On February 19^th, 2025, at the 9^th Extraordinary Session, the National Assembly passed Resolution 192/2025/QH15 on supplementing the 2025 Socio-Economic Development Plan with a growth target of 8% or higher. Achieving this target is a challenge for many localities. However, with decent solutions associated with effective implementation of administrative procedure reform, it will contribute to completing the set target.

Cutting administrative procedures and improving the investment and business environment - one of the solutions to promote socio-economic development in the current period. In the photo: Cashew nut production for export at a business at An Phu Industrial Park (Tuy Hoa city)

From the beginning of the year, the PPC has issued many documents directing and implementing the work of controlling administrative procedures, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of these tasks to departments, branches, and localities in the area. Accordingly, the province has focused on reviewing 67 key administrative procedures in 16 fields; directing departments, branches and localities to review all regulations on administrative procedures within the scope of their management functions to report, propose, and recommend competent authorities to amend, supplement, replace or abolish inappropriate administrative procedures or those inconsistent with current regulations.

Mr. Huynh Lu Tan, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of Phu Yen Economic Zone Management Board said: When attracting a project to the province, we proactively work with investors, especially closely coordinating with them to complete the dossiers of administrative procedures. The Board has also actively coordinated with localities to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles in compensation work to soon have land; simultaneously, urging contractors to focus on human resources to speed up construction progress when the locality hands over the land.

According to the PPC, in order to promote more strongly and drastically the reform of administrative procedures, improve the business environment substantially and effectively, aiming for a growth target of 8% or more in 2025, the Provincial People's Committee has directed departments, branches and localities to focus on implementing key tasks and solutions in cutting administrative procedures, improving the investment and business environment, and promoting socio-economic development. Accordingly, the goal is to reduce at least 30% of the time to process administrative procedures and 30% of business costs; abolish 30% of unnecessary business conditions, 80% of administrative procedure records are processed completely online and by the end of June, 100% of administrative procedure records are attached with personal identification. Currently, the province has reduced 30% of the processing time for 55 administrative procedures of the Phu Yen Economic Zone Management Board; from 7.2% to 17.4% of the processing time for 6 administrative procedures of the Department of Industry and Trade.

Director of the Department of Home Affairs, Mr. Truong Ngoc Tuan affirmed: Administrative procedure reform has a huge spillover effect. When businesses are cleared of legal and administrative obstacles, they will have the conditions to expand production, recruit more workers and increase their contribution to the budget. To achieve the set goals, the department has recommended that the Provincial People's Committee and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee direct agencies and localities to continue to enhance the role and responsibility of leaders;strengthen and enhance responsibility in reviewing legal documents and regulations on managing sectors and fields that need to be amended to ensure a complete, timely and synchronous legal basis for the operations of agencies and units in resolving work for people and businesses;prioritize and create the best conditions to resolve administrative procedures for people and businesses; particularly, focus on synchronously implementing key tasks and solutions to reduce administrative procedures, improve the investment and business environment, and promote socio-economic development.

Mr. Le Tan Ho, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee PPC, Permanent Vice Chairman, said: To achieve the target of GRDP growth of 8%, the province has proposed many fundamental solutions, in which it’s necessary to focus on creating a favorable environment for investment, production and business, developing science and technology, innovation, and promoting digital transformation. The Provincial People's Committee requested agencies and localities to continue focusing on resolving difficulties and obstacles of each project; unblocking resources and promoting private investment, creating new momentum for development; at the same time, focusing on removing difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks, in order to mobilize maximum resources for growth; promptly resolving or proposing competent authorities to resolve arising problems in the process of providing public services to people and businesses;in particular, focusing on promptly resolving arising problems related to handling administrative procedures for people and businesses during the process of restructuring the apparatus.