They were also required to improve governance and competitiveness, and enhance human resources training.
The PM suggested they pay attention to investing in sensitive areas relevant to national defense-security, making active contributions to restructuring the economy, stabilizing macro-economy and ensuring national security.
State management agencies were assigned to reviewing legal documents to further empower State-owned groups and corporations.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the event |
In particular, the centrally-run business bloc should focus on Party building and encourage talented staff, he added.
The leader admitted that the cooperation between the Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises and ministries, agencies, localities, State-owned groups and corporations remains limited. Up to 775 equitized firms have yet to list on securities markets while corruption in State enterprises remains, he pointed out.
Only 29 percent of State-owned enterprises have been restructured, PM Phuc said, adding that it is necessary to prevent losses in the process.
Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Steering Committee for Enterprise Innovation and Development Vuong Dinh Hue said 162 firms were equitized with a total value of over VND 205 trillion (USD 9.48 million) from 2016 to June 2019, or 108 percent of State capital value in equitized firms during the 2011 – 2015 period.
The total revenue from equitization and divestment surpassed VND 218.2 trillion, more than doubling the total in the past five years.
Source: VNA