Nghị quyết 01/NQ-CP

RESOLUTION

ON MAIN TASKS AND SOLUTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIO - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND STATE BUDGET ESTIMATE OF 2021

THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the Law on Government Organization dated June 19, 2015;

Pursuant to the National Assembly’s Resolutions No. 124/2020/QH14 dated November 11, 2020 on 2021 socio - economic development plan and No. 11128/2020/QH14 dated November 12, 2020 on 2021 state budget estimate; 

HEREBY RESOLVES:

In 2020, in the face of many difficulties and challenges, especially the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, thanks to the vigorous participation of the whole political system, robust, timely and effective direction of the Government and Prime Minister, and effort of governments at all levels, regulatory bodies, the people and enterprises under the Communist Party’s leadership, our country has achieved great feats in all areas, accomplished the dual targets of COVID-19 prevention and socio - economic recovery and development, and protected social security as well as the people’s daily life and health; economic growth reaches 2,91%, Vietnam is one of the few economies with positive growth around the world and in the region while preserving macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation and maintaining large balances of the economy. National defense and security have been reinforced; public order and social safety are protected; Vietnam’s position and reputation in the international community have been enhanced. The people have more trust in the Communist Party and the State. 2020 is more successful than 2019 and the most successful among the past 5 years with special achievements that highlight the accomplishments of the whole 2016-2020 tenure.

The year 2021 holds an important meaning as it is the year where the 13th National Communist Party Congress, election to the 15th National Assembly and election to People's Councils at all levels take place and the first year of adoption of the 10-year socio - economic development strategy for 2021-2030, 5-year socio - economic development plan for 2021-2025 and 5-year plans of sectors in compliance with Resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly. Global and regional situations will continue to develop unpredictably, while strategic competition between some countries and partners around the world and in the region remain fierce. The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over with long-term negative impacts on many areas, especially for investment, commerce, services, tourism, transport and aviation. In Vietnam, besides opportunities, advantages and inheritance of important achievements of 35 years of reform, the effects of epidemics, climate change, natural disasters, drought and saltwater intrusion persist and the need for investment in development, prevention and control of natural disasters and epidemics, response to climate change, social security assurance and preservation of national defense and security is immense, but resources are limited. New trends in investment relocation, commerce, digital transformation as well as rapid change to business models, production methods, consumption, social interactions, science, technology, etc. bring both opportunities and challenges, requiring us to remain vigilance, renovate our thinking about development, act more vigorously and effectively, turn challenges into opportunities, strive to complete all targets and tasks of 2021 plans, strengthen the trust of the people and enterprises, create a solid foundation for Vietnam’s fast and sustainable development in the upcoming period in accordance with Resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly.

I. ACTION MOTTO AND FOCUSES OF DIRECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Inheriting important and comprehensive accomplishments, promoting solidarity of the whole political system, with trust and the desire to overcome difficulties, utilize opportunities and strive to complete tasks, objectives and targets of the 2021 socio - economic development plan and state budget estimate, and to create a solid foundation for successful adoption of the 5-year socio - economic development plan for 2021-2025, the Government announced that the action motto of 2021 is “Solidarity, discipline, renovation, innovation, desire for development” with the following 08 focuses of direction:

1. Make meticulous preparations to ensure the success of the 13th National Communist Party Congress, election to the 15th National Assembly and election to People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure. Take actions and develop detailed programs and plans to complete objectives, tasks and solutions of the 5-year socio - economic development plan for 2021-2025 and 10-year  socio - economic development strategy for 2021-2030 in the first year of the tenure.

2. Continue to vigorously, flexibly and efficiently strive for the "dual targets” of epidemic prevention and people’s health protection together with socio - economic recovery and development in the new normal. Combine fiscal policies, monetary policies and other policies in a close, synchronized and effective manner to stimulate aggregate demand suitably, resolve business difficulties and promote growth while preserving macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation and maintaining large balances. Boost restructuring of the economy in connection with growth model renovation. Closely monitor domestic and international situations, promptly forecast and prepare plans, scenarios and measures to respond to issues arising.

3. Continue to improve quality of the socialist-oriented market economy in an adequate, consistent, modern and integration-based manner; properly resolve the relationships between the State, the market and the society, between economic growth and cultural development, social progress and equality and environmental protection. Mobilize and use resources according to the market mechanism. Enhance discipline and efficiency in development and completion of the legal system in connection with strict law enforcement. Modernize governance. Build a simple and efficient apparatus of a state governed by the socialist rule of law. Improve prevention and control of corruption and wastefulness as well as settlement of complaints and denunciations.

4. Vigorously carry out administrative reform with a focus on administrative procedure reform in an effective manner and in connection with national digital transformation, provision of public services for people and enterprises, creation of a more favorable environment for business, investment attraction, entrepreneurship promotion and innovation.

