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Prime Minister directs to strengthen waste prevention and control

TB March 18, 2025 08:14

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, central and local agencies to identify waste prevention and control as a common task of the entire political system, requiring the participation and responsible contribution of all ministries, branches and localities.

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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directs to step up waste prevention, unleash resources, and promote economic growth.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed and issued Directive No. 08/CT-TTg dated March 17, 2025 on promoting waste prevention and control, unleashing resources, and promoting economic growth.

Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, other central agencies, and chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to focus on resolutely and effectively implementing the following tasks and solutions.

Unifying awareness of the role and importance of waste prevention and control

The Prime Minister requested ministries, central and local agencies to identify waste prevention and control as a common task of the entire political system, requiring the participation and responsible contribution of all ministries, branches and localities.

The work of preventing and combating waste must be clearly demonstrated through commitments, plans, with progress, specific targets, focusing on thoroughly solving the causes of waste and must be carried out regularly. The implementation plan must ensure 5 clarity (clear people, clear work, clear progress, clear responsibility, clear results).

Linking the results from waste prevention and control work with the implementation of the economic growth target of 8% or more by 2025 and double-digit economic growth in the period 2026 - 2030; identifying the results obtained from waste prevention and control work as an important resource, contributing to promoting growth drivers to implement the economic growth target alongside other traditional growth drivers.

Focus on disseminating information about the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on waste prevention and control. Actively disseminate information and promote good people and good deeds; closely follow reality, increase information provision to contribute to stabilizing public opinion, creating a favorable environment for development.

Continue to review and urgently perfect institutions, policies and laws in the fields of socio-economic management and waste prevention and control.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to develop a draft Law on Thrift and Waste Prevention to submit to the National Assembly for comments and approval at the 10th Session of the 15th National Assembly (October 2025) to create a complete and synchronous legal basis for monitoring, inspection, detection, and strong handling with high deterrence against wasteful acts without losing the motivation of cadres who dare to innovate, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for the common good, not for personal gain.

At the same time, urgently synthesize opinions of ministries and branches to complete the National Strategy on Waste Prevention and Control, and report to the Prime Minister for approval in March 2025.

The Ministry of Justice urgently completes the decrees detailing the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents 2025 in a shortened form and submits them to the Government before March 31, 2025 to ensure they come into effect together with the law (April 1, 2025) to clear up "bottlenecks" in law-making work.

The Prime Minister assigned ministries and central agencies to urgently develop and complete documents detailing and guiding the laws and resolutions passed by the 15th National Assembly at the 9th Extraordinary Session and the 2024 Ordinance on Litigation Costs.

In addition, review to amend and supplement regulations on socio-economic management mechanisms, economic and technical norms that are no longer suitable to the country's development practices; focus on areas prone to waste such as: state budget management, public assets; management and use of public investment capital; management of state capital invested in enterprises; construction; land, resources (including renewable resources), minerals, energy; credit, banking; organizational structure, human resource management, etc.

Continue to review and improve institutions in the application of information technology and digital transformation to minimize waste. Review and promptly amend inappropriate regulations, creating a corridor for new economic models such as sharing economy, circular economy, artificial intelligence, etc.

Review wasteful and prolonged projects and propose appropriate, timely and effective handling mechanisms and policies.

The Prime Minister assigned ministries, central agencies and localities to urgently update and fully supplement the contents and information of the reports as required in Official Dispatch No. 112/CD-TTg dated November 6, 2024, Official Dispatch No. 13/CD-TTg dated February 8, 2024 of the Prime Minister on focusing on resolving backlog projects, stopping construction, urgently implementing, completing, and putting into use to prevent waste and loss according to Official Dispatch No. 2172/BKHĐT-PTHTĐT dated February 26, 2025, sending to the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister before March 25, 2025.

The Ministry of Finance coordinates with the Government Office to closely monitor, synthesize periodic reports, and promptly propose measures to handle units and individuals who are late or do not seriously implement. For projects that are still pending or have been suspended for a long time, which have been reported by ministries and localities, it is necessary to promptly synthesize, clarify the groups of causes, handling plans, and handle them by competent authorities to resolve them completely, put them into operation soon, and use the projects to promote investment efficiency, and not to continue wasting the resources of the State and the people.

The Prime Minister assigned the Government Inspectorate to complete the inspection conclusion on the investment project to build the second facility of Bach Mai Hospital and the second facility of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Ha Nam province before March 31, 2025. At the same time, direct and organize the implementation of specialized inspections in a number of areas of management and use of economic resources, focusing on a number of areas that are likely to cause great loss and waste to handle violations, while at the same time strongly warning and deterring other ministries and local branches in the effective management and use of financial resources and public assets.

Review and amend cumbersome administrative procedures that cause congestion and waste resources; promote decentralization and delegation of authority.

The Prime Minister requested ministries, central and local agencies to thoroughly implement the task of radical reform, minimizing administrative procedures and compliance costs for people and businesses.

Promote decentralization and delegation of authority, combined with strengthening supervision, inspection and supervision in handling administrative procedures to reduce intermediary levels, ending the situation of prolonging the handling time through many agencies and units. Strictly implement the announcement, publicity, transparency and completeness of administrative procedures, digitization of records and results of handling administrative procedures according to regulations.

Accelerate the implementation of interconnected online public service groups, prioritize reviewing and restructuring the integrated process, providing on the National Public Service Portal; strictly implement the timely, complete and accurate announcement and disclosure of administrative procedures according to regulations; 100% of administrative procedure records must be received and resolved on the Administrative Procedure Resolution Information System at the ministerial and provincial levels and synchronized with the National Public Service Portal. Accelerate the implementation of Project 06 at all levels, sectors and localities.

Implement smart governance and digital transformation at all levels and sectors

The Directive clearly states: Implementing smart governance and digital transformation is a breakthrough solution to improve the effectiveness of state management, help make information transparent, reduce loss and waste in management and use of state resources, and is an effective tool in preventing and combating waste at all levels and sectors.

Ministries, central and local agencies need to accelerate the application of digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data in management and supervision; at the same time, synchronize digital infrastructure and connect data systems between agencies to avoid the situation where each unit operates a separate system, leading to data fragmentation, causing difficulties in information management and exploitation.

Strengthening coordination between ministries, branches and localities in waste prevention and control

The Prime Minister requested to strengthen coordination mechanisms, share data, and build interconnected processing procedures between ministries, sectors, and localities to ensure that waste and negative cases are detected and handled promptly. At the same time, there needs to be a close monitoring mechanism between government levels to avoid group interests, cover-up of violations, and affecting the effectiveness of state management.

Inspection, auditing and investigation agencies must coordinate closely and proactively intervene as soon as signs of violations are detected, not allowing them to drag on, causing waste and public outrage.

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