Collective economy and cooperatives contribute nearly 4% of the country's GDP.
The Cooperative Economic Forum is an annual event of the Government - where delegates share, exchange, and give important directions and decisions to remove difficulties, overcome challenges, take advantage of opportunities, and develop the collective economic sector and cooperatives.
At the forum, delegates exchanged, discussed and shared in a frank and responsible spirit, focusing on analyzing the development status of the collective economic sector and cooperatives; the existing problems, limitations, causes and lessons learned; analyzing opportunities, challenges and support needs in the collective economic sector and cooperatives in the coming time...
Delegates proposed solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles, especially in attracting social resources; strengthening links between members and improving coordination efficiency between ministries, branches, localities, between public and private sectors, etc.; proposing support policies for the collective economic sector and cooperatives to develop, meeting the requirements of the new development situation. In particular, delegates proposed reviewing laws, synchronizing regulations related to land, tax, science and technology, environmental protection, digital transformation, information, labor, employment, etc.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the 2024 Cooperative Economic Forum. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA
Acknowledging and basically agreeing with the enthusiastic, profound and practical opinions of the delegates, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with the Government Office to absorb the valid opinions; promptly complete the process of issuing appropriate documents for implementation, creating a change in both awareness and action in a practical and effective manner, contributing to strongly promoting the development of the collective economic sector and cooperatives in Vietnam.
Concluding the forum, reviewing the contents of the Party's resolutions and conclusions, the State's laws, strategies, programs, resolutions, decrees, and decisions of the Government related to the development of cooperative economy and cooperatives, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the collective economy and cooperatives have made many steps of development and achieved some very encouraging results. In particular, there has been a general consensus in the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on the development of the collective economy and cooperatives; institutions, mechanisms, and policies to encourage and facilitate the development of the collective economy and cooperatives have been reviewed, amended, and supplemented in accordance with each period; the collective economy and cooperatives have been supported in many aspects in terms of training and fostering for workers; trade promotion, market expansion; technology transfer; access to capital; infrastructure investment...
According to the Prime Minister, the collective economic sector has partly overcome its long-standing weaknesses, gradually innovated in association with the market mechanism, and initially affirmed itself as an important factor contributing to ensuring social security, political stability at the grassroots level, and economic development of its members.
The collective economic sector and cooperatives contribute directly to economic growth and indirectly through their impact on member households. According to the General Statistics Office, the collective economic sector and cooperatives contribute nearly 4% of GDP. In many localities such as Thai Nguyen, Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Dong Thap, An Giang, Ca Mau, etc., cooperatives play an important role in developing large-scale agricultural commodity production areas for processing and export.
The Prime Minister highly appreciated and commended the efforts and congratulated the remarkable results achieved in the past time; highly appreciated the efforts and increasingly proactive efforts of the collective economic sector and cooperatives. In addition, the Prime Minister pointed out that the development of the collective economic sector and cooperatives has not been commensurate with its potential, requirements and demands; especially not commensurate with the attention, guidelines, policies and expectations of the Party and State for this economic sector.
Analyzing the context of the situation in the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized that collective economy and cooperatives must clearly perceive and proactively overcome inherent barriers and obstacles to rise up; strongly change both thinking and action towards strong application of modern science and technology, green transformation, digital transformation; develop both the quantity and quality of members and participating labor force; focus on improving the efficiency of capital use, increasing labor productivity, and strengthening linkages along the value chain.
Collective economy and cooperatives contribute to building an independent, self-reliant economy associated with international integration.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh opens the 2024 Cooperative Economic Forum. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA
According to the Prime Minister, Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW sets a target that by 2030 the country will have 45,000 cooperatives with 8 million members; 340 cooperative unions with 1,700 cooperative members. Ensure that over 60% of collective economic organizations are good or fairly qualified, of which at least 50% participate in value chain linkages. By 2045, ensure that over 90% of collective economic organizations operate effectively, of which at least 75% participate in value chain linkages.
“Developing the collective economy in both quantity and quality...; having priority policies for collective economic organizations in the agricultural sector, linking production and business activities with product value chains, applying science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; developing collective economic organizations associated with developing green economy, circular economy, knowledge economy”, the Prime Minister emphasized.