5. Robustly promote Vietnamese cultural values and intelligence; inspire desire for our country’s development, self-reliant spirit and national pride. Bring about fundamental and comprehensive reform and increase education and training quality; focus on development of a high-quality workforce; boost talent attraction and employment. Enhance science and technology, innovation and digital transformation to achieve breakthroughs in terms of productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. Promote technology application and transfer; master some new technologies and strategic technologies. Focus on ensuring social security and improving people’s living standards. Boost management of natural resources and environmental protection; prevention and control of natural disasters and epidemics as well as response to climate change.

6. Continue to complete economic and social infrastructures in a synchronized and modern manner, especially for transport, energy, large cities and response to climate change; develop digital infrastructure in a robust and consistent manner to create the foundation for digital economy and digital society development. Accelerate important projects, key national works and regional connection projects, ensure water security and safety of dams and water reservoirs; improve regional connections, promote the roles of key economic regions and large cities.

7. Strengthen national defense and security; promote foreign affairs and international integration; preserve independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity as well as a peaceful and stable environment for fast and sustainable development; elevate Vietnam’s position and reputation in the international community.

8. Properly carry out communications activities, promptly promote positive elements to strengthen trust and achieve social consensus. Improve cooperation between bodies of the political system; utilize the strength of the block of great national solidarity to successfully complete socio - economic development targets and tasks.

II. MAIN TASKS AND SOLUTIONS

1. Efficiently perform tasks supporting organization of the Communist Party Congress and elections to the National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels; develop, promulgate and immediately launch action programs for Resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly

a) Adopt working plans and programs supporting organization of the 13th National Communist Party Congress, election to the 15th National Assembly and election to People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure.

b) Formulate and immediately promulgate action programs and working plans to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Communist Party Congress as well as conclusions and resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly.

c) Develop and carry out some tasks, strategic breakthrough solutions and key targets, tasks and solutions of the 5-year socio - economic development plan for 2021-2025, and 5-year plans of sectors in a robust and effective manner, including restructuring of the economy, finance and public investment.

2. Continue to strive for the "dual targets” of COVID-19 prevention and socio - economic recovery and development in the new normal

a) Enhance leadership and direction, raise awareness of the disease, do not underestimate the pandemic; continue to ensure the new normal. Suitably control entrants, prevent imported infection effectively. Consider reopening commercial international air routes where possible and ensure compliance with COVID-19 prevention requirements. Accelerate research and international cooperation in vaccine development and produce solutions enabling people’s access to COVID-19 vaccines as soon as practicable.

b) Proactively allocate resources and promptly adopt suitable solutions (including solutions concerning credit, finance, state budget, tax, fees, charges, etc.) to resolve difficulties and support enterprises, people and workers who lost their jobs, have working hours cut short or lost much income due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recover business operation, especially for services, tourism, aviation, etc.

3. Continue to complete institutions of the socialist-oriented market economy, enable recovery and accelerate sustainable growth on the basis of macroeconomic stability, inflation control, maintenance of large balances and improvement of adaptability and resistance of the economy

a) Properly and effectively implement the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 83-KL/TW dated July 29, 2020 regarding implementation of the 9th Politburo’s Resolution No. 48-NQ/TW on strategy for formulation and completion of Vietnam’s legal system by 2010 with orientations to 2020. Enhance discipline and improve efficiency of formulation and completion of the legal system in connection with strict law enforcement. Strictly control promulgation of legislative documents, especially those containing regulations on investment and business conditions, administrative procedures, reporting requirements, inspection, technical regulations and standards. Promptly issue guidelines for newly promulgated Laws, ensure quality and reduce number of documents promulgated.

b) Review and amend regulations, mechanisms and policies, especially those concerning state budget, tax, land, natural resources, the environment, investment, construction, commerce, market surveillance, etc. to ensure consistency of the legal system, release resources for development, and create a favorable investment and business environment. Promote growth of financial, stock and insurance markets; enhance enterprise bond market surveillance. Develop the labor market in a transparent, competitive and integration-based manner, diversify forms of labor supply - demand connection, use resources suitably and effectively.

c) Focus on completing regulations, accelerate granting of autonomy to and improve quality and performance of public service providers. Promulgate lists of public services funded by state budget and technical - economic norms serving as the basis for public service pricing.

d) Direct monetary policies in a proactive and flexible manner, ensuring system safety; combine them with fiscal policies and other policies to resolve difficulties for business operations, support recovery and growth in connection with inflation control and macroeconomic stability. Direct credit growth as appropriate, in connection with credit quality improvement and with a focus on prioritized areas; promote policy-based credit; adopt solutions for disaster and epidemic recovery; strictly control credit for risky areas. Diversify bank credit products to prevent usury.

