The Provincial Party Standing Committee approved the content and personnel of the Yen Thanh District Party Congress.

On the morning of May 6, the Provincial Party Standing Committee worked with the Yen Thanh District Party Standing Committee to approve the content and personnel of the 27th District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the conference. Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; leaders of Party committees, departments and branches. Photo: Thanh Duy

"PEACEFUL AND SUCCESSFUL"

After 5 years of implementing the Resolution of the 26th District Party Congress, Yen Thanh has achieved many important results, basically all targets and tasks have been achieved and exceeded the set plan.

The economy has grown quite well, the economic structure has shifted in the right direction, investment promotion and attraction activities have achieved many positive results, and socio-economic infrastructure has improved significantly.

There has been much progress in culture and society. National defense and security have been maintained, social order and safety have been ensured. Party building and political system building have had many positive changes; the strength of solidarity, unity within the Party and social consensus has been promoted.

Yen Thanh district achieved new rural standards in 2019. People's material and spiritual life was improved; the appearance of rural areas, towns and townships clearly improved.

However, Yen Thanh still faces difficulties and limitations, economic growth is not sustainable, economic restructuring is not strong; large breakthrough projects have not been attracted; budget revenue is not sustainable; infrastructure has not met development needs.

Comrade Nguyen Viet Hung - Secretary of Yen Thanh District Party Committee presented the preparations for the 27th District Party Congress. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, delegates discussed and contributed ideas to the draft document of the Party Executive Committee of Yen Thanh district.

In particular, we basically agree with the assessment of the district's performance in the 2015 - 2020 term with the spirit of solidarity, high determination, efforts to act, achieving quite impressive results, especially achieving the new rural district title. It can be assessed that this is a "both peaceful and successful" term of the district.

A corner of Yen Thanh town. Photo archive

BUILDING SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL INDICATORS

OFFENSIVE

Regarding the suggestions for the district, opinions said that the district needs to continue to closely follow and build a strong foundation; continue to build advanced new rural areas; pay attention to training, fostering, and preparing a good team of cadres. Regarding the indicators, there are some indicators that show low progress such as: average income per capita, budget revenue... Many opinions also said that the district should shorten the key programs and development breakthroughs.

Regarding the goals and directions, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung assessed that with an economic scale ranking about 5th out of 21 districts, cities and towns of the province, Yen Thanh needs to strive for growth rate with higher targets, on the basis of still taking agricultural strengths as the foundation but must produce in the direction of high-tech agriculture and large-scale production.

Besides, it is necessary to continue to focus on attracting business investment, especially in the agricultural sector, and developing the private economy to have a more sustainable source of budget revenue.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong acknowledged the preparations for the Congress of Yen Thanh district, especially in the context of having to prevent and fight the Covid-19 pandemic, but they have stayed close to the grassroots, directed and led closely and promptly. Besides, during the term, despite many changes in leadership, the district has maintained and promoted the spirit of internal solidarity; the leadership process has a very responsible succession between new and old leaders. In the coming time, the district needs to continue to proactively pay attention to maintaining political security, order and social safety, especially at the grassroots level.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son also devoted much analysis and suggestion to Yen Thanh district, especially on the budget revenue structure, promoting social resources, especially the work of streamlining and vocational training for workers to promote more effectively the work of labor export.

Concluding this content, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy assessed that the preparation of documents for the Congress of Yen Thanh district was in accordance with the spirit of Directive 35 of the Politburo and the documents of the province. The structure and capacity of the draft political report were basically reasonable; the writing style and ideas were refined, and the preparation attitude was serious.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding specific content, the Provincial Party Secretary pointed out that the Provincial Party Standing Committee sees that the district needs to focus on in-depth assessment of agriculture, farmers and rural areas, especially new rural construction...

Besides, it is necessary to clarify that in this term, although there were changes in personnel work, Yen Thanh has created high consensus, sharing, collaboration, cooperation with each other, creating high consensus among the people; national defense and security have been maintained in a very difficult context; further assessment of the implementation of planning;...

Regarding limitations and causes, the Provincial Party Secretary said that the district needs to be very frank in recognizing the State management work in the area, especially related to land, violations of construction order and other violations; at the same time, analyze and clarify the determination and implementation of the completion of targets for the 2015 - 2020 term, because this is an important basis for building targets for the 2020 - 2025 term.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Basically agree with the direction, goals and tasks set by the district in the new term. However, for some targets such as: growth rate associated with average income per capita, budget revenue, job creation, total food output, party membership recruitment;... Yen Thanh needs to make scientific calculations associated with the reality and conditions of the district to build appropriate targets, both demonstrating a high level of initiative and determination.

Regarding the development direction of the district, the Provincial Party Secretary said that in this term, agriculture is still the focus, but it must be in the direction of high technology, concentrated linkage chains, and increasing production value per unit area. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to developing tourism, trade and services; consider becoming a quality vocational training center for workers.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee delivered the concluding speech. Photo: Thanh Duy

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also agreed with many opinions of comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee that in the draft political report, the district needs to shorten the key programs and development breakthroughs.

The Provincial Party Secretary also agreed with the program and time of the congress, which will take place from the afternoon of May 17 to the morning of May 19, 2020; proposed to promote propaganda work before, during and after the congress; ensure good security, order, and safety against Covid-19;... thereby becoming a model congress for other Party Committees to learn from.