At the regular Government meeting held on the afternoon of July 3, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang said that in the first 6 months of 2025, the socio-economic development results (KTXH) were quite comprehensive, with high growth, "opposite" to concerns about the decline of the world economy.
The Minister said that economic growth achieved the highest result in nearly 20 years, many indicators and indicators on production and business, state budget... are better every month and every quarter.
On July 2, the two negotiating delegations of Vietnam and the US agreed on the Vietnam - US Joint Statement on the framework of a counterpartition, fair and balanced trade agreement.
At the same time, General Secretary To Lam had a phone call with US President Donald Trump, affirming the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries and continuing to discuss a number of major directions and measures to promote cooperation in various fields, especially key and breakthrough fields such as high-tech science.
"This is an important result in negotiations, creating trust and expectations for businesses," Minister Nguyen Van Thang affirmed.
According to the Minister of Finance, the number of enterprises entering and re-entering the market in the first 6 months reached 152.7 thousand enterprises, 20% higher than the number of enterprises withdrawing from the market (127.2 thousand enterprises).
In particular, in June alone, newly registered enterprises reached nearly 24.4 thousand enterprises, the highest ever, with a total registered capital of nearly 177 trillion VND, up 60.5% and 21.2% respectively over the same period; enterprises returned to operation reached nearly 14.4 thousand enterprises, up 91.05%; newly established business households reached over 124.3 thousand households, up 118.4%...
In the first 6 months, the total registered capital added to the economy reached nearly 2.8 million billion VND, an increase of 89.03% over the same period.
Minister Nguyen Van Thang proposed the main tasks and solutions that need to be focused on in July and the third quarter.
In particular, it is necessary to focus on closely monitoring the activities of local authorities at both levels, the implementation of regulations on decentralization, delegation of authority, and division of authority.
Thereby promptly guiding and completely removing local obstacles, ensuring synchronization and connectivity in handling administrative procedures, and smoothly implementing work under the authority of the two levels.
Continue to promote exports and develop trade harmoniously and sustainably with other countries. Continuously perfecting institutions and laws, improving the investment and business environment.
Regarding maintaining macroeconomic stability, the State Bank operates appropriate monetary policy tools, interest rates, and exchange rates to support production and business, meet the capital needs of the economy; maintain stability in the currency and foreign exchange markets.
The Ministry of Finance strengthens collection management, promotes digital transformation, modernizes tax and customs management; strives to increase state budget collection in 2025 by 15% compared to the estimate, the rate of state budget encouragement is about 16% of GDP.
Strive to save an additional 10% of the regular expenditure estimate for the last months of the year to invest in building boarding schools for students in remote, isolated, border and island areas; ensure resources for political tasks and urgent spending tasks.
Ministries, agencies and localities closely monitor price fluctuations of essential goods under their management, promptly have appropriate price management and control solutions, ensure market stability, and avoid speculation and price manipulation.
