Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities hold open dialogue with business community

The meeting was chaired by Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang, members of the Party Central Committee and Vice Secretaries of the municipal Party Committee Tat Thanh Cang and Nguyen Thanh Phong.

At the meeting, representatives from professional associations and businesses openly stated shortcomings in relevant policies and contributed valuable ideas for the city’s development. Most of the ideas focused on policies related to tax, access to preferential capital, fees and charges, development of the support industry and human resources in order to meet requirements of international integration, and administrative reforms and regulations on wages, social and voluntary insurance.

They also asked for the early construction of an internationally and regionally-scaled exhibition centre; support to promote businesses’ brand names, develop retail markets and consume locally-made products; food security and infrastructural development.

Several delegates proposed suggestions to build Ho Chi Minh City into an economic, financial, commercial, scientific and technological centre in Southeast Asia.

Concluding the conference, Thang promised the business community that the city’s leaders would address the suggestions openly and transparently, saying that they always consider the crucial role of businesses and therefore endeavour to provide them with adequate attention in order to lift difficulties and create an open and transparent business environment, in addition to supporting businesses to access resources and stimulating start-up movements.