In an article issued on the first day of 2019, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc laid out six major tasks that ministries, agencies, sectors and localities must focus on throughout the year.
The number of procedures newly connected from the beginning of the year to 2018 until now has increased sharply, higher by more than 2 times compared to the number in 2017 onward.
Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.08 percent in 2018, the highest in the past 11 years, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on December 27.
The leather and footwear sector needs to develop supporting industry to reduce reliance on the import of raw materials, enhance competitiveness and boost high-value exports, according to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Cao Quốc Hưng.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has called for more efforts to push aquatic product export turnover to 10 billion USD in 2019.
Vietnam attracted 35.46 billion USD in total foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2018, equivalent to 98.8 percent of the previous year’s figure.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed Vietnam’s support and its willingness to offer optimal conditions for Russian oil and gas enterprises to operate effectively in Vietnam while receiving Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin in Hanoi on December 24.
The relations between Vietnam and South Africa have developed in all fields since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1993, especially in politics, diplomacy, economy-trade, security-defence, science-technology, and education, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired a consultation conference on foreign investment attraction and orientations in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on December 21, during which he affirmed that attracting foreign investment is a consistent policy of the Vietnamese Party and State.
Việt Nam has secured a spot on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for the 2019-25 term in a vote of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the US on Monday.
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