Resolution No. 10/2011/QH13 on the five-year socio-economic development plan for 2011-2015

 RESOLUTION

On the Five-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015

OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM

BASED ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM IN 1992 AS AMENDED AND COMPLEMENTED BY RESOLUTION NO. 51/2001/QH10;

Based on the examination of reports from the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, relevant agencies of the National Assembly, and opinions of National Assembly deputies,

RESOLUTION:

I. ON THE RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTING THE FIVE-YEAR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 2006-2010

In the context of being affected by the financial crisis, global economic recession, and domestic difficulties and weaknesses, with timely and appropriate policies, the entire Party, people, and military have strived to overcome many difficulties and challenges, effectively responding to the complex developments of the world and domestic economic situations, achieving significant accomplishments, maintaining relatively high growth rates, averaging 7% over five years, with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010 being twice that of 2000. The country has exited the low-income category, joined the group of middle-income countries, and continued to improve the living standards of the people, rapidly reducing poverty rates, promoting democratic progress, and consolidating the great unity of the national community. Most of the Millennium Development Goals committed to internationally have been completed. Political and social stability has been maintained, national defense and security have been strengthened, foreign relations have expanded, and the country's position and prestige on the international stage have continued to rise.

However, due to the complex developments of the world and domestic situations, out of the 24 targets in the Five-Year Plan, 10 have not been achieved. Economic development has not been sustainable, the quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of the economy remain low, structural transformation towards industrialization and modernization is slow, the distribution system is still not entirely reasonable, income inequality is increasing. Weaknesses in the market economy system, human resource quality, and infrastructure continue to hinder development. Progress in building a socialist rule-of-law state is slow, and there are latent factors causing political and social instability.

The above situation has objective reasons due to the impact of the financial crisis and global economic recession, but it must be recognized that subjective reasons are more significant, especially limitations and weaknesses in leadership, guidance, management, and operation at all levels and sectors.

II. ON THE FIVE-YEAR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 2011-2015

The construction and implementation of the Five-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015 benefit from fundamental favorable conditions such as the significant achievements of 25 years of renewal, the 10-year implementation of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy and the Five-Year Plan for 2006-2010. Despite the general difficulties and unpredictable developments in the world today, with stable political and social conditions, the country can still leverage its potential and advantages as a latecomer in the process of industrialization, with a rich agricultural sector capable of producing and exporting agricultural products; favorable conditions for attracting foreign investment and rapid development of the domestic market. It is forecasted that in 2012 and subsequent years, the debt crisis and high inflation in many countries will not only slow down the recovery of the world economy but also pose a risk of pushing the world economy into a new recession. Therefore, the organization and implementation of the Five-Year Plan need to closely follow the overall goals, targets, tasks, and solutions determined by the Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam; concentrated and resolute leadership and guidance with appropriate steps to create potential for realizing the overall goal, targets, three breakthroughs, and twelve orientations of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy for the period 2011-2020.

1. General Objective

Achieve rapid and sustainable economic development, linked with reforming the growth model and restructuring the economy towards improving quality, efficiency, and competitiveness. Ensure social welfare and social security, enhance the material and spiritual life of the people. Strengthen external activities and improve the effectiveness of international integration. Firmly protect independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, maintain political security and social order and safety, laying a foundation for the country to basically become a modern industrialized nation by 2020. In the first two to three years of the Plan, focus on macroeconomic stability, ensuring social security, reasonable growth rates, and vigorously initiating economic restructuring tied with growth model reform. In the next two to three years, ensure the completion of basic economic restructuring to achieve rapid and sustainable development, balancing growth targets, macroeconomic stability, and social security.

Consumer price index increase below 5%.

a) Economic Indicators

Average annual GDP growth rate over five years is approximately 6.5% - 7%.

Total social investment ratio over five years 2011-2015 is about 33.5% - 35% of GDP.

Gradually reduce the trade deficit starting from 2012 and strive to keep it below 10% of export value by 2015.

Government budget deficit ratio under 4.5% by 2015 (including government bonds).

Reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 2.5% to 3% annually.

High-tech product share in total industrial production value reaches around 30%; technology renewal rate achieves 13% annually.

Social labor productivity increases by 29% - 32% by 2015 compared to 2010.

Tax and fee revenue ratio to the budget does not exceed 22% - 23% of GDP per year.

Public debt ratio does not exceed 65% of GDP by 2015, government debt ratio does not exceed 50% of GDP, national debt ratio does not exceed 50% of GDP.