d) Boost restructuring of state budget and finance - budget discipline, prevent revenue loss, price transfer and fraud or evasion of taxes, reduce amount of uncollected tax. Modernize tax, customs and state treasury systems, launch electronic invoices. Prioritize resources for investment in development; save all unnecessary spending, especially recurrent expenditure, minimize funding for domestic and foreign business and conferences. Review and renovate operating mechanisms of non-budget state financial funds. Continue to implement special financial mechanisms for some state agencies until wage reform is put into practice according to Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW dated May 21, 2018 by the Central Committee. Improve management and use of public debts and do not let them affect Vietnam's reputation ranking.

e) Ensure transparency in direction for pricing of power, gasoline, oil as well as other essential goods and services that affect business operations and consumption. Ensure balance of supply and demand of essential goods, stabilize market prices, especially during holidays and the New Year. Enhance inspection, strictly handle unreasonable price increase, speculation, hoarding, market manipulation and counterfeits; adopt solutions in a consistent and timely manner to prevent smuggling, trade fraud and origin fraud as well as protecting Vietnam’s trade and domestic production and consumption suitably.

g) Promote expansion and diversification of export and import markets, do not rely on any single market heavily. Improve trade promotion in connection with building of Vietnamese goods brands. Proactively harmonize trade relations with large partners. Support enterprises in connecting via digital platforms and exporting via major e-commerce platforms. Effectively adopt ratified free trade agreements (FTA); promptly assist enterprises, especially small and medium enterprises, to utilize concessions; continue to negotiate and sign FTAs with partners. Enhance trade remedies, establish and efficiently operate an early warning system for trade remedies in compliance with international commitments to protect domestic manufacturing and assist enterprises with responding to foreign trade remedy proceedings.

h) Focus on developing the domestic market, promote trade and stimulate consumption of Vietnamese goods. Enhance connections between production and markets based on supply chains; develop distribution systems via domestic market development schemes in connection with the “Vietnamese people prioritizing Vietnamese goods” movement. Diversify commercial infrastructure types, harmonize use of traditional and modern commercial infrastructures. Focus on developing and completing institutions and facilitating e-commerce growth, boost management of cross-border e-commerce; promptly detect and strictly handle violations concerning e-commerce and e-commerce platforms.

4. Facilitate economic restructuring in connection with growth model reform, improvement of productivity, quality, efficiency, independence and competitiveness of the economy on the basis of science, technology and innovation

a) Promote restructuring of the industry sector by increasing shares of processing and manufacturing industries and reducing shares of assembling industries; focus on developing some key industries, new technology, high technology, ancillary industries, etc. Focus on boosting processing and manufacturing industries in connection with smart technology and digital transformation to increase productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness. Accelerate large industrial projects to bring about far-reaching effects.

b) Restructure the agriculture sector as appropriate to each region and in connection with rural economic development and protection of the livelihoods of farmers and those engaging in agriculture; promote large-scale agricultural production according to market demand, raise value added and boost sustainable development and high technology application in connection with storage, processing and trade according to value chains. Encourage development of green and clean agriculture, eco-agriculture, organic agriculture, and hi-tech, smart and climate-smart agriculture. Change structures of plants and domestic animals as suitable, ensure food efficiency and security; promote swine repopulation, expand animal husbandry by applying VietGAP practices; ensure epidemic safety, biosafety and ecofriendliness. Closely monitor epidemic situation and natural disasters to adopt timely responses and mitigate damage. Promote forest regeneration and planting, prioritize large timber forests; increase economic contribution of forestry. Invest in aquaculture infrastructure, diversify aquaculture species and methods; boost mariculture and offshore commercial fishing in connection with protection and development of aquatic resources according to regulations and international practice.. Formulate a national target program for new rural development for 2021-2025 and implement it in a consistent and efficient manner after it is approved by the competent authority.

c) Continue to restructure the transport industry by increasing market shares of inland waterway and railway transport; focus on development of multimodal transport; build capacity and reduce costs of logistics. Adopt policies for stimulating demand for consumption and inbound tourism recovery in a consistent and flexible manner; improve service quality and promote smart tourism ecosystem. Develop the information and communications market sustainably; focus on developing digital technology enterprises.

d) Organize formulation of mid-term public investment plans that improve quality and performance and focus resources on economic restructuring and growth model renovation. Focus on completing and improving investment preparation, especially for large projects. Vigorously adopt solutions for disbursement facilitation in connection with improvement of management and use of public investment capital at the beginning of the year; regularly inspect, expedite and hold heads of regulatory bodies and units accountable for disbursement results; strictly reduce, cut and transfer investment capital allocated from state budget to ministries, central authorities, local governments and projects slow to disburse to those with higher disbursement capacity.

