On September 21, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wrote an article: "Urgently overcome the consequences of storms and floods, quickly stabilize people's lives, actively restore production and business, promote economic growth, and control inflation."

Dan Tri Newspaper respectfully introduces the full text of the article.

Storm No. 3 (Yagi) caused serious damage to people and property in many localities in the North, but even in the most difficult moments, there was always the proactive and drastic participation of the entire political system, the spirit of solidarity, joint efforts, and unanimity of the entire Party, people, and army, thereby contributing to minimizing damage.

At the same time, many important tasks are also set for all levels, sectors and localities to quickly stabilize people's lives, soon restore socio-economic activities, restore production and business, promote economic growth, and realize the goal of rapid and sustainable development in disaster-stricken areas in particular and the whole country in general.

Wherever I go, I feel pain and sorrow.

1. Storm No. 3 is the strongest storm in the East Sea in the past 30 years and the strongest on land in our country in the past 70 years, with very high intensity, very high speed, wide range, near the center of the storm is level 1-4 , gust level 17 , long duration, strong destruction and very heavy impact and influence over a very wide range in most localities in the North.

There are two complicated and difficult-to-predict problems: the duration of the storm inland and the storm circulation with very heavy rain.

Heavy rainfall during the storm and the post-storm circulation caused flooding, flash floods, landslides in many mountainous areas and major floods in most rivers in the North, leading to very serious damage to people, property, crops, livestock, socio-economic infrastructure, production and business activities, industries and sectors, especially agriculture in affected localities.

Faced with the complicated developments of storm No. 3 and the floods following the storm, the Politburo, Party, State, Government leaders, and the Prime Minister have focused on directing all levels, sectors, localities, and functional forces to urgently, resolutely, and synchronously implement tasks and solutions to prevent, combat, and overcome the consequences of storms and floods.

On September 9, while the storm was raging, the Politburo held a meeting and directed the entire political system to focus on responding to the storm and floods. General Secretary and President To Lam sent a letter to the people and soldiers affected by storm No. 3; and directly inspected and directed the response and recovery work in a number of localities.

The Prime Minister has issued 10 official dispatches; directing ministries, branches and localities to closely monitor the situation, focus on responding to storms and floods early, from afar, right at the grassroots level with the motto of being proactive, resolute, preventing and responding effectively at the highest level, ready for the worst situations.

Leaders of the Party, State, Government and localities directly inspected and directed the implementation of response and recovery work for storms and floods, and promptly encouraged and visited people and forces participating in storm and flood prevention and control, especially families and localities with human losses to minimize damage as much as possible.

All levels, sectors, localities, socio-political organizations and the entire people have proactively coordinated closely, synchronously and resolutely implemented tasks and solutions to prevent and overcome the consequences of storms and floods.

Mobilizing nearly 700,000 people and nearly 9,000 vehicles to respond to storms, floods, landslides, and flash floods; proactively deploying solutions to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

The Prime Minister promptly decided to allocate the central budget reserve and provide rice from the national reserve to support localities. The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front organized a launching ceremony to support people affected by storms and floods; by September 21, a total amount of over 1,646 billion VND had been raised.

2. Although the proactive and active participation from early, from afar, from the grassroots level and the great efforts of the entire political system, all levels, sectors, localities, functional forces, business community and people have contributed significantly to minimizing the impact and influence of storms and floods, the damage is still very large and leaves serious and severe consequences, causing hundreds of people to die and go missing, thousands of people to be injured; hundreds of thousands of houses to be flooded and damaged; hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice, crops, and fruit trees to be flooded and damaged; thousands of aquaculture cages, boats to be damaged and swept away; millions of livestock and poultry to die.

The storm also caused widespread power outages and communication outages in several localities; hundreds of dike incidents, landslides, flooding, and local traffic disruptions; especially the mental damage to the people and the irreparable pain and loss of relatives and families whose members died or were injured due to the storm and floods.

Faced with the great loss and damage of our compatriots in the affected areas, we deeply regret, understand, and share the tears and endless grief of the families who have unfortunately lost their loved ones.

Wherever we go in the flood-affected areas, we feel pain and sorrow when we witness with our own eyes the villages, roofs, fields, gardens, fish ponds, cages, and properties of our compatriots destroyed by floods.

We will never forget the brave and selfless examples of the frontline forces, especially the military and police officers and soldiers who did not fear danger and hardship to rescue people, search and rescue victims in storms and floods, including comrades who heroically sacrificed themselves, demonstrating the good nature of " Uncle Ho's soldiers ", of the People's Police soldiers " forgetting themselves for the country, serving the people ".

We are moved and impressed by the proactiveness, positivity, solidarity, and spirit of effort to overcome difficulties of the people in the flood-hit areas, especially the quick-witted, creative, and brave examples of carrying out dangerous tasks, such as promptly evacuating villagers from flash floods and rescuing boats drifting freely on large, fast-flowing rivers.