To develop the cooperative economy and cooperatives, the Prime Minister requested to imbue them with the guiding viewpoints: Thoroughly grasp and closely follow the Party's guidelines and policies, especially the viewpoints, goals, tasks and solutions in Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW of the 5th Central Conference of the 13th tenure; developing the collective economy and cooperatives is an objective practical requirement of development. Therefore, it is necessary to renew thinking and awareness, have a long-term and comprehensive vision; developing the collective economy and cooperatives in the new period is a continuous process, without stopping point, requiring high determination, great efforts, drastic and effective actions, avoiding formalism, saying does not match doing; doing must have a focus, key points, easy to do first, difficult to do later, going from low to high, from simple to complex to bring about practical results.
The Prime Minister pointed out that transforming the collective economic model and cooperatives in a flexible and appropriate manner to achieve high efficiency, reduce costs, and optimize resources requires the participation and joint efforts of the entire political system, cooperatives and people; closely following reality, starting from reality, taking reality as a measure; for issues that are "ripe, clear", proven by reality to be correct, effectively implemented, and agreed upon by the majority, we will continue to implement and promote. For issues that are unclear, have different opinions, have no regulations or exceed regulations, we will boldly innovate, pilot, learn from experience while doing, and gradually expand, without perfectionism or haste.
From that perspective, in the coming time, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to promptly develop and promulgate documents guiding the Law on Cooperatives 2023, synchronously and unifying the application time with the Law on Cooperatives 2023. Relevant ministries and branches should promptly submit to the Government for promulgation of 02 Decrees, issue 01 Circular guiding the implementation of the Law on Cooperatives; actively complete the Overall Program on Collective Economic Development for the period 2026-2030.
Along with that, research and complete regulations on internal lending activities in cooperatives and cooperative unions in the Decree guiding the implementation of the Law on Cooperatives (amended) to support workers and cooperative members, contributing to eliminating "black credit" in rural areas; research and report to the Prime Minister on credit packages specifically for the collective economic sector; soon have appropriate guidance on accounting regimes for cooperatives and cooperative unions; complete regulations on taxes and fees, in which priority is given to appropriate support for cooperatives.
Ministries and sectors shall complete policies to support agricultural cooperatives in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Cooperatives (amended) and the Government's orientation in Resolution No. 106/NQ-CP on the development of agricultural cooperatives in restructuring the agricultural sector associated with new rural construction; develop documents guiding the implementation of the 2024 Land Law, in which it is necessary to specify land support policies for cooperatives in the spirit of Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW and the Law on Cooperatives (amended).
Cooperative Economic Forum 2024. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA
The Prime Minister directed the development of policies to support the collective economy and cooperatives to be comprehensively innovated in the direction of ensuring the requirements of simplicity, openness, publicity, transparency, practicality, efficiency and inheritance and transition; avoiding disruptions and difficulties; supports must follow the approach of market principles, ensuring fairness and equality among cooperatives and creating opportunities and motivation for cooperatives to become self-reliant; research and develop specific mechanisms in mobilizing and using the budget to support cooperatives and ensuring resources to implement policies.
Accordingly, relevant ministries and branches will study the mechanism for allocating development investment capital to implement cooperative infrastructure support projects in the direction of assigning them into separate items to create favorable conditions for ministries, branches and localities to allocate and concentrate resources for the development of collective economy and cooperatives; balance resources to implement cooperative support policies in the spirit of Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW, especially policies under the responsibility of the central budget.
The Head of Government requested ministries, branches and units to further strengthen the role of the Cooperative Economic Forum in promoting connection and cooperation among cooperatives, between cooperatives and other economic sectors and with organizations, experts and scientists; enhance the role of representative organizations, the core of which is the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance at all levels, especially in policy dissemination and criticism; act as a bridge to implement and increase access to policies; advise and support cooperatives.
“The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance needs to closely coordinate with ministries, branches, central and local agencies in performing its role and mission in developing the collective economy and cooperatives,” the Prime Minister noted.
The Prime Minister requested to build and develop cooperatives in the spirit of solidarity, consensus and production and business activities for the common goals of members and the cooperative; to build a team of cooperative managers who are well-trained, have knowledge of economics, finance, business and other basic skills.
“We are building an independent, self-reliant economy associated with deep, substantial and effective international integration. Therefore, the collective economic sector and cooperatives must develop in the direction of self-reliance, self-reliance associated with strengthening the connection between members, between the collective economic sector and other economic sectors and expanding international cooperation,” the Prime Minister reminded.
The Prime Minister affirmed that the Government always encourages and creates all favorable conditions according to the law for the collective economic sector and cooperatives to develop rapidly, sustainably, inclusively, comprehensively, and contribute increasingly positively to the overall socio-economic development achievements of the country.
According to VNA/Tin Tuc Newspaper
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