Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh has just signed Decision No. 806/QD-TTg dated April 22, 2025 promulgating the National Strategy on waste prevention and control until 2035.
The specific goal of the strategy is to overcome limitations and inadequacies in policies and laws; strengthen law enforcement in socio-economic fields, especially those that are prone to waste.
Build a streamlined state apparatus that operates effectively and efficiently; build a team of cadres, especially leaders at all levels with sufficient qualities, capacity, and prestige to match the tasks in new conditions.
Cutting administrative procedures and compliance costs for people and businesses, the goal is that by 2030, Vietnam will be in the top 50 countries in the world and ranked 3rd in ASEAN in e-government and digital economy.
Strengthen preventive measures; step up supervision, inspection, examination, detection, and strong handling, with high deterrence against wasteful behaviors. Resolutely handle issues and incidents that cause great waste and frustration in public opinion, creating strong influence.
To achieve the set goals, the plan clearly states 8 groups of tasks and implementation solutions including:
1. Completing policies and laws in the fields of socio-economic management and waste prevention and control;
2. Focus on building, streamlining the apparatus and building a team of effective and efficient cadres and civil servants;
3. Effective management and use of resources, human resources, material resources, and fortunes, enhancing sustainability; improving energy efficiency;
4. Promote administrative reform, focus on cutting down on administrative procedures and compliance costs for people and businesses;
5. Focus on resolving the long-standing problems of important national projects, key projects, low-efficiency projects, backlogs, prolonged causes of great loss and waste; weak commercial banks;
6. Strengthen inspection, supervision, audit, investigation, and handling of waste cases;
7. Raising awareness, promoting the role and responsibility of the Fatherland Front, organizations and people in preventing and combating waste;
8. Strengthen the capacity of cadres and civil servants to carry out waste prevention and control work.
Strengthen and improve the quality of inspection, supervision, audit and auditing of the implementation of the Party's guidelines, State policies and laws on practicing thrift and combating waste, focusing on areas prone to waste, where there are many petitions, letters, complaints, denunciations, and public concern and frustration.
At the same time, proactively apply preventive measures; review, promptly detect, prevent, and strictly handle organizations and individuals who violate, cause loss and waste of resources according to the provisions of law.
Strictly implement the conclusions and recommendations of competent authorities, thoroughly recover state money and assets; promptly overcome limitations and inadequacies in management mechanisms, policies and laws discovered through inspection, examination and auditing.
