Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee: Highly focus on preventing and fighting Covid-19 epidemic to stabilize economic development

On the morning of May 25, the Provincial People's Committee held a regular meeting in May 2021 to discuss key solutions to promote Covid-19 prevention and control and socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in June 2021 and the following months.

Overview of the regular meeting of the Provincial People's Committee in May 2021 on the morning of May 25. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired. Photo: Pham Bang

STRICTLY MANAGE PEOPLE RETURNED FROM EPIDEMIC AREAS

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the risk of Covid-19 epidemic entering Nghe An is still high and requested departments and branches to properly manage people entering and leaving agency headquarters and agency staff, and consider sending officials on business trips outside the province at this time.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested the Provincial Police to strengthen control and review of subjects taking advantage of the title of experts and high-tech workers to illegally enter Nghe An; and strengthen the handling of violations of regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Concluding this content, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that May is a particularly important month with many events, especially the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that in the context of the province having to cope with the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic and still having to carry out socio-economic development tasks, the results achieved in May were extremely positive.

The most obvious example is the work of preventing and fighting Covid-19 when a positive case appeared in the community in the province, with the quick intervention and timely handling of the health sector with the motto of detecting, preventing, isolating, suppressing the epidemic, and treating. And up to this point, the sources of infection from the movement of people returning from other localities have been controlled quite well.

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

In addition, the election work was adjusted to suit the epidemic situation, successfully organizing the election with a voter turnout rate of 98.8%. In addition, budget revenue was quite good in the context of many difficulties; attracting investment, establishing businesses, and registering capital was high.

Regarding key tasks and solutions in the coming time, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested all levels and sectors to focus highly on the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic, avoiding two trends according to the direction of the Prime Minister: negligence, subjectivity, loss of vigilance and panic, anxiety, loss of composure.

“When a situation occurs, we must take measures in a methodical, strict and correct manner, with the motto of detecting, preventing, isolating, suppressing the epidemic, treating effectively and strictly implementing the "5K" regulations. In particular, we need to have stronger and more drastic measures in dealing with those who do not comply. Because in the end, this is a measure to protect the health of the people and the community.”

Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung

To effectively prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, the head of the provincial People's Committee requested sectors and localities to strictly control people returning from epidemic areas, effectively promote the role of community supervision to provide timely information to authorities.

Sectors need to strictly manage border entry, experts, and highly skilled workers. Strictly manage workers in factories and enterprises in the area and workers returning from epidemic areas. The health sector focuses on the second round of Covid-19 vaccination to ensure progress and plans.

SPEED UP THE DISBURSEMENT OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT CAPITAL

Regarding the task of economic development, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested that sectors and localities must closely follow the growth scenario. In the coming time, the results of the first 6 months of the year will be evaluated and, on that basis, solutions for the last 6 months of the year will be proposed. Sectors and localities will be proactive in reviewing, evaluating and implementing the tasks of each sector and field.

In particular, sectors and localities must promptly grasp the difficulties of enterprises, have solutions to resolve and support them, thereby helping enterprises have more motivation to achieve production and business goals, contributing to achieving socio-economic development goals.

Members of the Provincial People's Committee attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also assigned the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to promote timely summer-autumn crop production, prevent and control diseases on crops and livestock, forest fire prevention and control, prevent and control storms and floods, and deploy the establishment of a high-tech forestry zone to ensure progress, content, and land use planning. The Department of Industry and Trade continues to remove obstacles and difficulties for industrial production, achieve growth targets according to the scenario, and ensure electricity supply for production and daily life needs in the coming time.

Considering that the progress of disbursement of public investment capital is very slow, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung requested the Department of Planning and Investment to focus on completing the medium-term public investment plan soon with the spirit of not spreading out, not dispersing, and allocating capital with focus and key points. Review the disbursement commitments of investors, group them by ratio to urge and promote disbursement.

In particular, starting from the third quarter of 2021, capital will be reviewed and adjusted in projects with slow disbursement due to subjective reasons, with the goal of disbursing 100% of public investment capital in 2021. Departments and branches need to proactively remove difficulties and obstacles for contractors. The Department of Transport will soon complete the feasibility study report of the coastal road project, focus on accelerating the progress of key projects, and complete site clearance for the Dien Chau - Bai Vot expressway project.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also assigned tasks to the Department of Planning and Investment, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and the Management Board of the Southeast Economic Zone on the issue of providing materials for land clearance and site clearance, the overall adjustment project of the Southeast Economic Zone planning, resolving investment policy documents of pending projects, and amending decisions on investment procedures in a spirit of simplicity and convenience, avoiding causing trouble and difficulties for businesses.

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

Sectors review the progress of implementing programs and projects according to the work program of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Party Standing Committee, and the Provincial Party Executive Committee to deploy them according to plan. Proactively prepare reports and draft resolutions to submit to the Provincial People's Council session and the mid-year session of 2021. Speed ​​up the work of making provincial planning according to the approved schedule, because the time from now until submission to the Prime Minister for approval is less than 1 year. Localities and sectors themselves must be responsible, proactive, and not rely too much on consulting units.

The head of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Home Affairs to evaluate the results of the first 6 months of the implementation of Directive 08 of the Provincial People's Committee on promoting the responsibility of leaders in administrative reform in 2021. The sectors organized well the graduation exam, the provincial defense zone drill, and crime prevention and control, especially drug crimes. Strengthened patrols and traffic control, restrained and reduced traffic accidents; fire prevention and fighting./.