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Fri, 11/20/2009 - 23:26
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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the designers of national
socio-economic plans to be realistic in formulating targets for 2010, when the
country seeks to achieve a GDP growth rate of 6.5 percent.

The Government leader made the request in his speech in Hanoi on November 20
delivered to the planning and investment sector’s national conference discussing
the nation’s socio-economic development plan for 2010.

He also asked participating officials to comment on the Government’s draft
resolution regarding its major strategies for creating and executing the
socio-economic development plan as well as its State budget estimations for 2010.

To deploy the 2010 socio-economic development plan, the PM requested that
ministries, sectors and localities continue to focus on implementing the six groups
of measures already adopted.

He asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment and localities to enhance their
State management work to ensure quality growth and facilitate production as well as
investment into infrastructure and social welfare--this for the betterment of their
local people.

Ministries and localities should speed up public administrative reform with a focus
on streamlining procedures in 2010, PM Dung said, reminding them they must combine
reform with inspection and surveillance to reap the most fruitful outcomes.

He also ordered relevant agencies to implement policies to further improve the
business environment along with incentives and measures to support business
operations.

In addition to the above, the PM asked relevant localities to seriously undertake
clearance of land at the sites reserved for major national projects, particularly
the Hanoi-Lao Cai and Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressways.

Evaluating national socio-economic performance in 2009, PM Dung asserted that the
country has contained economic decline and stabilised the macro-economy, reined in
inflation, maintained its tempo of growth and ensured social welfare for the people,
despite the numerous challenges and difficulties presented by the global financial
crisis.

He argued that the country’s GDP growth rate of 5.2 percent in 2009, which is the
lowest in the recent years, is an encouraging result in the context of the gloomy
picture of the global economy.

At present, Vietnam leads other ASEAN member countries in terms of economic
growth. It is also one among a dozen countries posting a positive growth rate in
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