The " charity trips ", the kind hearts, and the noble acts of helping people in difficulty are clear evidence of the spirit of solidarity, mutual love, and the fine tradition of patriotism and love for one's people.

We also always remember the valuable sharing and help of the Vietnamese community abroad and the timely support of many countries and international organizations.

From the practical work of preventing and overcoming the consequences of storms and floods, we have further consolidated and strengthened our belief in the leadership of the Party and the combined strength of the entire political system, of the entire people and army, especially the unanimity and synergy of all levels, sectors, and localities and the strong solidarity of our compatriots and soldiers in times of difficulty and adversity, demonstrating the good nature of our regime.

6 Vietnam pillars

In the context of many limitations and shortcomings, overcoming great difficulties and challenges in preventing natural disasters and floods, we can see more clearly that the fundamental factors, the source of the country's strength, are strongly promoted, in which the "Six pillars of Vietnam" stand out, including:

(1) The fulcrum of the spirit of great national unity, unity within the Party, unity among the People, unity within the country, and international unity, " Unity, unity, great unity ; Success, success, great success ", as beloved Uncle Ho advised.

(2) The fulcrum of the glorious leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam; for nearly 95 years, the Party has had no other goal than to bring independence and freedom to the nation and a prosperous and happy life to the People.

(3) The fulcrum of the nation's heroic, civilized, and cultured historical and cultural traditions, with the spirit of mutual love and support "love others as you love yourself", "the whole leaf covers the torn leaf, the less torn leaf covers the more torn leaf", "gourd, please love the squash, although they are different species, they are on the same trellis".

(4) The People's fulcrum, the People make history, strength originates from the People, "a hundred times easier without the people can be endured, a thousand times harder with the people can be accomplished."

(5) The fulcrum of the Army and the Police; "when needed, when in difficulty, there is the Army and the Police", "Our Army comes from the People, fights for the People", "Our Police, forget themselves for the country, serve the people".

(6) The spiritual support of self-reliance and self-improvement of our nation and of each person is that when facing difficulties and challenges, the more pressure there is, the more effort and striving to rise up, overcome one's own limits, with the spirit of "turning nothing into something, turning difficult into easy, turning the impossible into possible".

3. To urgently overcome the consequences of storm No. 3, all levels, sectors, localities, functional forces and people and soldiers nationwide need to continue to focus on seriously grasping the direction of the Politburo, leaders of the Party, State and Government, and the Prime Minister, especially focusing on effectively implementing 6 groups of tasks and key solutions to protect people's lives, safety and health; support stabilizing people's lives; restore and develop production and business; prepare to respond to natural disasters, storms and floods; reduce and simplify administrative procedures to implement support policies; control inflation, promote economic growth in the spirit of Resolution No. 143/NQ-CP dated September 17 of the Government.

In particular, urgently overcoming the consequences of storms and floods and quickly stabilizing people's lives are identified as key and urgent tasks, especially for Party committees, authorities, and functional forces at the grassroots level. Focus on searching for missing people; promptly rescuing the injured; visiting, sharing, encouraging, and supporting the funeral of the deceased; inspecting and reaching isolated areas to provide timely and effective support to the people.

Provide food, clean water, and shelter for people who have lost their homes; review and implement resettlement for households who have lost their homes, ensuring completion as soon as possible, before December 31, with better living conditions than their previous residence.

Ensure environmental hygiene and disease prevention; promptly send students to school and put hospitals and medical facilities into operation in September 2024.

Quickly restore and ensure smooth operation of transportation systems, communications, telephone signals, electricity supply, clean water, and basic social services.

Review and take appropriate support measures to restore business production activities of enterprises, ensure jobs and livelihoods of people in all fields, especially industry, services and agriculture.

Maintain political stability, security, safety and ensure social order in the area. Do a good job of information and communication work, do not let hostile and reactionary forces take advantage of distortion and sabotage.

At the same time, continue to review and fully count the damage to promptly propose and recommend the Government and the Prime Minister to consider and use national reserves, central budget reserves and other legal sources to support people to overcome the consequences of storms and floods according to the law.

Restore production and business, promote economic growth

4. Along with stabilizing people's lives soon, we need to focus on restoring production and business, promoting economic growth, and controlling inflation.

This is a task of special importance; only by performing this task well can we ensure the stability and sustainability of the lives and livelihoods of people in areas affected by storms and floods in particular and the people of the whole country in general; at the same time, we can create a solid foundation for the socio-economic development of each locality, each region and the whole country.

Regarding production and business recovery , ministries, branches and localities need to focus on reviewing mechanisms and policies to promptly and effectively support production establishments, business households, cooperatives and enterprises to quickly restore production, supply and labor chains, and restore and promote production and business development.