d) Continue to direct restructuring of credit institutions, especially underperforming credit institutions; strengthen people’s credit funds system; further control credit quality and prevent bad debts, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic. Enhance inspection and supervision of operations of credit institutions, especially for high-risk areas.

e) Continue to review and reduce areas where the State holds 100% capital as appropriate. Complete mechanisms and policies for and facilitate equitization and divestment of state capital in enterprises and equitization of eligible public service providers. Formulate and apply enterprise management frameworks in compliance with international standards in state-owned enterprises and corporations. Strictly abide by regulations on management and use of state capital and property in enterprises, ensure transparency. Improve cooperation between Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises and relevant ministries and central authorities. Thoroughly deal with projects incurring loss or performing poorly, especially industry and trade projects.

g) Promote comprehensive digital transformation, develop and complete legal frameworks for new business types, digital economy and public service provision. Promulgate sandbox policies for products, solutions, services, business models and new technologies such as sharing economy, night economy, smart cities, etc. to promptly meet requirements of the economy’s development. Accelerate and launch the whole program for assistance for digital transformation for Vietnamese enterprises, with a focus on small and medium enterprises. Build infrastructure for the digital economy and digital society, infrastructure for smart connection, artificial intelligence development and the Internet of Things. Gradually develop infrastructure for 5G network. Increase sharing of infrastructure for digital technology and communication and use of shared platforms.

Accelerate e-Government development, strive for digital Government, digital economy and digital society in connection with institution completion, restructuring of business processes and protection of information safety and cybersecurity. Build and complete platform and core databases and information systems of the e-Government; promote data connection, integration and sharing. Increase use of electronic documents and digital signatures, online working and online meetings; enable reporting and socio - economic targets on the national information and reporting system in connection with the information and direction center of the Government and Prime Minister. Continue to restructure procedures to integrate and provide level 3 and level 4 online public services and promote integration of payment services on the national public service portal. Urgently connect and share administrative data between state agencies to form a national statistical information system servicing management at all levels.

h) Develop and improve performance of the collective economy, with the core being cooperatives. Select and popularize exemplary cooperative models with suitable size and high efficiency. Boost growth of the private sector, harmonize economic performance and social responsibility as well as natural resource and environmental protection, promote connection between Vietnamese enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises. Facilitate development of medium and large sole proprietorships, carry out Vietnamese enterprise branding; promote entrepreneurship and innovation, properly support small and medium enterprises to utilize the domestic market and effectively contribute to global value chains.

5. Enhance mobilization and efficient use of resources; accelerate planning formulation and approval as well as performance of key socio - economic infrastructure projects; promote growth of the ocean economy; strengthen regional connections; boost the roles of key economic regions and large cities; and facilitate new rural development

a) Enhance mobilization and efficient use of investment resources, focus on utilizing internal resources of the economy while continuing to mobilize ODA loans and concessional loans from sponsors, selectively attract foreign investments, especially regional and global FDI flows. Boost investment under public-private partnership.

b) Focus resources on key transport infrastructure projects such as the eastern section of the North - South expressway, Bien Hoa - Vung Tau expressway, some key works and inter-regional transport projects in the North, especially in the Northwest; accelerate non-stop electronic toll collection; focus on phase 1 investment in Long Thanh international airport, invest in and expand Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai and Da Nang international airports. Accelerate construction and upgrade of inter-regional coastal routes and coastal economic zones and cities across the country. Continue to develop the national seaport system and international gateway ports in key economic regions; invest in infrastructure of coastal economic zones whose development is prioritized. Develop socio - economic infrastructure of rural areas, mountainous areas and disadvantaged areas as appropriate to provide the basis for socio - economic development in these areas.

c) Focus on resolving difficulties faced by key electricity projects, mobilize all resources to ensure sufficient electricity for production and daily life, do not allow electricity shortage. Ensure electricity growth is appropriate to economic growth. Encourage participation of the private sector, diversify power sources, ensure efficiency and sustainability. Adopt solutions to reduce electricity loss and ensure economical and efficient use of electricity in production, transmission and distribution. Review small and medium hydropower plants, ensure suitable electricity source structure in connection with environmental protection.

d) Accelerate formulation of and approval for national plannings, regional plannings, provincial plannings, urban plannings and rural plannings for 2021 - 2030. Ensure sufficient space for investment and production development. Promote intra-regional and inter-regional connections and international integration, utilize functions characteristics of each region, enhance the roles of key economic regions and large cities. Vigorously develop the ocean economy, ensure people’s livelihoods in connection with protection of sovereignty over seas and islands.

dd) Increase urban development management, effectively address urban waste, environmental, flooding and traffic issues. Continue to review and complete urban databases.

e) Review and complete legal frameworks, policies and mechanisms supporting new rural development; allocate resources for new rural development properly. Improve quality of the movement of “the whole country joining in rural development in connection with agricultural sector restructuring”.

