At a meeting of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, the president indicated that the changes are related to business and municipal autonomy; national food production, especially at the local level; the transformation of the energy matrix; exports, and others.
“We must focus, immediately, on implementing the most urgent and necessary transformations that must be made to the economic and social model,” stated the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during his address at a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The president noted that these transformations “are fundamentally related to business autonomy; municipal autonomy; the resizing of the state apparatus, the government, and institutions; national food production, with municipal balance sheets; the shift in the energy matrix, which includes not only renewable sources but also everything related to domestic crude oil; exports, linking them to the flexibilities approved for foreign direct investment; leveraging economic partnerships between the state and private sectors, especially at the municipal level; and promoting business with Cubans residing abroad.”
All of this, the Head of State added, must contribute to the country’s macroeconomic stabilization, increase foreign exchange earnings, and develop national production, with an emphasis on food.
At the meeting of the island’s highest governing body, chaired monthly by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz from the Palace of the Revolution and held via videoconference with all provinces, the president emphasized that “achieving this depends heavily on the performance of the business system, and also on the behavior of the municipalities.”
He said that businesses must be prepared to utilize all the powers that have been granted. Many measures regarding business autonomy have been approved, but they are not yet being fully utilized; some are even unknown, he noted.
Díaz-Canel added that “the municipalities must prepare themselves, as these processes we are opening up will increasingly be implemented there.”
“The municipalities must manage foreign direct investment; the municipalities must manage their own closed-loop systems in foreign currency; the municipalities must manage economic partnerships between the state and non-state sectors; the municipalities must design and propose their local production systems; and they must manage investments from Cubans residing abroad,” he explained.
We must prepare ourselves, he said, so that together we can contribute to national production, together we can boost food production, together we can contribute to macroeconomic stabilization, together we can contribute more foreign exchange earnings to the country, more exports, better utilization of productive capacity, the implementation of the energy matrix shift, and a proper relationship between the state and non-state sectors.
The Cuban President called on the members of the Council of Ministers to work intensively, intelligently, with oversight, with deeper analysis, with high standards, with discipline, taking advantage of potential, and questioning everything that is not progressing.
IMAGE CREDIT: Leticia Martínez Hernández | Photo: Estudios Revolución
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