The Politburo approved the 20th Congress of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, term 2025 - 2030.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Le Minh Hung - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Commission; General Trinh Van Quyet - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Standing Member of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; along with comrades of the Party Central Committee, leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, and the Party Central Office.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Le Duc Cuong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee; Pham Trong Hoang - Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee; Ngoc Kim Nam - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee; Bui Thanh An - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Also attending were comrade Le Van Giap - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, Chief of the Provincial Party Committee Office and members of the Document Subcommittee's Editorial Team.

Striving to make Nghe An a national growth pole in the new development era

At the meeting, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung briefly reported on the preparation of documents and personnel plans for the 20th Provincial Party Congress.

Based on the direction and guidance of the Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee has led, directed, and guided lower-level Party committees to quickly stabilize after restructuring the organizational apparatus, overcome difficulties, and successfully organize grassroots and upper-level Party congresses according to requirements and progress; creating a foundation to prepare and organize the 20th Nghe An Provincial Party Congress.

The process of preparing documents has updated and concretized new viewpoints and policies of the Central Committee and the Politburo; at the same time, discussions were organized and comments were collected from committees, ministries, branches, central agencies, experts, scientists, intellectuals, artists, leaders, former leaders of central and local agencies, cadres, party members and people.

The Draft Report identifies five guiding viewpoints according to the approach: Development direction, resources and development driving forces; roles and responsibilities of subjects in development.

Regarding the general goal, determined according to Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045; adding the goal of striving to become a "national growth pole" under the direction of General Secretary To Lam at the working session with the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee on May 15, 2025.

Regarding the main indicators, the draft Report identifies 5 groups of general indicators, including: Group of indicators on Party building and the political system; Group of indicators on economy, science and technology; Group of indicators on environmental protection; Group of indicators on culture, society and people; Group of indicators on national defense and security. In addition, a number of important and specialized indicators are shown in the tasks and solutions section.

Regarding key tasks, the draft identifies five key task groups, focusing on the contents of perfecting institutions and operating mechanisms of the political system and tasks that lay the foundation for development in various fields.

Regarding breakthroughs, continue to identify 3 breakthroughs in institutions, human resources and infrastructure. In particular, institutional breakthroughs focus on 2 groups of work: the group of removing bottlenecks, bottlenecks, barriers and the group of creating development. Breakthroughs in human resources development focus on developing human resources with high qualifications and skills. Breakthroughs in infrastructure focus on prioritizing the development of strategic infrastructure, connectivity, and spillover effects to the fields and regions of the province.

Regarding main tasks and solutions, the draft Report identifies 8 main groups of tasks and solutions in various fields.

Regarding the personnel plan, the Provincial Party Committee has assessed the implementation of personnel work for the 2020-2025 term in conjunction with reviewing planning, evaluating, arranging and assigning cadres before the Congress and developing personnel projects for the 2025-2030 term, implementing the personnel introduction process in accordance with regulations, principles, strictly, promoting democracy, creating high consensus. The introduced personnel ensure the standards and conditions according to Directive No. 45-CT/TW and regulations of the Politburo.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung said that up to now, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Standing Committee have led and directed the synchronous implementation of propaganda work, ensuring security and order before, during and after the Congress as planned.

At the same time, launch emulation movements to achieve achievements to welcome Congresses at all levels and fully prepare conditions to organize the Congress to ensure solemnity, safety and economy.

The Congress documents must be highly quantitative, more actionable, more feasible, and have high political determination.

After listening to comments from Politburo members, Central Party Secretaries, leaders of Central departments, ministries and branches, concluding the working session, Comrade Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, National Assembly Chairman assessed that the preparation of draft documents and personnel plans for the Party Committee to submit to the 20th Provincial Party Congress was carried out meticulously, seriously and methodically, meeting the requirements of Directive 45 of the Politburo, guiding documents of the Central Committee, closely following the Central Committee's ideological viewpoints and the local situation, meeting the conditions to organize the 20th Provincial Party Congress.

The draft Political Report has been concise, fully meeting the elements, clearly guiding the orientation, ideology, political determination, and tasks throughout the term, striving to turn Nghe An into a national growth pole in the new era of development - this is the bold idea and aspiration of the province.