6. Improve quality of and efficiently use human resources in connection with promotion of innovation and vigorous application and development of science and technology

a) Implement mechanisms, policies and solutions for workforce development in a synchronized manner, especially for high-quality workforce; improve workforce quality in connection with fast labor restructuring, especially in rural areas. Provide suitable mechanisms for attraction, employment and training of talents, foster intellectuals for the new era.

b) Continue to bring about radical changes in education and training. Review, plan and develop networks of educational and training institutions throughout the country; improve quality and standardize teachers, lecturers and education officials at all levels. Ensure quality and progress of general education program and textbook reform according to the National Assembly’s Resolutions No. 88/2014/QH13 and No. 51/2017/QH14. Continue to employ the new general education program efficiently. Improve quality of foreign language teaching; enhance education in moral values, lifestyles and skills for students; ensure school safety. Boost state management decentralization and autonomy and accountability of educational institutions. Promote school management; and application of information technology to education and training.

c) Adopt mechanisms and policies for vocational education development. Modernize and vigorously apply information technology to training methods. Focus on fostering skilled workforce, training and retraining and enable workers to switch jobs to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution. Boost vocational training for ethnics, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups; formulate and launch entrepreneurship and job promotion programs for students.

d) Continue to properly conduct research for production and daily life, especially for COVID-19 prevention and control and COVID-19 vaccines. Promote scientific and technological potential. Restructure and launch national science and technology programs in an effective manner. Renovate managerial and financial mechanisms for science and technology tasks, facilitating participation of scientists and enterprises; complete mechanisms for autonomy in independent science and technology organizations. Boost the national innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems as well as connection and cooperation between universities/ research institutes with the industry sector/ enterprises; enhance the roles of innovation centers. Provide mechanisms and policies for robust attraction of resources for high technology and science from leading corporations around the world.

7. Tasks and solutions concerning cultural and social development, social progress and equality in harmonious connection with economic development

a) Continue to properly implement the Politburo’s Conclusion No.76-KL/TW dated June 04, 2020 and Resolution No. 33-NQ/TW dated June 09, 2014 by the 9th conference of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party on development of Vietnamese culture and people for Vietnam’s sustainable development. Prioritize resources for restoration, embellishment and promotion of cultural heritages. Build a healthy cultural environment, adopt a civilized lifestyle in the spirit of the “all people joining in fostering cultured life” movement. Encourage private sector involvement in creative, cultural and art activities to boost people’s participation in recreational activities, etc. Build family databases; adopt more solutions for management and provision of public family services.

b) Improve quality of the “all people doing physical exercise following Uncle Ho’s example” movement; diversify the forms of grassroots-level physical exercise; renovate content of civil physical activities and sports and methods for organization thereof. Further nurture and train sport talents, improve capacity and achievements of high performance sports, prepare for and organize SeaGames 31 and ASEAN Para Games 11 properly.

c) Continue to implement Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW by the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party on enhancement of citizens’ health protection, improvement, and care in new situation and Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW by the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party on population affairs in new situation. Develop grassroots healthcare networks in compliance with requirements of the new situation. Focus on monitoring and managing people’s health, boost remote medical services and technology transfer to lower levels of care. Improve capacity of the preventive medicine system; research into, produce and test drugs, vaccines, biologicals and medical devices for proactive prevention, control and treatment of epidemics and diseases. Ensure healthcare security and food safety. Improve quality of vaccination and medical services, renovate healthcare worker training, promote science and technology application, research, and digital transformation in the healthcare sector, and raise people’s satisfaction. Combine traditional medicine with modern medicine. Continue to follow the roadmap to correct and sufficient calculation of medical service costs in connection with the roadmap to health insurance for all people; enhance decentralization, autonomy and accountability, ensuring transparency. Maintain the replacement fertility rate throughout the country, strive for balanced sex ratio at birth. Increase access to elderly, maternal and child healthcare services.

d) Adopt the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 92-KL/TW dated November 05, 2020 on further implementation of Resolution of the 5th conference of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party on some issues concerning social policies for 2012-2020. Develop comprehensive, encompassing and sustainable social policies with equal chance of access. Continue to carry out employment creation policies, programs and schemes in a synchronized and effective manner; adopt public employment policies and policies on assistance for entrepreneur youths. Support job creation, improve working conditions for workers of unofficial industries and vulnerable workers. Continue to expand coverage of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and insurance for occupational accidents and occupational disease. Foster harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations in the new situation; ensure labor safety. Raise the awareness of employees and employers towards adoption of policies for wages, social insurance, unemployment insurance, and insurance for occupational accidents and occupational disease.

