Determination of accepting to decrease specific economic development index and real worry about the poor are the core problems to jointly enjoy the common achievements.

Only for few months’ right after joining WTO, we can feel many impacts including direct and indirect, expected and unexpected ones. The more important is that all good and bad impacts are multiplied with many times depending on the pockets and skills of those who are influenced.

Let’s take stock market as an example. Nobody can deny that the great development of the stock market in the recent time has been under the powerful impacts of Vietnam’s WTO accession. But the tales of becoming a stock billionaire in a short period of time, in the event of reality, only happen to people having a large sum of available money to invest in stock. The tales of housewives or hawkers becoming rich overnight by securities are just only post-WTO jokes.

In near future, if land market is really hot again with the increasingly high prices of houses, the rich will be just who enjoy benefits. At that time, people who have not owned any house will see the dream of buying an apartment as a mission impossible.

Human resource is scarce. Professionals can ask for the salary of thousands of dollars, which is unable for workers being paid only several tens of dollars added to the basic salary.

On the contrast, WTO causes a hot-development economy in company with the lacks of electricity, untidy infrastructure and increasing pollution. And the poor has to be put at the greatest disadvantages. Simply, they can not remove negative impacts as well as people with much capital in hands.

Stock fever brought about the fever of privatizing State-owned enterprises. Many people talk about the reverse side of this such as workers are dismissed easily so that the new enterprise makes profits for stock holders, employees sell securities at cheap price because of not having money to store like the rich. Health insurance is even considered and optional health insurance stopped because ingoing is higher than outgoing. Hospitals and universities intend to privatize. Whether can they play their socializing roles under the pressure of market and stock holders or not?

These problems had been anticipated and warned before Vietnam joined WTO. And they are obligatory corollaries in the normal way of development. However, right at this time State’s roles prove themselves more vital than anytime. It is commonly said that it is impossible to grow with any price and to shatter the dream of an equalitarian society. The gap between rich and poor will bring about corollaries for society. It takes countries many years and efforts to settle these corollaries. The future of gradual and sustainable development for every people depends on today’s decisions and policies.

For example, in stead of selling shares to employees of privatized companies, why do we not think about giving them the right of buying securities at fixed price so that when these stock reach employees’ expected price, the workers still have right to sell their shares. The money collected from privatization even is used to give free securities, which securities is not allowed to trade in a fixed period of time, to workers.

It is high time to select projects to license, for example, putting heavy environmental duties on enterprises causing pollutions. This amount of money is used to clean up thoroughly environment in industrial zones and export processing zones. Why do we not think about put many-time-multiplied tolls on cars to reduce traffic jams that are increasingly serious in cities?

The core problem is not concrete policies because with painstaking researches, such policies are not difficult to shape but is the determination to decrease specific economic development index and scrupulous care of the poor who, without capital sources, are in essential need of support in order to enjoy the country’s common achievements.