Resolution No. 01/2006/NQ-CP on main solutions to guide and manage the implementation of the socio-economic plan and state budget for the year 2006.

 RESOLUTION

Regarding main solutions to guide and manage the implementation of the socio-economic plan and state budget for 2006ngân sách nhà nước năm 2006

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The year 2006 is the first year of the five-year socio-economic development plan from 2006 to 2010. In 2006, it is necessary to strongly promote positive factors from 2005 and the five-year plan from 2001 to 2005, limit and effectively overcome weaknesses and shortcomings in guidance and management to continue maintaining high economic growth rates, create new qualitative changes in the quality of growth and the competitiveness of the economy, enhance the ability to ensure major balances in the economy; thereby creating essential elements and conditions for striving to achieve the goals and tasks of the five-year plan from 2006 to 2010.

Besides guiding and managing the comprehensive implementation of the tasks for 2006, the Government will focus on the following key areas:

I. CONTINUE IMPROVING THE INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, MAINTAIN HIGH GROWTH RATES, WHILE ENHANCING THE QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

A. Accelerate the construction of institutions and improve the legal environment for economic and social activities

1. Speed up the progress and improve the quality of drafting normative legal documents; ensure the completion of the Law and Ordinance Construction Program for 2006 of the National Assembly, the Government's Work Program, and the Implementation Programs of the Anti-Corruption Law, the Law on Thrift and Combating Wastefulness, and other matters listed in the Appendix attached to this Resolution.

Significantly improve the methods of drafting and promulgating documents, ensuring that all detailed implementing regulations for laws and ordinances passed by the National Assembly and the Standing Committee of the National Assembly in 2005 are issued within the first six months of 2006.

In all draft laws and ordinances under the 2006 program, clearly specify which provisions require government guidance documents and submit these draft documents together with the draft laws and ordinances for the Government's consideration and decision. The Office of the Government has the authority to return draft laws and ordinances without accompanying draft guidance documents and can request the agencies responsible for drafting the laws and ordinances and the government guidance documents to strictly comply with this regulation.

2. From the beginning of 2006, ministries and local authorities at all levels must review the documents they have issued to immediately revoke those documents and provisions that contradict the policies and guidelines of the Party and State or exceed their authority; amend and supplement provisions that are no longer appropriate, causing difficulties and hindrances to production and business activities.

3. Heads of agencies shall be primarily responsible for drafting and organizing the implementation of normative legal documents and national socio-economic development policies in their units.

4. Strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of normative legal documents, policies, and guidelines; promptly identify existing issues and obstacles to develop solutions for resolution.

B. Building and developing synchronized markets

1. Study adjustments, supplements, and issuance of new mechanisms and policies to create more favorable conditions for the development of capital markets, labor markets, and real estate markets.

2. Vigorously implement the restructuring of state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, and other credit organizations; while organizing the operation of credit markets and money markets well.

3. Enhance the effectiveness of the operations of state management agencies on intellectual property rights to ensure the enforcement of the Intellectual Property Law; build and develop technology trading centers in major economic regions, first and foremost in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang, moving towards establishing a national technology trading center; vigorously implement the project to develop the technology market in conjunction with the implementation of the self-management and responsibility mechanism of public scientific and technological organizations.

C. Continue improving the investment and business environment, enhancing the quality of development and competitiveness of the economy

1. Implement policies and measures to strengthen the capacity and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, assist in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises; publicly disclose administrative procedures and promptly resolve enterprise issues; implement the single-price mechanism according to schedule; continue expanding investment sectors and diversifying foreign investment forms in accordance with the Investment Law and the integration roadmap into the international economy.

2. Improve corporate financial policies in a fair, stable, and transparent manner for all types of enterprises; address the issue of converting state monopolies into enterprise monopolies; continue resolving issues related to mechanisms and policies on finance, credit, land... to enable private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises to develop strongly, enhance competitiveness, and improve business efficiency.

3. Vigorously reorganize, reform, and equitize state-owned enterprises according to the overall plans approved by the Prime Minister. Develop appropriate management mechanisms for enterprises after equitization. Properly exercise ownership rights and responsibilities. Limit pilot formation of economic groups in certain important fields with sufficient conditions, led by state-owned corporations, with broad participation from domestic economic sectors and foreign investment to evaluate the model.

D. Promote agricultural development and rural economic development

1. Focus on effectively implementing the crop and livestock breeding program for the period 2006-2010 to research, breed, select, and rapidly propagate new varieties with high yield and quality. First, concentrate on products with markets, competitive advantages, and the ability to change cropping seasons for economic zones, especially those frequently affected by natural disasters and difficult areas.

2. Strengthen the agricultural extension system for farming, forestry, and fisheries down to the grassroots level. Implement rapid transfer of technological advancements, science, and technology to producers.

