Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung: Sectors must proactively coordinate to quickly resolve work.

Overview of the regular meeting of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee in February 2023. Photo: Pham Bang

MANY CLEAR RESULTS IN THE FIRST 2 MONTHS OF THE YEAR

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De requested departments and branches to carefully study the process of handling administrative procedures, especially the procedures for granting investment policies, to implement quickly and in accordance with regulations. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development continues to direct the work of taking care of spring crops; appraising new rural areas; speeding up capital allocation, speeding up the progress of implementing industry projects, planning 3 types of forests...

Comrade Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Thanh An requested the Department of Finance to coordinate with the Provincial Tax Department and the Provincial Customs to find solutions to increase import-export tax collection; strengthen the review of land rent exemption and reduction; urge the settlement of public investment capital, avoid prolonged backlog; give autonomy to public service units; and allocate funding sources early.

On the other hand, the Southeast Economic Zone reviews infrastructure works inside and outside the fence of the Economic Zone and industrial parks; establishes teams to urge and support large investment projects.

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The speech of the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Le Hong Vinh, requested the sectors to pay attention to the work of handling administrative procedures, speed up the disbursement of public investment capital, change the crop structure in the face of forecasted shortage of irrigation water; speed up the recovery of slow-progressing projects. On the other hand, he requested enterprises to correct violations in mineral exploitation.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Emphasizing that the Provincial People's Council highly appreciated the spirit of urgent, drastic, specific and effective management of the Provincial People's Committee in the first two months of 2023, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct branches and localities to review the list of draft Resolutions expected to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council in 2023; overcome the situation of slow submission of reports and draft Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council; re-evaluate Decision 25/2019 on the regulations on receiving, handling and responding to voters' petitions, avoiding frustration at the grassroots level.

Comrade Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Concluding the meeting, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assessed that right after Tet, the Provincial People's Committee immediately deployed work and achieved clear results in agricultural production, budget collection, investment attraction, social security, cultural events, ensuring national defense - security, and social order.

In addition to the achieved results, regarding agricultural production, water resources are facing difficulties; some key industrial products have decreased; some budget revenues have decreased; disbursement of public investment capital in the first two months of the year has not met requirements; some projects in national target programs have not been allocated capital; and the settlement of administrative procedures in some sectors and localities is still slow.

FOCUS ON DISBURSEMENT OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT CAPITAL FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR

Regarding the key tasks and solutions in the coming time, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested the sectors to continue to focus on directing and urging the removal of difficulties to achieve the highest results and efficiency in implementing the goals and targets in the Socio-Economic Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2023 according to the approved scenario. The departments and sectors proactively follow the assigned tasks according to Decision 162, ensuring progress and quality. The five working groups closely follow the approved plan to ensure implementation according to requirements.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested the two important sectors, Agriculture and Industry and Trade, to closely follow the plan to achieve the set goals and targets. The Management Board of the Southeast Economic Zone urgently implements the procedures for the Tho Loc Industrial Park project - VSIP Nghe An II Project; Immediately implement Decision 93 of the Prime Minister on the overall adjustment of the construction of the Southeast Economic Zone until 2040; urge the projects being implemented in the industrial park.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Regarding some tasks to be focused on in March, the head of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Planning and Investment to proactively prepare documents for the thematic session of the Provincial People's Council; Complete the summary report of Resolution 26 of the Politburo, prepare a new draft Resolution, study specific mechanisms and policies; Complete the summary report of the Provincial Planning; Amend regulations on public investment management, guide the implementation of investment procedures; Prepare the content of the preliminary conference, the socio-economic development cooperation program between Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of the Red River Delta, the Northern mountainous region and the North Central region until 2025.

In addition, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment organized a public consultation on the draft Land Law (amended). The Department of Foreign Affairs focused on immediately implementing the results of the meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, including some contents related to the cooperation program.

Emphasizing that the province's public investment disbursement results in 2022 are among the lowest in the country, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested clarification of the responsibilities of sectors, localities, and investors. Regarding the public investment plan in 2023, sectors and localities must quickly complete procedures for projects that have not yet been allocated capital.

Leaders of departments, branches and sectors attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Based on the plan, investors are required to sign a commitment to disburse funds right from the beginning of the year and review and clarify any issues that may arise and obstacles for timely resolution; Carry out procedures to report to the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the plan to adjust the medium-term public investment plan for the central budget. The working group on public investment disbursement will organize an inspection in March to grasp the situation and have solutions to promote disbursement.

The Finance Department coordinates with the Tax and Customs Departments to carefully review budget collection contents, especially those that are not likely to be guaranteed, in order to achieve the highest collection target, especially those with large proportions. In addition, budget expenditure management must be tight, economical and effective.

Regarding the socio-cultural field, the head of the Provincial People's Committee requested departments and branches to implement according to the content of each branch. In particular, focusing on implementing the housing support program for poor and near-poor households; paying attention to job creation.

In particular, paying attention to administrative reform, digital transformation, strengthening discipline and administrative order, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested departments and branches to continue to focus more on this work, especially enhancing the responsibility of leaders in handling work.

Leaders of departments, branches and sectors attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Sectors need to strengthen coordination with each other to quickly resolve administrative procedures; when assigning tasks, it is necessary to clearly define the person, the task, the time, the results, and the responsibilities. Directors and heads of departments and sectors proactively review work processing procedures, proactively check and evaluate the progress and quality of work processing of staff, civil servants, and public employees in the unit. Every month, the Provincial People's Committee Office announces the results and progress of work processing of the units. The Department of Information and Communications focuses on digital transformation tasks.

In addition, units in the armed forces continue to carry out defense and security tasks, ensuring social order. In particular, strictly implementing measures to suppress all types of crimes, especially crimes related to violations of state management, positions, and economics. The viewpoint of the provincial leaders is to strictly handle according to regulations, without cover-up, and without forbidden zones if violations are detected.