Tobacco factory of BAT (British American Tobacco) – Vinataba Joint Venture Company in Dong Nai Previously, the National Assembly passed the Law on Environmental Protection in 2020, with additional regulations on minimizing, reusing, recycling and treating plastic waste; restrict the use of disposable plastic products and persistent plastic bags; encourage the production of environmentally friendly products to replace traditional plastic products. This is an important legal basis for Vietnam to strengthen the management, reuse, recycling, treatment and reduction of plastic waste in the coming time as well as promote international cooperation in this field. In parallel with the solution in terms of policy, with the role of state management on environmental protection, ministries, agencies, especially the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment have actively coordinated with localities and organizations. politics – society, businesses organize propaganda to raise community awareness about waste and sustainable development. BAT has provided more than 26 million seedlings free of charge to farmers in Cao Bang, Lang Son, Gia Lai, Tay Ninh, Dak Lak and Dong Nai provinces, on an area of ​​more than 11,300 hectares. Up to now, the awareness of enterprises, especially related to production and business, on measures to reduce waste, protect the environment and become responsible corporate citizens has been raised. Large manufacturing companies, both at home and abroad, such as Saigon Paper, Vinamilk, HEINEKEN Vietnam, Nestle Vietnam, May 10, Unilever Vietnam or BAT Vietnam … are showing their responsibility for sustainable development. me. For example, Saigon Paper, over the years, has applied automation technology – saving energy and raw materials – fuel to expand production at its factory, building wastewater treatment systems. for the whole factory. Or HEINEKEN Vietnam is continuing to apply the circular economic model in facilities across the country. By 2019, 5 out of 6 factories of this business have used 100% renewable heat, 100% of bottles and kegs after being released to the market will be returned to the factory, 100% of beer cans. Recyclable, more than 2,000 tons of CO2 emissions are also cut from optimization of logistics and distribution. Besides, p Sustainable development is always the top goal of British American Tobacco (BAT) in the world as well as in the British American Tobacco Vietnam (BAT Vietnam). Activities to conserve natural resources such as saving water, being active in protecting forest resources, avoiding soil erosion, maintaining soil fertility, managing energy … are all important factors. that BAT wants to create a sustainable agriculture. The tobacco factory of BAT (British American Tobacco) – Vinataba Joint Venture Company in Dong Nai has always been the leading unit in implementing these activities. Waste sources such as medicinal steam from the drying system, production wastewater … have not been discharged into the environment but are reused, committing that no waste will be buried. Not only that, the company also actively collects and uses rainwater instead of source water. Along with the A standard, the wastewater system of the BAT-Vinataba plant has been used for the deodorizing system and other water-saving activities of the plant. Thereby, the BAT-Vinataba joint venture has saved an annual amount of water, from 2.2 m3 / ton of product (2014) to 1.82 m3 / ton of product (2020). According to the Environmental, Social and Governance – ESG 2020 report of BAT, during the past 18 years (2002-2020) in Vietnam, BAT has provided more than 26 million seedlings for free to farmers in Cao Bang, Lang Son, and Gia provinces. Lai, Tay Ninh, Dak Lak and Dong Nai, on an area of ​​more than 11,300 hectares. These contributions contribute to the greening of cultivated land and barren hills as well as bringing economic benefits to farmers in participating localities. These are remarkable efforts of this business. BAT also actively supports many programs on afforestation, biodiversity and environmental conservation, with 14 projects in 9 countries, by the end of 2020. In 2020, BAT has installed and used solar energy in factories in eight countries, including Brazil, South Africa and Pakistan. BAT plans to expand the installation of two more locations in 2021. In its ESG 2020 report, BAT stated that the Group’s goal is to increase the number of users of non-flammable (smoke-free) products to 50 million people, commitment to environmental protection, carbon neutralization by 2030; In the next 5 years, BAT will move to eliminate plastic packaging, use recyclable or compostable packaging; BAT will also increase the amount of water reused to 30% and 100% of the production sites will be free of landfill waste and fully renewable energy use.

The PCI 2020 report is based on feedback from nearly 12,300 enterprises, of which more than 10,700 private enterprises are operating in 63 provinces and cities and nearly 1,600 foreign-invested enterprises (FDI). ) operating in 22 localities in Vietnam. With a combined PCI score of 75.09 points in 2020, Quang Ninh is the top province in the PCI 2020 index. Dong Thap, Long An and Binh Duong are provinces with quality economic governance, respectively. highest in the PCI 2020 Rankings. The last group in PCI 2020 are Bac Kan, Dak Nong, Ha Giang, Kien Giang and Bac Lieu.

Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vu Tien Loc speaking at the announcement ceremony.

The PCI 2020 survey shows that the quality of economic governance at the provincial level in Vietnam tends to improve over time. The positive movements recorded include continued decline in informal costs, continued security and order, more dynamic and proactive provincial governments, and significantly improved administrative reform. business school is increasingly equal. However, the survey results show that provincial governments need to drastically improve the transparency of the business environment, improve the quality of enforcement of the grassroots government system, and continue to promote procedural reform. and reduce the burden of inspection and examination for businesses, continue efforts to cut informal costs for businesses.

PCI 2020 chart

The results of the survey on FDI enterprises in 2020 show that Vietnam continues to be seen as an attractive investment destination, with the advantage of stable politics, more open administrative procedures, inspection, examination and Informal costs have been reduced. Foreign investors expect Vietnam to continue to control corruption, improve the quality of public service delivery, improve the system of procedures and regulations, and drastically upgrade the quality of its infrastructure.

Dr. Vu Tien Loc, Chairman of VCCI, said that PCI is an indicator of action. The PCI promotes the essential actions of the governments of the provinces and cities to improve the quality of administration and create a favorable business environment. It is the evidence-based policy development and enforcement of the results provided by the PCI. It is the exploration and development of reform ideas, good grassroots models. In fact, PCI has encouraged and spread many good practices in Vietnam over the past time.

Quang Ninh province leads the ranking for the fourth time with 75.09 points, an increase of 1.69 points compared to 2019. The second is Dong Thap province, reaching 72.81 points, up 1.1 points. Long An province increased 5 places compared to 2019 to third place.

Hanoi City continued to rank ninth, with 69.93 points, an increase of 1.13 points compared to 2019; with Da Nang city, Bac Ninh province, Binh Duong, Hai Phong, Ben Tre, Vinh Long in the top 10.

Among the 10 component indexes, Hanoi is highly appreciated for labor training (7.85 points), time costs (7.93 points), market entry costs (6.74 points), translation labor support service (6.68 points). Hanoi has also made many efforts to reduce informal costs, increase fair competition and increase transparency and dynamism of the government.

Over the past 16 consecutive years, the PCI report reflects the business community’s perceptions of the business environment in Vietnam to assess and rank the business environment and economic governance quality of the provinces and cities in Vietnam. Vietnam.

According to VCCI Chairman Vu Tien Loc, the 16th PCI report not only reflects the ranking of provinces and cities on the ease of the business environment but also mentions other major issues, such as the impact of the epidemic. Covid-19 came to the Vietnamese business community. At the same time, the PCI 2020 report poses Vietnam’s attractiveness to investors and reflects the business community’s expectation on the government’s reform efforts at all levels over the next five years.

“The detailed analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on Vietnamese enterprises is an essential input to help regulators and governments at all levels to develop realistic policies for effective implementation” the dual goal “is to prevent and fight epidemics, both restore and develop socio-economic that the Government has set out”, Mr. Vu Tien Loc said.

Specifically, according to the report, the epidemic had a negative impact on businesses on a large scale; Shrinking domestic markets and interrupted supply chains are the biggest difficulties for businesses. Approximately one third of enterprises have to leave their employees working in 2020 due to the influence of Covid-19 … Especially in support policies, tax and fee policies are highly appreciated in terms of accessibility and calculation. useful…

Notably, for the first time, the PCI 2020 report provides analysis and commentary on the motivation for businesses to invest in green technology and do business in an environmentally friendly way, a major orientation of the Party and The Government recently set out in improving the quality of investment attraction for Vietnam’s future sustainable development.

One corner of the city. Ho Chi Minh. Photo: VNA

City. Ho Chi Minh City strives to become the leading destination in the region by 2025 in attracting investment, innovating, developing science and technology and creating a fair and safe business environment for people and businesses. industry and investors.

This is the target identified by the City People’s Committee in the recently issued plan to improve the business environment, investment environment, and improve the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) of the city. Ho Chi Minh City period 2021 – 2025.

With that, Tp. Ho Chi Minh City determined to continue to improve the annual PCI, resolutely overcome the shortcomings and weaknesses, propose self-improvement solutions to have clearer improvement steps in the investment and business environment. of the city in the direction of convenience, transparency and equality among all economic sectors; to bring the city into the group of localities with the best socio-economic management quality in the country.

