With the drastic direction and administration, Binh Duong has been well controlling the epidemic situation, effectively implementing solutions to support businesses to overcome difficulties, in order to maintain local socio-economic stability. Around this issue, Binh Duong Newspaper reporter had an interview with Mr. Tran Thanh Liem, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
Binh Duong has been implementing many solutions to remove difficulties for businesses, maintain, and develop production and business.
- Can you assess the overall results that Binh Duong has achieved in disease prevention and control in parallel with maintaining production and social stability in recent years, sir?
- More than 3 months after the outbreak, the Covid-19 epidemic had a comprehensive impact on all socio-economic fields of countries around the world, including Vietnam. In the first quarter of 2020, the economic indicators of the province have grown, but the speed has decreased compared to the same period in 2019. Some difficult areas such as domestic trade, import and export, operations tourism ... Production enterprises have been facing difficulties because of major epidemics such as Europe, America, Japan and China, affecting consumption and production, lack of raw materials. Foreign experts have not returned to work yet.
In the spirit of "fighting against epidemics like fighting against the enemy", the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee focused on leading and directing all levels, sectors and people to agree and drastically implement the directions and solutions of the Central Government on their work. epidemic prevention; strengthening propaganda, orientation, ensuring essentials for people's daily life. In particular, disease control is a top priority, the most important factor to protect people's health and social stability. The province has also made efforts in implementing the Government's Directive 11 / CT-TTg on March 4, 2020 to immediately implement 7 groups of specific tasks and solutions, targeting enterprises and workers who lose their jobs have difficult and affected circumstances, contributing to solving difficulties for production and business activities, ensuring social security. The sectoral level also strengthened supportive measures, create conditions for businesses to maintain and restore production and business activities soon, take advantage of opportunities after the epidemic is over to revive the economy and develop quickly and sustainably. The province strengthened the leadership, directed and proactively reviewed and promptly formulated growth scenarios, added tasks and solutions for socio-economic development, national defense and security in 2020.
Up to now, despite facing many difficulties due to the situation of Covid-19 epidemic, but with the drastically in the direction and administration of the province, the efforts of the business community, the people, Binh Duong and good control of disease situation, simultaneous implementation of social stability and economic development solutions.
- Sir, what activities does the province have to share difficulties and support businesses in the time of disease outbreak?
- Before the difficult situation of enterprises, Binh Duong has been strengthening solutions to help businesses stabilize production and business. The province has directed all levels and sectors to quickly implement many solutions to remove difficulties for production and business, ensure social security, and respond to the disease of Covid-19 in the area. Specifically, the province directed the State Bank of Vietnam - Binh Duong Branch to instruct credit institutions in the province to implement solutions to help overcome difficulties for businesses affected by Covid-19 under Official Letter No. 1117 / NHNN-TD of February 24, 2020 of the State Bank of Vietnam. Accordingly, direct and timely guide balanced credit institutions, fully and promptly meeting capital demands for production and business; speed up administrative procedure reform, shorten the time to consider loan application, improve access to loans by customers; promptly apply supportive measures such as debt rescheduling, consideration of interest rate reduction and exemption, keeping the debt group, fee reduction ... for customers who are in difficulties due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Simultaneously, the province also directed banks to implement solutions to promote non-cash payment; programs of electronic payment service fee reduction and reduction to directly support service users, especially online payment fees for public administrative services.
In order to reduce difficulties for businesses, the provincial People's Committee has also directed the Department of Finance to proactively and regularly coordinate with the concerned branches to advise and propose to the province to implement and timely concretize measures and policies of The Central Government and the Ministry of Finance shall promulgate in support of enterprises, remove difficulties for production and business, especially policies on exemption, reduction of taxes, fees and charges; at the same time, coordinate with the concerned agencies to advise the competent authorities on the plan of reduction of fees and charges under the authority of the province in order to remove difficulties for those affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. Proposing the provincial Social Insurance to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned agencies in guiding the suspension of payment of social insurance premiums for those affected by the Covid-19 epidemic and excluding the late-payment interest on penalties according to the authority and provisions of law.
The review and reduction of administrative procedures and costs for businesses are concerned by the province for implementation of industries and localities. In particular, the Provincial Tax Department , the provincial Customs Department consider to create conditions for businesses to well comply with the provisions of law, focusing on solving difficulties, maintaining production and business activities. These units accelerate the implementation and reform, simplify administrative procedures for those affected by the Covid-19 epidemic such as customs clearance, tax refund, tax payment extension ... in the direction of of the Government, the Ministry of Finance; promptly correct and strictly handle acts of taking advantage of disease control policies to cause difficulties for enterprises in customs clearance, import and export of goods, etc
In order to facilitate production, business and promote import and export, the province assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to review the status and demand of input materials, propose the solutions to diversify and ensure sufficient supply for production activities in the province; demand forecast of domestic and international market; take measures to ensure raw materials for production and business and plans to organize production, distribution, circulation and supply of goods to meet consumer demand; consolidating the domestic market, supporting removing difficulties for retail activities. At the same time, organizing the implementation of the provincial People's Committee's plan on stabilizing the essential commodity market in 2020 and stockpiling essential goods to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic in the province, preventing the situation of scarcity.
In order to promote the production of essential commodities to meet the needs of the people, to control the market, the province assigns the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned agencies in directing and focusing on promoting. production and processing of agricultural, forestry and aquatic products; There are specific measures to reduce pork prices; propose solutions to enhance traceability for agricultural products; The Provincial Market Management Department has strengthened inspection and strictly handled cases of smuggling, trade frauds, speculation on goods, causing artificial scarcity, fake and counterfeit goods in the market, especially for essential goods in prevention and control of epidemic diseases such as masks, dry hand sanitizers, medical supplies.
The province also directed the Chairman of the Board of Members, General Directors of State Corporations to actively implement solutions to overcome difficulties, encourage innovation, creativity, and strive for the highest effort to successfully implement the targets and tasks of production and business plans in 2020, contributing to promoting related industries and fields and implementing socio-economic development tasks.
- While fighting epidemics and socio-economic development is a double task, the province has directed all levels and sectors to formulate action plans, economic development plans, and maintain goals. growth like?
- From these initial efforts and results, the province is still determined to strive for economic growth in 2020 from 8.6 to 8.8%. To accomplish the goal, Binh Duong has been drastically implementing solutions to gradually overcome difficulties, stabilize the life situation, make full use of all available advantages to ensure the progress of tasks. Socio-economic development, maintaining stable growth. Besides, Binh Duong also proactively develops economic growth scenarios. In each scenario, the province envisages and predicts specific situation, makes appropriate policies, ensuring the highest objective of anti-epidemic priority associated with economic development, striving to complete the targets. of 2020.
In the coming time, the province will continue to take drastic measures to prevent and control Covid-19 epidemic, so as not to spread and outbreak; strengthen leadership and well implement scenarios and solutions to manage socio-economic development in 2020 with the highest political determination and limit damage caused by the epidemic situation; continue to implement well the mechanisms, policies and supportive measures of the Central Government and localities for enterprises, gradually stabilizing production and business activities, contributing to limiting the decline of economic growth; continue to reform administrative procedures, improve the investment and business environment to promote investment attraction. In particular, the province directed the industry and trade to take measures to boost exports, improve the efficiency of trade promotion, diversify export and import markets and find new markets; actively exploit opportunities of free trade agreements (FTAs); prepare necessary conditions, proactively deploy plans and solutions to export goods to the EU market after the EVFTA Agreement takes effect.
- Thank you, Sir!
Interviewed by Tieu My – Translated by Vi Bao
