The Ministry of Information and Communications has just issued Document No. 3355/BTTTT-CBC to Central Party Committees, Central socio-political organizations; ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, Vietnam Journalists Association... on improving operating conditions for affiliated press agencies.

According to the official dispatch, currently, revenue from advertising activities and other services of press agencies is decreasing, press agencies are facing many difficulties; especially press agencies assigned financial autonomy Group 1, Group 2 according to Decree No. 60/2021/ND-CP dated June 21, 2021 of the Government regulating the financial autonomy mechanism of public service units (Decree No. 60/2021/ND-CP).

Press activities and press agencies are always associated with the task of policy communication, providing essential information, serving political tasks in the field of management of the management agency, so it is recommended that the management agencies pay attention to directing press activities, arranging increased funding in 2023 and arranging increased budget estimates in 2024 for information and propaganda work. Especially policy communication for affiliated press agencies to effectively carry out information and propaganda work to serve political tasks, essential information and policy communication, ensuring proper implementation of the licensed principles and purposes and good implementation of the financial autonomy mechanism of public service units according to Decree No. 60/2021/ND-CP.

The Ministry of Information and Communications requests that press management agencies, based on the actual conditions of the unit, consider arranging budgets to assign tasks or place orders to affiliated press agencies according to current specific conditions; enhance conditions for press agencies to perform information and propaganda tasks to serve political tasks, essential information and policy communication.

Based on the economic and technical norms issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the competent authorities continue to direct their affiliated press agencies to urgently develop their own economic and technical norms and submit them to the competent authorities for issuance of specific norm decisions so that the press agencies can effectively carry out information and propaganda work to serve political tasks, essential information and policy communication, ensuring proper implementation of the licensed principles and purposes and good implementation of the financial autonomy mechanism of public service units according to Decree No. 60/2021/ND-CP.