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Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung proposed at the Prime Minister's conference with businesses in 2021, held on the morning of August 8. In addition, it is necessary to soon study a mechanism to allow businesses to purchase equipment themselves to actively test for COVID-19, promote the recognition of "vaccine passports" with other countries, consider applying vaccination certificates. apply, publicize information for vaccinated employees. According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, this is one of four groups of solutions to solve difficulties for the business community in the short term.

According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, this is one of four group solutions to solve difficulties for the business community in the short term.

The second group of solutions ensures smooth circulation of goods, such as organizing and implementing the "green flow" of national, inter-provincial and inter-regional goods to transport goods on the principle of minimizing procedures and fastest. , the most favorable. The study proposes safe transport rules to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic, apply technology in controlling the travel conditions of vehicles and workers.

The third group is supporting cost reduction, removing cash flow difficulties for businesses such as cutting union fees, road maintenance fees, electricity prices, debt restructuring support, and extending old debts. , reduce interest rates for loans; support for extension and reduction of VAT and corporate income tax with a value of about VND 20,000 billion and land rent reduction of about VND 700 billion.

The fourth group is to remove difficulties for enterprises in retaining workers and facilitate the reception of foreign experts back to work.

According to Minister Nguyen Chi Dung's assessment, the business community faces eight groups of difficulties due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Firstly, aggregate demand dropped sharply, causing orders, contracts, and output to decrease. The congestion and congestion of goods at several important seaports such as Cat Lai, Cai Mep - Thi Vai in the past time reflects the production stagnation caused by the epidemic, not the congestion caused by infrastructure or regulation. traffic practice.

Secondly, corporate revenue dropped sharply on a large scale, in which the tourism industry did not generate revenue, restaurants and hotels were paralyzed especially from April 2021 onwards, aviation revenue in recent months in early 2021, down 80% compared to the same period in 2020.

Third, the cash flow is short, making it very difficult for businesses to cover expenses to maintain production and business activities such as salary payment, social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, union fees for employees. In addition, businesses still have to pay rent for premises, shops, and factories while they have to suspend operations.

The fourth is the increasing transportation fee, leading to a shortage of raw materials and input materials, making production costs more expensive. There is a serious shortage of empty containers, the rental price of containers increases by 5-10 times, the cost of logistics transportation increases from 2-4 times, sometimes up to 5 times compared to before the epidemic. Many new expenses have arisen related to epidemic prevention and control such as testing costs; The cost of investing in equipment to meet the conditions of disease safety control is also making it difficult for businesses.

Fifth, production, consumption and export supply chains are disrupted, locally stalled, many affected manufacturing and exporting enterprises have to delay or cancel orders, if the outbreak lasts for a long time. market may be lost due to changes in the supply chain.

Sixth, goods circulation faced difficulties, including domestic circulation, among some provinces and cities due to the unreasonable application of epidemic prevention and control policies. Many companies were delayed in delivery and import, increased warehousing and storage costs, increased freight rates, and production was stalled.

Many businesses hard to find labor sources during the post-epidemic recovery period, especially in industries that require skilled workers, certain expertise such as mechanics, electronics. Enterprises, especially FDI enterprises face many difficulties with immigration and work permits for foreign experts.

The eighth is the group with difficulties in accessing the State's support policies. Enterprises said that the conditions of some policies are still tight, making it difficult for the beneficiaries, not covering all situations arising in reality, the implementation work sometimes, sometimes not yet. Active and flexible.