Consumer price index increase is approximately 5% - 7% by 2015.

b) Social Indicators

Number of jobs created over five years is 8 million people.

Urban unemployment rate among working-age population under 4% by 2015.

Proportion of trained labor force in the total employed workforce reaches 55% by 2015.

Real income of residents doubles to 2.5 times by 2015 compared to 2010.

Rapidly and sustainably reduce poverty, average reduction rate of 2% per year, and 4% per year for poor districts and extremely difficult communes.

Average housing area per person reaches 22 square meters by 2015, including: average urban housing area reaching 26 square meters per person.

Population growth rate reaches about 1% by 2015.

By 2015, reach 8 doctors and 23 hospital beds (excluding commune health station beds) per 10,000 people.

c) Environmental Indicators

Forest coverage ratio reaches about 42% - 43% by 2015.

By 2015, the ratio of serious environmental pollution sources that have been treated shall reach 85%.

3. On other indicators

The Government is tasked with examining and deciding on other economic, social, and environmental indicators, and reporting annually to the National Assembly on the implementation results.

III. DIRECTION OF TASKS AND SOLUTIONS FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE 2011-2015 PERIOD

1. Focus on quickly and effectively addressing the shortcomings and weaknesses due to subjective reasons in leadership, guidance, management, and operation at all levels and sectors as mentioned in the Government's report, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, and the review reports of the National Assembly's agencies.

2. Reorganize the economy in conjunction with reforming the growth model towards enhancing quality, efficiency, and competitiveness, implementing comprehensively across all industries and fields nationwide and at each locality, basic unit, and main product, with a long-term vision and specific roadmap. It is necessary to focus on reorganizing the economy in three key areas: investment structure, with a focus on public investment; financial market structure, with a focus on restructuring commercial banks and financial organizations; enterprise structure, with a focus on state-owned corporations and holding companies, starting from 2012 to prepare conditions for a strong transformation from 2013 to 2015, achieving significant and effective results.

Reorganize public investment by amending the hierarchical management regulations, primarily for investments funded by the state budget and government bonds, ensuring the principle that only projects meeting the required procedures and having clear funding sources, amounts, and financing capacity will be approved. Promptly determine criteria and priority order as the basis for approving or reducing investment projects. Decisions to approve projects funded by central budget support through national target programs, programs, and targeted assistance must be strictly controlled, with reviews of funding sources and financing balance by competent authorities at the central level. Ensure requirements for project progress, technological standards, quality, and safety of important national projects and works.

Reorganize the financial market with a focus on restructuring commercial banks and financial organizations, improving and enhancing the effectiveness of state management over the securities market, real estate market, money market, especially the gold and foreign exchange markets, addressing dollarization; closely monitor public debt, bad debts of state-owned enterprises, foreign borrowing, foreign direct investment sources, particularly in the real estate sector, securities market, and other hot money sources.

Reorganize state-owned corporations and holding companies, enhance corporate governance capabilities, transparency, while formulating policies to create favorable conditions for enterprises under various economic components to leverage their internal strength, restructure, reduce production costs, improve business activity efficiency, and competitiveness. Focus on developing state-owned enterprises in key and critical sectors of the national economy, mainly in infrastructure-related technical and economic specialties, public services, macroeconomic stability. Study and perfect mechanisms and policies for Vietnamese enterprises investing abroad. Clearly define the tasks of ensuring social security with the business activities of state-owned corporations and holding companies.

Reorganize industries and sectors, review and adjust reasonably economic zones and industrial parks in conjunction with structural changes and regional economic linkages. Rapidly develop supporting industries and high-value-added service sectors. Increase investment in agricultural production and rural economic development; make significant progress in building new countryside. Pay attention to reinforcing coastal dykes, river dykes, pumping stations, salinity prevention and flood discharge works, disaster prevention facilities, and anchorage areas for ships to mitigate losses. Continue to perfect mechanisms and policies, innovate collective economic activities, farmstead economies, and craft villages towards sustainable development. Vigorously develop forest-based economies to both protect and develop forests while innovating forest and plantation management. Ensure rice planting area of 3.812 million hectares, and simultaneously implement special mechanisms and policies to support localities and farmers growing rice to ensure national food security, especially in the face of climate change and sea-level rise impacts on delta provinces, particularly the Mekong Delta. Implement orientations, policies, and measures to ensure food security linked with ecological environment protection and energy security, while effectively controlling energy demand. Exploit and utilize natural resources rationally.

