(MPI) – At the opening session of the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly on the morning of October 21, 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented a summary report on the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development plan in 2024; the expected socio-economic development plan in 2025 and said that the general goal for 2025 is to continue to prioritize promoting growth, maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring major balances of the economy; perfecting institutions and laws; developing infrastructure; improving the quality of human resources; developing science and technology, innovation; digital transformation, green transformation, and circular economy.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks. Photo: Quochoi.vn |
Along with that is developing culture, ensuring social security, improving people's lives; fighting against corruption, negativity, and waste; consolidating and strengthening national defense and security, firmly protecting independence and sovereignty; maintaining political security, social order and safety; promoting foreign affairs and international integration; enhancing our country's prestige and position in the international arena.
Main targets: stated in the full report, including GDP growth of about 6.5 - 7% and striving to achieve a higher growth rate (7 - 7.5%); average consumer price index (CPI) growth rate of about 4.5%; poverty rate according to multidimensional poverty standards reduced by about 0.8 - 1%...
To achieve the set goals, the Prime Minister outlined eleven key tasks and solutions for 2025. Accordingly, first, prioritize promoting growth, continuing to renew traditional growth drivers, and strongly promoting new growth drivers.
Accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital from the beginning of the year, especially for important national programs, projects and works. Selectively attract foreign investment capital. Strongly develop the capital market, domestic market, stimulate consumption. Well control the supply and prices of goods, especially essential goods. Strengthen trade promotion; expand and effectively exploit new markets.
Promote new growth drivers, especially digital transformation, green transformation, and new, high-tech industries and fields (such as semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc.). Effectively implement the Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy.
Second, maintain macro stability, control inflation, ensure major balances of the economy. Coordinate macroeconomic management policies harmoniously, closely, and effectively. Improve credit quality; strive for credit growth of over 15%. Focus on restructuring credit institutions associated with handling bad debts, handling commercial banks under special control.
Strengthen financial and state budget discipline; strictly manage, ensure correct, sufficient and timely collection, strive for state budget collection in 2025 to be at least 5% higher than in 2024; thoroughly save expenditures, especially regular expenditures; control budget deficit and public debt within safe and reasonable limits, and take advantage of room to mobilize more resources for development.
Third, make a stronger breakthrough in development institutions with the innovative mindset of "both strict management and development creation, maximizing development resources, creating new development space", especially innovation in the new era. Fully and promptly institutionalize the Party's policies; ensure the progress and quality of draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions; effectively implement laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly. Urgently review and perfect legal regulations, remove overlaps and inadequacies; at whichever level there are problems, that level must proactively and actively amend them.
Resolutely reduce and simplify administrative procedures. Continue to build a streamlined, effective and efficient apparatus. Promote decentralization and delegation of power along with resource allocation; promote initiative, self-reliance and self-reliance at all levels; resolutely eliminate the "ask - give" mechanism. Resolutely innovate and rearrange public service units; accelerate the rearrangement of district and commune-level administrative units. Promote national digital transformation and effectively implement Project 06.
Fourth, focus on completing the system of key and important national infrastructure, especially strategic projects on transport infrastructure, energy, and climate change adaptation... Removing difficulties and obstacles in site clearance and ensuring the supply of raw materials. Strive to complete 3,000 km of expressway and strive to start the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway line. Actively complete investment procedures for the North - South high-speed railway project in 2025.
Effectively implement the 8th Power Plan; develop mechanisms and policies for developing electricity, renewable energy, and hydrogen. Promote investment in developing agricultural and rural infrastructure, adapting to climate change; national digital infrastructure, innovation infrastructure, etc.
Fifth, promote the restructuring of industries and sectors associated with digital transformation, green transformation, equitable and sustainable energy transformation. Promote the development of supporting industries and services; effectively implement the Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy. Restructure the agricultural sector towards efficiency, sustainability, and multi-value integration; effectively implement the Project to develop 1 million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice. Strive to reach 20 million international visitors by 2025.
Sixth, focus on developing high-quality human resources. Strive to be among the top three ASEAN countries in the global innovation index by 2025. Continue to fundamentally and comprehensively innovate education and training; build a learning society and lifelong learning. Effectively implement projects to train 50,000 semiconductor engineers and human resources to serve high-tech development. Promote the effectiveness of the ecosystem and the National Innovation Center.