Agreeing with the Congress' motto, the National Assembly Chairman suggested that Nghe An province edit and condense the draft Political Report in a more concise, easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember, easy-to-implement, and easy-to-do manner. In particular, it is necessary to highlight more clearly the work of Party building, summarize feasible actions, and have a specific implementation roadmap like the Central Committee.

Assessing the general achievements, shortcomings and limitations of the province in the 2020-2025 term, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that the Provincial Party Executive Committee and the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee need to analyze and clarify objective and subjective causes, lessons learned from limitations to have solutions to overcome them in the coming period.

Agreeing with the goals, directions, tasks, and solutions in the draft Political Report, the National Assembly Chairman said that the province needs to quantify specifically, taking results and effectiveness as a measure with the motto: What to do, how to do it, where to do it, who does it, when to finish it; cadres must be decisive, resolute, determined, and must have specific products.

In that spirit, Nghe An province must thoroughly grasp the Party's guiding viewpoints in the draft documents submitted to the 14th National Party Congress to apply to the specific conditions of the locality, identify favorable opportunities, forecast the situation closely, identify breakthroughs in a comprehensive manner to determine the goals to strive for. Nghe An needs to continue reviewing the goals and tasks in the recent Resolutions of the Central Committee and the Politburo to supplement and concretize them in the next 5 years and supplement Party building targets.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man also suggested that Nghe An province should continue to review and closely follow the program, working regulations for the entire term and the annual work program of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to further review the working methods, style and manners, especially the implementation of the principle of democratic centralism and principles in Party activities; collective and individual responsibilities, especially the heads of Party committees, thereby promoting achievements and overcoming shortcomings and limitations.

Paying special attention to the target of GRDP per capita of Nghe An province by 2030 reaching about 7,500 - 8,000 USD, the National Assembly Chairman said that Nghe An must discuss carefully within the Party Committee, clearly identify the driving forces of growth rate, budget revenue, import and export, and propose effective solutions to achieve this target.

Nghe An is the hometown of President Ho Chi Minh, has a tradition of studiousness, with a population of more than 3.8 million people, the province must propose solutions in education and training to raise educational levels, improve people's knowledge to perform well the tasks of developing science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.

Implementing the policy of the Central Government, Nghe An province needs to have solutions to encourage the learning movement among the entire population; improve the quality of health care for the people from within each household. Along with economic development, the province also needs to pay attention to solving pressing social problems.

Building a provincial digital transformation data center down to the commune level, digitizing, using artificial intelligence (AI), each citizen and business needs 1-2 virtual assistants for the digital transformation revolution to be successful.

Basically agreeing with the contents of the draft Resolution submitted to the Congress, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man requested the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee to fully absorb the comments of ministries, branches, Politburo members, and Secretariat members to complete and definitely discuss the Action Program to implement the Resolution at the Congress. After the Congress, the Resolution will be implemented in conjunction with the Action Program.

Regarding the personnel plan for the Party Committee for the 2025-2030 term, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man assessed that Nghe An Provincial Party Committee has led and directed seriously, in accordance with procedures, ensuring objectivity, democracy, publicity and transparency in accordance with the spirit of Directive 45 of the Politburo; at the same time, he suggested that the province select ethnic minority cadres and young cadres for the Party Committee to ensure structural requirements.

In his acceptance speech, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung, on behalf of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, respectfully thanked the National Assembly Chairman, Politburo members, and Party Central Committee Secretaries for their guidance on the contents of documents and personnel plans of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee in preparation for the 20th Provincial Party Congress.

The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee seriously and fully absorbs the instructions of the Politburo, the Secretariat and the opinions of the committees, ministries and branches to continue perfecting the congress documents and the Action Program to implement the Congress Resolution to ensure brevity, science, clarity, closeness to reality, higher quantification, higher actionability, higher feasibility, and higher political determination to achieve the development goals set for Nghe An province in the coming term.

The province will also continue to review and perfect personnel work to ensure requirements; focus on ideological work to ensure unity and consensus in the process of preparing for the Congress.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that the Provincial Party Executive Committee and the Provincial Party Standing Committee will continue to promote the spirit of solidarity, strive for the highest, prepare to achieve the best results, successfully organize the 20th Provincial Party Congress to enter the new term with new spirit and determination to achieve the set goals.