The Provincial Party Standing Committee approved documents and personnel for the Con Cuong District Party Congress.

On the morning of May 20, the Provincial Party Standing Committee held a conference to listen to and give opinions on draft documents, preparations and plans for the Congress; and approve the personnel plan for the 27th Congress of Con Cuong District Party Committee, 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 and representatives of leaders of departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Thanh Duy

SOON BECOME THE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL CENTER OF SOUTHWEST NGHE AN

At the conference, through the assessment, in the 2015 - 2020 term, despite many difficulties and challenges, with the spirit of solidarity and overcoming difficulties, the Party Committee led the political system and people to strive to achieve many important results in all fields, the appearance of this mountainous district has changed and improved.

In the coming term, the district sets the general goals of: Improving the leadership capacity of Party committees at all levels and the effectiveness and efficiency of government administration; promoting the role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; mobilizing and effectively using all resources, shifting the economic structure towards sustainable development.

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

Focus on building new rural areas to improve the material and spiritual life of the people. Gradually build Con Cuong into an ecological urban area, with synchronous basic infrastructure, a culture imbued with national identity; a clean and strong political system; stable borders, soon becoming the economic and cultural center of the Southwest Nghe An region.

To achieve the above goal, Con Cuong orients 5 breakthroughs and builds specific structures and ratios with 31 targets.

At the conference, discussions focused on major orientations for the district in the next term such as: needing to set clear goals for the results of administrative reform, providing online public services; promoting the application of information technology in the leadership and direction of agencies, departments and branches.

In particular, it is necessary to clearly evaluate the progress of the Project to build Con Cuong district into a town in the direction of an ecological urban area, meeting the needs of socio-economic development in the southwestern mountainous region of Nghe An, approved by the Provincial People's Committee since 2015.

"MUST LOOK FAR TO CALCULATE NEARLY"

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

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

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong acknowledged the development steps of Con Cuong district; at the same time, he gave suggestions on the orientation for the new term such as the need to address the issue of overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying; encouraging the people's spirit of dynamism, creativity, perseverance and hard work. On the other hand, with great tourism potential and quite good development in recent years, Con Cuong should also pay close attention to the connection between culture and tourism...

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung made comments on the draft political report of the Con Cuong District Party Executive Committee such as assessing the issue of budget revenue and expenditure, tourism development; reviewing to ensure the reasonableness between the growth rate of each economic sector and structural transformation.

Regarding the tasks for the next term, with the characteristics of a mountainous district, compared to 21 district-level localities in the province, Con Cuong has the 4th largest natural area, a population of about 17 and an economic scale of 19, so first of all, the district needs to continue to pay attention and focus on maintaining political stability, ensuring social security, security and order, especially in border areas; in which, a high focus is placed on poverty reduction.

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

Regarding the 5 breakthroughs proposed by Con Cuong district, based on the analysis of the content to set out the breakthrough direction, it is necessary to start from the bottlenecks and obstacles that need to be resolved. The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that the district study and determine the appropriate development breakthroughs, in which the breakthrough contents on the application of science and technology, investment in agricultural and forestry production development; tourism development should be considered to be transferred to the list of key areas that need to be focused on development.

Concluding this content, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee assessed that during the 2015 - 2020 term, Con Cuong has demonstrated a good spirit of solidarity and unity; economic development focused mainly on services and tourism and has initially realized this issue.

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

The district has paid attention to promoting the culture of ethnic minorities in the area, especially the Thai ethnic group; has unique tourism products; agricultural products are processed into typical commodities;...

The Provincial Party Secretary also assessed that the district has begun to gradually form a central urban area in the Southwest of Nghe An; taking good care of social security; ensuring national defense and security, especially border security.

Regarding the content of the draft Political Report of the 26th District Party Executive Committee to be presented to the 27th District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025, comrade Thai Thanh Quy noted a number of indicators.

In particular, the district needs to clearly analyze the foundations and driving forces for growth to set appropriate growth targets with an aggressive direction. Similarly, the establishment of targets for party membership recruitment needs to be based on close survey and scientific calculation.

Agreeing with the target of 81% forest coverage rate of the district, the Provincial Party Secretary noted that in considering and researching the conversion of poor and exhausted forests into production forests, it is necessary to base on the assessment of the Department of Agriculture.

Con Cuong also pays attention to the new rural construction targets, especially in the difficult conditions of new rural construction at the commune level. It is necessary to consider increasing the targets for building new rural villages and hamlets associated with the development of ecotourism and community.

Regarding the orientation for the 2020 - 2025 term, comrade Thai Thanh Quy said that first of all, the district needs to maximize resources to build a town planning in the direction of ecological urbanization.

"We must look far, worry far, and look broadly to plan for the near future," said the Provincial Party Secretary because only when there is a plan can there be appropriate planning, closely following the development stage of Con Cuong.

On the other hand, the district needs to continue to focus strongly on tourism, services and trade; to gradually become the center and urban area of ​​tourism and services in the Southwest region.

To do so, the culture of ethnic minorities must be preserved, promoted, multiplied and used to develop tourism; calculate and arrange land funds to attract investment in accommodation and entertainment services in addition to community tourism; pay attention to cultural, educational and information technology infrastructure; ensure good security and a stable environment...

With a high forest coverage rate, Con Cuong must also take full advantage of economic development under the forest canopy, especially in association with the development of medicinal plants; research to build the district into a center of the Southwest region in forestry technology and forest product chains.

Khe Kem Waterfall is one of the attractions that attracts many visitors and tourists to Con Cuong. Photo: Bao Han

The district needs to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture to make the most of the Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve with Pu Mat National Park as its center to develop tourism...

To implement the above contents, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the district to continue to take care of the staff in the political system and human resources to develop services and tourism; ensure political stability, social security, border security, religious security; identify appropriate breakthroughs based on bottlenecks...