Delivering an opening speech, PM Chinh highlighted the meeting’s importance to assessing socio-economic development between January and June and discussing tasks and solutions for the second half of the year.
Such key issues as COVID-19 prevention and control and measures to boost production and business will also be tabled, he noted.
The one-day meeting will hear and mull over six reports on a range of issues in the first six months including the socio-economic situation; the Government’s direction and management; the implementation of key tasks for business climate and national competitiveness improvement; and laws and ordinances that causing obstacles for COVID-19 prevention and control.
A draft decision on criteria for classifying state-owned enterprises and their peers under ownership transformation, rearrangement, and divestment in the 2021-2025 period will also be touched upon.