Most of the policies in Resolution No. 43 are timely and have the consensus of the people.

Updated date: 05/25/2024 10:50:46

The implementation of Resolution No. 43 has been carried out very urgently nationwide, achieving many positive results, gradually controlling and ending the Covid-19 epidemic, bringing social life back to normal, promoting the economy to overcome difficulties, recover and grow...

On the morning of May 25, at the National Assembly House, under the chairmanship of National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the Report of the Supervisory Delegation and the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on the results of the thematic supervision of "the implementation of Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 dated January 11, 2022 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support the Socio-economic Recovery and Development Program and the National Assembly's resolutions on a number of important national projects until the end of 2023".

Resolution No. 43 was issued by the National Assembly in a special context, when the Covid-19 epidemic with extremely complicated and unpredictable developments, caused serious negative impacts on people's lives and the country's socio-economic situation.

Party and State leaders and delegates attending the meeting (Photo: DUY LINH)

On the basis of closely following the Party's policies and the National Assembly's Resolution, at the First Extraordinary Session, after considering the Government's Proposal, the National Assembly voted to pass Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 on fiscal and monetary policies to support the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program with many strong, drastic, unique and unprecedented policies to achieve the "dual goal": supporting the prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting people and businesses, helping to recover and develop the economy after the pandemic.

Important foundation to promote economic and social recovery and development

Reporting the summary of the monitoring results at the meeting, Chairman of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee Le Quang Manh - Deputy Head of the Standing Supervisory Delegation, stated that Resolution No. 43 was issued and implemented in a special context, when the Covid-19 pandemic was taking place and causing very negative impacts on people's lives, the economy faced many difficulties, growth decreased, production and business narrowed, social security, employment, and workers' livelihoods were severely affected.

Under the leadership of the Party, the proactive and timely participation of the National Assembly, the drastic management of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, localities and the active participation of the people and the business community, the implementation of Resolution No. 43 has been carried out very urgently nationwide, achieving many positive results, contributing significantly to the effective implementation of the policies of the Party, the National Assembly and the Government in preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, gradually controlling and ending the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing social life back to normal, promoting the economy to overcome difficulties, recover and grow...

Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee Le Quang Manh - Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Delegation, reported a summary of the results of the supervision of the implementation of Resolution No. 43 (Photo: DUY LINH)

“The implementation results show that most of the policies and measures issued in Resolution No. 43 are timely, in line with the people's wishes, meeting the urgent needs, and receiving the people's consensus and active response,” Mr. Le Quang Manh affirmed.

After 2 years of implementation, many goals and targets set in Resolution No. 43 have been basically achieved. GDP growth in 2022 reached 8.12%, the highest growth rate in the 2011-2022 period; in 2023, it reached 5.05%, a fairly high level in the context of the world and the country facing many new difficulties and challenges.

Maintaining macroeconomic stability, ensuring major balances of the economy; flexible management, close and harmonious coordination between fiscal and monetary policies; mobilization, allocation and regulation of public investment capital help bring resources into the economy reasonably; inflation is controlled, interest rates and exchange rates are managed appropriately and stably; budget deficit and public debt are within the scope permitted by the National Assembly and lower than expected levels.

Many policies have been put into practice and brought about timely effectiveness, such as credit policies through the Social Policy Bank system, housing rental support for workers, and value-added tax reduction, which have contributed to supporting people, workers, and businesses to overcome difficulties, maintain and restore production and business.

The specific mechanisms approved by the National Assembly have promoted efficiency, enhanced responsibility, management capacity, proactiveness and creativity of ministries, branches, central and local agencies, shortened implementation time, promoted capital disbursement progress, supplemented important and timely cash flows for the economy, and at the same time, promoted the effectiveness of investment projects.

Important national projects are actively implemented.

Regarding the implementation of the National Assembly's Resolutions on a number of important national projects, the Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee said that the Government has promptly issued documents to implement the National Assembly's Resolutions on investment policies for important national projects, in which specific tasks have been assigned to agencies implementing the projects, progress milestones have been set, and specific mechanisms have been deployed as required.

The Prime Minister has established the State Steering Committee for important national projects and works, key to the transport sector to resolve and remove many difficulties and obstacles in the implementation, especially in compensation, support, resettlement, and quarrying of earth and sand for the projects. Although the progress of project preparation has not yet met the Government's requirements, it has been significantly shortened compared to the actual implementation of previous projects.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai moderated the discussion (Photo: DUY LINH)

The projects have received attention and strong direction from the National Assembly, the Government, the Central Ministries, branches and the People's Committees of provinces and cities. The localities have basically done a good job of propaganda and mobilization and received support from the people in the process of implementing compensation, support, resettlement and site clearance.

Many localities have the participation of the entire political system in the implementation process, promptly resolving difficulties and obstacles, speeding up project progress, promoting proactiveness, and effectively mobilizing local resources in construction investment management.

According to Mr. Le Quang Manh, decentralization has increased initiative, associated with specific responsibilities, and at the same time, created conditions to improve the capacity of operating and managing large projects of many localities when they were assigned to implement important national projects for the first time.

"Up to now, the component projects decentralized to localities as the managing agencies have basically met the required progress and have been allocated enough local budget capital as committed," said the Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Monitoring Delegation.

In addition to the basic positive results, the Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee emphasized that the issuance and implementation of Resolution No. 43 still have some shortcomings and limitations such as: investment preparation for some projects is slow, not ensuring readiness for implementation, disbursement of capital according to the time limit requirements of Resolution No. 43; policies to support people and workers in some localities are still slow and confusing; the capital absorption capacity of the economy and the competitiveness of the domestic enterprise sector are still low when input costs and imported raw materials increase...

Speed up the implementation and disbursement of projects

To overcome shortcomings and limitations and improve the effectiveness of implementing Resolution No. 43 and resolutions of the National Assembly on a number of important national projects, the Supervisory Delegation proposed that the Government focus on implementing a number of key tasks and solutions, specifically:

Direct ministries, branches and localities to urgently review and find solutions to resolve recommendations, difficulties and problems related to the implementation of investment projects mentioned in the Monitoring Report.

Delegates attending the meeting on the morning of May 25 (Photo: DUY LINH)

Speed up the implementation and disbursement of projects using capital from the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program, striving to complete the disbursement of the Program's allocated capital by December 31, 2024 according to the required progress in Resolution No. 110/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly to put the projects into use and promote the effectiveness of capital investment.

Summary of the implementation of specific policies in Resolution No. 43 on allowing bid designation for a number of consulting bid packages, bid packages for technical infrastructure relocation, bid packages for compensation, site clearance and resettlement, and construction bid packages of important national projects.

Evaluate and draw lessons from experience in proposing policies, programs and projects that ensure disbursement capacity, meet the principles and criteria set out to promote efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness and avoid wasting related resources.

Summarize and evaluate the piloting of specific mechanisms and policies applicable to important national projects; develop and perfect mechanisms and policies on toll collection for expressways invested by the State; review and perfect laws on investment under the public-private partnership model.

Review and complete regulations on compensation, support and resettlement, ensuring consistency in compensation policies in border areas within the administrative boundaries of two provinces of two different projects. Urgently adjust and supplement norms and unit prices that have been issued but are not suitable or are still lacking to ensure compliance with reality.

According to VAN TOAN (NDO)

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