3. Continue to persistently control inflation, stabilize macroeconomics, and maintain the purchasing power of the currency. Implement monetary policy with the primary goal of stabilizing the value of the currency, controlling to ensure compatibility between the increase in total means of payment, credit surplus with economic growth rate, and curbing the consumer price index increase. Gradually reduce the proportion of investment capital mobilized from bank credit, promote stock market channels and other financial institutions for capital mobilization.

As for fiscal policy, effectively reorganize revenue and expenditure of the state budget, innovate and improve the quality of state budget preparation work. Review and adjust hierarchical management of investment from the state budget and government bonds. Study options to gradually reduce the corporate income tax rate; innovate land revenue, real estate business revenue policies, and increase resource tax rates.

With regard to export and import policies, controlling the trade deficit: In the years 2012-2013, continue to encourage exports, implement appropriate measures in accordance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regulations to control imports and significantly reduce the trade deficit. Continue to invest in agricultural products and national advantage products, substitute imported goods, and rapidly develop supporting industries, mechanical industry, manufacturing, and electronics industry. Implement market pricing mechanisms for electricity prices, coal prices, and public service fees at the latest by 2013. Regulations on procurement and public investment expenditures must use domestically produced goods, equipment, and machinery, and effectively promote the movement "Vietnamese people prioritize using Vietnamese products."

4. Focus on implementing three breakthroughs and twelve strategic orientations for economic and social development during the period of 2011-2020. Basically complete the legal system in conjunction with reforms and improvements to the socialist-oriented market economy institutions, building a socialist rule-of-law state, with a focus on amending and supplementing the 1992 Constitution, amending, supplementing, or promulgating new laws according to the Law Building Program for the XIIIth National Assembly term.

Continue to improve the organizational structure of the Government and local authorities, promptly implement pilot models of urban administration. Review and amend regulations on decentralization between the central government and localities; simplify administrative procedures, especially those related to business licenses, registration, and tax payments. Rapidly adjust the labor structure, effectively utilize the golden demographic period, accelerate new and retraining human resources to enhance labor productivity across the entire economy. Launch and maintain a nationwide thrift movement in both production and consumption, fostering a common social awareness and exemplary conduct among all cadres and civil servants. Strengthen discipline, intensify anti-corruption, wastefulness, and loss prevention efforts, particularly in basic construction projects funded by the state. Continue to reform social insurance policies and salary systems for cadres, civil servants, employees, retirees, and war veterans.

Review and evaluate infrastructure development projects, especially in key economic regions, prioritizing final investment to put them into operation and maximize their effectiveness. Rapidly develop urban transportation systems, particularly public transportation. Gradually develop and modernize the infrastructure of major cities in conjunction with production restructuring and population distribution; enhance the comprehensive services of the three major seaports in the three regions.

5. Apply comprehensive policies and measures to develop the economy while promoting social progress and equality; pay particular attention to ensuring social security, healthcare, employment creation, income enhancement, poverty reduction, narrowing wealth gaps; concentrate on resolving public grievances, especially in land acquisition and compensation; negative practices in healthcare, education, and training. Mobilize social resources for poverty reduction efforts; implement solutions to improve the material and spiritual lives of the people, especially in remote, mountainous, island, and particularly difficult areas, and ethnic minority regions. Effectively carry out planning and resettlement work for ethnic and mountainous regions, border areas, and islands, balancing residential and production land funds for ethnic groups in areas frequently affected by natural disasters.

Conduct a comprehensive review of social security policies, focusing on consolidating and improving the social security network with three components: employment security, social insurance policy, health insurance, and social assistance policy. Develop a diverse social insurance system, expanding participation in social insurance and health insurance.

Improve working conditions, reduce workplace accidents, occupational diseases, and labor disputes, build harmonious, stable, and progressive labor relations. Increase healthcare spending and focus on purchasing health insurance, raising support levels for health insurance cards for poor and near-poor households and groups engaged in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and salt production. Emphasize preventive healthcare to reduce the risk of infectious diseases, malnutrition, and chronic diseases in the community. Consolidate and develop primary healthcare and preventive healthcare networks. Rectify and improve the quality of healthcare services. Reform hospital fee policies comprehensively in conjunction with reforms in healthcare service mechanisms.

