Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in a regular monthly meeting January 31 pointed out three key tasks of sharpening competitive edge of the country’s economy, further intensifying administrative reform, and fighting against corruption to ensure the set 8.5 per cent GDP growth rate.
PM spoke when closing the two-day cabinet gathering in Hanoi.
Vietnam’s ministries and services need to accelerate major construction projects, putting them in the service of socio-economic development, Dung said, asking them to work out orientation plans including the import-export, tourism, and telecom fields and raising the market share of the services sector.
Addressing the overheated securities market and financial and banking sector, PM for the second time asked for measures ensuring strict supervision of its growth process to facilitate the expansion of the market and avoid major market fluctuations.
On the administrative reform front, the PM pushed ministries and relevant authorities to continue reviewing and settling unsolved issues, underlining the Ministry of Home Affairs’s role of reporting administrative reform achievements at regular cabinet meetings.
To intensify the fight against corruption, the Vietnamese government leader urged the Ministry of Public Security, the Government Inspectorate, ministries and localities to promptly settle newly-opened cases with correct punishments to all criminals but no victims of injustice.
The gathering agreed that stable economic growth was maintained in the first month of 2007, with a high increase of 26 per cent in industrial production value over last year.
The country earned an export value of US$3.3 billion, a 7.7 per cent year-on, while the imports reached US$3.4 billion, a 30.8 per cent higher from that last year.
Vietnam also attracted US$350 million in foreign direct investment from newly-licensed projects and additional capital for operational projects.
Notably, the cabinet worked out 12 key measures to implement the Resolution of the Party Central Committee’s 4th plenum ensuring rapid and sustainable economic development when Vietnam joins the World Trade Organization. (The People, VNA, Vietnam Panorama)
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