(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and extended his new-year greetings to staff members of the State Bank of Vietnam on Monday.

He urged the bank to reform and improve its performance to achieve its targets set for 2016 and the 2016-2020 period: “More effort should be made to implement the project on restructuring commercial banks towards sustainable growth. Measures should be taken to increase the foreign currency reserve and maintain the value of the Vietnamese dong. The bank should also consult the Party politburo and the government on macro, fiscal, and monetary policies to help start-up businesses and investors.”

Mr. Phuc also visited the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, and the Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank.