Provincial Party Secretary, Provincial People's Committee Chairman: Focus on overcoming shortcomings, unlocking resources, creating conditions for the province to develop quickly and sustainably

On the afternoon of December 5, the 25th session of the 18th Provincial People's Council held a discussion in the hall.

The provincial leaders included comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - former Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, delegate of the Provincial People's Council; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province and comrades of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation.

Comrades: Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting.

Receive and propose solutions to overcome existing problems and limitations.

Speaking at the discussion session, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, on behalf of the Provincial People's Committee, respectfully thanked the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Council delegates for their opinions and basically agreed with the reports and draft Resolutions that the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Provincial People's Council at this session.

Through the opinions of the delegates of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee found that, basically, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council agreed and highly agreed with the results that the province had achieved in implementing the socio-economic development tasks in 2024; at the same time, frankly and responsibly pointed out the existing problems and limitations, including problems that have not been completely resolved over many terms, demonstrating the spirit, responsibility and awareness of building for the common development of the province.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed that the contents raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates have contributed to suggesting to the Provincial People's Committee issues that need to be further resolved. At the discussion session, members of the Provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments and branches discussed, explained and clarified the issues raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates.

On behalf of the Provincial People's Committee, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung said that he will seriously and fully accept and direct the Provincial People's Committee to have solutions to solve the problems raised, creating favorable conditions to continue to carry out the task of developing the province's economy and society more quickly and sustainably in the coming time.

Further clarifying the content of the concerns of the provincial People's Council delegates, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee had reported specifically to the Provincial People's Council.

Through discussion, the provincial People's Council delegates acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of growth rate, budget revenue, investment attraction, export turnover, disbursement of public investment capital, implementation of key projects, key tasks, and attention to social security issues. These are results demonstrating the efforts of the entire political system.

To achieve these results, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized valuable lessons learned. The first thing is solidarity, unity, sharing, and support among agencies, from the leadership of the Party Committee, the participation, support, and supervision of the People's Council, the administration of the government, and the consensus of the people and businesses.

For example, to resolve arising issues, in 2024, the Provincial People's Council, in addition to 2 regular meetings, organized 6 thematic meetings. On this occasion, the Provincial People's Committee would like to express its gratitude to the Provincial People's Council for creating favorable conditions for the Provincial People's Committee to resolve and remove obstacles and carry out socio-economic development tasks.

In addition, to achieve the above results, the province has selected key issues and key projects to implement. At the same time, the province has persistently followed up and made recommendations to the Central Government to resolve difficulties, obstacles and issues that have arisen in the province's development.

Specifically, the province has proposed and received approval from Government agencies and the National Assembly for Resolution No. 137 on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the province's development. This is an important resolution that creates resources and motivation for the province's development in the coming time.

At the same time, all levels, sectors and localities in 2024 have been more proactive, determined and better coordinated in implementing socio-economic development tasks, as demonstrated by the results achieved.

Regarding the remaining problems and limitations, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that one of the reasons for the difficulties in production and business activities of enterprises is the limited capacity of enterprises in the province, mainly small and micro enterprises, and the chosen industry is not really sustainable, leading to dissolution and cessation of operations. In the coming time, one of the solutions that the Provincial People's Committee is interested in is to promote the connection between domestic enterprises and FDI enterprises investing in the area.

Regarding the issue of unsustainable budget revenue structure, the proportion of revenue from land use is still high, this is the reality in the current development process of the province. However, the revenue from land will then be returned to focus on infrastructure development, serving the development needs of the province. In fact, many key projects of the province such as the road connecting National Highway 7C (Do Luong) to Ho Chi Minh Road (Tan Ky), coastal roads all use increased revenue from land. Investing in transport infrastructure will help localities in particular and the province in general have more space for development, which will later be a condition to help the province increase investment attraction.

Regarding the issue of effective use of land and public assets, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that although Nghe An is the locality with the largest natural area in the country, the land area for economic development is very limited, because 83% of the area is mountainous. We must recognize this as a limitation and difficulty in order to use land resources and public assets more effectively.

In addition, although the results of the province's public investment plan implementation have been quite good, through supervision, the Provincial People's Council has pointed out many shortcomings and limitations; the disbursement of capital from the National Target Programs has not been promoted much, while these are programs focusing on supporting disadvantaged areas, ethnic minorities, and the poor. The Provincial People's Committee will have solutions to overcome this in the coming time.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also said that the province has attracted investment very well, but the prerequisite for implementing projects is labor, which has not been met. In 2024, the province created more than 47,000 jobs, but more than 20,000 people went abroad to work, and a large number of workers sought opportunities in other provinces. The number of workers who meet the requirements of investors is not much. This is a matter of great concern for the province's sustainable and long-term development.

Besides, although coordination has improved, in some cases, some sectors and localities have not performed their functions and tasks well. There are still phenomena of pushing, avoiding, and waiting when solving the work of people and businesses.

