This is the last regular Government press conference of the Lunar Year of the Cat, right before the approaching Tet holiday.
In the joyful and excited atmosphere of celebrating the Party and the New Year of Giap Thin 2024, the Government Spokesperson respectfully sends to the leaders, journalists, reporters, editors of news agencies and newspapers attending the press conference and their families the best wishes, wishing for a new year full of health, happiness, success; a new year with many new victories!
Minister Tran Van Son said that with the theme "High determination, great efforts, drastic actions, creating new momentum, new impulse right from the first day, the first month of 2024", the regular Government meeting in January 2024 today (February 1) under the chair of Prime Minister Pham Minh aimed to assess the socio-economic situation in January 2024, the implementation of 03 National Target Programs, disbursement of public investment capital and a number of other important contents; propose solutions, key tasks, and breakthroughs in the coming time.
Minister Tran Van Son said that, discussing at the meeting, the Government members unanimously agreed that: Right from the first days and months of the new year 2024, ministries, branches and localities have resolutely implemented the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Central Committee, the Politburo and the National Assembly; focused on directing and operating decisively and clearly, completing each task.
Under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, directly and regularly led by the Politburo and the Secretariat, headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong; with the participation of the entire political system, the close accompaniment and coordination of the National Assembly; the drastic, synchronous and flexible direction and administration of the Government and the Prime Minister; the consensus and active participation of the business community and people; and the support of international friends, the socio-economic situation in January 2024 continued its positive recovery trend, achieving important and remarkable results in many fields, notably:
The macro economy remained stable, inflation was controlled, and major balances were ensured. The consumer price index (CPI) increased by 3.37% over the same period. The monetary market and exchange rate were basically stable; deposit and lending interest rates maintained a downward trend. State budget revenue reached VND231 trillion, equal to 13.6% of the estimate.
Import and export continued to increase strongly. Total import and export turnover reached nearly 64.22 billion USD, up 37.7% over the same period, trade surplus of 2.92 billion USD; Major industries and sectors had many positive signals; Development investment continued to achieve positive results. Disbursement of public investment capital reached 2.58% of the plan, higher than the same period (1.81%). Registered FDI capital reached 2.36 billion USD, up 40.2%; realized FDI capital reached 1.48 billion USD, up 9.6% over the same period; Cultural and social fields were focused on. Focusing on implementing the work to ensure that people had a joyful, healthy, safe and economical Tet holiday; 3.7 thousand tons of rice were provided to support the difficult areas during the harvest season; Cultural and sports activities to celebrate the Party and celebrate Spring were carefully prepared, ensuring the traditional customs and beauty of the nation; Political and social stability; national defense and security are maintained; social order and safety are ensured. Prevention of corruption and negativity is promoted.
Besides affirming the achieved results, the Government members also pointed out the limitations, shortcomings, difficulties and challenges that need to be addressed and resolved, in which the following are highlighted: Macroeconomic stability, major balances, inflation, exchange rates, bad debt still have many potential risks; production and business activities of people and enterprises still have many difficulties; climate change, natural disasters, storms, floods, extreme weather are unpredictable; security, order and crime in some areas are complicated; the lives of a part of the people are still facing difficulties...
Informing journalists, reporters, and editors of news agencies and newspapers attending the press conference, Minister Tran Van Son said that after analyzing the international, regional, and domestic situations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized: The results achieved are very encouraging and worthy of respect, but we absolutely must not be subjective, satisfied, or intoxicated with the results achieved. The tasks set for February and the coming time are very heavy. Therefore, all levels, sectors, and localities need to continue to be highly determined, make great efforts, and act decisively with new spirit and new momentum right from the first day and month of 2024, so that the results in 2024 must be better than in 2023.
Regarding main tasks and solutions: The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to urgently complete the Program, Action Plan, and specific documents to implement Resolutions No. 01 and 02 of the Government, and the directions of the Central Committee, the Politburo, etc.
