VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has underlined the need to implement solutions agreed upon this year in an appropriate and effective manner.

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At a January 29 government meeting in Hanoi, the Prime Minister asked ministries, sectors, and localities to improve coordination in realising 2013’s socio-economic targets.

A Government report said price and market stabilisation measures and initiatives to boost production have achieved initial results. Lower rates of credit interest have eased businesses’ difficulties.

The 1.25 percent rise in the consumer price index (CPI) conformed to last year’s average. January’s export turnover was 43 percent higher than a year earlier. Industrial and agricultural production was stable while social welfare continued to improve.

The report also acknowledged the reviewed period’s disappointments, including the impacts of abnormal weather phenomena on agricultural production; ineffective supply-demand coordination between ministries, sectors, and localities concerning certain goods; and the underwhelming results of anti-smuggling and trade fraud efforts.

PM Dung stressed it is imperative to control prices and the market, lower interest rates, boost production, broaden credit access, and amortise outstanding debts according to the yearly plan. Disbursing capital resources for construction investment and national target programmes must be accelerated, as must addressing excess inventory levels.

Dung identified a number of key tasks ministries, sectors, and local authorities should focus on, such as ensuring sufficient supplies of goods during the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), monitoring and enforcing holiday traffic safety, and providing families of social policy beneficiaries better care—all of which will contribute to a happy and trouble-free Tet for everyone.

He instructed the Ministry of Public Security to maintain vigilance before, during, and after Tet, especially regarding both firecracker and traffic accident prevention.

The preparations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations are another priority, Dung said.

Cabinet members used the meeting to offer their opinions on State agency and business information security, the government’s draft urgent environmental protection resolution, atomic energy training incentive policies, and other important issues.

Source: VOV