Statistics sector works to further improve efficiency
The General Statistics Office (GSO) will continue improving the quality of its statistics and increasing information sharing with ministries and sectors, thus better serving the Government’s management over the macro-economy and socio-economic development, GSO General Director Nguyen Bich Lam said.
Hanoi (VNA) – The General Statistics Office(GSO) will continue improving the quality of its statistics and increasing informationsharing with ministries and sectors, thus better serving the Government’smanagement over the macro-economy and socio-economic development, GSO GeneralDirector Nguyen Bich Lam said.
Accordingly, the sector will focus on better performance in analysing andforecasting socio-economic situation, while proposing timely solutions to dealwith changes in the global market, especially the financial, monetary andtrading market, Lam said at a working session of Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc with the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Hanoi on February 19.
In order to serve the economic restructuring and the reformof growth model in the 2016-2020 period, the GSO built a supervision andevaluation criteria framework for the period, Lam said, adding the GSP haspiloted the implementation of the process of economic restructuring and growthmodel reform in the 2016-2018 period.
He noted that along with launching major projects inimproving statistics quality, strengthening IT application and development, andinternational integration, in 2017, 2018 and early 2019, the GSO has builtgrowth scenarios for each quarter of the years as well as solutions for eachperiod.
At the same time, the sector has coordinated with ministriesand sectors to give advice to the Minister of Planning and Investment and theGovernment in price management.
Lam said that in the future, the sector will continue promoting theimplementation of the Statistics Law and the Vietnam statistics development strategyin the 2011-2020 period and other major projects, focusing on improving itsoperation and completing its organisation for better efficiency.-VNA
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GSO General Director Nguyen Bich Lam (Photo: VNA) 