On the other hand, improving the business and investment environment in the direction of digital transformation towards digital economic development in order to improve competitiveness to help businesses in the city develop sustainably; striving for the period 2021 – 2025 to be in the group of 5 leading localities in the country in terms of PCI index.

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To accomplish the above objectives, the City People’s Committee proposed groups of solutions including strengthening the leadership and direction of the committees and authorities at all levels; promoting the role of the Fatherland Front at all levels, socio-political organizations and people; in which, grasp deep awareness and uniform action among cadres, civil servants and public employees on the task of enhancing competitiveness of the city; strengthen leadership, inspect, urge, preliminarily review and promptly rectify the improvement of the business environment, investment environment, and improve competitiveness at the unit.

Commissars at all levels lead government agencies to develop programs and plans to improve the business and investment environment, improve competitiveness, especially reform administrative procedures to serve people and businesses. Karma.

Regarding the improvement of the PCI component indicators in the period 2021 – 2025, the City People’s Committee focuses on implementing and assigning functional agencies to improve related indicators. Specifically, in terms of the market entry index for businesses, the city strives to have 93% or more of the application file for business registration through the electronic information network; The rate of investment registration certificates online reached more than 40% …

Regarding the index of land access and stable use of production premises, the city focuses on improving the operational efficiency of the Land Fund Development Center in order to well prepare a clean land fund and call for investment; publicizing master plans, plans on land use, unused land fund in order to create favorable conditions for investors to access land resources, production premises …

Regarding the index of publicity, transparency, City People’s Committee. Ho Chi Minh City assigned departments, branches, Chairman of Thu Duc City People’s Committee, districts to publicize the internal process of handling administrative procedures in all state management agencies so that people and businesses can control the progress of the implementation of procedures, problems and the responsibility of the recipient; regularly organize dialogues between authorities with people and businesses in various forms; overcome the status of late records ..

With that, Tp. Ho Chi Minh focused on implementing many solutions to improve and improve indicators such as time cost; unofficial fees; fair competition index; Index promotes dynamism and pioneering of the city government; development index and quality improvement of business support services; indicators of improving the quality of human resources to reduce training costs for businesses; The index improves enforcement efficiency of legal institutions.

The City People’s Committee also assigned the City Department of Planning and Investment to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry in, formulating and advising the City People’s Committee to promulgate and implement the Ministry of Conducting Capacity Assessment Index. issuing departments, branches, Thu Duc city and districts to serve as a basis for evaluating the implementation of tasks and solutions to improve the business environment, investment environment, and improve the city ‘s PCI. streets in the period of 2021-2025 of units./.

A corner of Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Getty)

Ho Chi Minh City strives to become the leading destination in the region by 2025 attracting investment, innovation, develop science and technology and create business environment equality and safety for people, businesses and investors.

This is the target identified by the City People’s Committee in the recently issued plan to improve the business environment, investment environment, and improve the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) of Ho Chi Minh City. the period of 2021-2025.

Along with that, Ho Chi Minh City determined to continue to improve the PCI every year, resolutely overcome the shortcomings and weaknesses, propose self-improvement solutions to have clearer improvement steps on the environment. the city’s business and investment school in the direction of convenience, transparency and equality among all economic sectors; put the city in the group of localities with the best socio-economic management quality in the country.

On the other hand, improving the business and investment environment in the direction of digital transformation towards digital economic development in order to improve competitiveness to help businesses in the city develop sustainably; striving for the period of 2021-2025 to be in the group of 5 leading localities in the country in terms of PCI index.

To accomplish the above objectives, the City People’s Committee proposed groups of solutions including strengthening the leadership and direction of the committees and authorities; promote the role of the Fatherland Front at all levels, socio-political organizations and people.

In particular, it is necessary to grasp deep awareness and uniform action among cadres, civil servants and public employees on the task of enhancing the city’s competitiveness; strengthen leadership, inspect, urge, preliminarily review and promptly rectify the improvement of the business environment, investment environment, and improve competitiveness at the unit.

Commissars at all levels lead government agencies to develop programs and plans to improve the business and investment environment, improve competitiveness, especially reform administrative procedures to serve people and businesses. Karma.

