Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries, branches and localities to create favourable conditions to attract investment, especially foreign invested and high-tech projects.
The Government leader made the request at the cabinet’s April meeting that opened in Hanoi on April 26 to review socio-economic development during the first four months of the year, and discuss measures for the following months. He asked for better trade promotion, local market development and export market expansion.
It is necessary to consistently pursue the 2013 socio-economic targets, strengthen macro-economic stabilisation measures, control inflation and provide capital for prioritised sectors to ease difficulties in production and trading, the PM said.
Dung said that better observation and more drastic measures are needed in the restructuring of public investment, state-owned enterprises and the banking sector.
He also requested ministries, branches and localities to take measures to ensure traffic safety, reduce congestion and the number of accidents. Meanwhile, they should be active in the prevention of blue-ear disease, avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, and implement measures to protect national sovereignty and ensure national defence, political security and social order.
At the meeting, cabinet members said that the April Consumer Price Index increased by 0.02 percent against the previous month, the lowest April level for four years.
Interest rates fell, helping business and production, and the national foreign currency reserve increased remarkably.
Meanwhile, export value was estimated at 39.46 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 16.9 percent. Social security has been ensured and improving people’s living conditions have been improved.
The cabinet members also pointed to shortcomings, including in processing and manufacturing, which have been hit hard by high input costs, low purchasing power and slow sale.
It is necessary to remove barriers, create conditions to promote production and business to maintain growth, and develop agriculture and industry, they stressed
Source Vietnamplus