Building and enforcing laws to create momentum for rapid and sustainable development

View of the National Assembly discussion session. (Photo: THUY NGUYEN)

The majority of delegates highly appreciated the reports of the Government and the National Assembly's Economic and Financial Committee because they comprehensively reflected the socio-economic picture in 2025, demonstrating the Government's efforts and determination in the context of many unpredictable and uncertain changes in the international and domestic context.

Effectively operating the legal knowledge ecosystem

Many delegates emphasized that the work of building and enforcing laws must be fundamentally reformed, creating a strong driving force for the country's rapid and sustainable development. Delegate Mai Thi Phuong Hoa (Ninh Binh Delegation) assessed: Over the past 5 years, the National Assembly, the Government, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuracy have had many breakthrough solutions, issuing a record number of legal documents. However, at certain times, there are legal documents that are built and developed spontaneously, leading to conflicts, overlaps, creating bottlenecks and hindering development.

Delegates recommended that in addition to the Constitution as the original law, it is necessary to identify a group of legal documents that are pillars, foundations, and highly stable for other legal documents to follow, ensuring unity, synchronization, and high cohesion.

National Assembly deputies suggested that it is necessary to more clearly define the authority to issue legal documents, overcoming the current multi-layered legal system. Newly emerging fields such as digital economy, data economy, and artificial intelligence need to be promptly legalized or pilot resolutions issued.

Delegate Dong Ngoc Ba (Gia Lai Delegation) proposed that the Government urgently have specific solutions to promote development, improve the quality of legal science, effectively connect legal theory with law making and enforcement; ensure that legal theory is born from practice, truly illuminating and guiding legal practice.

Another important issue is to focus on establishing and effectively operating a legal knowledge ecosystem, with the core being research institutes, universities, policy and law making agencies, and law enforcement agencies; building and promoting a team of excellent legal scholars, leading legal thinking; strengthening theoretical research combined with summarizing practices...

Explaining this issue, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long said that in the coming time, the Government will direct ministries, branches, agencies and entities to effectively implement the ideas in Resolution 66 in order to contribute more to the work of building and organizing law enforcement, serving the socio-economic development goals in 2025, 2026 as well as the following terms.

Public investment strategy to adapt to climate change

In the afternoon, the National Assembly discussed the implementation of the state budget in 2025, the state budget estimate, and the central budget allocation plan in 2026.

During the discussion session, many delegates expressed concern about the increasingly extreme and unpredictable natural disasters, and pointed out the serious shortage of financial resources to cope with and overcome the consequences. This is a strategic issue raised in the context of preparing for the medium-term public investment plan for the 2026-2030 period.

Delegate Nguyen Quoc Han (Ca Mau Delegation) emphasized that extreme weather causes urban flooding, traffic obstruction, environmental pollution, and even affects people's lives. Deeper and deeper saline intrusion changes the living environment and production habits of people... Delegates proposed adding a number of strategic infrastructure projects that both develop the economy and directly address the issue of natural disaster prevention and control, such as adding investment in completing the coastal road from Quang Ninh to An Giang to the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2026-2030.

Delegate Ly Tiet Hanh (Gia Lai Delegation) proposed that in 2026, it is necessary to focus on key national projects, especially projects that have completed procedures. For projects related to overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and protecting the environment, careful research is needed, not only to overcome the immediate consequences but also to aim for sustainable stability. In the face of increasingly complex climate change, delegates suggested that the Government continue to prioritize the allocation of reasonable central budget reserves to proactively respond and take into account long-term investment factors.

Delegates said that in the 2026-2030 period, effective public investment should be considered a strategic pillar and suggested that the Government review and restructure the investment portfolio in a concentrated, focused and key direction; prioritizing projects with regional spillover effects, especially strategic infrastructure projects, climate change response infrastructure and digital infrastructure.

Clearing investment preparation and disbursement stages

Also in the afternoon session at the hall, delegates gave their opinions on the results of implementing the National Assembly's resolutions on the 5-year plan for the 2021-2025 period: Medium-term public investment; national finance and borrowing and public debt repayment; expected plans: National 5-year finance for the 2026-2030 period; medium-term public investment for the 2026-2030 period.

Emphasizing that 2021-2025 is a breakthrough period for public investment, delegate Nguyen Truc Son (Vinh Long delegation) and several other delegates commented: The Government and localities use 32% of the total budget expenditure for public investment. Through this, many national inter-regional projects have been invested and completed, becoming valuable experience for public investment in the 2026-2030 period. According to delegates, the investment preparation stage is often a bottleneck, causing a project from the time of proposing the policy to approval and making an investment decision to often take a lot of time. Along with that is the delay in disbursement, despite the strong direction of the Prime Minister, central ministries, branches and local authorities.

Delegate Tran Anh Tuan (Ho Chi Minh City Delegation) said that there should be more projects aimed at people living in disaster areas, specifically projects that ensure life and property, create conditions for safe passage through storms and floods, thereby ensuring public administration and medium-term public investment of the whole country.

Concluding the discussion on the state budget yesterday afternoon, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai said: 2026 is the first year of implementing the 5-year plans for 2026-2030, with socio-economic development requirements at a much higher level than the previous period, budget revenue and expenditure, public debt deficit associated with the double-digit growth target pose many challenges. The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly stated that the National Assembly Standing Committee will direct government agencies, inspection agencies and relevant agencies to absorb and incorporate important and necessary contents into the National Assembly's resolutions to send to National Assembly deputies for comments and submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval.

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