Tiếp tục đẩy mạnh cải thiện môi trường kinh doanh, nâng cao năng lực cạnh tranh của doanh nghiệp Việt Nam

Thứ trưởng Bộ Kế hoạch và Đầu tưTrần Duy Đông chủ trì Hội nghị. Ảnh: MPI

At the conference, Vice Chairman of Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khang said that, following the direction of the Government, Quang Ninh province has had many guidelines, measures, models, focusing on leadership, direction, and control. implement and organize the implementation of the task of improving the business investment environment, enhancing the province’s competitiveness regularly, continuously, and drastically. In 2021, the province’s economic growth rate (GRDP) will reach 10.28%, ranking second in the country. By the end of 2021, there are 16,800 businesses registered in the province with a total registered capital of VND 295,000 billion.

To achieve these results, Quang Ninh province has closely followed Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP, the directives of the Government. Regarding leadership, direction, and administration, Quang Ninh province has been proactive, drastic, and innovative in directing and operating, creating synchronous participation from all levels, branches, and the whole political system in the country. administrative reform efforts, improving business investment environment. Continuing to effectively implement three strategic breakthroughs such as the system of transport infrastructure, urban areas, services, tourism, culture, sports, health care, education… with breakthrough development. in asynchronous and modern direction; Administrative reform has made a breakthrough and brought into play its effectiveness; Building a lean, clean, strong, modern, and effective administrative agency system; improve the quality of human resources.

Regarding the implementation of a number of new ways to support and remove difficulties for investors and businesses, Quang Ninh province has also established a subcommittee on the production and circulation of goods and a Command Center. Quang Ninh is one of the pioneering localities, boldly empowering the investor and business community. Building a culture of accompanying investors and businesses, creating an open and friendly space; improve the efficiency of interaction between the government and the people, investors, and businesses.

Mr. Phan Duc Hieu, Standing Member of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly and a member of the National Assembly of Thai Binh Province, said that Vietnam’s reform efforts have not slowed down as evidenced by the fact that Resolution 02/NQ-CP expands both about the scope of space, the scope of content as well as goals and targets. Vietnam’s unremitting efforts and commitments are getting stronger and stronger. The slowdown here is the uneven reform among sectors, fields, and regions. This inequality is a huge challenge, if not overcome then all positive reform results will be limited by the inequality itself. The new context requires Vietnam to reform more strongly and deeply because, in the context of international competition, the requirements of reality and the requirements of businesses are much greater. In the coming time, there are two challenges to keep in mind: reform is increasingly difficult because there are reforms that require inter-ministerial and inter-ministerial cooperation, and secondly, international competition, how to promote mobility. evenly, this reform will be strongly promoted.

Chủ tịch Hiệp hội Doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa Việt Nam Nguyễn Văn Thân phát biểu. Ảnh: MPI

Member of the 15th National Assembly, Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council on Administrative Procedure Reform of the Prime Minister, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises Nguyen Van Than said that for environmental quality In business, nearly 60% of enterprises assessed that the domestic business environment has improved better and more clearly in all 10 areas mentioned in Resolution 19/NQ-CP and Resolution 02/NQ-CP , in which business establishment and access to electricity are assessed to have the best improvement.

Improving the business investment environment and enhancing competitiveness is based on two important factors: reforming mechanisms, policies, administrative procedures, and developing science and technology applications. Mr. Nguyen Van Than suggested that the Government should allocate appropriate capital for the development of science and technology applications in general, and especially technical infrastructure in particular in the roadmap from now to 2025.

At the Conference, Ms. Dang Tuyet Vinh, representative of the European Business Association in Vietnam (Eurocham) shared some of EuroCham’s opinions on “Reform and improve the business environment to promote recovery and development”. Socio-economic development: Enterprise expectations. Dang Tuyet Vinh said that in 2021, bilateral trade between the EU and Vietnam has increased by 14.8%, reaching about 63.6 billion USD. Now that the EVFTA has come into effect and the EVIPA will soon be implemented, Vietnam has the opportunity to attract a new wave of FDI from European investors looking for a potential, safe and secure investment environment. compete. However, a number of issues have emerged as significant bottlenecks in maximizing the potential and attractiveness of Vietnam’s trade and investment markets, such as infrastructure, human resources and the business environment (institutions and administrative procedures), in which the limitations of the business environment and the barriers of administrative procedures are assessed as the biggest bottlenecks and challenges that need to be addressed. to handle. The issuance of Decree 15/2018/ND-CP, a decree is considered a revolution in the food industry when applying risk management and strongly shifting to post-inspection. The practical results of the past 4 years show that Decree 15/2018/ND-CP is appropriate and effective, and the food industry has experienced high growth, even during the pandemic. In institutional reform, EuroCham recommends building a predictable and sustainable investment environment to achieve the vision of the Government of Vietnam.

Toàn cảnh Hội nghị. Ảnh: MPI

Concluding at the Conference, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong highly appreciated the enthusiastic comments of the delegates, many in-depth and very specific opinions such as recommendations related to institutional adjustment, regulations on specialized fields, recommendations for developing implementation plans, synchronous coordination between ministries, branches and localities, and ideas that the Ministry of Planning and Investment and other ministries and branches maintain. maintain and promote the spirit of drastic, strong innovation and reform. Many comments emphasized that Resolution 02/NQ-CP is very necessary and especially meaningful in the new context, after the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to synchronously deploy solutions to improve the business environment, improve competitiveness and work together with enterprises to come up with solutions to recover, progress to development and achieve reform more strongly and substantively. The Ministry of Planning and Investment will absorb and fully synthesize the opinions of associations, industries, … to synthesize and report to the Prime Minister.

In order to implement Resolution 02/NQ-CP more effectively, Deputy Minister Tran Duy Dong suggested that ministries, branches and localities consider enterprises as the center and continue to reform institutions and encourage innovation. enterprises, thereby to promote the economic development of localities throughout the country to create common prosperity. At the same time, ministries, branches and localities consider improving the business environment and enhancing competitiveness as one of the important, central, and top priority tasks that are carried out throughout and continuously. Ministries, sectors and localities need to issue action plans soon, organize the serious implementation of the tasks assigned in the Resolution, and closely coordinate with relevant ministries and branches to put the implementation into practice. matter. Continue to regularly check and monitor progress, programs and plans, regularly hold dialogues and exchanges with people and businesses to promptly capture feedback and resolve recommendations of the association. enterprise./.