In his opening speech, Comrade Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee, emphasized the particularly important role of Ho Chi Minh City in the Vietnamese economy - as a growth pole, the largest economic center, contributing over 23% of the country's GDP.
He said that although Resolution 98/2023/QH15 has created positive changes, helping the city's economy recover and grow, it is still not enough to remove structural "bottlenecks", especially in the field of attracting investment and strategic investors. To be commensurate with the mission, position as an economic locomotive, a center of innovation of the whole country, and in response to the requirement of becoming a modern megacity, he emphasized the need for new mechanisms and policies that are more innovative and comprehensive for Ho Chi Minh City.
The workshop took place to create a special mechanism to strongly attract strategic investors to Ho Chi Minh City.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc stated that the amendment and supplement to Resolution 98 is to give the city "a new coat, large enough, beautiful enough, strong enough", in order to develop commensurate with the expectations of the Central Government and the tasks assigned by General Secretary To Lam .
In recent times, the City has actively coordinated with the Ministry of Finance and central ministries and branches to develop and complete the draft Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution 98. Up to now, the draft has been approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee.
Through the workshop, the City hopes that delegates will continue to contribute their opinions on the necessity and specific solutions to effectively implement Resolution 98 after it has been amended. One focus is to reposition the key role of strategic investors - viewing them as partners in creating development for the City, not simply as those who invest capital in a single project for business purposes.
Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, Nguyen Van Duoc speaking at the workshop
Outstanding incentive policies, project grouping to apply different incentives and linked to the ability to form an ecosystem of supporting businesses. At the same time, it is necessary to focus on policy stability, consistency in implementation and transparency in information access. Encourage policy testing mechanisms (sandbox), creating conditions for Ho Chi Minh City to flexibly adjust development policies for new models and technologies, linked to impact assessment mechanisms and periodic risk monitoring. This is a very necessary step for the city to become the "institutional laboratory" of the whole country.
The presentations at the workshop affirmed that this is the time for the city to restructure its development. In attracting strategic investors, many delegates recommended that the city reposition strategic investors as "development partners", clearly define selection criteria, and prioritize 5 key sectors. At the same time, the city needs to boldly propose and design groups of outstanding incentive policies, simplify administrative procedures, increase support for technology startups, and promote the establishment of free trade zones.
Dr. Nguyen Dinh Cung - Former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management Research said: "Incentives for strategic investors, here, can be a negotiation framework, not defining this tax amount to support that amount. Strategic investors may need other things, there is an incentive framework to go along with rights and responsibilities. Incentives and support do not have a pre-defined regulation but are flexible agreements between strategic investors and Ho Chi Minh City."
Dr. Phan Duc Hieu - Full-time member of the National Assembly's Economic and Financial Committee also spoke at the discussion: "Ho Chi Minh City is currently only at a very initial stage of approving investment policies. This is a great opportunity for Ho Chi Minh City to propose a policy package to empower Ho Chi Minh City to design procedural processes for investors according to the principle that an agency is not a focal agency but a single agency to handle, viewed from the perspective of investment projects rather than State management".
Comrade Nguyen Thanh Nghi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee also added: "Resolution 98 needs to be upgraded in a more open, decentralized, stronger, more comprehensive, more open, more proactive direction for Ho Chi Minh City in the direction of proposing local decisions, local actions, local responsibilities. In the long term, a more favorable institutional framework is needed for Ho Chi Minh City like the major megacities in the world. And it is agreed that an international investment and business environment will be built for Ho Chi Minh City".
Comrade Nguyen Thanh Nghi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee shared at the Workshop
Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc respectfully thanked the delegates for their enthusiastic contributions to Ho Chi Minh City, which were very correct and addressed the city's issues. Comrade Nguyen Van Nen hopes that the delegates will continue to support Ho Chi Minh City, so that the city will have more motivation to continue to develop rapidly.
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