On the morning of February 21, the People’s Committee of Hai Phong City announced that it had just issued Plan No. 24 to implement Government Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP dated January 8, 2025, on key tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and enhance national competitiveness in 2025 in Hai Phong City.
According to the plan, Hai Phong City sets the goal of achieving indicators related to improving the city's competitiveness index for 2024–2025, aiming to enhance the business environment and maintain the city’s PCI ranking among the top 10 provinces and cities nationwide and within the group of localities with good economic governance quality. The city aims to increase the number of newly established and reactivated enterprises in 2025 by at least 5% compared to 2024, with a projected total of 3,701 enterprises; and to ensure that the number of businesses withdrawing from the market in 2025 increases by less than 10% compared to 2024 (projected at 457 enterprises).
To achieve the set objectives, the Hai Phong City People’s Committee has assigned departments, sectors, and localities to focus on implementing six key task groups: removing obstacles in project implementation; improving the quality of reforms for the list of conditional investment and business sectors and their business conditions; addressing bottlenecks and formulating breakthrough institutional and policy mechanisms to attract, transfer, and master high-tech and advanced technologies; reforming specialized inspection and management of goods and effectively implementing the National Single Window Portal; reducing and simplifying administrative procedures; and enhancing the application of information technology, data connectivity, and sharing between government agencies to improve the quality of regulations and the effectiveness of administrative procedures; improving the quality of business development services.
Also within the plan, the Hai Phong City People’s Committee sets targets for improving the quality of public administrative services for citizens and businesses. Accordingly, the city aims for 100% of administrative procedures to be resolved electronically; at least 50% of digitized information and data to be reused; 100% of feedback and complaints to be handled on time; and a minimum satisfaction rate of 90% among citizens and businesses in receiving and resolving administrative procedures.