6. Fundamentally and comprehensively reform education and training, enhancing the quality of human resources, paying special attention to leadership, management, enterprise management, science and technology, and cultural arts personnel; improve educational quality, especially at the university level; focus on transitioning from broad-based training to specialized training, emphasizing vocational training, and implementing annual training for one million rural workers; adjust preschool education and mountainous area education policies; effectively promote socialized education to meet the learning needs of various groups, especially preschool education.

Consolidate and build a healthy, rich, and diverse cultural environment, enhance the effectiveness of cultural institution activities at all levels, and renovate, upgrade, and construct new modern cultural and artistic, sports facilities.

Continue to reform mechanisms and policies, mobilize resources, and vigorously promote scientific and technological activities, fundamentally reform the management mechanism for science and technology, develop a knowledge-based economy. Pay special attention to vigorously developing research and application, and technology transfer, linking science and technology with production in all sectors and fields, and vigorously develop the science and technology market.

7. To complete and enhance the effectiveness of policies and laws on natural resources and environmental protection to ensure sustainable development. Strictly implement the procedures for developing, reviewing, approving, inspecting, and supervising environmental impact assessments for strategies, plans, policies, programs, and economic and social development projects. Resolutely handle facilities causing environmental pollution, especially in economic zones, industrial parks, and craft villages. Promote socialization in environmental protection work.

8The Government, Supreme People's Court, and Supreme People's Procuratorate focus on building and implementing judicial reform projects to ensure quality and progress; effectively carry out training, retraining, and professional training for staff, judges, associate judges, investigators, prosecutors, enforcement officers, and execution officials. By 2013, the shortage of judicial staff must be fundamentally resolved. Judicial staff must be fair, upright, and exemplary models. Any violations by judicial staff must be promptly detected and strictly dealt with. The State pays attention and has special policies for judicial staff and positions.

Strengthen investment in material infrastructure, equipment, means, and operating funds for public security agencies, procuracies, courts, and enforcement agencies.

Continue to improve legal regulations on the organization and operation of judicial bodies, criminal, civil, procedural, and auxiliary judicial laws, anti-corruption, administrative violation handling, counter-terrorism, and extradition of criminals.

Expand international cooperation, improve legal provisions to better fulfill requirements for mutual legal assistance in civil and criminal matters and crime prevention.

Continue to effectively implement the national program against crime, severely punish acts of resisting public officials. Resolutely prevent, combat, and strictly deal with corruption, accelerate the resolution of major corruption cases. Combine propaganda, mobilization, education on law compliance with strict punishment of violations to create positive changes and by 2015 curb and reverse crime and social evils.

9. Consolidate national defense and security, maintain independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, particularly in maritime and island areas. Enhance national defense and security strength both in potential and strategic terms, ensuring modern equipment for military forces step-by-step. Build strong provincial and urban defense zones. Build the People's Army and Public Security Force as revolutionary, regular, elite, and gradually modernized forces with reasonable numbers, high comprehensive quality, and combat readiness, and a powerful reserve force and widespread self-defense militia. Actively detect and prevent all hostile plots and activities aimed at causing chaos, ready to respond to non-traditional security threats, maintaining political stability and social order and safety. Focus on developing border infrastructure according to planning, creating conditions for economic and social development while consolidating national defense and security in key and weak areas. Vigorously promote national defense and security education among the people.

Actively and proactively integrate internationally. Promote friendly traditional and strategic cooperation with neighboring countries sharing borders. Advance the resolution of existing issues regarding borders and territories, focusing appropriately and fairly on the South China Sea issue based on principles of peace, respect for international law, and international and regional conduct norms. Leverage and mobilize overseas Vietnamese communities' resources for national development.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION

The Government, Supreme People's Court, and Supreme People's Procuratorate, within their respective functions and responsibilities, organize the effective implementation of the National Assembly's Resolution. Report annually to the National Assembly on results.

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Ethnic Council, the Committees of the National Assembly, the Delegations of National Assembly Members, and National Assembly Members supervise the implementation of this Resolution.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, member organizations of the Front, and social organizations established under the law monitor and encourage all strata of the population to effectively implement the National Assembly's Resolution.

The National Assembly calls upon compatriots and soldiers across the country and overseas Vietnamese to raise the spirit of patriotic competition, unity, and effort, seize favorable opportunities, overcome difficulties and challenges, and successfully implement the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015.

This Resolution was adopted by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the 13th Session, Second Meeting, on November 8, 2011./.