CITIZEN’S RIGHTS TO BUSINESS FREEDOM IN VIETNAM (PART 1)

Business freedoms can only exit in a market economy, with various forms of owner shop for manufacturing materials and fair competition between different business sectors under the rules of market economy.

Citizen’s rights - even those derived under international law – are enforced through the particular legal system of a particular country. They reflect the transformation of human rights into domestic law. Business freedoms can only exit in a market economy, with various forms of owner shop for manufacturing materials and fair competition between different business sectors under the rules of market economy. Business freedoms cannot exits in a centralized economy operating under a bureaucratic mechanism with quota plans.

During decades of the centrally-planned economy, when the needs of the market economy were ignored, the eights o business freedoms were absent in the Vietnamese legal system. At times, the Communist Party and the State considered business freedoms to be a threat to socialism which should be strictly prohibited (specific issues regarding the historical development of the rights to business freedoms in Vietnam will be analyzed in Chapter II of this book).

However, ever since the Renovation initiated by the VI Communist Party congress (in 1986), the perspectives of the Communist Party and the State regarding business freedoms and market economy have expanded, providing a positive environment for development. The Communist party and the State’s new endorsement of business freedoms are reflect in the particular areas.