RESOLUTION

ON THE 2011 SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No.51/2001/QH10;
Considering the reports of the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, National Assembly agencies, concerned agencies and the comments of National Assembly deputies.

RESOLVES:

I. ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2010 SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The 2010 socio-economic development plan has been implemented in a circumstance where our country was confronted with many difficulties and challenges brought about by adverse impacts of the global financial crisis and economic recession, natural disasters and epidemics. Yet, with great efforts made by the entire political system, the population and the business community, we have achieved most targets set in the National Assembly's Resolution. Generally, the macro-situation remains stable, the economy recovers fairly fast, the economic growth (GDP) is estimated at 6.7%, the export value is expected to grow 19.1%, three times over the plan; social security and welfare are better taken care of; national defense and security are firmly maintained, social order and safety are ensured; the administrative reforms are further stepped up; external relation activities and international cooperation see many positive results and Vietnam's status in the international arena is raised. The results obtained in 2010 have greatly contributed to the completion of the five-year (2006-2010) socio-economic development plan.

However, the economy still witnesses limitations and weaknesses, which are slow to be redressed. The economic growth is unsustainable; the economic restructuring proceeds slowly; infrastructure remains weak; investment effectiveness is low; trade deficit remains great; budget deficit is high, the danger of high inflation reoccurrence is latent; a number of burning social issues are slow to be tackled; environmental pollution remains serious. The life of a section of population, particularly in deep-lying, remote and ethnic minority regions, remains difficult....

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1. General objectives

To increase the stability of the macro-economy and control inflation in association with renewing the growth model and restructuring the economy; to strive for a growth rate higher than 2010's, raising the quality, effectiveness and competitiveness of the economy; to ensure social security and welfare, improving the living conditions of people; to firmly maintain the political stability; to further consolidate national defense; to maintain security, social order and safety; to heighten the efficacy of external relation activities and international integration.

2. Major targets

a/ Economic targets:

- The gross domestic product (GDP) will increase 7- 7.5% as compared to 2010.

- The total export turnover will grow 10% as compared to 2010. The trade deficit will not exceed 18% of export turnover.

- The total development investment capital of the entire society will represent some 40% of the GDP.

- The .consumer price index will not exceed 7%.

b/ Social targets:

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- The birth rate will reduce 0.02%.

- Jobs will be created for 1.6 million laborers, including 87,000 guest workers in foreign countries.

- The poverty rate will drop 2% under new poverty line; particularly, the number of 62 poor districts will drop 4%.

- 4% of communes will achieve new-countryside criteria.

- The malnutrition rate of under-5 children will drop to 17.3%.

- The number of hospital beds per 10.000 inhabitants is 21 (excluding hospital beds at commune health stations).

- The average per-head urban housing floor area: 19 m2.

c/ Environmental targets:

- The rate of rural population having access to clean water: 86%.

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- The rate of seriously polluting establishments being handled: 69%.

- The rate of treated solid hospital wastes: 82%.

- The rate of industrial parks and export processing zones having concentrated waste water treatment systems up to environmental standards: 55%.

- The rate of collected urban solid wastes:83%.

- The rate of forest coverage: 40%.

III. A NUMBER OF MAJOR TASKS AND SOLUTIONS

The National Assembly basically agrees to the groups of tasks and solutions submitted by the Government, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy, to the proposals of the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Ethnic Council and Committees of the National Assembly in specialized verification reports and oversight reports. As 2011 is the first year implementing the Resolution of the XI^th National Party Congress, which occupies an important position in the implementation of the five-year (2011-2015) socio-economic development plan, the National Assembly demands concentration on the implementation of the following major tasks and solutions:

1. To direct and apply solutions to increase the macro-stability, ensuring the key balances of the economy and boosting economic development.

To apply measures to strongly increase export and strictly control import, particularly luxurious consumer goods, in association with stepping up the domestic production of import substitutes in order to reduce trade deficit. To ensure such big balances as the goods supply- demand balance in association with directed consumption; the saving- investment balance; the national foreign exchange balance, the budget revenue-expenditure balance....

