In his opening remarks, PM Chinh said since a similar meeting with the presence of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on January 5, the international situation has recorded new developments, including the Ukraine conflict, soaring inflation in some countries, and surging prices of input materials and fuel, which have directly affected Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (standing) chairs the national teleconference on March 5.

There are now more challenges than opportunities, but the country has kept a close watch on the situation and made timely response, especially in repatriating Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine, controlling inflation, flexibly adjusting fuel prices, and dealing with power supply issues, he noted.

Over the last three months, the PM went on, under the Party’s leadership, the Government and all-level administrations’ governance, along with people and businesses’ support, Vietnam has been effectively implementing the socio-economic recovery and development programme.

Besides, it is pressing on with building an independent and self-reliant economy, completing a rule-of-law socialist state and a socialist-oriented market economy, and taking breakthrough measures for infrastructure development, administrative reform, and human resources quality improvement, he added.

During the meeting, participants discussed the socio-economic situation in March and Q1, the socio-economic recovery and development programme, key tasks and solutions for the time ahead, and ways to accelerate public investment disbursement in 2022.

They also looked into some major transport projects, including North - South Expressway, Long Thanh International Airport, Belt Road 4 of the Hanoi Capital Region, Belt Road 3 of Ho Chi Minh City, and Khanh Hoa - Buon Ma Thuot, Bien Hoa - Vung Tau, and Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang expressways.

Vietnam’s aviation ready to fully recover international flights

The Vietnamese aviation industry is currently ready in all aspects to operate the entire international flight network like before the Covid-19 outbreak, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has told Deputy Transport Minister Le Anh Tuan.

PM urges effective implementation of socio-economic recovery, development programme

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 12 signed a dispatch urging the drastic and effective implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme as well as the acceleration of the disbursement of public investment.

Government acts to achieve rapid economic recovery, development

The Government has issued a resolution on socio-economic recovery and development programme, and the implementation of the National Assembly’s resolution on fiscal and financial policies in support of the programme.

Vietnamese economy to recover fast in 2022: Fitch Ratings

Vietnam’s recovery is set to gather momentum in 2022, as domestic demand rebounds and export performance remains strong, according to Fitch Ratings.

Manufacturing continues recovery

Vietnam’s purchasing managers’ index rose to 53.7 in January 2022 from 52.5 in December, marking the highest growth since last April.

Source: NDO/VNA