Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed and issued Directive No. 08/CT-TTg dated March 17, 2025 on promoting waste prevention and control, unlocking resources, and promoting economic growth.
In addition to the achieved results, the Prime Minister assessed that the work of preventing and combating waste in many fields still exists and is limited, typically the mechanism for allocating and disbursing public investment capital is still inadequate, reducing the efficiency of state resource use; the management and use of public assets still has many limitations.
In addition, mechanisms, policies, and legal regulations are still overlapping, not synchronous, and have not been promptly remedied; the labor market is developing slowly, labor policies, wages, and social security are not yet complete, there are many shortcomings in implementation; attracting and promoting ineffective talent, lacking high-quality human resources...
The Prime Minister assigned ministries, central agencies and localities to urgently update and supplement all contents and information of the report on focusing on resolving backlogged projects, stopping construction, urgently implementing, completing and putting into use to prevent waste and loss; send the Ministry of Finance to synthesize and report to the Prime Minister before March 25.
The Ministry of Finance coordinates with the Government Office to closely monitor, synthesize periodic reports, and promptly propose handling measures for units and individuals who are late or not serious in implementation.
For projects that are still pending and have been suspended for a long time, ministries and localities have reported and requested urgent synthesis and determination to clarify the groups of causes, handling options and competent authorities to handle them to resolve them thoroughly, put projects into operation and use soon to promote investment efficiency, and not continue to waste State and people's resources.
The Prime Minister assigned the Government Inspectorate to complete the inspection conclusion for the investment project to build Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, Facility 2 in Ha Nam province before March 31.
The Government Inspectorate directs and organizes thematic inspections in a number of areas of management and use of economic resources, focusing on a number of areas that are likely to cause great loss and waste to handle violations.
At the same time, it is necessary to warn and strongly deter other ministries and local branches in effectively managing and using financial resources and public assets.
The head of the Government thoroughly grasps the ministries and central agencies to review to amend and supplement regulations on socio-economic management mechanisms, economic and technical norms that are no longer suitable to the country's development practices; focus on areas that are prone to waste.
These fields include: state budget management, public assets; management and use of public investment capital; management of state capital invested in enterprises; construction; land, resources (including renewable resources), minerals, energy; credit, banking; organizational apparatus, human resource management...