Regarding the improvement of the PCI component indexes for the 2021-2025 period, the City People’s Committee focuses on implementing and assigning functional agencies to improve related indicators. Specifically, on the market entry index for enterpriseThe city strives to have 93% or more of documents for business registration via electronic information network; The rate of investment registration certificates online reached more than 40% …

Regarding the index of land access and stable use of production premises, the city focuses on improving the operational efficiency of the Land Fund Development Center in order to well prepare a clean land fund and call for investment; publicizing master plans, plans on land use, unused land fund in order to create favorable conditions for investors to access land resources, production premises …

Regarding the index of publicity and transparency, the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City assigns departments, branches, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Thu Duc city, districts to publicize internal processes to resolve administrative procedures in all state management agencies so that people and businesses can control the progress of the procedures, problems and responsibilities of the acceptor; regularly organize dialogues between authorities with people and businesses in various forms; overcome the status of the record is late.

Along with that, Ho Chi Minh City focuses on implementing many solutions to improve and improve indicators such as time cost; unofficial fees; fair competition index; Index promotes dynamism and pioneering of the city government; development index and quality improvement of business support services; indicators of improving the quality of human resources to reduce training costs for businesses; The index improves enforcement efficiency of legal institutions.

The City People’s Committee also assigned the City Department of Planning and Investment to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry in, formulating and advising the City People’s Committee to issue and implement the Ministry of Industry and Trade. evaluation number of executive capacity at department level, departments, city of Thu Duc and districts to serve as a basis for evaluating the performance of tasks, solutions to improve business environment, investment environment , improve the city’s PCI for the period 2021-2025 of units ./.

On the morning of April 15, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) coordinated with stakeholders to publish the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI). This is the 16th time this indicator has been published.

VCCI President Vu Tien Loc recalled: “At that time, PCI was a strange story. Many people oppose the PCI, there are localities that do not accept the PCI results. But, PCI is not alone. The government has cheered and supported the PCI. Locals found in the PCI useful lessons. The media joined hands to spread the PCI’s reform messages. And business community (DN) stick with PCI ”.

PCI over the past 16 years has contributed to a change in thinking, bringing about a positive change in the government’s attitude towards the private sector. The role of the Business Associations is emphasized to join hands in reforming, promoting dialogue, public-private cooperation and monitoring the implementation of policies of the government at all levels.

PCI 2020 announcement ceremony in Hanoi recognized Quang Ninh for the 4th consecutive time at the top. Photo: Chan LUAN

“More importantly, the PCI is a measure of the government’s action. PCI promotes substantial activities to improve the quality of operations and create a favorable business environment based on the evidence from the PCI results, ”said Mr. Loc.

With the year 2020, the raging COVID-19, the whole country has difficulty, but there are still nearly 12,300 enterprises participating in the PCI survey.

“Congratulations Quang Ninh, this year, once again, has surpassed itself and firmly established the“ champion ”position in the PCI rankings for 4 consecutive years. Quang Ninh is also the only province among 63 provinces and cities to pass the 75-point mark in the PCI results since 2010, ”said Mr. Loc.

He also did not forget to congratulate the “top 10” provinces such as Dong Thap, Long An, Binh Duong, Da Nang, Vinh Long, Hai Phong, Ben Tre, Hanoi and Bac Ninh.

According to the PCI 2020 results, Ho Chi Minh City is not among the 10 provinces with the highest index, but ranked 14th. This is also the position of Ho Chi Minh City in the PCI 2019, lower than the years 2018 and 2017.

The results of the PCI can be seen that in the past 5 years, enterprises have assessed the government more positively, the unofficial costs have been reduced, businesses also put greater confidence in the legal institutions and the situation. security and order in the localities. Discrimination among economic sectors, which caused pain many years ago, has decreased significantly and the business environment has become much more equal than before.

PCI 2020 Rankings

“In addition to areas with much progress, reform activities should be paid more attention in some troublesome areas such as land, tax and social insurance … Enterprises also expect governments at all levels to increase. more transparency and accountability, ”said Mr. Loc.

According to the PCI, 25% of enterprises said that the locality favored SOEs, causing difficulties for private enterprises; 33% of enterprises think that the government still favors FDI enterprises. Still 40% of businesses are not ready to use the court to settle economic disputes.

Nearly 45% of enterprises said they had to pay informal fees; 54% of enterprises think that the phenomenon of corruption still exists, 20% of enterprises evaluate that state officials are ineffective and unfriendly in handling their work and also up to 3% of enterprises report that each year they are still denied check more than 5 times.

