On March 5, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the regular Government meeting in February 2025.
The meeting was held directly at the Government headquarters, online with 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta.
The meeting will assess the socio-economic situation in February and 2 months; the disbursement of public investment capital; the implementation of growth targets for sectors, fields and localities to ensure the country's growth reaches 8% or more.
Speaking at the opening of the meeting, the Prime Minister emphasized that at this time, there is a lot of work, while the world situation is changing rapidly, complicatedly, and unpredictably.
Strategic competition is increasingly fierce; some countries have adjusted trade policies, especially tax policies, affecting import-export, global supply and demand; the world economy is still facing difficulties and slow recovery.
In the country, we must both carry out and complete regular tasks; focus on continuing to reorganize the apparatus in the spirit of Resolution 18, prepare to reorganize administrative boundaries of localities in the latest direction of the Politburo; promote economic growth with the goal of reaching 8% or more in 2025; organize major national holidays.
In that context, we still maintain macroeconomic stability, control inflation, promote growth, ensure major balances of the economy; ensure social security, improve the material and spiritual life of the people; stabilize socio-politics, national defense and security, and strengthen foreign affairs.
However, we must not be negligent, subjective, or lose vigilance because of external developments, especially the weak recovery of the world economy. While Vietnam is a developing country, the economy is changing, the scale of the economy is still modest, the openness is large, and the resilience to external shocks is limited.
Therefore, the Prime Minister requested members of the Government and delegates to focus on closely assessing the socio-economic situation, issues that arose in February and the first two months of the year; good and bad points; causes and lessons learned in the implementation process at both the central and local levels.
Along with that, it is necessary to assess and analyze the context and situation in March and the coming time to see what is noteworthy; emerging issues and policies of Vietnam to continue to maintain macroeconomic stability, promote growth, and control inflation.
Along with performing well regular tasks, it is necessary to monitor, grasp the situation and flexibly and effectively adapt to arising problems.
In particular, the Prime Minister requested delegates to propose key leadership, direction and management goals in the coming time so that in 2025, growth must be at least 8%, contributing significantly to the successful implementation of the 5-year socio-economic development plan 2021-2025, creating momentum, creating force, creating a foundation, creating new momentum for the country to firmly enter a new era, an era of rising up, building a rich, civilized, prosperous country, people are prosperous and happy.
The Prime Minister mentioned a number of specific issues that need attention in direction and management, such as the rice market situation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, interest rate management, public investment disbursement, tax, fee and charge issues to support businesses.
