The 19th Provincial Party Executive Committee of Nghe An held its 15th Conference.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Party Executive Committee.

COMPLETED 25/28 TARGETS

At the conference, the Provincial Party Executive Committee listened to and discussed the socio-economic situation, budget, administrative reform in 2023; development directions and tasks in 2024.

According to the report of the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee, in 2023, Nghe An is expected to achieve and exceed 25/28 targets; the growth rate of total product in the province (GRDP) will reach 7.14%, ranking 26/63 provinces and cities.

State budget revenue is estimated at 18,500 billion VND. Disbursement of public investment capital is expected to reach over 95%. Total export turnover is estimated at 2.88 billion USD. Investment attraction continues to have many bright spots, in particular, FDI attraction this year is expected to reach nearly 1.5 billion USD.

New rural construction has achieved many important results. Cultural and social fields continue to have many bright spots, social security is guaranteed. National defense and security are maintained. Administrative reform has many positive changes.

Nghe An has completed the summary of Resolution No. 26 and coordinated with central agencies to advise the Politburo to issue Resolution No. 39 and organize conferences to study and disseminate widely, creating movement in the political system; the Prime Minister has approved the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050; organized a systematic and serious mid-term review and assessment for the 2020-2025 term.

In 2024, Nghe An sets a growth target of 9-10%, total export turnover of 3 billion USD, state budget revenue of 15,854 billion VND. GRDP per capita reaches 62-63 million VND;…

To achieve the goals and targets for the coming year, the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee presented to the Provincial Party Executive Committee 12 main tasks and solutions.

At the conference, the members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee highly agreed with the province's socio-economic results in 2023 - a year with more unfavorable circumstances than favorable ones; more difficulties and challenges than opportunities.

Speaking at the discussion, comrade Le Truong Giang - Secretary of Hoang Mai City Party Committee expressed his high agreement with the assessment of the results of administrative reform work with many changes, especially in the field of investment attraction; as well as one of the tasks identified in 2024 of the province is to focus on implementing tasks, to ensure the disbursement of compensation funds for site clearance of National Highway 1 projects through Nghe An province, which has been approved by the National Assembly to add 1,275 billion VND.

The Secretary of the Hoang Mai City Party Committee also suggested that in 2024, the province continue to pay attention to attracting and implementing investment projects; removing obstacles and difficulties in managing protective forests in the area.

Regarding administrative reform, Comrade Bui Thanh Bao - Secretary of Tan Ky District Party Committee suggested that the digital transformation process should be linked to infrastructure; at the same time, there should be additional handling mechanisms to promote administrative reform.

Leaders of Tan Ky District Party Committee and some localities also reported difficulties in paying through accounts for policy beneficiaries. At the same time, in districts, especially in mountainous districts, there is a lack of ATMs.

Comrade Le Tien Tri - Head of the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board reported some results on attracting investment into the economic zone; thereby, suggesting that with the current momentum of investment attraction, it is necessary to continue preparing land; training, connecting labor supply and demand; as well as continuing administrative reform, accompanying investors in a more open direction, especially regarding project investment documents and policies.

At the conference, comrades in the Provincial Party Executive Committee also raised opinions related to removing difficulties in funding and consulting units to speed up the progress of land allocation associated with forest allocation; considering issuing a resolution on land accumulation to attract businesses and people to invest in commodity agricultural production, developing agricultural economy; strengthening coordination between departments, branches and localities to resolve difficulties and problems at the grassroots level; having policies to support people to participate in voluntary insurance, evaluating fruit tree projects;...

Leaders of several sectors such as Agriculture and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, and Home Affairs exchanged and clarified opinions related to their areas of responsibility.

THE MORE DIFFICULT, THE MORE DETERMINED TO RISE UP

Concluding the conference, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy emphasized that in 2023, the whole province made efforts to overcome difficulties, completed key tasks, including many major tasks, and had a few positive highlights.

The Provincial Party Secretary concluded four reasons for achieving the above results. First of all, the spirit of solidarity and unity continued to be maintained within the Party, the State, the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, the people, businesses, and entrepreneurs; thereby, focusing on overcoming difficulties.

