Businesses must demand changes in mechanisms, not ask for policies.

Enterprises need to contribute to the resolution on developing national enterprises, demanding changes in mechanisms and policies with concerns about national development, not asking for policies.

Enterprises need to contribute to the resolution on developing national enterprises, demanding changes in mechanisms and policies with concerns about national development, not asking for policies.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, former Director of the Vietnam Economic Institute. Photo: Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper.

This is the time when the role of private enterprises is needed. Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, former Director of the Vietnam Economic Institute, affirmed at the Seminar on Solutions for Private Economic Development organized by the Lao Dong Newspaper on the morning of March 20. He even believes that to promote the development of the private economy, the participation of enterprises - those who are concerned about the development of the country - is needed.

“Private enterprises must contribute their opinions to the resolution on developing national enterprises. It is time for the private enterprise sector to create pressure to change policies, not just stop at "asking - giving". Creating pressure is necessary to promote policy changes, thereby creating development momentum for the private economy in the current context", Dr. Tran Dinh Thien recommended.

There are many reasons for Mr. Thien to encourage businesses to participate in policy making in a new way, but the key point is that "the most important bottlenecks have been broken, which is the affirmation of General Secretary To Lam about the role of the private economy as the leading important growth driver of the country, which will have to account for 70% of the country's GDP.

With the current number and contribution ratio of private enterprises, more than 900,000 enterprises and the ratio in GDP of about 51%, how to achieve these things is not simple, but there is room to "change the blood" of the private economic sector.

“Vietnam must have a new Vietnamese business system, strong enough to connect with the new world, a world that in just 10 years, or even less, can create USD billionaires,” Mr. Thien expressed his opinion.

This is something Vietnam has not been able to do. Vietnam has had large enterprises and USD billionaires, but in recent years there has been no successor. Small and medium enterprises are still very weak.

“We must look straight at this truth to have a strategy for developing Vietnamese private enterprises. This is something we do not have yet, but we need to solve real problems to put private enterprises into the mission of developing the country,” Mr. Thien recommended and asked businesses to make specific requests.

This is also the basis for Mr. Thien's opinion that the Labor Code, Intellectual Property Law, Science and Technology Law... need major changes in thinking and awareness.

“The current Labor Code is not suitable for the human resources of innovation and creativity, it is impossible to calculate how many overtime hours are enough... An example to see that the requirement to solve the problem now is not to improve or repair existing ones, but to change and create a new system of mechanisms and policies to have a Vietnamese business force with new capacity, the ability to integrate and join the race with the world", Mr. Thien suggested.

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