Provincial Party Secretary: The value of Do Luong land must be strongly and fully demonstrated

(Baonghean.vn) - Highly appreciating the tradition of studiousness of Do Luong district, the Provincial Party Secretary hopes that this value must be strongly and fully demonstrated, creating motivation for the district to develop further.

On the afternoon of December 1, comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation worked with the Standing Committee of the Do Luong District Party Committee. Also attending were representatives of leaders of provincial departments and branches.

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Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh chaired a meeting with the Standing Committee of Do Luong District Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

Forming a service center in the Southwest region

According to Do Luong district's report, in 2017, the total annual production value (at current prices) is estimated to reach more than 14,197 billion VND. The growth rate in 2017 is estimated to reach 11.67%; the average production value per capita is estimated to reach more than 72 million VND/person/year, the average added value per capita is estimated to reach nearly 40 million VND/person/year.

Regarding the implementation of the National Target Program on new rural construction, it is expected that in 2017, Do Luong district will have 2 communes, Dang Son and Boi Son, reaching the finish line, bringing the total number of communes in the district to 12 meeting the standards.

The district also focuses on directing the town to build a town that meets urban civilized standards with the contents according to the 2017 roadmap.

Do Luong has focused on directing poverty reduction work, it is expected that by the end of 2017, the poverty rate in the whole district will be only 4.5%, down 0.55% compared to 2016; The education and training sector has many positive, solid, comprehensive changes, ranking at the top of the province; National defense and security are stable.

Secretary of Do Luong District Party Committee Truong Hong Phuc speaks at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding Party building work, Do Luong has also achieved many results in many fields. Notably, the district has summarized the model of secretary cum hamlet chief for the 2015-2017 term and successfully directed the Party cell congress associated with the election of hamlet chief and block chief for the 2017-2020 term.

Accordingly, the number of Party cell secretaries who are also hamlet and block leaders is 264/367 comrades, reaching 71.93%; Deputy Party cell secretaries who are also hamlet and block leaders are 30/367 comrades, accounting for 8.17%; Party cell committee members who are also hamlet and block leaders are 5/367 comrades, accounting for 1.36%; Party members who are not Party cell committee members and are hamlet leaders are 2/367 comrades, accounting for 0.55%. Hamlet leaders who are not Party members are 66/367 comrades, accounting for 17.98%.

Regarding tasks in the coming time, Do Luong district has set out many specific tasks, notably mobilizing all resources, actively attracting investment and participation of economic sectors, and developing the trade service system.

Do Luong aims to form service centers, auxiliary service systems, entertainment and tourism centers, develop towns, market towns, regional centers, create spillover and development of goods exchange and urbanization process, "turn Do Luong into a service center, trade center and service logistics center of the midland and mountainous districts of Southwest Nghe An" - Standing Deputy Secretary of Do Luong District Party Committee Le Minh Giang said.

Do Luong town is being built to meet the criteria of a type 4 urban area. Photo courtesy

Promoting the value of learning land

At the meeting, departments and branches contributed ideas to help Do Luong develop in line with its potential and expectations. Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Bui Tram agreed with the district's proposal to expand Lac Son Industrial Cluster and adjust the planning of Thuong Son Industrial Cluster to attract investors; at the same time, he suggested that the district work specifically with the department to complete the procedures to submit to the Ministry of Industry and Trade for approval.

Deputy Director of the Department of Construction Nguyen Truong Giang proposed that the district coordinate to upgrade the district town to a type 4 urban area in the 2016 - 2020 period, moving towards establishing a town.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Tien Lam also highly appreciated Do Luong's agricultural production skills and hoped that the district would take the lead and become a demonstration model of the province in restructuring the agricultural sector.

Speaking at the meeting, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh acknowledged the results in economic development of Do Luong, which is one of the few localities with a double-digit growth rate.

In particular, the district has attracted projects to lead the development process; at the same time, invested and guided people to build many economic models with 91 farms and 186 households.

Director of the Department of Home Affairs Dau Van Thanh speaks at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Industrial and handicraft production establishments operated stably with 2,385 establishments, attracting 3,695 workers; total budget revenue in 2017 also reached over 200 billion VND.

On that basis, with the trend of investors starting to pay attention to investing in Do Luong, the Provincial Party Secretary suggested that the district seize the opportunity to attract investment; pay attention to planning and urban development orientation; and effectively exploit the value of land funds.

Going into specifics, regarding the agricultural sector, Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh assessed that although not many communes have reached the new rural destination, the way of doing things is quite certain, therefore, the district needs to continue to build a specific implementation roadmap with the implementation perspective of economic development and improving people's lives as the fundamental and core factors.

Regarding investment, the Provincial Party Secretary assessed that there were businessmen who were sons of Do Luong returning to their hometown to invest, but some were successful, some were not. Therefore, the district had to re-evaluate and create conditions to support them to invest in production and do business effectively in their hometown.

Affirming that culture and society are the district's strengths, especially the tradition of studiousness, the Provincial Party Secretary suggested that Do Luong district pay attention to developing education; at the same time, attract Do Luong's children to return to their hometown to work and contribute to the development of their homeland.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Tien Lam spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

"I hope the value of land is strongly and fully demonstrated in this land" - Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh emphasized and considered this as the foundation for Do Luong to be able to exploit its potential, take advantage of great development opportunities, especially the convergence factor in traffic that is gradually becoming present.

The Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that Do Luong district is in a period of stability and development; thereby expressing his belief that the district's political system will continue to be strong in the spirit of the cadres being extremely united, constructive, and helping each other, without losing the current momentum of development.

The Provincial Party Secretary also highly appreciated and welcomed the results of the implementation of the policy of Party cell secretary concurrently being the hamlet chief of the district and suggested that Do Luong continue to maintain it. The province will study to replicate it in other localities./.

Thanh Duy