Continue to arrange administrative boundaries, organize local government at 2 levels
On April 6, in Hanoi, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the regular Government meeting in March 2025 and the Online Conference of the Government with localities, discussing many important contents.
In his concluding remarks, the Prime Minister clearly stated his views on responding to policies of countries, especially US counterpart taxes. This must be considered an opportunity to strive, grow, overcome, contribute to restructuring the economy, restructuring markets, production and export.
The Prime Minister noted that exports are an important growth driver that must be promoted, but not the only driver but many other important drivers; the US is the largest export market, but not the only market.
Therefore, we respectfully resolve issues of concern to the US and conduct negotiations with the US according to a high-level agreement between General Secretary To Lam and President Donald Trump.
The Prime Minister directed Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and agencies to review and carefully prepare specific negotiation plans and plans with the US.
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son directed the Working Group, relevant ministries and agencies to review, have plans and solutions and immediately deploy specific tasks, solutions and work in the fields and closely connect with the negotiation delegation.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the need to continue perfecting institutions, streamlining, rearranging the organizational apparatus, arranging administrative boundaries, organizing local governments at 2 levels; promoting administrative reform and digital transformation.
The Ministry of Justice, relevant ministries and agencies focus on urgently completing the dossier and submitting to the National Assembly for amendment of laws and resolutions at the upcoming 9th session.
The Ministry of Home Affairs shall preside over consultation and seriously and effectively implement the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus, without interruption of work, affecting people and businesses.
Submitting to competent authorities a handling plan for SCB Bank
The Prime Minister requested to promote the prevention and control of corruption, negativity and waste, paying special attention to the handling of assets after merging localities.
The Ministry of Public Security will preside over the strengthening of the implementation of Project 06; accelerate the construction and sharing of databases; accelerate extensive and comprehensive national digital transformation, contributing to promoting growth.
Regarding consumption, the Ministry of Finance urgently presides over the development of a consumer stimulus policy package, especially for important items such as cement, steel, construction materials, etc., to submit to the Prime Minister before April 15, 2025.
The Ministry of Public Security shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to propose expanding the visa exemption scope for a number of subjects and appropriate countries.
The Ministry of Finance completes the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on building a regional and international financial center; building a legal framework on digital assets, digital currencies, and national investment funds.
Da Nang urgently submits a project to establish Da Nang Free Trade Zone; Quang Ninh urgently develops a project to develop Van Don Economic Zone.
Continue to handle with results the outstanding and long-standing issues. The State Bank urgently completes and submits to competent authorities the handling plan for SCB bank. Ministries, agencies and localities continue to resolutely implement solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles for long-standing projects and combat waste.
In particular, the Prime Minister requested Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to directly direct and completely remove obstacles with the VND10,000 billion flood prevention project in Ho Chi Minh City, to be completed by the second quarter of 2025 at the latest, and strive to complete it in April.
The Ministry of Construction shall preside over the implementation of the investment project to build at least 1 million social housing apartments; submit to the National Assembly policies on social housing.