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To apply measures to strictly manage the gold market and the circulation of foreign currencies. To actively implement the roadmap of adjusting the prices of a number of commodities and services currently managed by the State such as electricity, coal and public medical and education services under the market mechanism while adopting policies to support people with meritorious services to the country, social policy beneficiaries and the poor. To intensify measures to manage the markets; to develop and perfect the distribution system, particularly for a number of essential commodities such as food, milk and medicines.

To attach importance to measures to strictly control and restructure public debts with a view to ensuring the national financial security. To incrementally reduce the budget mobilization ratio to the GDP while applying vigorous measures against revenue loss. To continue renewing state budget expenditure policies and structure, ensuring purposed, efficient and thrifty expenditures and combating waste.

2. To apply solutions to restructuring the economy, primarily adjusting the investment structure, including investment structure of each sector and capital source structure, towards gradually reducing investment from state budget sources while further socializing sources of investment capital.

To concentrate state capital on comprehensive investment in important works and projects with high socio-economic effectiveness. To vigorously decentralize powers to localities along with intensifying guidance, inspection and supervision activities of superiors. To incorporate capital sources of national target programs and targeted support projects, unifying management agencies in order to address the problems of thinned-out capital sources and investment. To apply concrete measures to speed up investment in power plants, resolutely and effectively conserve electricity in both production and consumption, striving to supply adequate electricity for production and daily-life activities.

To adjust the industrial structure, aiming to increase added value, early adopt and implement policies to develop allied industries and import substitute-manufacturing industries. To renew the foreign investment capital structure and attraction policies, encouraging investment in production sectors with hi-tech contents, less energy consumption and little impacts on the environment, which are capable of stepping up export.

To promulgate mechanisms and policies and apply more effective measures in order to create breakthrough improvements in infrastructure. To increase investment capital for agriculture and rural development corresponding to its important role and strategic position. To make further investment so as to speed up the construction of reserve warehouses for a number of key farm produce, building commodity production zones along with developing the processing industry. To adopt policies to support farmers to buy insurance for high-yield products which are largely related to production and the life of a vast majority of farmers.

To attach importance to investment in the development of motive economic regions, coastal economic regions and economic zones. To raise the quality of planning and manage development under planning, ensuring harmony between sectors and between regions. To review and adjust master plans on development of various sectors, primarily focusing on currently unbalanced sectors (such as energy) and sectors showing signs of excessive supply (such as steel and cement), ensuring the balance and harmony between investment plans and investment capital, addressing the problems of thinned-out and unplanned investment.

To restructure state enterprises, primarily focusing on the consolidation, capacity building and sustainable development of state-run economic groups and corporations in couple with the perfection of management mechanisms, increased examination, inspection and supervision, clearly defining the responsibilities of state agencies and their heads. State-run economic groups and corporations must concentrate on their major business lines, practice publicity and transparency of their business activities and financial statements and implement the compulsory audit regime. To resolutely separate the function of state administration from the function of state-owner representatives at enterprises according to law.

To perfect mechanisms and policies to strongly encourage and develop non-state economic forms. To create an environment of de facto and de jure equality among enterprises of all economic sectors; ensuring enterprises' rights to equality in opportunity and access to resources, particularly land and investment loans. To adopt mechanisms and policies for effective and sustainable development of small- and medium-sized enterprises; facilitate the diversification of cooperative economic forms.

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To attach importance to inspection and supervision to ensure application of adopted social welfare and security policies to proper beneficiaries. To promulgate new national poverty standards and incorporate poverty reduction programs. To concentrate on measures to reduce poverty in localities and regions with high poverty and near-poverty rates, ensuring sustainable poverty reduction and elimination.

To work out specific roadmaps and measures to address overload at central and provincial hospitals, especially hospitals specialized in the treatment of dangerous diseases; to actively detect and promptly and effectively handle epidemics. To expand the application of the regime of periodically rotating health workers to assist lower levels in raising the quality of medical examination and treatment; to intensify population work at grassroots level. To closely manage the quality of and the observance of law in private medical examination and treatment activities, and the medicine market; to better ensure food safety and hygiene; to apply comprehensive measures to prevent and combat drug addiction and HIV infection.

To further study for finalization and proper implementation regulations and policies applicable to people with meritorious services to the country and social-policy beneficiaries.