Urgently exempt, reduce, and extend taxes, fees, land rents, water surface rents, etc. for affected and damaged businesses, organizations, and people; promptly advance and pay insurance benefits; prioritize resource allocation to promptly fix incidents and damage to the transportation system, dikes, and irrigation reservoirs.

Implement monetary policy solutions such as: restructuring the term, maintaining the debt group, considering exempting or reducing interest rates... for customers who have suffered losses; supplementing resources to implement preferential credit policies for the Social Policy Bank; continuing to provide new loans to customers to restore production and business after storms and floods.

Focus on immediately restoring agricultural production capacity; take this opportunity to restructure crops and livestock in regions and localities in a more natural, efficient and sustainable direction; promptly support seeds, feed, chemicals and necessary materials.

Quickly restore affected industrial parks, industrial production, trade and service projects to normal operations; quickly restore damaged logistics facilities and warehouses, and avoid disruption of the supply chain.

Review and reduce administrative procedures to promptly repair and rebuild works and factories affected by natural disasters to promptly restore production and business; apply emergency investment processes and procedures to works and projects for storm and flood prevention.

Localities proactively and actively mobilize the participation of the entire grassroots political system, closely coordinate with ministries and central agencies to focus on overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and floods in the spirit of Resolution No. 143/NQ-CP of the Government.

Regarding promoting economic growth and controlling inflation , it is necessary to clearly identify this as one of the most central, consistent, and important contents in directing and operating the macro economy, aiming at the goal of fast, green and sustainable development, contributing to restructuring the economy according to the Resolutions of the Party, National Assembly, and Government.

From now until the end of 2024 and in 2025, all levels, sectors and localities need to continue to focus on closely monitoring and grasping the market and price situation; ensuring adequate supply of goods and stable prices of essential goods and raw materials for life and production and business; absolutely not allowing food shortages to occur; continuing to research and restructure the energy supply chain in a green, sustainable direction and in accordance with the country's natural conditions and the needs of the people; in the short and medium term, it is necessary to focus on ensuring adequate supply of gasoline, oil and electricity for production, business and consumption; strictly handling acts of speculation, hoarding, price increases and price manipulation.

Implement a proactive, flexible, timely, effective monetary policy, closely and synchronously coordinate with a reasonable, focused, key expansionary fiscal policy and other policies to prioritize promoting growth, maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, and ensuring major balances of the economy.

Increase access to credit and reduce costs, continue to strive to reduce lending interest rates to support the economy. Effectively implement a reasonable, focused, and key expansionary fiscal policy, especially policies to extend, postpone, and reduce taxes, fees, and charges, etc.; increase spending savings, thoroughly save regular spending to reserve resources for social security, support to overcome the consequences of natural disasters, and invest in development.

Further promote disbursement of public investment capital; prioritize capital allocation, speed up progress of important, national key projects, inter-provincial, inter-regional, national, regional and international connectivity.

Focus on studying and overcoming the limitations and shortcomings of the stock, corporate bond and real estate markets; promptly remove difficulties and obstacles related to projects and land in the inspection, examination and judgment conclusions in some localities and other stuck and pending projects in accordance with the direction of the Politburo; thereby contributing to freeing up resources, promoting production and business and economic growth.

Focus on renewing traditional growth drivers (investment, consumption, export) and strongly promoting new growth drivers (such as urban development, regional economy, digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, sharing economy, knowledge economy, high-tech industries and fields, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, etc.).

In particular, special attention is paid to developing the digital economy and green transformation, considering this an objective and inevitable requirement of integration and globalization and also a favorable opportunity to bring the country forward with the times, escaping the "middle-income trap".

Continue to improve institutions, mechanisms and policies to more strongly attract social investment capital, promote private economic development to truly be an important driving force of the economy; increase selective foreign investment attraction associated with technology transfer.

Strongly promote the domestic market, effectively implement the campaign " Vietnamese people prioritize using Vietnamese goods ". Expand and diversify export markets, supply chains, effectively exploit signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and more actively promote negotiations and signing of new FTAs ​​with Middle Eastern and African countries, Halal product markets, etc.

Continue to strongly promote and create qualitative changes in implementing 3 strategic breakthroughs in institutions, human resources and infrastructure; in which clearly defining institutions as " breakthroughs of breakthroughs " because they are both resources and important driving forces for the development of a socialist-oriented market economy; continue to innovate thinking in building institutions in the direction of not only focusing on state management but also focusing on expanding space and creating development; have open mechanisms and policies, creating breakthroughs in removing difficulties for production and business, unlocking resources, training high-quality human resources, promoting science and technology, innovation and developing a synchronous and modern strategic infrastructure system.

