Provincial Party Secretary, Provincial People's Committee Chairman: Deploy and apply most effectively the mechanisms and policies that the National Assembly allows Nghe An to pilot
On the afternoon of December 26, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired a working session to listen to a report on the implementation results of Resolution No. 137/2024/QH15 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province.
Attending the meeting were comrades: Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; together with leaders of relevant departments, branches and sectors and Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee.
New momentum, new resources for the province's development
On June 26, 2024, the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 137/2024/QH15 on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province.
The Resolution stipulates 4 groups of fields with 14 specific policies, including: 4 policies on financial and budget management; 6 policies on investment management; 2 policies on urban and forest resource management and 2 policies on organizational structure and staffing.
After the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 137, the Provincial Party Committee issued Plan No. 271 dated August 18, 2024; the Provincial People's Committee issued Plan No. 737 dated September 27, 2024, assigning specific tasks to each department, branch, and locality to implement each policy, especially preparing conditions for implementation after Resolution No. 137 takes effect from January 1, 2025.
Of the 14 policies, 8 policies must be submitted to the Provincial People's Council or Provincial People's Committee for promulgation of regulations before implementation; 6 policies have ensured the conditions for implementation when the Resolution comes into effect.
Of the 14 policies, 5 policies have been stipulated in the 2024 Public Investment Law, the Law amending a number of articles of the Planning Law, the Investment Law, the Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model, and the Bidding Law in a more favorable direction than Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly.
The Department of Planning and Investment proposed that for the 4 policies that need to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council, the sectors should be assigned to proactively develop plans and report to the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Council to issue a Resolution.
For the remaining 5 policies, the departments, branches and localities are assigned to continue reviewing and advising on effective implementation based on the assigned tasks in Plan No. 737 of the Provincial People's Committee.
At the working session, the Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, leaders of departments, branches and sectors analyzed, exchanged and discussed the implementation of each policy; contributed opinions on solutions and tasks; recommended and proposed contents to effectively implement the policies in Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly.
Focus and make efforts to effectively implement the resolution
Concluding the working session, Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung emphasized that Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly will create new driving forces and new resources for the province's development, especially the implementation of Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo.
Emphasizing that the Resolution will only be truly meaningful when Nghe An province effectively implements it, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested all levels and sectors to focus and make efforts to deploy and most effectively apply mechanisms and policies to contribute to the implementation of the province's development goals in the context of many difficulties in resources.
After listening to the report and discussion, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung said that, of the 8 policies that must be submitted to the Provincial People's Council, 4 policies have been resolved in the provisions of the Law in a more favorable and broader way than Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly. Therefore, it is agreed to report to the Provincial People's Council to decide to apply the implementation according to the provisions of the promulgated Laws, effective from January 1, 2025.
These are the policies: Separating compensation, support, resettlement, and site clearance projects from public investment projects into independent public investment projects; implementing PPP projects in the fields of sports and culture; the Provincial People's Council considering and deciding to increase the proportion of state capital participation to no more than 70% of the total investment for PPP projects; implementing the BT contract form.
The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the important issue is to identify the project portfolio. On that basis, the sectors are required to innovate their thinking, from now until June 30, 2025, they must propose a portfolio of investment projects in the form of public-private partnership (PPP), BT projects, along with orientations on mechanisms and policies for implementation.
Regarding the 4 policies that must be submitted to the Provincial People's Council for implementation, regarding the fee and charge policy, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Finance to coordinate with sectors and localities to study and propose.
Regarding policies on domestic revenue from mineral exploitation activities and tax revenue from hydropower production facilities in the Western region and the allocation of an additional 50% of public investment capital from the central budget with additional targets for localities, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that sectors identify a list of projects that need to be focused on to implement these capital sources.
Regarding domestic revenue from mineral exploitation activities and tax revenue from hydropower production facilities implemented in 2025, the Department of Finance shall preside over and coordinate with the Department of Planning and Investment to advise the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Council a list of infrastructure investment projects in the first quarter of 2025.
Regarding the permission for the Vinh City People's Council to establish 3 Committees: Legal Committee, Economic - Budget Committee, Cultural - Social Committee according to Resolution 137, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Home Affairs to preside over and coordinate with the Vinh City People's Committee to advise the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Council to issue a Resolution regulating the areas of responsibility of the committees under the Vinh City People's Council at an appropriate time.
The remaining 6 policies have ensured the conditions for implementation. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung assigned departments, branches, sectors and localities to continue reviewing, proposing specific projects and advising on effective implementation based on assigned tasks.