Mr. Loc said, the XIII Congress of the Party has determined “to create a favorable, healthy and fair business investment environment for all economic sectors to promote innovation”, so in 5-10 Next year, the development and implementation of institutions will be one of the key priorities in promoting breakthroughs.

“And the enterprise community has a responsibility to contribute to promoting these institutional breakthroughs”, Mr. Loc said.

16 years on a tireless journey

150,000 times, businesses have deposited their beliefs and recommendations in the surveys of the PCI. PCI is proud to have become a responsible voice of the business community.

In the series of Resolutions No. 19 and Resolution No. 02, the Government has asked localities to make efforts to improve the PCI.

Resolution of the Party Congress of most provinces and cities has stated the requirements for improving the PCI index in the next 5-year term. PCI is proud to contribute to the reform process in localities in Vietnam.

This is the information given at the announcement ceremony of the PCI 2020 Annual Report of the Provincial Competitiveness Index by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). held this morning, April 15, in Hanoi.

With a combined PCI score of 75.09 points in 2020, Quang Ninh is the leading province in the PCI in 2020. Increasing 1.69 points of synthetic PCI compared to the previous year, Quang Ninh has surpassed itself to establish 1st place in the PCI Ranking for 4 consecutive years. Not only that, Quang Ninh is also the only province among 63 provinces and cities that surpassed the 75-point mark in the PCI results since 2010.

With a score of 72.8, Dong Thap holds 2nd place in PCI 2020.

Long An reached 70.37 points and ranked third in PCI 2020, an increase of 5 levels compared to 2019.

The next provinces in the top 10 provinces and cities of the PCI 2020 are Binh Duong (70.16 points), Da Nang (70.12 points), Vinh Long (69.34 points), Hai Phong city (69 points). , 27 points), Ben Tre (69.08 points), Hanoi City (66.93 points) and Bac Ninh (66.74 points).

In this list, Binh Duong had the strongest improvement with an increase of 2.78 points and 9 ranks compared to the results in 2019, with positive assessments of businesses on market entry (up 1.22 points). and business support (up 0.91 points). “This is the result of Binh Duong reviewing and completing the one-stop shop for enterprise registration and settlement of investment procedures; implementing publicly and transparently mechanisms, policies, processes and administrative procedures for enterprise registration, investment registration and strengthening coordination between branches and levels in attracting and managing projects invest; support to create favorable conditions and solve problems so that projects can be quickly deployed into production and business ”, Mr. Dau Anh Tuan, Project Director of the Provincial Competitiveness Index Project, Head of the Legal Department , Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry said.

PCI 2020 report is built based on feedback from nearly 12,300 enterprises (DN), of which over 10,700 private enterprises are operating in 63 provinces and cities and nearly 1,600 foreign-invested enterprises ( FDI) is operating in 22 localities in Vietnam.

Announcement Ceremony of the Annual Report of the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2020

The PCI 2020 survey shows that the quality of economic governance at the provincial level in Vietnam tends to improve over time. The positive movements recorded include continued decline in informal costs, continued security and order, more dynamic and proactive provincial governments, and significantly improved administrative reform. business school is increasingly equal. However, the survey results show that the provincial government needs to drastically improve the transparency of the business environment, improve the quality of enforcement of the grassroots government system, and continue to promote reforms. administrative procedures and reduce the burden of inspection and examination for businesses, continue efforts to cut down on unofficial costs for businesses.

“2020 is a particularly difficult year for Vietnamese enterprises due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Covid-19 has had a negative impact on the operations of enterprises on a large scale, in almost all industries, in all regions of the country, seriously affecting the decrease in revenue and profit of enterprises in the country. last year. Enterprises also had to cut the workforce. State policies supporting enterprises to overcome Covid-19 have practically uneven impacts, some policies have high practical effects such as tax deferral and extension of land rent … “, PhD. . Vu Tien Loc, Chairman of VCCI said.

However, the PCI 2020 survey results show a relatively high degree of adaptation of Vietnamese businesses to the epidemic. The survey results of FDI enterprises in 2020 show that Vietnam continues to be considered an attractive investment destination, with the advantage of stable politics, more open administrative procedures, inspection, examination and spending. Unofficial fees have decreased. Foreign investors expect Vietnam to continue to control corruption, improve the quality of public service delivery, improve the system of procedures, regulations and drastically upgrade the quality of infrastructure./.