Focus on promoting industrialization and modernization, promoting economic restructuring associated with transforming the growth model towards improving productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness, constantly improving Vietnam's position on the regional and global economic map.

Strengthening discipline, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management, continuing to simplify and cut administrative procedures, creating all favorable conditions for people and businesses.

At the same time, focus on developing cultural and social fields, ensuring social security, improving people's lives, comprehensively protecting the environment; promoting the fight against corruption and negativity, contributing to serving and promoting socio-economic development; ensuring political security, social order and safety, consolidating national defense and security, enhancing foreign affairs, international integration, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment and creating favorable conditions for national development.

Building landslide and flash flood zoning maps

5. Vietnam is considered one of the countries most severely affected by natural disasters and climate change.

In the coming time, natural disasters, storms, floods, and climate change are forecasted to continue to develop in a complex, extreme, and unpredictable manner with increasing frequency and intensity, and increasingly severe impacts and influences.

In that context, the work of flood and storm prevention in particular and the prevention, response and overcoming of natural disaster consequences in general need to have strong, comprehensive, substantial and effective changes.

This is an important political task, both urgent and of long-term strategic significance for the entire political system, all levels, sectors and localities.

In particular, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the consistent viewpoint of putting people's lives first and foremost and not sacrificing progress, social justice, and environmental protection in exchange for mere economic growth, leaving no one behind in disaster prevention and control as well as in all economic and social activities.

Clearly identify that preventing, combating and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters is the responsibility and obligation of all people and the whole society; maximize the proactiveness, positivity, and self-reliance of Party committees at all levels, authorities and people at the grassroots level; avoid being passive or surprised in any situation.

Ensuring scientific, rational and practical relevance; combining tradition and modernity; focusing on all three stages of prevention, response and overcoming consequences, in which proactive prevention is the main focus; shifting risk management and prevention to basin-based, inter-regional and inter-sectoral levels.

At the same time, promote the combined strength of the great national unity bloc associated with the strength of the times; use a comprehensive, global approach to prevent and overcome the consequences of natural disasters.

To achieve the goals set out in the National Strategy for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control to 2030, with a vision to 2050, all levels, sectors and localities must absolutely not be negligent or subjective, and continue to synchronously and effectively implement Directive No. 42-CT/TW dated March 24, 2020 of the Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership in the work of preventing, responding to and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters; the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, the Law on Civil Defense, the National Strategy and Plan for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Focus on improving the quality of forecasting and warning of natural disasters; continue to review and perfect programs, plans and scenarios for preventing and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, ensuring integration into strategies, planning and socio-economic development plans of the whole country, each region, each locality, sector and field.

Implement flexibly, creatively and effectively the " four on-site " motto at the grassroots level in accordance with the actual conditions of each locality in each period. Focus on guiding, raising awareness, management skills, and responding to natural disasters, especially at the grassroots level and in high-risk areas; focus on reviewing and perfecting processes and regulations for organizing operations and coordination in preventing and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters.

Prioritize the allocation of resources for investment in synchronous, advanced equipment, facilities, and modern technology; continue to perfect mechanisms and policies to effectively use the Natural Disaster Prevention Fund.

Urgently complete the Disaster Risk Zoning Program, develop large-scale landslide and flash flood zoning maps, detailed to the commune and village level.

Focus on arranging and relocating people in high-risk areas, creating jobs and sustainable livelihoods in new places, ensuring they are equal to or better than the old places. Review planning and construction of works to ensure prevention of flash floods and landslides.

Strengthen forest management, protection and development, improve forest quality, especially natural and protective forests. Do a good job of information and communication, especially good models, good practices, and typical advanced examples for replication.

Promote international cooperation, mobilize support and assistance from countries, international organizations, and external partners, especially in human resource training, technology transfer, and advanced management and operation models, contributing to meeting the requirements of natural disaster prevention in the new period.

Storm No. 3 has passed but there are still consequences, heavy losses both spiritually and materially for many people, families, villages, communities, localities and the whole country. Promoting the fine tradition of " national love, compatriots' love ", always remembering the teachings of beloved Uncle Ho " Nothing is difficult - Only fear of not being steadfast - Digging mountains and filling seas - Determination will make it happen ", under the leadership of the glorious Communist Party of Vietnam, let us further promote the spirit of solidarity, unity, standing shoulder to shoulder to overcome all difficulties and challenges, determined to quickly stabilize people's lives, actively restore production and business, socio-economic activities, create livelihoods for people in storm and flood-affected areas as soon as possible.

At the same time, continue to strive to successfully implement the socio-economic development goals and tasks set out in the Resolutions of the Party, National Assembly, and Government, contributing to promoting the country's rapid and sustainable development, bringing a prosperous and happy life to the people.

Member of the Politburo

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh

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