Provincial Party Secretary: Strengthen revenue and expenditure management and control of staffing in agencies and units

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired the conference. Attending the conference were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee. Photo: Mai Hoa

Reporting to the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai said that the province's total product in the first 6 months of the year had the highest growth rate compared to the same period in the past 6 years, with an increase of 7.39%.

Budget revenue reached nearly VND6,200 billion, reaching 48.8% of the estimate and increasing by 10.2% over the same period. Nghe An continues to have many drastic solutions to improve the investment and business environment, enhancing provincial competitiveness.The cultural and social fields continue to have many positive changes; security and national defense are ensured.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai affirmed that the situation of outstanding debts arising from basic construction after the Law on Public Investment took effect still exists. Photo: Mai Hoa

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also frankly pointed out a number of limitations and shortcomings. Notably, the conversion of ineffective rice-growing land to other crops with higher economic efficiency is still slow; the removal of difficulties in processing and consuming agricultural products has not met requirements; the development and expansion of production models are still limited. The situation of outstanding debts arising from basic construction after the Law on Public Investment took effect still exists.

Based on the direction of Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh, at the conference, delegates focused on discussing many practical issues. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dinh Viet Hong informed about the results of building new rural areas in the whole province with 181 communes and 3 district-level units reaching the new rural target; 46 villages and hamlets were recognized as meeting the standards of new rural villages and hamlets.

According to the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, to promote and improve the quality of new rural construction, the province is directing localities to build new rural standard gardens and will soon organize a beautiful new rural garden contest from district to provincial level; promote the construction of effective economic models. The Provincial People's Committee also directed localities to prioritize paying off debts for new rural construction with a total amount of 182 billion VND.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dinh Viet Hong shared some solutions to improve the quality of new rural construction. Photo: Mai Hoa

Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Hong Vu said that the target is to reduce the number of poor households by 2-3% each year; however, the remaining poor households are currently facing many difficulties. Without drastic and synchronous solutions, this task will be very difficult to achieve.

Comrade Doan Hong Vu also requested local leaders to pay attention to finding solutions to limit illegal workers residing in other countries, especially South Korea, to avoid affecting the province's labor export work.

Thai Khac Thu, Secretary of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee, said that administrative reform has had positive changes, but has not yet met requirements and needs to be more drastic.

The Secretary of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee also informed that there were a number of businesses that registered to support the Tet for the poor program but did not implement it.

Vinh City Party Secretary Vo Viet Thanh suggested that sectors need to find solutions to resolve some problems regarding compensation policies and site clearance mechanisms for some projects in the area.

Pay attention to building economic models in the NTM movement. Photo: Document

Concluding this content, in addition to appreciating the achieved results, while pointing out a number of shortcomings and limitations, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh requested the Provincial People's Committee to focus on directing sectors and localities to synchronously and comprehensively implement tasks and plans for socio-economic development in 2018; at the same time, review planning to adjust and supplement in accordance with the Law on Planning effective from January 1, 2019.

The Provincial Party Secretary also gave some specific instructions for the agricultural sector, accordingly, it is necessary to accelerate the restructuring of the agricultural sector towards increasing added value and sustainable development; urgently allocate land and forests to people; promote the construction of new rural villages in mountainous areas...

The Provincial Party Secretary suggested that the Provincial People's Committee should innovate the way of meeting with businesses to ensure more practicality and efficiency; at the same time, besides paying attention to removing obstacles and difficulties for large enterprises, it is also necessary to pay attention to small and medium enterprises, creating conditions for these enterprises to develop equally.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh emphasized that there will be no promotion for heads of People's Committees of districts that do not strictly manage their payroll. Photo: Mai Hoa

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh also noted that the Education and Training sector and localities should inspect, review and strengthen the supervision of revenue and expenditure in schools; strengthen the management of payroll and labor contracts in agencies, units and schools. The Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that there will be no promotion for the heads of the People's Committees of districts that do not strictly manage payroll.

The Provincial Party Secretary also directed sectors and localities to pay special attention to solving pressing problems of the people. On the other hand, in addition to paying attention to poverty reduction, it is necessary to focus on supporting and subsidizing families who are unable to work and households in especially difficult circumstances.

Affirming the changes in administrative reform in 7 key sectors, agencies and units, the Provincial Party Secretary requested that sectors and localities need to identify this as their political task to continue to implement it more effectively, ensuring good service for people and businesses...

At the 11th Conference, the Provincial Party Executive Committee also gave opinions on the summary of 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 22/NQ-TW, dated February 2, 2008 of the Central Executive Committee (10th tenure) on improving the leadership capacity, fighting strength of grassroots party organizations and the quality of cadres and party members; Summarizing the implementation of Directive No. 36/CT-TW, dated May 30, 2014 of the Politburo on party congresses at all levels, towards the 12th National Congress of the Party.