(VOVWORLD) - The Government will give priority to ironing out difficulties facing businesses and maintaining macro-economic stability to ensure a growth rate of 6.5% and cap inflation at 4.5% this year, Prime Minister Pham Minh said at a Government meeting in Hanoi on Tuesday.
 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the Government meeting in Hanoi on July 4, 2023.
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Measures to be taken in the 2nd half of the year will include continuing a proactive and flexible monetary policy, accelerating the disbursement of public investment, creating the best conditions for attracting private and foreign investment, particularly in public-private partnership projects, and mobilizing all resources inside and outside Vietnam, he noted.
It’s crucial to boost trade promotion, maintain existing markets, seek new markets, and improve the quality of export products. The Government and Prime Minister, ministries, sectors, and localities have made great efforts in directing and managing and drastically carried out assigned tasks, being more timely and effective in addressing the recent difficulties, the PM said.
"In particular, the Government has focused on the urgent key tasks of removing difficulties for businesses, creating jobs, creating livelihoods for people, promoting growth, ensuring major balances and stabilizing the macro-economy. Efforts have been made to maintain security and defense, boost international integration, and step up the prevention and combat of corruption and negativity,” he added.
The Government meeting reviewed socio-economic performance in the first half of 2023 and set out future tasks and solutions.
High on the agenda were the implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development program; allocation and disbursement of public investment capital; implementation of three national target programs on building new rural areas, socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas and sustainable hunger eradication and poverty reduction.