To this end, the corporation will strengthen its debt management after being equitised, scale up marketing programmes, seek new markets, and diversify its products for export, Mr Dong said.

He also pointed to the need for the corporation to rearrange its agent networks, work out measures to reduce production costs and improve techniques.

At the meeting, participants proposed that the Government create favourable conditions for concerned businesses to get easier access to loans and Official Development Assistance (ODA). The move will help them expand raw material-growing areas and foster pulp production so as to ensure sustainable material supplies for paper mills.

In 2005, VINAPACO earned nearly VND3.3 trillion from selling about 258,000 tonnes of paper.