d) Complete approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement in connection with sustainable development goals for 2021-2025. Popularize effective poverty reduction models, and adopt community-based poverty reduction ideas. Encourage proactive acts of poverty reduction. Carry out policies, programs and schemes for sustainable and encompassing poverty reduction, and enhance beneficiaries’ access to and poor people’s participation in these policies, programs and schemes.

e) Implement incentive policies for people with meritorious services to revolutions in an adequate, effective and transparent manner; ensure convenient and safe benefit provision, encouraging provision via public postal service. Properly provide healthcare for people with meritorious services to revolutions. Continue to carry out the scheme for identification of war martyr remains; complete databases for war martyrs, martyr families and martyr tombs and cemeteries. Enhance gratitude expression movements; mobilize private resources and state assistance to take care of people with meritorious services to revolutions, especially housing assistance.

g) Effectively implement regular and ad hoc assistance policies for vulnerable groups. Develop models of care of disadvantaged people in communities, and encourage private sector involvement in adoption of models of care of the elderly, orphans and people with disabilities. Boost information technology application to provision of social security and insurance benefits to people. Promote development of social housing in urban areas, housing for workers in industrial parks, houses for rent, houses for low-income people and affordable commercial housing.

h) Exercise children’s rights and follow international conventions on children’s rights ratified by Vietnam. Further communicate about exercise of children’s rights; child protection and prevention of violence against children and child abuse; greatly reduce number of drowned children. Develop databases about children from central to local government. Enhance assessment and inspection of adoption of child abuse prevention policies. Properly implement the 2020 Youth Law. Effectively carry out policies promoting gender equality and progress of women; boost women’s participation in managerial and leadership positions and residential bodies. Diversify communication about gender equality and domestic violence prevention.

i) Thoroughly understand viewpoints and guidelines of the Communist Party on ethnic minority affairs and solidarity; and carry out the general scheme for socio - economic development in ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas for 2021-2030, national target program for socio - economic development in ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas for 2021-2030 and other tasks concerning ethnic minority affairs in the new situation.

k) Properly exercise state management of religions, especially at grassroots level; research on policies enabling religious organizations to encourage adoption of cultured and civilized lifestyle and participate in socio - economic development. Properly organize foreign affairs activities in relation to religions. Ensure security in religions, and fight against distortion and false accusations from hostile forces.

l) Continue to address accident blackspots; improve quality of driver training, driving tests, driving license issuance and vehicle registration; tighten control over transport business and vehicular weight inspection. Boost communications activities via mass media, and launch a movement where all people participate in social evil prevention.

8. Efficiently and sustainably manage, extract and use natural resources and protect the environment; proactively and effectively respond to climate change; enhance prevention and mitigation of natural disasters

a) Complete mechanisms, policies and regulations concerning natural resource management, environmental protection and response to climate change in a synchronized manner. Resolve problems, especially those related to administrative procedures; amend confusing or overlapping regulations and procedures, ensuring consistency, feasibility and transparency, especially in management and use of land, water and natural resources. Focus on developing and connecting information systems and databases about land with tax authorities. Increase allocation of land from state-owned farms. Boost inspection and assessment of forests and water resources. Properly manage existing natural forest area, increase forest cover and quality. Promote international cooperation and efficient and sustainable use of water resources. Develop water resources databases in connection with water security strategies; ensure provision of clean and safe drinking water to people, especially those living in rural areas and ethnic minorities. Strictly handle violations against regulations on use of water resources and dumping of wastewater to water sources.

b) Properly implement the amended Law on Environmental Protection. Complete mechanisms promoting the circular economy model. Strictly manage the environment in industrial parks and handicraft villages. Further take precautions against risks of environmental emergencies. Boost and attract investments, process and recycle waste using processing technology and biological technology instead of direct burying. Restore drainage basin environment; improve urban air; conserve and develop endemic ecosystems.

c) Actively implement the Politburo’s Directive No. 42-CT/TW dated March 24, 2020 on scheme for enhancement of the Communist Party’s leadership in natural disaster prevention, response and recovery; the Government’s Resolution No. 120/NQ-CP dated November 17, 2017 on sustainable development of the Mekong Delta in connection with climate change response. Research on and formulate comprehensive solutions for natural disaster prevention in disaster-prone areas; focus resources on developing the Mekong Delta and areas heavily affected by climate change. Create landslide and subsidence warning maps. Promote private sector involvement, improve capacity for hydrometeorological monitoring, forecasting and warning, with a focus on forecasting and warning about storms, tropical depressions, floods, flash floods and landslides. Build capacity for natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue; raise the community’s awareness, apply advanced science and technology, complete tools supporting direction of natural disaster prevention and control; properly organize community-based natural disaster risk management.