To formulate and implement a system of comprehensive and effective measures to tackle the problems of violence and social evils which tend to develop in a complicated manner; to apply resolute measures to reduce traffic accidents.

To increase investment in environmental protection, controlling air and water pollution and protecting the ecological environment. To attach importance to investment in physical foundations and equipment for climate change research and forecast institutions; to make adequate investment in natural disaster mitigation. To examine, inspect and strictly handle violations of the environmental law. To resolutely refuse the licensing of new investment projects which fail to satisfy environmental protection requirements.

4. To intensify the training of high-quality human resources, meeting socio-economic development requirements in the new period.

To renew and improve human resource training policies, attaching importance to vocational training in order to quantitatively and qualitatively enhance the trained workforce; to link training to human resource demands; to effect close cooperation between employers and training establishments; to develop forms of contractual training; to adjust the training structure in line with socio-economic development orientations. To develop and materialize programs on development of high-quality human resources, improving practical skills and creative capabilities to meet the requirements of various sectors and key economic regions, paying attention to vocational training for rural labor and demobilized youngsters.

To attach importance to all-sided education, especially education in civic responsibilities, raising practicing capabilities of students. To build up a school culture; to speed up the implementation of programs on building permanent school buildings and classrooms. To finalize and implement regulations on development of preschool education. To adopt and apply synchronous policies to promote the development of general education in ethnic minority and mountainous regions.

5. To consolidate defense and security potential; to expand external relations and proactive international integration.

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To early amend and supplement regulations on foreign-invested forestation cooperation, investment and joint venture activities in conditional sectors. To withdraw investment certificates of foreign-invested joint-venture forestation projects in defense- or security-sensitive areas; to assign forestation land in these areas to local people or army units for implementing projects on socio-economic development in combination with defense and security protection.

To expand external relations and intensify international cooperation, creating an environment of peace and stability and making full use of external resources for national development and defense. To take the initiative in extensive, intensive and effective international integration, well fulfilling the international commitments. To promote the role and mobilize resources of the community of overseas Vietnamese for national development.

6. To further step up administrative reforms and prevention and combat of red-tape, corruption and waste

To resolutely direct the implementation of the administrative procedure reform program towards further simplifying procedures while strictly controlling new procedures, creating the most favorable conditions for citizens and enterprises and meeting the requirement to raise the effectiveness of operation of state management agencies. To enhance administrative discipline and official-duty discipline and especially heighten personal responsibility, and severely handle all violations.

To continue experimenting the non-organization of district and ward People's Councils under the National Assembly's Resolution No.26/2008/QH12 of November 15, 2008, and the National Assembly Standing Committee's Resolution No.724/2009/ UBTVQH12 of January 16, 2009, until the National Assembly promulgates a new resolution on this issue.

To review and adjust regulations on state management decentralization and assignment between central and local administrations, between ministries and sectors, ensuring that for each sector there will be a main responsible body, responsibility division and harmonious coordination among concerned agencies. To raise the examination, inspection and supervision effectiveness and capabilities of central agencies. particularly in the fields of land, minerals, finance, banking, public investment, and operation of slate enterprises. To ensure unity, smoothness, effectiveness and efficiency of the state administrative management system. To apply in a coordinated manner strong measures to more effectively prevent and fight red rape and corruption.

To seriously implement regulations on thrift practice and waste combat. To intensify propaganda and agitation work, heightening the sense of thrift practice and waste combat, thus translating it into a habit and lifestyle of each citizen and the whole community.

IV. ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION

The Government, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy shall, according to their respective functions and tasks, organize the effective implementation of the National Assembly's Resolution.

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The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, member organizations of the Front and social organizations set up under law shall supervise the implementation of, and mobilize people of all strata to well implement, the Resolution of the National Assembly.

The National Assembly calls upon compatriots and combatants throughout the country and overseas Vietnamese to heighten the spirit of patriotism and unity, make great efforts, take advantage of favorable opportunities, surmount difficulties and challenges in successfully implementing the 2011 socio­economic development plan, laying firm foundations for the implementation of the five-year (2011-2015) socio-economic development plan.-

This Resolution was adopted on November 8, 2011, by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at its 8th session.

CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY




Nguyen Phu Trong