The first meeting between PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and business community in 2016. Photo: VGP
On May 17, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers will take part in a meeting in Hanoi with the business community to hear their thoughts and aspirations.
This is also an opportunity to review and evaluate the implementation of the government’s Resolution No.35/NQ-CP on business support and development to 2020, suggesting that solutions are sought to effectively implement or amend the resolution.
Ms. Pham Thi Thu Hang, Secretary General of VCCI, said that the review of the resolution will look at what the government and also local authorities and businesses have done during its one year of implementation. VCCI is gathering opinions from associations and the business community and plans to put forward five groups of proposals to remove difficulties for businesses. These proposals remain confidential.
Ms. Hang said that the proposals from businesses were sent to the Office of the Government Office and to VCCI. Two-hundred proposals were resolved at the 2016 meeting and 400 have been sent to the Office of the Government and VCCI since the beginning of this year.
“With hundreds of such requests, VCCI proposes they be divided into groups of major issues of focus,” Ms. Hang said.
There are two main groups of difficulties that enterprises request be removed by the government as they are unreasonable or overlapping regulations and documents from all levels and administrative procedures.
Some appear once more after being included previously. Ms. Hang said that most previous issues have been addressed but some only received explanations. “Enterprises hope for more open regulations and for the creation of conditions for development, rather than just receiving explanations from ministries,” she said.
Looking back over one year of the implementation of Resolution No.35, she said the government has made a great deal of effort to improve the business environment and support enterprises. However, more time is needed to introduce changes at all levels of local government, who directly enforce regulations and administrative procedures.
