THE PRIME MINISTER
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No. 2164/CT-TTg
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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Hanoi, November 30, 2010
 
DIRECTIVE
ON FURTHER STEPPING UP PRODUCTION, ENSURING GOODS AND SERVICE SUPPLY-DEMAND BALANCE, STABILIZING PRICES AND MARKET ON THE OCCASION OF TAN MAO LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL AND IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2011
THE PRIME MINISTER
 
Since the beginning of 2010, the Government has directed and applied various measures to develop production, ensure goods and service supply-demand balance and to valorize the market prices, thus obtaining fairly comprehensive results. Over the past II months, the essential goods and services have basically met the demands; however, the consumer price index in this period already reached 9.58%. adversely affecting production and people's life. Such situation is attributed to the fact that a number of ministries, sectors and provincial-level People's Committees, failed to fully study the situation and not yet resolutely applied measures to curb inflation, control prices and stabilize the market as already directed. A number of organizations and individuals have not yet seriously implemented the management of prices and abided by the regulations on price control. Goods hoarding and speculation or even the spreading of rumors about the financial and monetary situation as well as prices, goods scarcity have not been controlled and checked in time, thus adversely affecting the Government's direction of inflation control and social welfare assurance.

In order to redress in time these above-mentioned weaknesses and to attain the target of inflation control, ensuring goods and service supply and stabilizing prices and the market during the Tan Mao Lunar New Year Festival (the Year of the Cat), and at the same time to lay foundation for the achievement of the 2011 socio­economic development objectives, the Prime Minister requests ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies and chairpersons of provincial-level People's Committees, based on their respective functions and assigned tasks, to resolutely apply synchronous measures set forth in the Government's Resolution No. 18/NQ-CP of April 6, 2010, and the Prime Minister's Directive No. 1875/CT-TTg of October 11, 2010, on intensified application of measures for market and price stabilization in the last month of 2010, focusing on the following major tasks: