(HBO) – The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee on May 19 held a teleconference of the steering board for improving the local investment and business climate and the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI).


Bui Van Khanh, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, addresses the meeting.

In 2020, the provincial People’s Committee issued Decision No 97/QD-UBND on a plan to continue carrying out the main tasks and solutions to improve the business climate and the PCI of Hoa Binh. It also issued Dispatch No 722/UBND-NC on May 6 last year on the implementation of activities to raise the province’s ranking in terms of regulatory compliance costs. A number of working sessions and dialogues were held to tackle difficulties facing enterprises and investors. Authorities also did a good job of assisting businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those efforts have helped improve Hoa Binh’s position in the PCI rankings by four places, from the 48th in 2019 to the 44th out of the 63 provincial-level localities, meeting the target set in the resolution of the 17th provincial Party Congress for the 2020 - 2025 tenure.

To better the province’s score and position in the PCI rankings as in line with the 17th provincial Party Congress’s resolution, many officials held that departments, sectors, and localities need to raise the sense of responsibility towards duties and the working capacity of personnel in charge of investment attraction, increase vocational training for labourers, and step up the reform of administrative procedures, especially shortening the time needed to grant investment licences.

Addressing the event, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh appreciated efforts by departments, sectors, localities, and the local business association in 2020 in helping Hoa Binh go up in the PCI rankings.

As it is not easy to further improve the province’s score and ranking, it is necessary for the entire political system to make stronger efforts, he noted, asking for administrative reforms to be accelerated and online public services at Level 3 and 4 to be boosted./.

 


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