At a regular Government meeting in Hanoi on May 5, the Prime Minister called for a stricter control of prices, foreign exchange rates, deposit and lending interest rates as well as sources of revenues in order to reduce the budget deficit. 

He emphasised the need to speed up investments in key projects serving production and daily life.

Attention should also be paid to enhancing administrative reforms, combating corruption and wastefulness as well as dealing with citizens’ complaints, he said.

  
Regarding the socio-economic situation in April and in the first four months of the year, PM Dung highlighted positive efforts to increase industrial production and exports and reduce prices and lending and deposit interest rates. 

In the four-month period, the total investment capital from the State budget was estimated at over US$1.75 billion, equivalent to 26.7 percent of the yearly plan. 

The country’s total export turnover reached US$20.16 billion, representing a year-on-year rise of 8.9 percent. The consumer price index (CPI) in April saw the lowest increase of 0.14 percent from the beginning of the year. 

In the first four months, the country generated jobs for around 475,000 labourers, up 11.3 percent compared to the same period last year. Of the figure, 30,500 people were sent to work abroad, up 19.6 percent.