Growth for the whole year 2024 is estimated to reach over 7%
On the morning of December 1, the Politburo and the Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and summarize the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW; the socio-economic situation in 2024, and solutions to accelerate socio-economic development in 2025.
At the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the whole year's growth is estimated to reach over 7%; it is expected that 15/15 main targets will be achieved and exceeded, especially the growth target.
Increase base salary by 30%, increase regional minimum wage by 6% annually for employees and adjust pensions, social insurance, preferential allowances for meritorious people, and social allowances from July 1, 2024.
Of which, over 700 trillion VND has been accumulated to implement the new salary policy for 2024 and the following years.
In 2025, the Prime Minister emphasized that priority must be given to growth, striving for GDP growth of about 8% to create momentum, force, and spirit to implement the plan for the entire 2021-2030 period.
The Head of Government emphasized 8 main tasks and solutions for 2025.
Firstly, continuing to perfect institutions is the “breakthrough of breakthroughs”; streamlining the apparatus, improving effectiveness and efficiency; building strong enough mechanisms and policies so that cadres dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for the common good.
Second, continue to prioritize promoting growth associated with macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring large balances and high surpluses; keeping deficit and public debt within safe and reasonable limits; maintaining momentum, keeping pace and accelerating, making breakthroughs, striving to achieve a growth rate of about 8%.
Third, mobilize social resources to the maximum, effectively exploit resources from state-owned enterprises, and strongly develop private enterprises.
Fourth, promote the development of strategic infrastructure, especially key national projects; research and effectively exploit outer space, sea space, and underground space.
Strengthen inspection of areas prone to corruption and negativity
Fifth, ensure electricity supply in all situations, meeting the needs of production, business and consumption both in the short and long term.
Sixth, step up the fight against corruption, negativity, and waste. The focus is on perfecting the institutions on power control, preventing and fighting corruption and negativity; and on protecting those who fight against corruption and negativity.
Building a clean, honest, action-oriented government serving the people; enhancing publicity, transparency, and accountability; effectively controlling assets and income.
Strengthen inspection and examination, focusing on areas prone to corruption and negativity such as investment, public assets, land, minerals, etc.; strictly handle violations in the spirit of "handling one case, warning the whole region, the whole field"; do not criminalize civil, administrative, and economic relations.
Focus on preventing and combating waste in the whole society; focus on removing difficulties and obstacles for renewable energy projects, invested power projects, projects and works that are behind schedule or prolonged.
According to Conclusion No. 77-KL/TW of the Politburo on Project 153 and electricity and renewable energy projects, a number of large real estate projects, BT and BOT projects, flood prevention projects in Ho Chi Minh City, hospital projects in Ha Nam province...
Focus on reviewing, classifying, building and proposing mechanisms and policies to remove constructions and projects that are wasting land, investment resources, opportunities, jobs, assets, etc. and have clear, feasible and effective solutions to resolve them completely, avoid waste, and supplement resources for development. There must be a responsible person and a person to remove them.
Urgently review and amend the Law on Practicing Thrift and Combating Wastefulness. Continue to review, cut and save state budget expenditures, especially regular expenditures.
Seventh, focus on cultural development, ensure social security, proactively prevent and combat natural disasters, and respond to climate change.
Eighth, ensure political stability, firmly protect independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity; promote foreign affairs and international integration.