9. Promote administrative reform, improve state management and quality of officials and public employees; build a developmental and honest state administrative system that operates vigorously and serve the people; enhance corruption prevention and control, thrift practice and settlement of complaints and denunciation

a) Promote decentralization of state management as suitable for each sector to ensure unified management, boost proactiveness, innovation and responsibilities of governments at all levels and regulatory bodies. Review and strengthen administrative agencies in a simplified and effective manner. Properly manage organization, adjustment, establishment and classification of administrative units at all levels.

b) Carry out downsizing and reorganization of officials and public employees. Launch the scheme for databases for officials and public employees of administrative agencies, scheme for reorganization of official and public employee training institutions affiliated to bodies of the political system by 2030, national program for foreign language learning for officials and public employees; focus on refresher training for officials according to salary scales, salary grades and title standards. Promote information technology application to official recruitment and promotion examinations, ensuring transparency. Enhance administrative discipline and responsibility of heads of administrative agencies at all levels. Develop and complete new salary tables based on job positions, titles and leadership posts; reorganize existing allowance regimes; complete wage and income management mechanisms.

c) Continue to focus on administrative procedure reform; renovate the single-window system and interlinked single-window system for handling of administrative procedures with the aim of improving quality of services not bound by administrative division, increasing application of information technology, reducing costs and ensuring the convenience of individuals and organizations. Accelerate progress and ensure efficiency of the program for reduction and simplification of business-related regulations for 2020-2025 of the Government. Continue to renovate specialized inspection by uniting points of contact, clarifying competence and shifting from inspecting before clearance to after clearance.

d) Facilitate fundamental, sustainable and actual changes in civil and administrative judgment enforcement. Focus on handling important cases and complicated or prolonged cases. Continue to provide legal aid for enterprises in a consistent manner, focusing on small and medium enterprises, to resolve difficulties, especially for those heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Enhance efficiency of state management of and information technology application in judicial support and judicial administrative matters, ensuring better service to the people; accelerate adoption of the scheme for national electronic civil status database.

d) Enhance inspection of state management of important areas of regulatory bodies and governments at all levels, ensuring transparency and compliance with regulations. Specialized inspection shall focus on areas prone to misconduct, corruption and social issues. Promote cooperation, prevent and promptly handle overlapping inspections and audits, avoid affecting economic activities of enterprises. Do not criminalize civil and economic relations.

e) Implement guidelines, policies and regulations on prevention and control of corruption, wastefulness and misconduct in a consistent manner; protect those detecting, reporting and fight against corruption, wastefulness and misconduct; provide regulations on holding leaders accountable for corruption in their regulatory bodies or units; mechanisms for power control, prevention of bribery for title appointment, etc. Renovate formats and methods for communication about corruption prevention and control. Further monitor and assess prevention and control of corruption and wastefulness of ministries, central authorities and local governments.

g) Boost implementation of the Prime Minister’s Directive No. 10/CT-TTg dated April 22, 2019 on enhancement of efficient prevention and handling of misconduct.

h) Continue to properly implement the Law on Reception of Citizens, Law on Complaints, Law on Denunciation, directives and resolutions of the Central Committee and National Assembly, and directions of the Government and Prime Minister on citizen reception and settling complaints and denunciation, especially the Politburo’s Regulation No. 11-QD/TW dated February 18, 2018 on responsibility of heads of Party Executive Committees for citizen reception, direct dialogues with citizens and handling of reports and propositions from citizens. Settle complaints and denunciations that involve multiple persons or are complicated and prolonged.

10. Reinforce national defense and security, maintain political security, public order and social safety, improve foreign affairs and international integration, preserve peaceful, stable and favorable environment for Vietnam's development

a) Proactively and properly conduct research on strategies; grasp, assess and forecast situations correctly, promptly advise the Communist Party and the State on guidelines and responses and deal with situations successfully, prepare for all surprises, especially complicated and sensitive matters related to national independence, sovereignty and interests, borders, seas and islands, and political security; maintain a peaceful and stable environment for Vietnam’s development. Increase resources for military modernization; ensure national defense and security are closely connected with economic, cultural and social development, especially along borders, on seas and islands and in key or strategic areas. Be ready to fight, properly manage airspace, waters, borders, inland areas, key areas and cyberspace; protect safety of activities in ocean economic zones; prevent and recover from natural disasters, carry out search and rescue operations. Further prevent and control crime; enhance fire safety, ensure people’s peaceful life, build an orderly, discipline, secured, safe and healthy society. Effectively implement the amended Law on Residence; produce, issue and manage identity cards in connection with conversion from management by physical family registers to electronic management. Promptly complete the national residence database.

b) Ensure absolute security and safety of important political, cultural and foreign affairs goals and events of the country, focusing on the absolute safety of the 13th National Communist Party Congress, election to the 15th National Assembly and election to People's Councils at all levels for the 2021 - 2026 tenure.

c) Promote international integration, contribute to preservation of a peaceful, stable and favorable environment for Vietnam’s development. Strengthen bilateral relations with other countries and partners, elevating multilateralism. Continue to properly perform the role of non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Promote Vietnam’s leading role in ASEAN, proactively and responsibly participate in other regional and international forums. Continue to support and protect overseas Vietnamese. Enhance international cooperation in response to COVID-19. Boost and renovate foreign information services, promote Vietnam’s image, achieve social consensus for international integration, and elevate Vietnam’s reputation and position in the international community.

