An enterprise in Vinh Phuc province.(Photo: VNA) That was the message from Nguyen Thi Minh Thao, head of theBusiness Environment and Competitiveness Research Department at the CentralInstitute for Economic Management (CIEM).
In addition, improving the business environment should beassociated with responsibility of the leaders of organisations, she said.
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong said thisyear had already seen a number of difficulties for businesses. In Januaryalone, the number of businesses withdrawing from the market nearly doubledcompared to those entering.
On January 5, the Government issued Resolution 02 to promotefurther this reform, Dong said, to strengthen confidence of investors and enterprisesand arouse entrepreneurial spirit to enhance the economic recovery anddevelopment.
Resolution 02 requires ministries, sectors and localities to focuson removing legal inadequacies in implementing investment projects. They needto improve the quality of reform for the list of conditional businessinvestment industries and business conditions, and effectively deploy thenational single-window information portal.
They also have to complete policies on promoting investment,production and business associated with innovation and digital transformation,sustainable development and the quality of business development services.
According to Thao from CIEM, the resolution is an encouragement tothe business community, creating a driving force to continue carrying outbusiness investment activities. This resolution also creates pressure for theministries, sectors and localities to make changes for the business community aswell as the socio-economic development.
She believed that, to successfully implement Resolution 02, theparticipation of the association and business community is necessary toidentify challenges, thereby finding appropriate solutions to improve thebusiness environment.
According to Dau Anh Tuan, Deputy General Secretary of the VietnamChamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), in Resolution 02, the Governmentfocuses on the capacity and competitiveness of domestic private enterprises,with the goal of increasing the number of newly established private enterprisesand minimising the number of enterprises leaving from market. Besides removingmarket difficulties, the difficulties from mechanisms and policies should bereduced.
Among the solutions, the Government requires ministries, branchesand localities to proactively and regularly review the existing regulations andprocedures and then propose the removal of contents that are not beneficial tothe production and business activities of enterprises.
The policy at this resolution is that Vietnamese goods, businessesand economy can only have more competitiveness if the legal system is simpler,more convenient and more competitive than other regional countries.
Another new point in this resolution is to require the businessesto hold proactively periodic dialogues with VCCI and business associations topoint out inadequacies in legal regulations that need to be overcome.
To achieve high growth momentum for the whole year, cuttingbarriers to the business environment and institutional reform are importanttasks.
Authorities need to carry out many other solutions to continuouslyincrease the competitiveness of the business environment, such as improvingquality of infrastructure and human resources, and promoting domesticindustrial production.
In particular, they should focus on two main groups of solutionson reducing business costs along with reforming law enforcement.
The authorities at all levels need to step up to improve thequality of policy enforcement, because if the policy is good but notimplemented well, the efficiency of that policy is not high, according to theVCCI official.
The PhapLuat TP.HCM (HCM City Law Newspaper) quoted Deputy Minister Dong assaying that many localities had dialogues with the businesses so the latter candirectly report and make recommendations to the local leaders.
The ministry always wants business associations, commodityassociations and the business community to actively participate in havingcriticism, building policies and reporting on problems and difficulties,according to Dong.
They need to proactively propose recommendations relating topolicies and policy enforcement to ensure effective state management, whilecreating convenience and safety for production and business activities ofenterprises.
The ministry will coordinate closely with ministries, sectors,localities, the business community and relevant parties to promoteinstitutional reform, create an open, favourable and safe business environmentto create quick changes in the economic recovery and development./.
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