Experts advise on streamlining the apparatus to help HCMC enter a new era
Báo Dân trí•27/11/2024
(Dan Tri) - Associate Professor Dr. Truong Thi Hien suggested that Ho Chi Minh City needs a revolution in organizational structure and staff streamlining to enter a new era. Departments, agencies and sectors need to be streamlined corresponding to the Central and Government levels.
On the morning of November 27, the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Officials held a seminar on "What should Ho Chi Minh City do to enter the era of national rise?". The event was an opportunity for experts and scientists to give advice and suggestions for Ho Chi Minh City to develop in the new era. At the beginning of the meeting, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Tan Phat, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Officials, informed that recently, General Secretary To Lam discussed the topic "New era of development, the era of rise of the Vietnamese nation". In the topic, the General Secretary discussed and analyzed some basic contents and arguments to establish the goal of bringing the country into a new era. Seminar "What should Ho Chi Minh City do to enter the era of national growth" on the morning of November 27 (Photo: Q.Huy). "The seminar will identify and forecast the problems, difficulties and challenges that Ho Chi Minh City has faced, is facing and will face. Experts will also identify the city's major bottlenecks and obstacles in the new era of development, propose practical solutions and recommendations for the Party Committee and the city government to promptly handle, resolve and proactively enter the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise", shared the Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Officials.
Congestion point of HCMC
At the seminar, experts said that Ho Chi Minh City is facing many bottlenecks that need to be resolved before entering a new phase. The most prominent are institutional, infrastructure, and environmental bottlenecks that have caused its leading role to decline in recent terms. Mr. Pham Chanh Truc, former Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, said that the locality's most prominent bottleneck in recent times is still traffic and urban areas. According to the former city leader, a megacity of more than 10 million people cannot maintain motorbikes as the main means of transportation. "Ho Chi Minh City needs to develop public transport, limit motorbikes, and develop railways. It is important to remember that Europe's industrial development is based on railways. We are still using the railway system from 150 years ago," Mr. Pham Chanh Truc raised the issue. Mr. Pham Chanh Truc, former Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee (Photo: Q.Huy). Mr. Pham Chanh Truc also said that Ho Chi Minh City's promotion of economic restructuring towards trade and services is against the law of development and not suitable for the actual context. Ho Chi Minh City needs to continue developing the manufacturing industry and increasing the economic proportion of this industry to pull up the development of many other industries later. "When we have not overcome the middle-income trap, it is difficult to have an economic structure like Western countries. Ho Chi Minh City is the industrial center, the production center of the whole South in the past, and the economic locomotive of the whole country at present. However, the manufacturing industry needs to change. After 40 years of innovation, if we still introduce typical products such as textiles, leather, and garments, we are still behind the curve," said Mr. Pham Chanh Truc. Dr. Tran Du Lich, Chairman of the Advisory Council for the implementation of Resolution 98, shares the same view that in the new era, the economy needs to develop prosperously with a strong increase in production. "Premature deindustrialization" while not overcoming the middle-income trap will bring risks to the economy. "Ho Chi Minh City needs to strongly increase the manufacturing industry to participate in global value, expand domestic and world markets, take the lead in digital economy, green economy, and comprehensively improve people's lives," Dr. Tran Du Lich suggested. The expert believes that to truly enter a new era, Ho Chi Minh City needs to be the place with the highest economic activity and market nature in the country. The city's development must be clearly demonstrated through the aspects of economic growth, welfare for people and environmental issues.
Need to streamline the apparatus at the central level
Dr. Tran Du Lich expressed his appreciation for the viewpoint of General Secretary To Lam and the Central Committee on the revolution of the apparatus organization. Recently, Ho Chi Minh City has implemented a project to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the civil service based on the apparatus and human institutions. "This is a particularly important reform. For a long time, I have witnessed many administrative reforms but the success is still very limited. The problem lies in the fact that we have not yet positioned the function of the State in market relations, relations with citizens, and determined what is the State's job, what is the market's job, and what is the citizen's job in civil relations. Therefore, the apparatus keeps getting bigger when new work arises," Dr. Tran Du Lich analyzed. Dr. Truong Minh Huy Vu, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies (Photo: Q.Huy). Experts said that after identifying the above issues, the city will have the basis to organize the corresponding apparatus. This needs to be studied and arranged over a long period of time. Ho Chi Minh City needs to grasp the spirit of the apparatus organization revolution from the Central level to apply it to its specific work. Dr. Truong Minh Huy Vu, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, said that in the issue of streamlining the apparatus, the role of the State with other components needs to be repositioned. Agencies need to determine what the State from the Central level to the local level should do and what should not do, and what should not be done can be assigned to semi-public units, public or private service units to perform. "Public service units need to be given more initiative, autonomy, and breakthroughs. Along with that, digital transformation is promoted, towards the goal that by 2030, public services and interactions between the government and people will be carried out on digital platforms," Dr. Truong Minh Huy Vu advised. Associate Professor Dr. Truong Thi Hien, former Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Officials, acknowledged that Ho Chi Minh City needs a revolution in organizational structure and staff streamlining. The city needs to set a goal of reducing the number of officials and civil servants to about 1/4 of the current number. Associate Professor Dr. Truong Thi Hien, former Director of Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Officials (Photo: Q.Huy). Associate Professor, Dr. Truong Thi Hien said that localities should maintain the People's Council at the city level, study the dissolution of the People's Council of Thu Duc City, districts, wards, communes and towns. The function of supervising local governments will be assigned to the delegates of the People's Council of Ho Chi Minh City in each district. "We can study and establish a mechanism for the heads of administrative People's Committees at all levels. For example, at the city level, there is a mayor; at the district level, there are district chiefs and district chiefs; at the ward and commune level, there are ward and commune chiefs. The heads of all levels are directly appointed by the superiors after being introduced by the local Party Committees," said Ms. Truong Thi Hien. The expert also emphasized that Ho Chi Minh City needs to urgently merge departments, agencies and branches corresponding to the Central and Government levels. Districts and towns need to be arranged corresponding to the city level and wards and communes corresponding to districts and towns.
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