3. Synchronize urgent measures for prevention and control of avian influenza to strive for no recurrence of the disease in 2006. Plan and reorganize livestock breeding, slaughtering, and processing facilities with strict veterinary and food safety controls.

4. Re-plan forest types towards reducing protective and special-use forests, increasing production forests, and developing production forest planting to meet demands for wood processing, export, and consumption.

5. Review the development plan for the aquaculture industry in conjunction with building and adjusting plans for key products with competitive advantages. Continue to build comprehensive infrastructure for aquaculture areas to ensure sustainable development, minimize environmental pollution, and deplete water resources. The Ministry of Fisheries will coordinate with localities to guide people on new technologies, especially clean farming techniques and the use of antibiotic alternatives. Proactively address trade barriers set by other countries for exported aquatic products.

6. Enhance inspection and supervision, and effectively implement measures to manage product quality and food safety; improve market forecasting and price analysis; promote trade promotion for agricultural, forestry, and aquaculture products. Continue to implement policies encouraging the consumption of agricultural products through contracts to link farmers with businesses, scientists, and financial organizations in production and sales.

7. Further strengthen early warning and forecasting systems for natural disasters and diseases; effectively implement support policies for farmers in disaster-prone areas.

E. Develop industries, construction, and urban management.

1. Ministries, central agencies, and provincial People's Committees continue to review existing industrial development strategies and plans to supplement and adjust them in accordance with market requirements, particularly plans for the development of supporting industries.

2. Announce a list of industries capable of enhancing the competitiveness of domestic products and leading industries to formulate appropriate policies to encourage, support, and attract investment. Increase the application of technical, technological, and management improvements to reduce costs, increase labor productivity, and product quality.

3. Localities continue to implement urban development orientations until 2020; simultaneously, enhance state management effectiveness over construction, expand decentralization, and rearrange the urban system nationwide to serve the policy of industrialization and modernization. Accelerate urban development and construct modern urban infrastructure.

E. Vigorously develop service industries.

1. Determine mechanisms to control large import items serving domestic production in compliance with current laws and international practices.

2. Promote and publicize tourism; train and develop human resources for the tourism sector. Simplify travel procedures for tourists. Promote socialization in tourism development and services to attract resources for tourism investment. Combine well the integration of investment programs for tourism development with investment in protecting, restoring cultural relics, environment, and scenery in tourist areas.

3. Implement solutions to vigorously develop postal and telecommunications infrastructure, diversify service types, and prepare conditions for strongly and effectively opening up the postal and telecommunications markets.

4. Promptly convert some public service activities in the fields of science and technology to service provision mechanisms suitable for a market economy; encourage and create conditions for all economic sectors' organizations and individuals to participate in providing science and technology services.

5. Implement policies to encourage the widespread provision of financial and banking services; encourage the development of insurance services in all economic and social sectors.

II. RAISE AND ENHANCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INVESTMENT CAPITAL USE, IMPROVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT

A. Mobilize and use investment capital effectively for development.

1. Implement measures to create a favorable environment for the development of private enterprises and foreign direct investment, gradually increasing their share in total social investment.

2. Develop and operate well the infrastructure projects that have been invested in; immediately implement measures to simplify, disclose, and clarify administrative procedures, especially in land, customs, tax, traffic police, and market management areas. Resolve issues in design, budgeting, bidding, compensation, and land clearance to accelerate project construction and disbursement, particularly ODA-funded projects.

3. Further intensify efforts to mobilize capital for development through issuing educational bonds, government bonds, and investment bonds; at the same time, manage and use these sources of funds effectively; study and build a unified mechanism to form local development funds and other types of investment funds.

4. Ministries, agencies, and localities must allocate concentrated investment capital in the 2006 plan for important projects, especially water conservancy projects, multi-purpose projects (flood control, power generation, and irrigation in difficult areas); top-tier hospitals, regional hospitals, specialized medical centers, provincial and district hospitals, and projects in education, training, vocational training, science, and technology, focusing on investing in top research institutes, high-tech zones, software technology parks, national-level science and technology programs, technology incubation programs, engineering-economic programs, key laboratories, and national testing centers.

B. Enhance efficiency and correct, innovate investment management work for development

1. End the situation of non-synchronized investments, not considering effectiveness carefully, causing significant waste; address the issue of "closed" investment construction. Specify regulations and create conditions for People's Councils and communities to participate in supervising the implementation of infrastructure projects within their jurisdictions.

2. Vigorously review, amend, adjust, and supplement overall planning for economic regions, key economic zones, economic corridors, special economic zones, and comprehensive socio-economic development plans for provinces and cities. Develop solutions to resolve difficulties for Group A projects and key projects that are being implemented slowly.

