Do not criminalize economic and civil relations.

(NLDO) - The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to continue to accompany and remove difficulties for small and medium enterprises.

In Directive No. 10 issued today, March 25, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested drastic implementation of the goal of developing small and medium enterprises quickly and sustainably, increasing in quantity, quality, scale, operational efficiency and making important contributions to the economy . Strive to have at least 1 million more enterprises by 2030.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference with small and medium-sized enterprises on February 27. Photo: Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister directed ministries, branches and localities to uphold their sense of responsibility, take people and businesses as the center, consider the difficulties of people and businesses as their own difficulties to proactively support, accompany and resolve, "not criminalize economic relations and civil relations".

According to the Directive, one of the key tasks is to perfect policies and laws, reform administrative procedures, and create a favorable and equal investment and business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Ministries, sectors and localities continue to cut down administrative procedures to the maximum extent, reducing at least 30% of administrative procedure processing time by 2025; reducing compliance costs by at least 30%; and abolishing at least 30% of unnecessary business conditions. Strongly shift management from "pre-inspection" to "post-inspection", associated with strengthening inspection and supervision.

Focus on administrative reform, quickly resolve investment procedures, remove difficulties and obstacles for businesses and projects. Promote the development of e-Government and digital Government to help businesses access information and public services conveniently and quickly.

The Ministry of Finance is assigned to urgently research and propose a legal framework to manage and promote the healthy and effective development of digital assets, crypto assets, and digital currencies, and submit it to the Government in March 2025.

For the State Bank of Vietnam, the Prime Minister requested drastic implementation of credit programs and policies for enterprises. Focusing credit on production and business sectors, priority sectors and traditional economic growth drivers such as consumption, investment, export and new growth drivers such as digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, sharing economy, science, technology and innovation...

The Head of Government assigned ministries and sectors to promote the implementation of programs and solutions to support small and medium enterprises in innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, development of new economic models, emerging industries and fields. In particular, focusing on fields such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, new energy, biomedicine, cultural industry, entertainment industry...

The Directive clearly states that the private economic sector, focusing on small and medium enterprises (accounting for about 98% of the total number of enterprises operating in the economy), always plays a very important role in socio-economic development.

The private economic sector contributes more than 50% of GDP, 30% of total state budget revenue, creating more than 40 million jobs (accounting for more than 82% of the total number of workers in the economy).

However, small and medium enterprises still face many difficulties and challenges to develop rapidly and sustainably in terms of quantity, scale, quality and operational efficiency.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/thu-tuong-khong-hinh-su-hoa-cac-quan-he-kinh-te-quan-he-dan-su-196250325200752938.htm