Innovation to improve population quality in the new era
Người Đưa Tin•27/12/2024
After more than 20 years of implementation, the Population Ordinance has revealed limitations and has not met practical requirements.
The Ministry of Health is proposing to develop a Population Law to meet the requirements of population work in the new situation. Informing Nguoi Dua Tin about the necessity of developing a Population Law in the current context, Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung - Deputy Head of the Legal - Inspection Department, Department of Population (Ministry of Health) said that the Population Ordinance was issued by the National Assembly Standing Committee in 2003 and amended in 2008. After more than 20 years of implementation, the Population Ordinance is the first and highest legal document in implementing population work. The Population Ordinance has comprehensively regulated population and, together with other laws, has created a legal corridor for population work managed by law in recent times. The Population Ordinance has contributed to improving the effectiveness of State management and regulating the responsibilities of agencies and organizations in implementing population work. The Population Ordinance has had many positive impacts on regulating population issues.
Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung - Deputy Head of Legal Department - Inspection, Department of Population (Ministry of Health).
In addition, Mr. Hung said that the Population Ordinance has revealed some shortcomings and limitations, failing to meet the requirements of population work in the new situation. Especially after Resolution No. 21 of the 12th Central Executive Committee was issued in 2017. Such as, the lack of specific regulations on the rights and responsibilities of subjects in implementing population work; lack of regulations on priority policies, priority subjects, priority levels for policy subjects in using population services; the maintenance of the replacement fertility rate is not really stable, there is a tendency to decrease births, there are no synchronous solutions to effectively implement the golden population structure... "Vietnam has entered the period of population aging but there are no regulations to adapt to population aging and the upcoming aging population, the quality of the population and the quality of human resources are not guaranteed", Mr. Hung said. Therefore, Mr. Hung said that new regulations are needed to improve population quality in the coming period.
Deputy Head of the Legal and Inspection Department, Department of Population Nguyen Viet Hung said that new regulations are needed to improve population quality in the coming period.
In addition, health examination, marriage, screening, prenatal and neonatal diagnosis and treatment have been implemented but there are no specific regulations to help improve the quality of population and human resources in the coming time. Or population distribution also has many shortcomings, so the Population Law needs to regulate this issue. Along with that, the organization of the population work apparatus as well as the investment budget for population work are issues that have not helped the population work in the past to be well implemented and also need to be regulated in the Population Law in the coming time. Mr. Hung added that the Ministry of Health was assigned by the Government to develop the draft dossier of the Population Law, the Department of Population (Ministry of Health) is the focal unit. "We are developing the draft and it is expected that in the Population Law dossier, we will propose 6 policies: policy to maintain replacement fertility; policy to bring the sex ratio at birth to a natural balance; policy to adapt to population aging and aging population; “Reasonable population distribution; improving population quality; integrating population factors into socio-economic development plans,” said Mr. Hung. According to Mr. Hung, these are six basic policies in the draft Population Law dossier that has been and is being completed and the Population Department is also submitting it to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal. When the Ministry of Justice completes the appraisal, it will submit it to the Government in December 2024.
According to the Ministry of Health, it is necessary to develop a Population Law to replace the Population Ordinance in order to create the highest legal basis to institutionalize the Party's guidelines, policies and guidelines on population work in the new situation, directly the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, Resolution No. 21; have measures to address the population aging trend in the coming time, take advantage of the golden population structure period to serve the sustainable development of the country; towards 2045, Vietnam will be a country with a good quality population, a large labor force, high income... enhancing the role and position of Vietnam in the world.
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