is determined on this issue," the Prime Minister stated. To do this, it is necessary to do a good job of planning, developing standards, regulations and other necessary conditions, from which to publicly announce them so that people can implement them and do what the law does not prohibit; shift from pre-inspection to strengthening post-inspection... To implement a two-level government and reduce administrative procedures, it is necessary to strengthen data connectivity, including data on population, land...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, a National Assembly delegate from Can Tho city, speaks. (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

"Instead of pre-inspection and licensing, local authorities should strengthen post-inspection, conduct inspections and supervision, resolutely cut cumbersome administrative procedures, and abolish the request-grant mechanism," the Prime Minister emphasized. The spirit is to promote administrative procedure reform, promote decentralization and delegation of power, and decentralize to the level closest to the people and doing the best work.

In addition, the Prime Minister also mentioned the policy of promoting decentralization and delegation of power along with resource allocation, because "decentralization and delegation of power without resources cannot be done."

Regarding the transformation of the state in the fields of health and education, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to shift from medical examination and treatment to health care and protection for the people... Regarding education, people are the main subject and the center, aiming to improve the quality of education, improve the quality of teaching and learning, shift from knowledge training to comprehensive life skills training for people; at the same time, pay attention to the policy of equality in access to education for all subjects and regions...

The Prime Minister said the Government is drafting two Politburo Resolutions on modernization and breakthroughs in education and training development and on breakthroughs in public health care.

The head of the Government also mentioned the policy of practicing thrift and fighting waste. According to the Prime Minister, we have "caught the disease" and are perfecting the institutions to "cure the disease."

The Prime Minister said that at the beginning of the 9th Session, the Government had reported on the socio-economic situation, including statistics on backlogged projects that have lasted for many terms, causing waste. In addition, according to statistics sent by localities, the Prime Minister said that there are more than 2,200 backlogged projects. "If these projects are removed, more than 230 billion USD, equal to 50% of the country's total GDP, can be released. We are building policies, not legitimizing the wrongdoing, but there must be ways to handle it institutionally and organizationally," the Prime Minister emphasized.

Proposal to have a Resolution dedicated to promoting agriculture

Also at the group discussion, delegates were interested in the driving forces for economic and social growth and development in the context of many international fluctuations.

Looking back at the development process, delegate Tran Hoang Ngan (Ho Chi Minh City) said that in the past nearly 40 years of innovation, the country has had continuous growth. The highest growth year was 1995 (9.54%), the lowest year was 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. From there, the delegate emphasized the risk of the pandemic's impact, in the recent context of the pandemic returning in some Asian countries, from there the delegate proposed to have policies and solutions early, from afar, and proposed early policies to import COVID-19 vaccines.

Delegations of National Assembly deputies from Hoa Binh, Tay Ninh and Ben Tre provinces discuss in groups. (Photo: Phuong Hoa/VNA)

Also according to delegate Tran Hoang Ngan, currently our country's GDP per capita is about 4,700 USD/person, approaching the upper middle-income group. In particular, the macro economy is stable, inflation is controlled... for a long time. Trade, import and export have achieved many achievements, with a continuous trade surplus for 10 years.

Cultural and social activities have made progress, especially the cultural industry has bright spots, thereby promoting the tourism industry to achieve a large number of visitors. The happiness index has made progress (according to the World Happiness Report 2024, Vietnam ranked 54th in the world, up 11 places compared to 65th in 2023 and ranked 6th in Asia). The global innovation index has also been upgraded...

To achieve growth of 8% or more in 2025 and towards double-digit growth in the coming time, delegates emphasized the role of three strategic breakthroughs in institutions, infrastructure, human resources and resolutions on promoting science and technology and innovation; deep international integration; building and enforcing laws and strongly developing the private economic sector... In addition, it is necessary to continue institutionalizing many policies and guidelines of the Party and State.

Regarding new growth drivers, delegates suggested paying attention to drivers from innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, and drivers from merging provinces and cities to create new development spaces, which must be considered important drivers.

The delegate also said that it is necessary to promote Vietnam's three strengths, because in the context of global competition, complex issues of geopolitics, geo-economics... we must rely on our own potential and advantages, in which we need to promote the three strengths of tourism, services, and agriculture.

According to the delegate, Vietnamese agriculture has many strengths with climate, land, and many products that are at the top of the world such as coffee, pepper, seafood... so the delegate proposed to have a Resolution specifically for the agricultural sector, promoting high-tech agriculture.

For services, it is necessary to have development policies on finance, banking, logistics, information technology, high-quality healthcare... These are areas in which Vietnam has a lot of development potential./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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