(VOVworld) – The National Assembly concluded its Q&A session on Friday with answers from Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc regarding major national issues. These included measures to fulfill this year’s growth targets, the progress of economic restructuring, policies to improve the quality of education, traffic safety, anti-corruption, and administrative reform. Deputy Prime Minister Phuc said Vietnam attaches great importance to sustainable development: “Sustainable growth is essential to avoid the return of inflation. To ensure this year’s growth, the government has instructed ministries and localities to strictly implement its measures to boost socio-economic development, remove difficulties facing businesses, and step up the disbursement of funds for capital construction.”
Deputy Prime Minister Phuc said the government would steer the formulation of medium-term programs until 2015 to revive the economy. It will also combine fiscal with monetary policies and adjust the price of a number of important goods. All these will help ensure this year’s growth target. Phuc admitted the slow progress of economic restructuring and said that the government would take measures to avoid ineffective investment, enhance the role of state-owned businesses, and step up the equitization process.
Phuc said that the government will intensify measures to fight corruption, boost administrative reform and seek to minimize traffic accidents.
In his conclusion of the Q&A session, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung praised efforts by cabinet members and the government in implementing the nation’s socio-economic, defense and security tasks. He said: “The National Assembly has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to carry out the measures necessary to boost agricultural production to ensure sustainable growth with the focus being on regional and sectoral planning. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is required to focus on vocational training by cooperating with foreign partners in labor exports as well as paying more attention to social policy beneficiaries and narrow the gap between the rich and the poor. The Supreme People’s Procuracy was requested to increase judicial supervision to ensure the rule of the law and build a contingent of competent procurators.”
Chairman Hung said the ministers will have to report on the handling of issues raised at this Q&A session at the National Assembly’s year end session.