In recent times, the province has paid attention to digital transformation but the results are still limited. At the same time, the effectiveness and efficiency in leadership, direction and administration of some Party committees and grassroots authorities are still limited, not close to the people, not understanding the people and not mobilizing people to effectively implement the province's policies and guidelines.

Pointing out the above shortcomings and limitations, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that the Provincial People's Committee would take responsibility and continue to direct to gradually remove and overcome them, creating the most favorable conditions for the province's socio-economic development.

Proposing the Provincial People's Council and Provincial People's Council delegates to accompany the Provincial People's Committee in performing important tasks.

Emphasizing that there is not much time left in 2024, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that there is still room for us to continue striving to achieve the highest level of the goals and targets approved by the Resolution of the Provincial People's Council. In addition, the province must carry out the important task of arranging administrative units at the district and commune levels according to Resolution 1243 of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

In December 2024, the Provincial People's Committee requested sectors and localities to proactively review projects, works, and resources at risk of waste. At the same time, allocate resources to care for people, especially those in remote areas, difficult circumstances, and vulnerable groups, first of all, during the New Year 2025 and Lunar New Year.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that 2025 is a very important year, the final year to implement the goals, targets and tasks of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress. This is also a year with many important events of the country, and also the year to organize Party congresses at all levels, to implement the streamlining revolution, and to reorganize the apparatus. With a very large and heavy workload and nature of work, therefore, the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Council delegates are requested to accompany the Provincial People's Committee to carry out the above important tasks.

In which, the first task is to focus the most and be determined to achieve the highest level of targets and objectives of the term, especially targets that are assessed as difficult to achieve such as GRDP growth rate, GRDP per capita... The Provincial People's Committee sets the target of striving for a double-digit growth rate, not less than 10%.

"We have confidence and foundation to achieve the above goals. Because in 2025, the province will begin implementing the National Assembly's Resolutions on specific mechanisms and policies; FDI projects that have been invested and implemented will create more resources for the province. Recently, the National Assembly has removed some bottlenecks in mechanisms, so investment procedures will be more favorable to unlock resources", the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee stated and emphasized that the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the direction of the Provincial People's Council to find every opportunity to accelerate and make breakthroughs to achieve the goals; innovate thinking to unlock resources and liberate capacity.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also emphasized that in 2025, the province must focus on implementing and successfully organizing Party congresses at all levels with a new spirit, new determination, and new approaches as directed and thoroughly implemented by General Secretary To Lam, which is to build congress documents that are life-affirming, concise, easy to remember, easy to understand, easy to implement, like "textbooks".

In addition, it is necessary to select personnel for the new term to ensure that they are up to the task. Therefore, I hope that the delegates of the Provincial People's Council will accompany us. Nghe An Province will be one of the provinces that participate responsibly, contributing positively to the new era of development, the era of national growth.

In addition, the province must carry out a revolution in streamlining the apparatus with the spirit of "cannot not do it", "cannot delay any longer" to build a "Refined - Lean - Strong - Effective - Effective - Efficient" apparatus as directed by General Secretary To Lam. During the implementation process, closely follow the spirit of direction: "running and lining up at the same time"; "The Central does not wait for the provincial level, the provincial level does not wait for the district level, the district level does not wait for the grassroots level". This is a revolution so we must carry it out with the highest spirit, the highest determination, if there is victory, there must also be sacrifice, so we hope that the leaders and Party Committee members will share and uphold the spirit of exemplary conduct.

On the other hand, the province will mobilize resources to implement key projects on the principle of focus; at the same time, identify more key projects to proactively implement in the coming time, especially infrastructure projects, creating conditions and foundations for the province's development in the new term.

In addition, continue to care for the poor, disadvantaged people, and mountainous areas, and focus resources on completing the Program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties.

The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also said that in 2025, the province must continue to take advantage of opportunities to accelerate breakthroughs in attracting investment, promote administrative reforms, carry out digital transformation, improve the investment environment with the spirit of creating all favorable conditions for investors to come to research and survey, organize and implement projects in the province, strive for 5 consecutive years in the top 10 in terms of FDI attraction results, and gradually strive to be in the top 10 nationwide in terms of registered and implemented FDI capital in the province.

Emphasizing that development requires stability, Provincial Party Secretary and Provincial People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Trung said that stability first means stabilizing the people's hearts. In 2025, all levels, sectors and localities must strive to avoid problems that create hot spots and frustrations at the grassroots level, and not create complaints that go beyond the level of the people, and strive to maintain stability for the province's development.

With encouraging results in 2024, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee believes that in 2025, the province will successfully implement and complete the set goals, targets and tasks; at the same time, he hopes that the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Council delegates will accompany the Provincial People's Committee as in 2024 and previous years to implement and complete the goals, targets and tasks of 2025.