Legislature concludes second sitting

The legislators adopted two laws: Law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Statistics and Appendix List of national statistical indicators of the Law on Statistics, and Law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code.

They also adopted the 2022 socio-economic development plan, setting out 15 key development targets as follows:

(1)  GDP growth: Around 6-6.5 percent

(2)  GDP per capita: US$3,900

(3)  Share of manufacturing and processing in GDP: 25.5-25.8 percent

(4)  Average growth of consumer price index:  Around 4 percent

(5)  Average growth rate of labor productivity: Around 5.5 percent

(6)  Labor force rate in agriculture: 27.5 percent

(7)  Rate of trained workforce: 67 percent; rate of trained workers with degrees and certificates: 27-27.5 percent

(8)  Unemployment rate in urban areas: Below 4 percent

(9)  Multidimensional poverty reduction rate: 1-1.5 percent

(10) Number of doctors per 10,000 inhabitants: 9.4

(11) Number of patient beds per 10,000 inhabitants: 29.5

(12) Health insurance coverage: 92 percent

(13) Rate of communes meeting new-style rural criteria: 73 percent

(14) Rate of solid waste collection and treatment meeting standards and regulations: 89 percent

(15) Rate of industrial parks and processing zones completing the central wastewater treatment systems: 91 percent

By Thuy Dung