Closing of the 7th Session, 15th National Assembly after 27.5 working days
On the morning of June 29, after 27.5 days of serious, scientific, democratic and highly responsible work in accordance with the provisions of law and the regulations of the Session, the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly completed all the contents of the proposed program and held the closing session. Comrade Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member chaired.
The 7th session of the 15th National Assembly has the largest volume of legislative content at a session since the beginning of the term; the draft laws and resolutions considered and approved by the National Assembly at this session are related to many sectors and fields.
Regarding personnel work, the National Assembly considered and decided on the election of Tran Thanh Man as Chairman of the 15th National Assembly; the election of To Lam as President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the 2021-2026 term; the election of Nguyen Thi Thanh as Vice Chairman of the 15th National Assembly; the approval of the dismissal of To Lam as Minister of Public Security for the 2021-2026 term; the approval of the appointment of Le Thanh Long as Deputy Prime Minister; the election of Nguyen Thanh Hai as member of the Standing Committee of the 15th National Assembly; the approval of the appointment of Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang as Minister of Public Security for the 2021-2026 term; the approval of Tran Thanh Man and Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang as members of the National Defense and Security Council; and the dismissal of Dinh Tien Dung, a member of the Hanoi City National Assembly Delegation, from his duties as a deputy of the 15th National Assembly.
Personnel work was carried out carefully, closely, promptly, in accordance with Party regulations and State laws, ensuring the principles of democratic centralism, publicity, transparency, and achieving a very high consensus of National Assembly deputies.
Regarding legislative work, with a high approval rate, the National Assembly voted to pass 11 laws; considered and passed 21 resolutions; in which the National Assembly passed a Resolution on piloting the addition of a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province in order to supplement other mechanisms and policies suitable to the characteristics and actual situation of Nghe An province, promoting all potentials and advantages to develop the province quickly and sustainably, striving to build Nghe An into a fairly developed province of the country, with a fast and sustainable economic development, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An; being the center of the North Central region in terms of trade, logistics, healthcare, education and training, science and technology, industry and high-tech agriculture.
The Resolution has 8 articles, stipulating the piloting of a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province on state financial and budget management; investment management; urban and resource management; and organization of the local government apparatus.
In which, there are important contents, such as: Allowing Nghe An province when determining the additional balance from the central budget to the local budget, not to include tax revenue from hydropower production facilities, domestic revenue from mineral exploitation activities (excluding value added tax and corporate income tax) in the western region of Nghe An; using alternative forest planting funds when changing the purpose of forest use to another purpose; allocating an additional 50% of public investment capital from the central budget with additional targets for localities according to the principles, criteria and norms prescribed in the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on principles, criteria and norms for allocating public investment capital from the state budget for the period 2026-2030; exploitation and development of urban land funds; Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has no more than 5 vice chairmen...
The National Assembly has carried out many supreme supervision activities, including spending 2.5 days questioning 3 ministers and the State Auditor General on 4 areas: Natural Resources and Environment - Industry and Trade - Culture, Sports, Tourism and State Audit; Deputy Prime Ministers and members of the Government also participated in answering questions.
In his closing speech at the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized that in order to ensure that "the law is implemented fairly, strictly, consistently, promptly, effectively and efficiently", the National Assembly requested the Government, agencies of the National Assembly, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit, relevant agencies and organizations to focus on directing, thoroughly grasping and promptly implementing effectively the laws and resolutions just passed by the 7th Session to meet the requirements and tasks of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security and foreign affairs of the country.
At the same time, it is recommended that relevant agencies and National Assembly deputies continue to research, proactively and urgently prepare the contents to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the upcoming 8th Session.
The National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee respectfully thank the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, and directly General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong for their close and timely leadership and direction during the preparation and conduct of the session; and thank the experts, scientists, managers, the business community and the people for their enthusiastic, responsible and valuable contributions in both theory and practice to the activities of the National Assembly.
Emphasizing that 2024 is an important year in successfully implementing the tasks of the entire 2021-2026 term; with new confidence, new spirit, new motivation, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man believes that, under the correct, close and timely leadership and direction of the Party; the proactive, accompanying, flexible, close and effective supervision of the National Assembly; the drastic, effective and efficient management, direction and administration of the Government; the close coordination of sectors, levels and localities; the synchronous participation of the entire political system and the efforts and striving of the entire Party, people, army and business community, our country will definitely overcome difficulties and challenges, achieve the highest socio-economic development goals in 2024, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.
