On December 31, the Secretary General of the National Assembly announced 10 typical events and activities of the National Assembly in 2024.
1. Strongly innovate the thinking of law making according to new development requirements
In 2024, the legislative work achieved very important results, especially recognizing the innovation in law-making thinking. The laws promulgated are concise, substantive, and correctly and fully regulate issues under the authority of the National Assembly, ensuring stability and long-term value.
2. The National Assembly passed the 2024 Land Law; decided that the Land Law, along with the Housing Law and the Real Estate Business Law, would take effect 5 months early.
At the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly passed the Land Law No. 31/2024/QH15. The Law takes effect from January 1, 2025.
However, at the 7th Session, the National Assembly passed Law No. 43/2024/QH15 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law, Housing Law, Real Estate Business Law and Credit Institutions Law; in which the Land Law, Housing Law and Real Estate Business Law will take effect from August 1, 2024, 5 months earlier.
3. The National Assembly decided on the investment policy for two major projects: the North-South high-speed railway and the restart of the Ninh Thuan nuclear power project.
This is a historic decision, at the right time for two particularly important projects of the country, with a huge total investment and high scientific and technological content, comprehensive impact on all economic, social, security and defense fields, contributing to bringing the country into a new era.
4. The National Assembly approved two national target programs on drug prevention and cultural development.
The National Assembly's approval of the Resolution on investment policy for the National Target Program (NTP) on drug prevention and control (PCMT) until 2030 and the Resolution on investment policy for the NTP on cultural development for the period 2025 - 2035 (at the 8th Session) is of great significance.
The Resolutions have clearly identified specific, practical, and highly feasible targets, setting out principles for allocating resources with focus and key points that have a strong impact on the effectiveness of sustainable human development, ensuring a safe, healthy, and spiritually diverse living environment for the people.
5. The National Assembly decided to "grant" medical examination and treatment using health insurance for rare diseases, serious diseases, and diseases requiring high-tech treatment.
Accordingly, the Law on Health Insurance passed at the 8th Session has stipulated that people with Health Insurance Cards who have rare diseases, serious diseases, diseases requiring surgery or high technology can go directly to specialized medical examination and treatment facilities without having to go through the current referral procedure.
6. Establish Hue city directly under the Central Government and complete the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels according to schedule.
At the 8th Session, the 15th National Assembly passed Resolution No. 175/2024/QH15 on the establishment of Hue City under the central government. This is a very important decision, marking an outstanding achievement in implementing the policy of promoting urbanization associated with urban economic development of our country.
7. The National Assembly approved the first National Marine Spatial Planning in Vietnam.
At the 7th Session, the National Assembly passed the Resolution on the National Marine Spatial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. This is a comprehensive, multi-sectoral, highly specialized and very complex national-level Planning, the first of its kind to be established in Vietnam.
8. The National Assembly Standing Committee supervises the implementation of Resolutions on thematic supervision and questioning from the beginning of the term of the 15th National Assembly.
In 2024, the National Assembly Standing Committee successfully organized the question-and-answer session at the 36th Session to review the implementation by the Government, state agencies, ministries and branches of the 6 Resolutions on question-and-answer and thematic supervision of the National Assembly Standing Committee from the beginning of the 15th National Assembly term to the end of 2023.
9. Closely following the direction of the Central Executive Committee, continue to innovate and reorganize the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently at the agencies of the National Assembly, agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee, and the National Assembly Office.
On November 18, 2024, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man signed Resolution No. 1297/NQ-UBTVQH15 of the National Assembly Standing Committee to establish a Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution 18-NQ/TW at National Assembly agencies, agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee, and the National Assembly Office; at the same time, assigning specific tasks to each member of the Steering Committee; developing and promulgating a Plan to arrange and streamline National Assembly agencies and agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee.
10. The Vietnamese National Assembly continues to promote and strengthen parliamentary cooperation on bilateral and multilateral levels, contributing to realizing the Party's foreign policy.
In 2024, the National Assembly welcomed 39 parliamentary delegations from other countries to visit Vietnam, including 10 delegations at the Chairman level and 8 delegations at the Vice Chairman level. International cooperation agreements signed between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the National Assemblies of other countries have contributed to promoting parliamentary diplomacy and foreign affairs activities of the Party and State.
