NDO - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 22/CD-TTg on a number of key tasks and solutions to cut administrative procedures, improve the business environment, and promote socio-economic development.
The telegram stated that, in order to achieve the growth target of 8% or more in 2025, the Government issued Resolution No. 25/NQ-CP dated February 5, 2025 on growth targets for sectors, fields and localities; the Prime Minister issued Directive No. 05/CT-TTg dated March 1, 2025, chaired 8 conferences with state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign enterprises... and issued many documents directing and requesting ministries, agencies, localities and enterprises to thoroughly grasp, implement resolutely and effectively, and complete at the highest level the assigned tasks and targets, contributing to accelerating, breaking through, creating momentum, creating momentum, creating force for double-digit growth in the next stages to develop the country quickly and sustainably in the new era.
In the coming time, the Prime Minister requests Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to proactively organize the drastic and synchronous implementation of tasks and solutions assigned in the Government's Resolutions and the Prime Minister's directives on socio-economic development, while focusing on effectively implementing a number of the following key tasks and solutions:
To promote more strongly and drastically the reform of administrative procedures and improve the business environment substantially and effectively , accordingly, ministries , agencies and localities:
Focus on thoroughly reviewing, cutting down, and simplifying regulations and administrative procedures related to investment, production, business activities, and people's lives, ensuring a reduction of at least 30% of administrative procedure processing time and at least 30% of business costs (compliance costs); abolishing 30% of unnecessary business conditions; implementing business-related procedures in the electronic environment, ensuring smoothness, continuity, and efficiency.
Continue to promptly, fully and accurately announce and publicize information on administrative procedures on the National Database on Administrative Procedures; fully announce internal administrative procedures according to the guidance of the Government Office and review and simplify to ensure the goals and requirements in Decision No. 1085/QD-TTg dated September 15, 2022.
Monitor and keep abreast of the situation, proactively take appropriate and timely management solutions and measures to ensure a stable supply of gasoline and oil, and provide enough electricity to serve production, business and people's lives; avoid shortages or disruptions in any situation.
The Government Office shall preside over and coordinate with agencies and localities to develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a Resolution approving the Program to reduce and simplify administrative procedures related to production and business activities in the 2025 - 2030 period; to be completed before March 31, 2025.
Timely and substantially resolve difficulties, problems and recommendations of people and businesses :
Ministries, agencies and localities, according to their assigned functions and tasks: strictly implement administrative discipline and order, create strong changes in working style and manners; proactively handle work according to assigned functions, tasks and powers with the highest sense of responsibility, resolutely not allowing the situation of shirking or avoiding responsibility; promptly detect and strictly handle acts of harassment, annoyance, corruption and negativity to consolidate and strengthen the trust of people, businesses and investors.
Closely, effectively and substantially coordinate to thoroughly resolve in March 2025 the difficulties and recommendations of enterprises that have been listed in the Concluding Notices of the Government Standing Committee and the Prime Minister at conferences and working sessions with state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, FDI enterprises of large and important partners such as China, the US, Japan, Korea, Europe, ASEAN; in cases beyond authority, promptly propose specific solutions and send them to the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister before March 31, 2025.
Synchronously deploy powerful, breakthrough solutions to develop science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and high-quality human resources :
Ministries, agencies and localities: in March 2025, issue and organize the drastic, synchronous and effective implementation of specific programs and plans to implement Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation; Resolution No. 03/NQ-CP dated January 9, 2025 of the Government on the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW; Resolution No. 193/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of special mechanisms and policies to create breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation.
Promote the implementation of Project 06 and data sharing among sectors, promote comprehensive national digital transformation, and create economic growth momentum based on science, technology, data, digital technology and innovation.
Strengthen economic diplomacy and technological diplomacy, especially in the fields of semiconductors, digital transformation, innovation, startups... to attract investment, promote trade, develop science and technology and emerging industries.
The Ministry of Science and Technology increases investment in science and technology; researches and proposes mechanisms and policies to attract and retain talented and highly qualified experts at home and abroad to participate in the development of science and technology and innovation in Vietnam; and promotes the formation and development of digital technology industry enterprises.
The Ministry of Education and Training synchronously and effectively implements solutions and policies to encourage and promote high-quality human resource training for priority and emerging sectors and fields; researches and develops policies to support resource investment, place orders, and assign training tasks to high-quality human resource training institutions.
Building a transparent, friendly, expanding visa policy and upgrading the issuance of electronic visas: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to effectively implement Resolution No. 44/NQ-CP dated March 7, 2025 on visa exemption for citizens of some countries; study and propose to the Government a unilateral plan to exempt entry visas for a period of time for citizens of some countries in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, etc. Classify subjects and prioritize visa exemption for scientists, successful businessmen, wealthy people, leading experts in fields that Vietnam has a need for, etc.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, in accordance with their assigned functions and tasks, shall urgently study and propose plans to improve visa policies, expand the issuance of electronic visas, especially for investors and experts, and policies on granting work permits to foreign workers in a more open, friendly and transparent manner, minimizing procedures to attract capable and financially capable investors, experts, and highly skilled and professional workers, contributing to promoting investment attraction and cooperation, economic development, science and technology and international integration; report to the Government in March 2025.
Continue to extend and reduce taxes to remove difficulties for production and business activities, promote private economic development, and mobilize resources for development investment.
The Ministry of Finance presides over and coordinates with ministries, agencies and localities:
Draft a Decree extending the deadline for payment of value added tax, corporate income tax, personal income tax and land rent in 2025 and a Decree extending the deadline for payment of special consumption tax on domestically manufactured and assembled automobiles, to be submitted to the Government before March 15, 2025.
Research and propose the expansion of tax reduction subjects, value added tax reduction applicable in the last 6 months of 2025 and 2026, and report to the Government before March 15, 2025.
Promote investment promotion activities, establish a working group with strategic investors; propose preferential, superior, internationally competitive mechanisms and policies to attract large-scale, high-tech FDI projects, and lead domestic enterprises to participate in regional and global value chains.
Complete the draft Private Economic Development Project, report to the Government Party Committee in March 2025 before submitting to the Politburo, ensuring quality and progress as required in Official Dispatch No. 13537-CV/VPTW dated February 24, 2025 of the Central Party Office.
Early completion of the pilot Resolution dossier to manage activities related to virtual assets and encrypted assets, report to the Government Standing Committee before March 13, 2025.
Continue to resolutely manage credit policies towards reducing lending interest rates; encourage foreign banks to participate in the process of handling bad debts, restructuring weak credit institutions and promoting investment in Vietnam.
The State Bank of Vietnam presides over and coordinates with the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies:
Closely monitor interest rate developments, resolutely and effectively implement solutions to continue reducing lending interest rates; continue to manage credit growth in line with economic growth targets, control inflation, direct credit to priority areas, economic growth drivers, social housing, science and technology development, and digital transformation.
Consider and promptly resolve proposals from foreign banks, especially support for licensing the establishment of branches and conversion into local legal entities of Korean banks in Vietnam, and report to the Prime Minister on the implementation results in March 2025; study and propose appropriate solutions to encourage foreign banks to participate more actively and effectively in the process of handling bad debts and restructuring weak credit institutions in Vietnam.
Promote social housing development
The Ministry of Construction shall preside over and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to urgently study and propose to competent authorities to consider specific mechanisms and policies on social housing development, allowing foreign enterprises and organizations to buy and rent social housing for workers and laborers in accordance with the spirit of the Prime Minister's conclusion at the Conference on March 6, 2025 on removing difficulties and obstacles to promote social housing development.
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