The basic direction and management work is flexible, unified, focused, decisive, timely, thorough, and very thorough.

Nghe An has taken full advantage of the support from the Central Government. Many agencies, units, departments, branches and localities have been assigned to follow up very resolutely and responsibly, so there are programs, projects and many specific activities.

Many long-standing issues have been considered and resolved by the Central Government, such as: The National Assembly allocated 1,275 billion VND to pay compensation for site clearance on National Highway 1 through Nghe An; the Prime Minister adjusted the investment policy for phase 1 of the Ban Mong Reservoir Project;...

In addition, the Provincial Party Secretary pointed out 4 limitations. Among them, some sectors and localities are not resolute, lack initiative, coordination is sometimes slow, confused, and lacks methods in solving work, especially compensation for site clearance.

Disbursement of public investment capital in some agencies and units is still low, and some units have not been able to disburse. Questioning why some units do well, but some units cannot, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee to monitor and direct; the members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee in charge of these localities and units must analyze the causes and assign specific responsibilities.

In 2023, many officials, including key officials, were disciplined. The head of the Provincial Party Committee pointed out that this showed that the management work was lax in some places and lacked inspection and supervision, so the implementation of principles, rules and regulations was not serious.

Administrative reform and improvement of the investment and business environment, although there have been changes, have not been on par and have not met the requirements.

Based on the analysis, pointing out the achieved results, lessons learned and shortcomings and limitations in 2023, associated with the forecast that 2024 will be much more difficult, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized 8 key tasks to achieve the socio-economic development goals, especially the growth target of 9-10%.

"The more difficult the situation, the more talented the Nghe people are, with more initiatives and determination to rise up," the Provincial Party Secretary concluded and suggested that it is necessary to continue maintaining the spirit of solidarity and unity to overcome the difficulties that the political system, people and businesses have to face.

“Be proactive, flexible, stick to the task, decisive, focused, timely, and transparent to mobilize resources to serve development,” the head of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized.

Along with that, the province needs to focus on implementing the Provincial Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050; Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW of the Politburo, including the Action Program of the Government, the Provincial Party Executive Committee to implement the resolution. Accordingly, departments, branches and localities need to specify their functions and tasks, and determine specific work.

The Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also requested to prepare conditions to best implement the expansion of administrative boundaries and urban space of Vinh city; and arrange administrative boundaries in phase II. The implementation process must ensure people's consensus; internal solidarity and unity; reasonable arrangement of cadres; arrangement of public assets must be quick, timely, avoiding waste; along with that is a step-by-step preparation of personnel for Party Congresses at all levels, especially at the commune level.

The province must focus on advising to submit to the National Assembly specific mechanisms and policies to implement Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo at the regular session in mid-2024 in the direction of not re-evaluating Resolution No. 36 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for Nghe An but issuing a new Resolution and implementing it in parallel.

The Provincial Party Secretary also requested to focus on starting and completing key projects associated with the disbursement of public investment capital and capital for three national target programs, such as: Starting the construction of Cua Lo deep-water port; completing the coastal road, Vinh - Cua Lo Boulevard, the N5 extended road connecting to the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the rough construction of the Oncology Hospital.

Along with that, the province needs to continue to improve the investment and business environment, attract investment, especially FDI attraction must continue to be in the top 10.

To do so, the Provincial Party Secretary requested that all levels, sectors and localities must continue to reform administration well. Accordingly, identifying the stagnation in administrative reform from people, the head of the Provincial Party Committee encouraged the unified and synchronous implementation from top to bottom in researching, transferring and rearranging cadres in sensitive positions with public opinion; agreed to propose that the Department of Home Affairs continue to review, grasp public opinion, and work with leaders of sectors.

The Provincial Party Secretary also requested to continue focusing on education and research to have specialized medical fields; pay attention to organizing events and cultural activities from the grassroots; and maintain good social security.

Grasp the situation firmly, absolutely do not be passive or surprised, avoid letting hot spots arise; thereby, maintain stability and peace in the area for economic and social development.

Also at the working session, the Provincial Party Executive Committee heard a report on the implementation of the Party's financial budget estimate for 2023 and the Party's financial budget estimate plan for 2024.