On February 27, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the thematic Government meeting on law-making in February 2026 to consider and discuss opinions on 5 contents.
According to the Government Portal, at the meeting, the Government will consider, give opinions, and discuss: Draft Capital Law (amended); Draft Law on Civil Status (amended); Draft Law on Belief and Religion; Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Representative Offices of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam abroad; Draft Resolution of the National Assembly on coordination mechanisms and specific policies to improve the effectiveness of preventing and resolving international investment disputes.
Speaking at the opening of the meeting, the Prime Minister emphasized that institutions are both a driving force and resource for development; institutions must go ahead and guide the way, in order to remove bottlenecks and problems arising in reality.
Resolutions of recent Party Congresses all identify: Building and perfecting institutions is one of the three strategic breakthroughs in rapid and sustainable national development.
Over the past time, the Government and the Prime Minister have focused on leading and directing, prioritizing time and allocating resources for the work of building and perfecting institutions; promptly removing difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks in mechanisms and policies, creating favorable conditions for people and businesses and promoting socio-economic development of the country.
From the beginning of the term to date, the Government has organized 41 specialized meetings on law-making, considering and giving opinions on more than 215 draft laws, laws, resolutions and policy dossiers for law-making and resolutions; submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and promulgation of 179 documents - more than 2 times higher than the XIV National Assembly term.
In 2025 alone, the "bottlenecks" caused by legal regulations have been basically removed in the spirit of Resolution 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo. In which, strengthening decentralization and delegation of power in parallel with resource allocation, designing tools for supervision and inspection, and improving the implementation capacity of all levels.
The promulgated laws and resolutions have contributed to completing a synchronous, feasible, and transparent legal system, promoting national development in accordance with the spirit of "innovating legal thinking, institutional reform, ensuring that the law goes first, paving the way for development".
Affirming that institutions and laws have contributed to creating a basic foundation, premise, new momentum, and new driving force to promote double-digit development in the coming time, the Prime Minister requested ministers and heads of sectors to prioritize and focus highly on leading and directing the completion of draft laws and resolutions under the management of their ministries and sectors, and at the same time arrange time to participate in contributing opinions to draft laws and resolutions developed by other ministries and sectors.
The Head of Government emphasized the spirit of decisiveness, responsibility, urgency, "already tried and then tried even harder, tried and then tried even harder, determined and then determined even higher, effective and then even more effective", "not hasty, not perfectionist, not impatient, but not missing opportunities".
Therefore, the Prime Minister requested delegates to promote wisdom and sense of responsibility; present and speak concisely, clearly, and go straight to the issue; focus on exchanging important issues, and other opinions that need to be discussed and asked for the Government's opinion.