3. Effectively implement the Land Law; strictly manage and direct the implementation of land planning and usage plans approved by competent authorities; minimize the conversion of two-crop paddy fields with irrigation and infrastructure completed to non-agricultural purposes; focus on land clearance and infrastructure construction in industrial zones and urban areas; promptly and smoothly handle procedures for land allocation, leasing, and transactions related to land use rights and attached assets.

4. Strictly implement the Management Regulation for Investment with State Capital. Increase the responsibility of decision-makers and project evaluators. Improve the quality of investment management and supervision work from planning approval, investment preparation to investment decision-making and implementation. Starting from 2006, all completed investment projects must be audited before final settlement.

III. ADMINISTERING FINANCIAL AND MONETARY POLICIES

1. Ministries, agencies, and localities urgently allocate tasks and plans for 2006 to grassroots units for immediate implementation at the beginning of the year. Publicize the 2006 state budget estimate in accordance with legal provisions.

2. Strengthen guidance on tax revenue collection, combat smuggling, commercial fraud, tax evasion, thoroughly inspect and collect outstanding debts; strictly and justly handle violations of tax laws; strive to increase state budget revenue by at least 3% compared to the forecast set by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 1194/QD-TTg dated November 9, 2005.

3. Ministries, agencies, and localities proactively arrange funds to implement salary reform in 2006 according to the National Assembly Resolution; simultaneously allocate capital for ongoing projects, debt repayment, and ensure sufficient counterpart funding for ODA projects.

4. Provincial People's Committees should concentrate on directing land management, issuing land use right certificates; organize the implementation of tax exemption at the fishing stage, salt production without processing, and reduced taxes for businesses employing ethnic minority labor.

5. Continue to administer monetary policy and credit cautiously and flexibly. Innovate and enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy administration by the State Bank of Vietnam. Strive to keep the consumer price index growth rate in 2006 lower than the economic growth rate.

6. Continue implementing flexible exchange rate policies, gradually expanding the exchange rate band in line with market financial openness, supporting economic development, encouraging exports, controlling imports, and increasing state foreign exchange reserves.

7. Urgently build and implement the Plan for Developing Non-Cash Payment Methods from 2006 to 2010 and vision until 2020. Accelerate the modernization of banking operations.

8. Comprehensively innovate inspection and supervision work in banking, enhancing the effectiveness and quality of inspections and supervision to ensure system safety. Correct and strengthen auditing and internal control at credit organizations. Apply measures to improve credit quality and control risky asset growth to prevent an increase in bad debts among credit organizations; promptly detect and handle violations in credit and monetary activities.

9. Build and implement the Plan for Reforming Export Credit and State Investment Development Credit to serve structural transformation and economic growth, encouraging exports; forms and levels of support must align with international commitments. Enhance the financial capacity of the Social Policy Bank to meet new borrowing needs of poor households.

IV. PROACTIVELY INTEGRATE INTO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

1. Continue negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) to meet both short-term and long-term national interests. Vigorously promote wide-ranging publicity among government agencies, business communities, and the public about international economic integration, especially implementing AFTA and WTO commitments; actively and proactively implement the best measures to seize opportunities, overcome challenges, and mitigate negative impacts of international economic integration and globalization.

2. Select and apply high-tech investment options for products and services with comparative advantages and competitiveness; develop industries with high intellectual and technological content.

3. Develop private economy, including large, medium, and small enterprises with innovative, dynamic, bold, creative, and highly effective economic and social approaches to enhance economic efficiency and competitiveness.

4. Vigorously implement solutions to expand markets, intensify production of export goods towards increasing the proportion of processed industrial goods to enhance the value of exported goods; apply specific measures to continue encouraging exports, particularly for high-growth and high-value-added products. Implement organizational measures to restructure production according to the schedule of reducing protection and subsidies.

5. Vigorously promote trade promotion, focusing on major markets such as the EU, the United States, Japan, China, and other potential markets; enhance the quality of support and guidance for enterprises to implement solutions to expand their markets and forecast market prices.

6. Organize effectively the implementation of appropriate defensive measures for domestically produced goods in accordance with World Trade Organization (WTO) regulations and international commitments that Vietnam has signed. Proactively take macro-regulatory measures to respond to fluctuations in the international market (in terms of price, supply-demand...).

V. STRONGLY PROMOTE SOCIALIZATION IN CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SECTORS

Ministries, agencies, and localities must urgently develop measures, plans, and programs to thoroughly implement Resolution No. 05/2005/NQ-CP dated April 18, 2005, of the Government on vigorously promoting socialization in educational, health, cultural, and sports activities, paying particular attention to the following issues:

1. Shift from the State supporting units providing the aforementioned services to directly supporting beneficiaries in suitable fields and tasks.

