Public non-business units are autonomous in terms of apparatus and salary

Expanding unlimited public-private partnerships

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized this content when chairing the first meeting of the National Steering Committee for the implementation of Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW of the Politburo on state economic development, on February 1.

At the Meeting, the Steering Committee focused on discussing and contributing opinions to: Draft Resolution of the Government promulgating the Government's Action Plan to implement Resolution No. 79; Draft Resolution of the National Assembly on a number of specific mechanisms and policies, especially for state economic development; Draft Operating Regulations of the Steering Committee, ensuring substance, practicality, efficiency, avoiding formality.

Concluding the meeting, the Prime Minister emphasized that the development of the National Assembly's resolution must fully institutionalize the Party's guidelines, especially the 5 guiding viewpoints on the state economy in Resolution 79; in order to effectively and efficiently use the 9 components of the state economy, improve added value, comply with market laws, reduce administrative intervention, and resolve market, state and social relations well.

The draft Resolution submitted to the National Assembly must remove bottlenecks and obstacles in accessing state resources; attract talents with salary regimes and cadre policies to promote the spirit of daring to think, daring to do, daring to commit, and daring to take responsibility.

Clearly define the tasks that the state must do, maintain a leading role, in parallel with mechanisms and policies; the state does not do things that the private sector can do and does better; and at the same time expand public-private partnerships without restrictions based on state resources leading and orienting. Harmonize between management rights and ownership rights. Decentralize and delegate management rights more broadly and deeply. Both have mechanisms and policies and tools to inspect, supervise, and control power.

Institutionalizing some new solutions on public non-business units

Directing a number of specific tasks, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to receive opinions, urgently complete drafts to submit to the Government, and complete them in February 2026; study innovation and completion of the ownership representative agency model and restructuring of state-owned corporations and general corporations; continue to improve tax, fee, and charge policies.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment continues to review and propose amendments and improvements to relevant laws, especially laws on land, environment, and sustainable exploitation of resources. The Ministry of Construction reviews and improves legal regulations on management, exploitation, and use of underground space; housing policies.

The Ministry of Home Affairs builds a mechanism for hiring, recruiting, and appointing directors/general directors in enterprises. At the same time, institutionalize a number of new solutions for public non-business units such as public non-business units that are self-sufficient in minimum recurrent expenditures and above being self-sufficient in organizational structure, salaries and other remuneration and benefits, recruiting and using personnel according to operating results such as enterprises with 100% state-owned charter capital;

Focus on investing in development for a number of important public non-business units with potential and competitiveness in some basic research fields and strategic technology industries;

Piloting the establishment of departments with in-depth consulting functions in large-scale units and implementing the hiring of CEOs in public non-business units; not organizing Management Boards in public non-business units.

The Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, and other ministries, agencies, and localities, according to their assigned functions and tasks, review the tasks and solutions in Resolution 79 to propose to improve legal regulations and solutions to effectively organize the implementation of the Resolution.

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