On the evening of July 18, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online conference with Vietnamese representative agencies abroad on promoting economic diplomacy to boost economic growth in the last 6 months of 2024 and the following years.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the conference (Photo: TRAN HAI).
Attending the conference were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang; representatives of ministries, departments, branches, and central agencies; Ambassadors, Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad; leaders of People's Committees of provinces and cities; leaders of associations and enterprises.
Comrade Dau Thanh Tung, Provincial Party Committee member, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of departments, branches and business associations chaired the conference at Thanh Hoa bridge.
Comrade Dau Thanh Tung, Provincial Party Committee member, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of departments, branches and business associations chaired the conference at Thanh Hoa bridge.
Since the beginning of the year, foreign trade has been implemented systematically and effectively, making substantial contributions to socio-economic development. According to the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the conference, in the first 6 months of the year, foreign trade has contributed to maintaining a favorable foreign situation for national development and promoting the attraction of resources to serve growth drivers.
Vietnamese representative agencies abroad; leaders of People's Committees of provinces and cities; leaders of associations and enterprises attended the conference at the bridge points.
In 36 high-level foreign affairs activities since the beginning of the year, economic content continues to be the focus, bringing specific and substantial results, signing many commitments and cooperation agreements with partners. Contents on promoting the opening of export markets, negotiating FTAs, increasing the attraction of investment cooperation resources in new fields such as green economy, energy conversion, high-tech agriculture, tourism, labor, etc. are focused on integrating and concretizing into specific commitments and projects in high-level activities with major partners. For localities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates to organize many promotional delegations both domestically and internationally and supports provinces and cities to sign more than 20 memorandums of understanding with international partners, etc.
Representatives of departments, branches and business associations attended the conference at Thanh Hoa bridge point.
Implementing the Prime Minister's direction, the inter-sectoral review of international agreements and commitments signed on the occasion of high-level foreign affairs activities is carried out periodically every month under the chairmanship of the Government leaders, and is increasingly becoming routine. Up to now, this mechanism has met 3 times, reviewed nearly 400 agreements of ministries, branches and localities, actively contributing to speeding up progress and removing obstacles; contributing to consolidating growth momentum through reviewing the implementation of recently signed trade liberalization agreements, upgrading existing agreements and proactively negotiating new agreements. In the first 6 months of the year, Vietnam has reviewed and accelerated the implementation of key FTAs that have a great impact on Vietnam.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the conference (Photo: VNA).
The work of NGKT has also contributed to strengthening growth momentum through reviewing the implementation of recently signed trade agreements, upgrading existing agreements and proactively negotiating new agreements; actively supporting localities and enterprises to drastically remove obstacles in projects with the spirit of taking people, localities and enterprises as the center of service; institutionalizing management and coordination mechanisms in the implementation of NGKT has been strengthened to create a combined strength in NGKT work.
At the conference, delegates focused on discussing the contents of improving the effectiveness of economic diplomacy work, focusing on reviewing international agreements and commitments; Ambassadors, Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, leaders of some ministries and branches of the association expressed their opinions and highly appreciated the results of economic diplomacy work in recent times, contributing positively to the country's socio-economic development; proposed to the Government and the Prime Minister many solutions to remove all difficulties and obstacles, promoting economic diplomacy in the coming time to achieve greater effectiveness.
Delegates also discussed and contributed ideas on solutions to improve the effectiveness of NGKT work such as information sharing from Vietnamese organizations abroad about international markets and support for trade promotion connections, expanding markets abroad; warning of new related risks of markets that have a direct impact on import and export activities for businesses to grasp and have timely plans...
With the spirit of "5 determinations", "5 guarantees", "5 promotions", the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister for the last 6 months of the year is to firmly prioritize the goal of promoting growth associated with macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring major balances of the economy, promoting innovation, and striving to achieve the socio-economic development goals in 2024.
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the results of NGKT in the first 6 months of 2024 with outstanding results. On behalf of the Government, the Prime Minister commended and welcomed the contributions of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, enterprises and people to the socio-economic development of the country in the first 6 months of the year.
The Prime Minister requested that economic diplomacy in the coming time should inherit and promote the achievements from the previous period and develop further, in accordance with the current world situation and period. In particular, it is necessary to continue to innovate thinking, change awareness, grasp the world and regional situation to advise appropriate and effective foreign policy.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the important role of new growth drivers directly related to Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, enterprises and people. Therefore, it is necessary to continue reviewing and grasping the world and regional situation to consolidate existing markets, expand new markets, strengthen brands, product quality, green development and digital development.
For localities, the Prime Minister requested to strengthen the connection with Vietnamese representative agencies abroad to expand the introduction of products, goods, services... to expand the opportunities to promote and export products with strengths and competitiveness. For the Government, ministries and branches must carry out good State management; orient development planning to facilitate our country's goods to be competitive, in line with current world trends.
In Thanh Hoa, the whole province currently has nearly 200 enterprises participating in exporting to 53 markets and territories, with 55 types of goods. The structure of exported goods continues to improve towards having more products with high added value. In the first 6 months of the year, the total value of exported goods reached over 2.8 billion USD, an increase of nearly 22% over the same period and equal to 48% of the annual plan. With basic advantages in terms of orders and markets, the export of goods in 2024 is likely to reach and exceed the set targets and plans. Also in the first 6 months of the year, the province attracted 12 FDI projects, an increase of 78.8% over the same period. The total registered investment capital was 177.5 million USD, an increase of 35.1% over the same period; including 10 FDI projects in the fields of industry and handicrafts and 2 projects in the fields of trade and services. Thanh Hoa province is focusing on leading and directing all levels, sectors and localities to implement tasks and solutions to strongly improve the investment and business environment, strengthen foreign affairs and investment promotion activities; promptly remove difficulties and obstacles in terms of land and investment procedures, and speed up the implementation of major and key projects in the province. With these efforts, Thanh Hoa expects to attract 20 FDI projects, including large projects, and soon regain the province's attractiveness in attracting FDI capital in the Central region. |
Minh Hang
Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/day-manh-cong-tac-ngoai-giao-kinh-te-thuc-day-tang-truong-219916.htm
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