There is a plan to adjust electricity prices and medical examination and treatment service prices.
On September 15, the Office of the Government announced that the Government has just issued Resolution 128/NQ-CP at the regular Government meeting in August 2024.
The Resolution emphasizes the continued priority to promote growth associated with maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring major balances of the economy; resolutely saving regular expenditures, increasing expenditures for development investment.
Strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of regulations on price management, taxes, fees, price stabilization of raw materials, essential goods for production, business and people's lives; strictly handle acts of speculation, hoarding, price increase and price manipulation according to law.
Prepare pricing plans and roadmaps for adjusting prices of goods and services managed by the State at appropriate levels and times, avoiding concentrating them at the same time, including electricity prices, prices of medical examination and treatment services at State medical examination and treatment facilities, prices of education and training services, ensuring inflation control according to the set targets.
The State Bank of Vietnam continues to direct commercial banks to cut costs, increase the application of information technology to reduce lending interest rates, promote credit growth, direct credit to production and business sectors, priority sectors, economic growth drivers and overcome the consequences of storms and floods...
Timely remove obstacles, effectively implement the 140,000 billion VND credit package for social housing loans; study to increase the scale of preferential credit program for forestry and fishery sectors to about 50,000 - 60,000 billion VND.
The Ministry of Finance manages the budget to ensure reserves for natural disaster and epidemic prevention and control, salaries, social security policies, and important and urgent political tasks that arise.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade presides over and coordinates with ministries, agencies, and localities to closely monitor market developments, promptly take solutions to manage and regulate production, and stabilize supply and demand of goods, especially food, foodstuffs, energy, and other essential goods.
In particular, the Government requires firmly ensuring national energy security, absolutely not allowing shortages of electricity and gasoline supply in any situation.
Accelerating disbursement of public investment capital
The Government requires drastic implementation of solutions to accelerate and make breakthroughs in disbursement of public investment capital and the 3 National Target Programs; mobilize and effectively exploit social resources.
Ministries, agencies and localities are focusing on implementing plans and solutions to overcome the consequences caused by storm No. 3, especially rescue, searching for missing people and treating injured people.
No one should be left without food, shelter, cold, or drinking water; no students should be left without classes or schools; no injured or sick people should be left without medical treatment...
Continue to focus on reviewing and perfecting institutions, mechanisms and policies; reduce administrative procedures, remove difficulties and obstacles for production and business, create an open and favorable business environment. Thoroughly eliminate the request-grant mechanism from the stage of drafting and promulgating legal documents.
