Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired the Government’s regular meeting on December 27, during which he shared that Vietnam’s GDP growth rate rose 7.08% in 2018 – the highest ever in the past 11 years.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the meeting. (Photo: NDO/Tran Hai)
The country enjoyed a trade surplus of over US$7 billion, he said,
adding this is also the first time its economic growth rate has doubled that of
inflation.
Moreover, all socio-economic criteria for 2018 surpass the set
targets, which is good news of the nation, he affirmed.
At the meeting, Government members exchanged views on reports
recommending the making of several draft laws, including the revised law on
Vietnamese working abroad, the law on amendments and supplements to several
articles of the law on settlement of administrative violations, the revised
Ordinance on Preferential Policies for Revolution Contributors, and a decree
regulating the inspections and settlement of disciplines in enforcing laws
involved in the settlement of administrative violations.

An overview of the monthly Cabinet meeting in Hanoi on December
27. (Photo: NDO/ Tran Hai)
They also gave ideas to reports on the implementation of the
Government’s Action Programme to carry out the Party Central Committee’s three
resolutions on reforming the growth model and increasing the growth quality,
labour productivity and the economy’s competitiveness; completing the
socialist-oriented market economic institution; and turning the private economy
into a driving force of the socialist-oriented market economy, together with
the National Assembly’s resolution on an economic restructuring plan for
2016-2020.
The meeting also reviewed all preparations for the Government
meeting with localities to be held on December 28 in order to put forward the
Party Central Committee and legislature’s resolutions on socio-economic
development and external relations plans for 2019.
Regarding the report that 152 Vietnamese tourists fled in Taiwan
(China), Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Quang Tung said that
through investigation, the ministry detected a ring bringing Vietnamese people
to go abroad illegally through the tourism form.
The ministry had sent relevant documents to the Ministry of Public
Security for further investigation, while working with the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office to monitor the number of Vietnamese tourists to Taiwan in the
coming time, especially during the upcoming New Year and Lunar New Year
holidays, Tung stated.
Source: NDO
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