Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just assigned specific tasks to his deputies
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According to the Prime Minister’s decision on August 28, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh will represent the Prime Minister in directing the government’s work in his absence and will be entrusted by the Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh will oversee and direct the fields of investment planning; macroeconomic forecasting and policy steering; development of business types; collective economy and cooperatives; crime prevention, smuggling, trade fraud, and corruption; inspection, handling of complaints and denunciations; ethnic and religious affairs; routine matters on emulation and rewards, administrative reform, and digital transformation.
The Permanent Deputy Prime Minister will also be in charge of special pardons and judicial reform; coordinating the work between the Government and the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuracy; and approving investment policies for projects within his assigned domains. He will oversee and direct the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Government Inspectorate, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities, and the Government Office.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh will serve as the Head of the Steering Committee for Crime Prevention, the Steering Committee for Smuggling, Trade Fraud, and Counterfeit Goods Prevention, and the Steering Committee for implementing three National Target Programs. He will also chair relevant national councils, committees, steering committees, and planning appraisal councils.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has been assigned to oversee and direct the following fields: transportation; traffic order and safety; construction; natural resources and the environment; climate change; agriculture, rural development, and new rural construction; flood prevention and control, search and rescue; and national, regional, and provincial planning.
He will also be in charge of key national projects and basic construction investment projects within his assigned domains; economic zones, industrial parks, and export processing zones; general mechanisms and policies on bidding (with bidding-related matters in specialized fields directed by the Deputy Prime Ministers in charge of those fields); and approving investment policies for projects within his assigned domains.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha will oversee and direct the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam National University in Hanoi, and Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City.
He will serve as the Chairman of the National Planning Council, the National Council for Water Resources, the Vietnamese Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee, the National Traffic Safety Committee, the National Civil Aviation Security Committee, the Vietnam Mekong Committee, the Central Steering Committee for Housing Policy and Real Estate Market, the National Steering Committee for Green Growth, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, and relevant national councils, committees, steering committees, and planning appraisal councils.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long will oversee and direct the following fields: institution building and the construction of a socialist rule-of-law state; handling international disputes and lawsuits; education, training, and vocational guidance; labor, employment, and social issues; poverty eradication; culture; tourism; physical education and sports; healthcare; family and child protection; and approving investment policies for projects within his assigned domains.
He will oversee and direct the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long will serve as the Chairman of the National Council for Education and Human Resources Development, the Central Steering Committee for Education on National Defense and Security, the National Council for Sustainable Development and Competitiveness Enhancement, the State Steering Committee for Tourism, the Central Inter-sectoral Steering Committee for Food Safety, and the National Committee for AIDS, Drug, and Prostitution Prevention and Control. He will also chair relevant national councils, committees, steering committees, and planning appraisal councils.
Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc has been assigned to oversee and direct the following fields: finance, pricing, currency, banking, capital markets and securities, financial investment sources, state reserves, state budget expenditure, the use of state budget reserves, the Financial Reserve Fund, the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund, and other state funds; issuance of government bonds; and policies on salaries and social insurance.
At the same time, he will be in charge of rearranging and renewing state-owned enterprises; general mechanisms and policies on state asset management (with state asset management-related matters in specialized fields directed by the Deputy Prime Ministers in charge of those fields); and information and communications.
Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc will also serve as the Minister of Finance until a competent authority completes the personnel work for this position.
He will oversee and direct the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the State Bank of Vietnam, the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises, Vietnam Social Security, the National Financial Supervision Committee, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, and the State Treasury.
He will serve as the Chairman of the National Financial and Monetary Policy Advisory Council, the National Steering Committee for the ASEAN Single Window, the National Single Window, and Trade Facilitation, the Central Steering Committee for Salary and Insurance Policy Reform and Preferential Treatment for Revolutionaries, the Central Steering Committee for Enterprise Renewal and Development, and the Central Steering Committee for Handling the Problems and Weaknesses of Several Slow and Ineffective Projects and Enterprises in the Industry and Trade Sector. He will also chair relevant national councils, committees, steering committees, and planning appraisal councils.
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son will oversee and direct the following fields: foreign affairs and external relations; official development assistance (ODA) and preferential capital mobilization; foreign non-governmental aid and non-governmental organizations; international integration; directing negotiations and implementing bilateral and multilateral international commitments; foreign direct investment (FDI) and Vietnamese investment abroad.
He will also be in charge of Vietnam’s relations with international and regional organizations; border affairs and East Sea – sea island issues; overseas Vietnamese affairs and issues related to foreigners in Vietnam; and human rights issues.
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son will also oversee the fields of industry; trade and import-export activities; gasoline and oil reserve and supply, logistics services; energy security and efficient energy use; science and technology; and approving investment policies for projects within his assigned domains.
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son will also serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and will oversee and direct the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
He will serve as the Chairman of the Vietnam-China Bilateral Cooperation Steering Committee, the Vietnam-Laos Inter-governmental Committee, the Central Steering Committee for Land Border Demarcation and Marker Planting, the Steering Committee for Human Rights, and the State Steering Committee for Key Programs, Projects, and Works in the Energy Sector. He will also chair relevant national councils, committees, steering committees, and planning appraisal councils.
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