Seventh, develop culture, improve people's material and spiritual life and health. Organize well activities to celebrate major holidays and important events of the country. Pay more attention to preserving, embellishing and promoting cultural values and national quintessence. Promote the development of cultural industry; effectively implement the National Target Program on Cultural Development for the period 2025-2035. Well implement policies for people with revolutionary contributions, sustainable poverty reduction, and support vulnerable groups. Strive to eliminate all temporary and dilapidated houses by the end of 2025 and complete over 100,000 social housing units. Expand coverage and develop social insurance and unemployment insurance participants. Strengthen the connection between supply and demand, develop a comprehensive, sustainable, modern and integrated labor market; do a good job of occupational safety and hygiene.
Continue to improve medical examination and treatment capacity; control epidemics well; expand remote medical examination and treatment activities, increase support and technology transfer to lower levels; use health insurance without administrative boundaries; focus on ensuring food safety. Well implement policies on ethnicity, religion, belief, work for the elderly, youth, gender equality, for the advancement of women; create a safe, friendly and healthy living environment for children. Strengthen prevention and control of social evils. Summarize 5 years of implementing National Target Programs and develop implementation content for the next period. Promote information and communication, create consensus in society and among the people.
Eighth, proactively respond to climate change, prevent and combat natural disasters, strengthen resource management, protect the environment, and promote green development. Resolutely implement Strategies, Plans, and Action Programs to implement initiatives and commitments at COP26.
Sustainable development of marine economy and national marine space. Complete and put into operation the national database on land. Promote cooperation in protecting and effectively using water resources in trans-border river basins. Implement the project on early warning of landslides and flash floods in mountainous and midland areas. Strengthen control of air pollution, especially in large cities. Develop a program to prevent subsidence and landslides in the Mekong Delta.
Ninth, continue to resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement the Resolutions on socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in the 6 socio-economic regions. Further promote the role of the Regional Coordination Council; effectively implement the Regional Planning. Research and develop specific mechanisms and policies to promote regional development and regional linkages.
Tenth, step up the fight against corruption, negativity and waste. Build a clean, honest, action-oriented government that serves the people; increase publicity, transparency and accountability; effectively control assets and income. Step up inspection and examination, focusing on areas prone to corruption, negativity and waste; do not criminalize civil, administrative and economic relations. Actively remove difficulties and obstacles in renewable energy projects, slow-progressing and prolonged projects. Resolutely remove the IUU yellow card.
Eleventh, strengthen national defense potential, firmly protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, avoid passivity and surprise; ensure political security, social order and safety. Build a strong national defense, military zone defense, regional defense, strategic defense; strictly manage airspace, sea, border, cyberspace, protect marine economic activities; improve the quality and combat strength of the entire army; build a "skillful, compact, strong" army; develop the defense industry.
Focus on ensuring political security and social order and safety. Proactively grasp the situation closely, fight to defeat all plots and sabotage activities of hostile and reactionary forces. Strengthen crime control, strive to reduce the number of social order crimes by 5%. Effectively implement measures to ensure traffic order and safety and prevent and fight fires and explosions. Build a People's Public Security force that "forgets itself for the country and serves the people".
Implement synchronously, comprehensively and effectively foreign affairs and international integration activities; maintain a peaceful and stable environment and create favorable conditions, attract resources to serve national development, consolidate and enhance Vietnam's international prestige and position. Promote economic diplomacy in conjunction with promoting economic growth drivers. Organize important multilateral events in Vietnam well.
The Prime Minister emphasized that we are facing an opportunity, a very important time to accelerate and make a breakthrough in implementing the goals of the 2024, 2025 and the entire 2021-2025 period. There are still many difficulties and challenges ahead, but none can hinder the determination and strength of great unity of the entire nation. Each challenge is an opportunity for us to mature, affirming the strength and mettle of the Vietnamese people. Let's light up the fire of stronger determination, move forward together to build a bright future for the country. Today's tireless efforts will be a solid foundation for tomorrow's prosperity, for future generations as beloved President Ho Chi Minh once advised.
At the same time, it affirmed that under the leadership of the Party and the supervision of the National Assembly, the Government focused on directing ministries, branches and localities to promote the strength of great solidarity, the spirit of innovation, creativity, daring to think, daring to do, the will to be self-reliant and self-reliant and the desire to rise up, turning all difficulties and challenges into opportunities for breakthroughs, with high determination, great efforts and drastic actions to successfully complete the set goals, compete to achieve achievements to welcome the Party Congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Congress of the Party, bringing our country confidently and firmly into a new era, an era of national growth, affirming the role and position of the country in the international arena, making positive contributions to peace, cooperation, development and prosperity./.
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