Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Change status and minimize administrative procedures

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

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 clearly stated 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 that 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...

"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, it is necessary to aim at improving the quality of education, improving the quality of teaching and learning, shifting 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 that 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 ninth session, the Government had reported on the socio-economic situation, including statistics on backlogged projects that had lasted for many terms, causing waste. In addition, according to statistics sent by localities, the Prime Minister said that there were 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 wrongs, but there must be institutional and organizational solutions," the Prime Minister emphasized.

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