2. Publicly disclose transparently the service fee levels at both public and non-public service establishments; all organizations and individuals are not allowed to impose additional charges beyond those already disclosed.

3. Adjust the training structure according to education levels, fields, and regions, prioritizing areas such as the Central Highlands, Northwest, and Mekong Delta; increase the scale of training while consolidating training quality, prioritizing fields serving economic and social development. Increase the proportion of female students at higher education levels, linking training with economic and social development needs.

Implement Resolution No. 14/2005/NQ-CP dated November 2, 2005, of the Government on comprehensively reforming higher education in Vietnam during the period 2006-2020.

4. Study and propose solutions and timelines for tuition fees that align with the policy of socializing education. Develop specific mechanisms and measures to address housing for university and college students, particularly for teacher training institutions, key universities, and those in economically and socially disadvantaged areas.

Study and propose solutions and timelines for implementing medical subsidy systems that align with the policy of socializing healthcare and accelerating the development of health insurance.

5. Review and adjust the research program and content of ministries, sectors, and localities; innovate scientific research work in the direction of:

a) Concentrating on researching topics linked to practical application and basic scientific research.

b) Reforming the method of building national key science and technology tasks to fully leverage domestic scientific and technological potential, closely aligning with global scientific and technological trends consistent with the process of international integration.

c) Studying and developing strategies for training and developing scientific and technological human resources, valuing talent. Formulating proposals to establish and develop strong scientific and technological teams with leading experts, chief engineers, senior technicians, and skilled technical staff at regional and international levels, capable of completing national scientific and technological tasks, aligned with the strategy of international integration in science and technology, quickly narrowing the gap in science and technology between our country and other countries in the region and globally.

VI. STRENGTHENING THE ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINE, COMBATING CORRUPTION, PRACTICING ECONOMY, AND COMBATING WASTEFULNESS

Strengthening measures to improve the administrative machine and combat corruption; practicing economy and combating wastefulness have significant political implications, enhancing the people's trust in the Party and the State, creating momentum to fulfill the 2006 tasks.

1. Ministries, agencies, and localities must develop concrete action programs to implement the Law on Prevention and Combating Corruption and the Law on Practicing Economy and Combating Wastefulness.

2. Organize for cadres and civil servants in all sectors and levels to thoroughly understand the Law on Prevention and Combating Corruption and the Law on Practicing Economy and Combating Wastefulness, creating changes in awareness and actions across all levels, sectors, and society in preventing and combating corruption, practicing economy, and combating wastefulness.

3. Promote the establishment of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Combating Corruption and a permanent working group assisting the Committee in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Combating Corruption.

4. All levels, sectors, and localities must resolutely and thoroughly combat corruption, wastefulness, and negative practices, first and foremost in land management, investment construction, state asset management, state-owned enterprise management, wastefulness in the use of public assets, hospitality, conferences, seminars, rallies, commemorations, receiving commendation awards, traveling for work, surveys, study tours within and outside the country, purchasing and using official cars, and wasteful use of time and labor...

5. Heads of agencies and units from central to local levels must raise personal responsibility, set examples in combating corruption, practicing economy, and combating wastefulness; bear responsibility when corruption and wastefulness occur in their agencies or units; improve the quality of management, recruitment, utilization, training, and upgrading of civil servants; organize to strengthen supervision over the performance of civil servants' duties within their jurisdiction; strictly and promptly handle officials and civil servants who abuse their positions and powers to cause harassment and inconvenience to the people and businesses; resolutely remove from the administrative apparatus officials and civil servants who have degenerated, changed character, engaged in corruption, and negative practices.

6. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial and municipal people's committees under the central government must view administrative reform as one of the key tasks in their leadership and management, planning, and implementing administrative reform plans for their agencies and localities.

VII. IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION

1. On the basis of this Resolution and specific tasks set out in the attached Appendix, ministries, agencies, and localities shall promptly develop their Work Programs for the year 2006, clearly identifying key priorities to implement appropriate guidance and management measures to achieve high effectiveness.

2. Ministries and People's Committees at all levels need to launch enthusiastic competitive movements, timely recognizing outstanding models to celebrate major holidays in 2006, particularly to welcome the Tenth National Party Congress, contributing to effectively implementing the five-year socio-economic development plan (2006-2010) from the outset.

3. The Government will organize specialized conferences with localities to discuss fundamental long-term tasks as well as to address urgent issues arising on a broad scale; concurrently, maintaining monthly coordination meetings to review the situation and propose measures to accelerate the implementation of plans and state budget.

4. Every six months, ministries, agencies, and provincial People's Committees shall report to the Prime Minister on the implementation of this Resolution, simultaneously sending reports to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for consolidation and evaluation of the completion level of each ministry, agency, and locality, to be reported to the Government at its meetings in June and December 2006./.