Issue a resolution on questioning activities at the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the question and answer session (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

The National Assembly unanimously assessed that after 2.5 days of serious, democratic, responsible and highly constructive work, the question and answer session at the 5th Session was a great success, attracting the attention of the people and voters nationwide.

The National Assembly acknowledged the efforts of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries and branches in performing their functions and tasks in the fields of labor, war invalids and social affairs, ethnicity, science and technology, transportation and implementing the National Assembly's resolutions on questioning and supervising related topics, achieving many positive results, contributing significantly to the country's socio-economic development.

Through questioning, the National Assembly found that there are still many shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies that need to be overcome.

The National Assembly basically agreed with the solutions and commitments reported by the Ministers of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Transport, the Minister, Chairman of the Ethnic Committee and other members of the Government at the question-and-answer session.

The National Assembly requests the Government, the Prime Minister, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, and the Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuracy to focus on implementing solutions and commitments, promptly overcoming shortcomings and limitations, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management in the questioned areas, effectively implementing the goals, programs, and strategies in the Party's resolutions, conclusions, and directives and legal provisions.

Perfecting policies and laws on social insurance

Regarding the field of labor, war invalids and social affairs, the National Assembly requires effective implementation of the Party's policies, laws, resolutions of the National Assembly and strategies and planning on vocational education for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2045, contributing to the successful implementation of strategic breakthroughs in human resource development, especially high-quality human resources.

Review and perfect policies and laws on vocational education, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management, ensure connection with the labor market in an open, interconnected, modern, integrated and adaptive direction.

Continue to review and perfect mechanisms and policies and implement autonomy according to the roadmap, accelerate digital transformation, apply advanced governance to public vocational training institutions, in line with the requirements and development trends of the labor market.

Review and rearrange vocational training institutions, ensuring reasonable scale and structure in terms of industries, occupations, and training levels; focus on industries and training fields with strengths; by 2025, reduce about 20% of public vocational training institutions compared to 2020, including: Reduce about 40% of public secondary schools; increase the rate of private vocational training institutions and vocational training institutions with foreign investment to about 45%.

Focus on developing vocational education in rural areas, particularly disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands.

Perfecting policies and laws on social insurance, ensuring expansion and encouraging employees and employers to participate in social insurance, aiming at the goal of universal social insurance; effectively overcoming the situation of late payment, evasion of social insurance payment and other fraudulent and profiteering acts, limiting the situation of receiving social insurance benefits at one time; ensuring the management and investment of the Social Insurance Fund in a safe, sustainable and effective manner.

Attracting investment resources for ethnic minority areas

A question-and-answer session at the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

The Resolution clearly states: In the ethnic field, resolutely and effectively implement the Party and State's policies on ethnic work, especially Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW dated October 30, 2019 of the Politburo on ethnic work in the new situation, Resolution No. 88/2019/QH14 dated November 18, 2019 of the National Assembly approving the Overall Project on socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021-2030 period; study, amend, and fully and promptly institutionalize important policies and orientations on ethnic policies for the 2021-2030 period.

Continue to review and improve the legal system on ethnic affairs; focus on improving mechanisms and policies on planning, encouraging investment, promoting start-ups and innovation, improving the quality of human resources, improving the investment and business environment, enhancing competitiveness; reform administrative procedures to attract and mobilize investment resources for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; in which, priority is given to particularly difficult areas, ethnic groups that still face many difficulties, have specific difficulties, and poor ethnic minority women and children.

Urgently review and fully promulgate detailed regulations and guidelines for the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021-2030 period, paying attention to guiding principles for localities to balance their own budgets to implement this Program.

Resolutely remove obstacles in mechanisms, policies, management and synchronous implementation of national target programs from the central to local levels.

Effectively implement policies to support production development; support residential land, production land, domestic water, and job conversion for ethnic minority households that do not have or lack residential land or production land.

Increase state budget investment in science and technology

In the field of science and technology, the National Assembly requested to continue institutionalizing the Party's policies and guidelines, and synchronizing the State's policies and laws to promote the development of science, technology and innovation.

Effectively implement the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation Development to 2030; synchronously deploy national science and technology programs to 2030.

Review, amend and remove barriers in policies and laws on economics, finance, investment, bidding with laws on science and technology (Law on Science and Technology, Law on State Budget, Law on Investment, Law on Bidding, Law on Management and Use of Public Assets...) in a direction consistent with the market mechanism, respecting the characteristics of creative labor, accepting risks and delays in scientific research, technology and innovation according to international practices and standards, ensuring publicity and transparency.

Increase state budget investment in science and technology to ensure 2% or more of total budget expenditure as prescribed by the Law on Science and Technology.

There are solutions to improve the efficiency of using state budget investment in scientific and technological research and applying scientific research results into practice.

Develop mechanisms and policies to encourage businesses to increase investment in science and technology and promote linkages with domestic and foreign scientific and technological organizations and foreign enterprises.

Review and reorganize public science and technology organizations in conjunction with prioritizing the development of sectors and fields serving socio-economic development towards autonomy, linkage, and access to international standards.

Building a mechanism of autonomy and self-responsibility for public science and technology organizations in a direction suitable to the characteristics of science and technology activities.

Forming a system of innovation and creative startup centers; in 2023, establishing national creative startup centers in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

Strictly handle negative behavior in driver training and licensing

Regarding the transport sector, the National Assembly requested reform of administrative procedures, shortening the time to process investment procedures; speeding up the construction progress of transport infrastructure investment projects, especially important national projects and key projects of the transport sector, ensuring quality and efficiency.

In 2023, propose specific and feasible solutions to completely resolve difficulties and shortcomings in a number of BOT projects.

By 2025, strive to have about 3,000 km of expressway nationwide and basically open the North-South expressway in the East; submit to the National Assembly for decision on the investment policy for the North-South high-speed railway project.

Ensure publicity, transparency, feasibility and efficiency in mobilizing, allocating and using resources in investment in construction of transport infrastructure; piloting (if any) of contents different from the provisions of the law must be carried out in accordance with the order and procedures prescribed in the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents.

Review and complete legal regulations on vehicle inspection, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management in the field of vehicle inspection, ensuring convenience for people and businesses. Urgently complete legal regulations, improve the quality of training, testing, granting, revoking and managing vehicle driving licenses; research post-training management solutions for drivers in the transport business.

There must be a mechanism to strictly control, prevent, combat and strictly handle corrupt and negative acts in driver training, testing and licensing activities; put an end to the situation of granting driver licenses to drug addicts, people with insufficient capacity for behavior or health, etc.

According to VNA