11. Promote communication, build trust, achieve social consensus; improve mass mobilization, properly practice grassroots democracy, boost cooperation with Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and mass organizations

a) Focus on propagating guidelines and policies of the Communist Party, state regulations and major events, especially the 13th National Communist Party Congress, election to the 15th National Assembly and election to People's Councils at all levels. Commend and inform about good Samaritans and exemplary cases of overcoming difficulties to inspire many, evoke patriotism, national pride and desire for Vietnam’s development. Seriously implement speaking mechanisms, enforce discipline on press activities, promptly rebut false viewpoints and ideologies, and prevent exploitation from hostile forces. Fight against toxic and bad information; strictly handle misuse of freedom of speech, violations of state interests and violations of legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens.

b) Continue to promote efficient cooperation between bodies of the political system, especially Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and mass organizations; properly mobilize the mass, practice grassroots democracy, carry out communications activities, and achieve social consensus, contributing to the accomplishment of socio - economic development targets and tasks stated in resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly.

III. IMPLEMENTATION

1. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of Governmental agencies, and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall:

a) Promote all positive sides and achievements of recent years and urgently address existing problems; perform assigned tasks and solutions mentioned in Conclusion of the 13th conference of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party, the National Assembly’s Resolution on socio - economic development plan and state budget estimate of 2021 and other Resolutions of the Communist Party and National Assembly and tasks and solutions mentioned in this Resolution in a timely, efficient and thorough manner; proactively carry out tasks and solutions of their ministries, central authorities, provinces and cities, promptly handle issues arising, facilitate significant developments at the beginning of the year, take complete responsibility before the Government and Prime Minister for the performance of their ministries, central authorities, provinces and cities.

b) Before January 20, 2021, formulate, promulgate and submit action plans, programs and documents for implementation of this Resolution and appendixes enclosed therewith, which must specify all tasks and solutions (including in-charge tasks and cooperative tasks), schedule and in-charge body assignment to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, which will prepare a consolidated report for the regular Government’s meeting in January, 2021.

c) Ministries and ministerial-level agencies shall closely monitor domestic and international developments, proactively produce analyses, assessments and forecasts to promptly provide comprehensive and consistent solutions, utilize opportunities and advantages and mitigate negative impacts on the economy and economic activities of enterprises; on a quarterly basis, update and submit scenarios for development of sectors and areas under their management to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, which will update the general growth scenario of the country.

d) Research, formulate and promulgate or propose specific policies for difficulty resolution and assistance for enterprises and people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic appropriate to actual situation in the year to competent authorities for promulgation and adopt these policies.

dd) Regularly monitor, inspect and supervise progress and results of assigned targets and tasks; on a quarterly basis, submit reports on assessment of achievement of the targets in Appendix 1 and Appendix 3 and performance of tasks in Appendix 4 to the Ministry of Planning and Investment before the 20th of the last month of each quarter for consolidation and reporting to the Government.

e) Formulate final reports on implementation of this Resolution within their competence and submit these reports to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Planning and Investment before November 20, 2021 for consolidation and reporting to the Government in the Government’s meeting in December 2021.

2. Ministries and central authorities in charge of macroeconomic areas shall closely and efficiently cooperate in providing advice as well as specific solutions and measures for macroeconomic management, and promptly report issues arising to the Government and Prime Minister. The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall take charge and cooperate with the Office of the Government and relevant bodies in expediting, monitoring and inspecting the implementation of this Resolution.

3. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall take charge and cooperate with Central Propaganda and Training Commission, press agencies, ministries, central authorities and local governments in disseminating this Resolution./.

APPENDIX 1

MAIN TARGETS OF 2021 SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

(Enclosed with Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated January 01, 2021)

APPENDIX 2

2021 GDP GROWTH SCENARIO PER 2010 CONSTANT PRICE

(Enclosed with Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated January 01, 2021)

Unit: %

APPENDIX 3

SOME SPECIFIC 2021 TARGETS FOR SECTORS

(Enclosed with Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated January 01, 2021)

APPENDIX 4

SOME SPECIFIC 2021 TASKS FOR SECTORS

(Enclosed with Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated January 01, 2021)

¹ As percentage of total contract packages under shopping method and competitive bidding eligible for online bidding.

² As percentage of total value of contract packages under shopping method and competitive bidding eligible for online bidding.