The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee discussed solutions for developing industry and handicrafts.

On the morning of November 17, the Provincial Party Standing Committee held its regular October meeting. Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Provincial Party Secretary, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting.

Also attending were comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, comrades representing a number of Central Party Committees, comrades of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and leaders of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors.

Overview of the working session. Photo: Thanh Duy

Rapidly growing industry size

The Provincial Party Standing Committee listened to a report summarizing 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 06 - NQ/TU dated November 4, 2011 of the Provincial Party Executive Committee and issued a Resolution on rapid and sustainable development of industry and handicrafts in the 2021 - 2030 period.

The assessment of the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee shows that after 10 years of implementing Resolution 06, the scale of industrial production in the province has increased rapidly, the value of industrial production has increased more than 4 times compared to 2010, from 16,814 billion VND to 69,304 billion VND in 2020.

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Commission spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The internal structure of the industry has shifted positively towards increasing the proportion of processing and manufacturing industry and gradually reducing the mining industry. The planning and investment in industrial infrastructure systems are increasingly complete, creating a favorable environment to attract investment registration projects.

The implementation of programs and projects in the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 06 has contributed to significantly improving the investment and business environment; the system of mechanisms and policies has been issued relatively fully and promptly, and the application process has been regularly supplemented and amended appropriately, contributing to encouraging and attracting investment.

Along with that, the Resolution's objectives on promoting the development of small-scale industries, rural occupations, and building craft villages have created many typical products, contributing to the total number of 112 OCOP products recognized by the Provincial People's Committee.

Comrade Le Tien Tri - Head of the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board spoke to clarify some issues related to investment attraction and industrial development. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee and a number of departments and branches focused on analyzing and evaluating the reasons why the growth in industrial production value, although higher than the average of other countries, the industrial - construction structural shift was lower than the target; the Provincial Competitiveness Index increased by 36 ranks from 2010 to 2020, from position 54 to 18, but the province still has not attracted large enterprises; the issue of enterprise development; the correlation and resonance between the call for industrial development with agriculture and services; industrial development associated with urban development.

WHA Industrial Park in the Southeast Economic Zone. Photo: Thanh Cuong

On that basis, opinions discussed the orientations, goals, tasks and main solutions in the draft Resolution on rapid and sustainable development of industry and handicrafts in the 2021 - 2030 period.

Regarding the solution, comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee suggested that there should be mechanisms and policies to collect leather shoe and textile projects in the direction of having main factories and satellite factories to connect with the labor market.

Comrade Do Van Chien - Head of Local Department I, Central Party Office spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Commission emphasized that the leadership role through the Resolution needs to clearly demonstrate solutions: Planning, mobilizing resources for synchronous infrastructure investment, perfecting mechanisms and policies; and industrial development is the responsibility of economic sectors. Therefore, he suggested considering 3 groups of industrial development tasks as in the draft to turn into orientations.

On the other hand, the Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Commission proposed to study and add to the Resolution solutions for industrial development along with ensuring social security, building political and social institutions and developing the working class in the new situation.

Comrade Do Van Chien - Head of Local Department I, Central Party Office, agreed that the province's orientation is not to increase industrial growth at all costs to increase budget revenue, but in return, it must bear the environmental problem. Regarding the future orientation, he suggested that the content of the Resolution should be based on the Resolution on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province to calculate the goals and major orientations for industrial development in the coming period.

DETERMINING DEVELOPMENT COORDINATES AND PRIORITY POLICIES

Concluding this content, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy reviewed the achievements, as well as the limitations and causes over the past 10 years when implementing Resolution No. 06.

Regarding the Resolution on rapid and sustainable development of industry and handicrafts in the 2021 - 2030 period, the Provincial Party Secretary pointed out a number of major orientations. First of all, it is necessary to add to the Resolution a very important development orientation that the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress determined is to prioritize the development of high-tech, environmentally friendly industries based on new and modern technology.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy concluded the content on industrial and handicraft development. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the same time, we must pay attention to the development orientation of digitalization, industry, and technology associated with digitalization. “This is an inevitable trend now. If we do not take the lead, pay attention, and do not care about having development policies, we will fall behind,” said the Provincial Party Secretary.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also noted that the Resolution needs to have priority policies in industrial development, including prioritizing the determination of development coordinates; determining priority policies on infrastructure construction in economic zones, industrial parks, industrial clusters; waste and wastewater treatment; human resource training... to create a foundation, premise, and hinge to attract large enterprises to invest and develop industry, contributing to the development of the province.

Representatives of Central Party Committees attended the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial Party Secretary also pointed out that it is necessary to limit the development of cement, thermal power, hydropower, and mining industries; instead, develop high-tech industries, electronics, telecommunications, new construction materials, agricultural, forestry, and seafood processing, renewable energy, etc.

On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen industrial development along with attention to social security, socio-political institutions, and workers' lives; along with industry is urban and service development; attention should be paid to attracting investors in the field of waste and wastewater treatment, especially waste in industrial zones and clusters.

In particular, the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee emphasized the viewpoint of not attracting investment in industrial development at all costs at the expense of the environment.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the discussion on the Project on developing key infrastructure systems, creating a breakthrough foundation for socio-economic development, period 2021 - 2025. Photo: Thanh Duy

Also in the working program this morning, the Provincial Party Standing Committee listened to and gave opinions on a number of other important contents, especially on the Project on developing key infrastructure systems, creating a breakthrough foundation for socio-economic development, period 2021 - 2025.

Accordingly, the Provincial Party Standing Committee discussed solutions to mobilize and arrange capital to build and complete key infrastructure projects such as Vinh - Cua Lo Road, Cua Lo Deepwater Port; construction of runway No. 2 of Vinh Airport; Vinh city infrastructure adapting to climate change associated with building this urban area into a center of innovation and digital technology of the province and the region;...