Prime Minister: 'Instead of having to do a lot of work, just one thing is to replace people'
Báo Thanh niên•25/05/2024
Emphasizing the issue of people and implementation organization, according to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, if only a few people in the leadership of a unit such as the railway, PVN, EVN are replaced, it will change completely in a positive direction.
On the afternoon of May 25, at the discussion session of the 7th session of the 15th National Assembly, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spent a lot of time talking about the implementation of Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on the socio-economic recovery and development program.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spent a lot of time sharing at the group discussion on the afternoon of May 25.
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Assessing the "unprecedented recovery program", the Prime Minister said that the Government has proposed and the National Assembly held an extraordinary meeting to decide, focusing on 4 areas: primary health care and preventive health care, investment in infrastructure development, and social security spending. Of which, social security has spent more than 100,000 billion VND for more than 67 million people. In particular, the investment in expressway infrastructure, including a part from the recovery program. "There has never been a time when the whole country is like a construction site, all key projects go through 45 provinces and cities. After completing the procedures, it took 2 years, now it is being put into operation. It is right to be slow, but we must evaluate the causes, the procedures, and project construction cannot be done quickly, we must calculate everything", the Prime Minister stated. In addition, the ineffectiveness of the health care program is due to certain difficulties. Although according to the head of the Government, "I am very concerned, I really want to do it, for example, I want to immediately deploy a hospital in the Central Highlands, but after several years the project has not been completed, and I have not found land". Supporting businesses has some advantages and some disadvantages like the 40,000 billion VND package. Initially, the direction was "borrow, repay", lending must have the ability to repay, but we raised it to a level of having the ability to recover, that is, to invest in development, so it takes more than 2 years. The approach is not correct, not in line with reality, so no one dares to borrow from this policy. "Businesses borrow with many goals after the epidemic, but they are required to assess their ability to recover. Well, to be safe, I will not borrow, thank you very much for not borrowing. Because if I borrow and you assess that I cannot recover, and you punish me, I will also die. So I would rather sit still", the Prime Minister cited reality and said that when evaluating and changing the status but not changing the policy mechanism, it cannot be done. According to the Prime Minister, the four contents of the socio-economic recovery program have been basically done well. The content of supporting businesses has been partly done well, but the part that has not been done well is this 40,000 billion VND. If the National Assembly agrees to transfer this amount to the policy bank, it will be done. Besides, although this 40,000 billion VND has not been used up, our country has reduced value added tax (VAT) in 2 years to nearly 200,000 billion VND, which is not a failure. Therefore, we must look at the overall picture to be confident. Acknowledging the contributions of the delegates, according to the Prime Minister, "the assessment must also be calmer, more objective and look at the overall value of the program. Through that, we can see that the decisions of the National Assembly are correct and timely. We have done well, but there are also things that are not good according to the law of development movement". Emphasize "learning from experience" to do better, which is to control inflation, stabilize the macro economy, and promote growth. All of these major goals have been achieved by our country, but there are still a few things we have learned from experience and must point out so that when a similar incident occurs, we can boldly and confidently decide to do it.
Investing takes time, while there is a jungle of binding procedures.
In response to comments from many National Assembly deputies on investment, the Prime Minister said that investment takes time, while there is a jungle of binding procedures. "It is true that there is a phenomenon of fear of responsibility and avoidance because the institutions are still entangled," the Prime Minister said, adding that in the coming time, we must continue to focus on removing institutions. The Government and the National Assembly are focusing on removing institutions but there are still many obstacles. Regarding the issue of highways, the Prime Minister said that not much has been done before, and capital has not been arranged. Our country is building the highway from Cao Bang to Ca Mau Cape, the fishbone roads from Hanoi to Lao Cai, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Lang Son, Cao Bang, Hoa Binh... While working, we must learn from experience, expand, gradually remove difficulties, and there must be specific policies and mechanisms related to site clearance.
The National Assembly discussed in groups the investment policy for the Gia Nghia - Chon Thanh expressway project.
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In particular, the Prime Minister emphasized the issue of people and implementation organization. In particular, if only a few people in the leadership of a unit are replaced, it will change completely in a positive direction. "Instead of having to do a lot of work, we only need to do one thing, which is to replace people, replace a few people like the railway, PVN or EVN", the Prime Minister emphasized. The Prime Minister hopes that the National Assembly will support the implementation of the Gia Nghia - Chon Thanh expressway. This is a very strategic route, and research has been done on how to get to the Central Highlands as quickly as possible. In general, it is necessary to amend the Bidding Law. If bidding is done with blue and red teams, it will eventually legalize violations and have to fight against negativity.
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