During his participation in the 44th-45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane (Laos), on the afternoon of October 8, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered an important speech at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ASEAN BIS).
According to VNA, speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked businesses and entrepreneurs to continue contributing so that ASEAN countries can continue to promote solidarity, unity, self-reliance and become the focus of growth, and support governments to achieve the set goals.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked businesses and entrepreneurs to implement “5 pioneers,” including:
Firstly, pioneering contributions to a self-reliant ASEAN, participating in handling emerging issues, global issues, and the whole people. Because "A self-reliant ASEAN cannot lack a team of self-reliant entrepreneurs and businesses", businesses and entrepreneurs need to pioneer in digital transformation, green transformation, achieving the goal of zero net emissions, responding to climate change, promoting emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc.
Second, pioneer in promoting economic connectivity (including soft connectivity such as institution building, experience sharing, building priority policies for priority areas and hard connectivity in transport infrastructure, digital infrastructure, climate change response infrastructure, energy connectivity, etc.); taking people and businesses as the center, the subject, the goal, the resource, and the driving force for development.
Third, pioneer in promoting the development of science and technology, innovation and start-ups, especially in responding to climate change, population aging, natural disasters, epidemics and developing emerging fields, renewing traditional growth drivers and promoting new growth drivers, while overcoming and limiting the negative impacts from the downside of science and technology development, especially focusing on the issue of cyber security.
Fourth, pioneering in building strategic infrastructure in each country and connecting countries, specifically in policy making, improving governance capacity, mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, etc.
Fifth, to be a pioneer in integration within ASEAN and with the world, in the context that no country can solve global, national problems, we must promote multilateralism and international solidarity, bring benefits to the people, and leave no one behind.
Thanking foreign businesses and investors, including ASEAN businesses and entrepreneurs, for coming to invest and cooperate in Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam creates the most favorable conditions for businesses and investors to fully develop their capabilities and creativity, and at the same time maximize the potential differences, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages of Vietnam.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the Government will continue to promote its creative role with the motto of "open policies, smooth infrastructure, smart governance", reducing compliance costs and logistics costs for people and businesses.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on foreign enterprises and businessmen to continue to invest and cooperate in Vietnam in the spirit of “4 together”: “Listening and understanding together”, “sharing vision and action together”, “working together, winning together, enjoying together, developing together”, “sharing joy, happiness and pride”; harmonious benefits, shared risks between the state, enterprises and people.