Focus on drastically implementing Directive No. 26 of the Secretariat and Directive No. 30 of the Prime Minister, well preparing conditions to serve the people to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin joyfully, healthily, affectionately, safely, economically and effectively; ensuring that everyone has Tet, every family has Tet; at the same time, ensuring a civilized, safe and economical lifestyle in religious and belief activities during the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin and the Spring Festival 2024. Do not let shortages, hoarding of goods, and interruptions in goods sources cause sudden price increases.
Maintain macroeconomic stability, control inflation, and ensure major balances of the economy. Actively, flexibly, promptly, and effectively operate monetary policy; coordinate synchronously, harmoniously, and closely with a reasonable, focused, and key expansionary fiscal policy and other policies. Increase revenue and save state budget expenditure; strictly control budget deficit, public debt, government debt, and national foreign debt.
Continue to strongly promote traditional growth drivers (investment, consumption, export) and focus on promoting new growth drivers such as: (1) Strongly promote 6 socio-economic regions according to the Resolution of the Politburo. Take advantage of new opportunities from the shift in global and regional production, trade and investment supply chains, attract investment, develop semiconductor chip and component industries and sectors. Attract green financial resources, preferential green credit to develop renewable energy and new hydrogen energy. Build and develop regional and international financial centers in Vietnam. Organize well investment, trade and tourism promotion activities.
Accelerate disbursement of public investment capital, 03 National Target Programs; speed up planning approval. Identify disbursement of public investment capital as one of the key political tasks of 2024.
More drastically implement the National Target Programs; focus on implementing specific mechanisms and policies that have been resolved by the National Assembly and effectively resolve difficulties, obstacles and concerns of the people related to the work of building new rural areas, sustainable poverty reduction, and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
Focus on removing difficulties for production and business; promote the unblocking, mobilization and effective use of resources. Continue to resolutely, comprehensively and synchronously implement policies and solutions on tax, fees, currency, trade and investment that have been issued. Resolutely cut and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions; continue to improve the business environment and enhance competitiveness.
Promote strong development of key sectors and fields. In particular, in industry: focus on removing difficulties, promoting processing and manufacturing industry, key industries; speed up the progress of large-scale, high-tech projects with strong spillover effects; proactively implement solutions to ensure energy security, resolutely not to have power shortages, lack of gasoline... In agriculture: strongly promote agricultural production, especially food, develop agricultural processing industry and high-quality, high-value-added agricultural products; make good use of opportunities to export agricultural products, ensure national food security; resolutely remove bottlenecks, overcome the "yellow card" (IUU) of the fisheries industry. In services and tourism: focus on strongly developing service industries with potential, advantages, applying high technology; have specific solutions to reduce transportation and logistics costs;...
Focus on cultural and social fields; do a good job of social security, ensure people's lives; protect the environment, prevent and combat natural disasters, and respond to climate change.
There are timely support solutions to stabilize workers' lives; strengthen the connection between labor supply and demand, support workers to change jobs sustainably. Monitor and grasp the labor situation in industrial parks, export processing zones, economic zones, create favorable conditions for workers to take Tet holiday and return to work after Tet.
Continuously strengthen national defense and security; maintain political security and social order and safety; further promote the work of preventing and combating corruption, negativity and waste; continue to promote foreign affairs and international integration.
Strengthen the effectiveness of information and communication work, especially policy communication; combat and refute bad, toxic information that sabotages the Party and the State; strictly handle violations. Improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work; well implement the principle of grassroots democracy; consolidate the great national unity bloc, promote patriotism, create new momentum and new motivation.
From the above-mentioned groups of tasks and solutions, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned specific tasks to ministries, branches and localities. He requested that the Ministers, Heads of branches, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities, according to their functions, tasks and powers, focus on leadership and direction with higher determination, greater efforts, further promote the role of the leader, and strive to achieve the highest results in the assigned goals and tasks.
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