Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee: Highly focus and resolutely implement tasks and goals of socio-economic development

On the morning of February 24, under the chairmanship of comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial People's Committee held a regular meeting for February 2022.

EPIDEMIC PREVENTION SUITABLE FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung assessed: In February 2022, sectors and levels focused on organizing activities to celebrate the Party, celebrate Spring, implement policy work, and social security work.

During the month, the results in production and business activities continued to be maintained. Regarding the state budget revenue in the area in the first 2 months of 2022, the whole province is estimated to have achieved 3,370 billion VND, reaching 22.5% of the estimate, equal to 112.7% compared to the same period in 2021.

View of the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

Regarding the investment attraction sector, as of February 22, 2022, the province has granted new licenses to 16 projects with a total registered investment capital of more than VND 954 billion. The sectors of trade, services, tourism, transportation, information and communication, and finance and banking all have seen a significant increase.

In addition to the achieved results, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out: the most difficult thing in February 2022 was the increasingly complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of infections increased rapidly; the prolonged cold weather caused many buffaloes and cows in mountainous districts to die. After Tet, workers in some factories in industrial parks in the area went on strike, affecting the socio-economic development and investment attraction environment of the province.

Attention is paid to the cultural and social security sectors; the work of caring for poor and near-poor households during Tet is widely implemented; activities of visiting and giving gifts to meritorious people and policy beneficiaries are timely.

Deploying key tasks in March 2022, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested that sectors focus on measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic in accordance with current developments and requirements.

Accordingly, the health sector needs to accurately assess the situation to implement effective epidemic prevention measures. In particular, it is necessary to focus highly on treatment, especially treatment for severe patients. The Department of Health reviews the treatment facilities to meet the requirements, especially the treatment of patients on the 2nd and 3rd floors, minimizing the risk of death.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

In addition, arrange grassroots medical facilities, especially mobile medical facilities to guide methods and support F0 patients in treatment at home. The Health sector coordinates with the Southeast Economic Zone Management Board to determine the number of facilities for receiving and treating F0 patients in industrial parks to take advantage of treatment facilities and labor use of enterprises; prioritize enterprises in industrial parks.

Along with that, the health sector needs to continue implementing the vaccination campaign, completing the supplementary injections, reviewing subjects who have not been vaccinated, and vaccinating children of all ages according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health. At the same time, strengthen the inspection of epidemic prevention and control measures in the localities to grasp the situation. Inspect medical supply businesses in the area to handle establishments that speculate, raise prices, and sell goods illegally.

In addition, the health sector coordinates with press agencies to strengthen communication work to raise people's awareness of implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, especially implementing the 5K measure.

The head of Nghe An provincial government also requested relevant sectors to support the health sector in implementing epidemic prevention and control measures; and allocate more resources for this work.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

HIGHLY FOCUSED AND DETERMINED TO IMPLEMENT TASKS

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that in parallel with the task of epidemic prevention and control, all levels and sectors need to focus highly on implementing socio-economic development targets and state budget estimates for 2022.

Accordingly, all levels and sectors must closely follow the main tasks and solutions and the assigned tasks in Decision 166 dated January 18, 2022 on the main tasks and solutions to implement the socio-economic development plan and state budget estimates for 2022.

At the same time, closely follow the work program of the Provincial People's Committee to ensure progress and quality. The Working Groups are requested to focus on directing the implementation of assigned tasks, especially re-evaluating the ability to implement the growth scenario, reviewing the ability to implement the growth scenario in the second quarter of 2022 and the first 6 months of the year to supplement implementation solutions.

The Department of Planning and Investment needs to urgently advise on the implementation plan of the Government's socio-economic recovery program. Coordinate with consulting units and sectors and localities to urgently complete the provincial planning.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also noted that sectors and localities should pay attention to the quality of sectoral and local development planning, and that the planning is integrated into the provincial planning. The Planning and Investment sector will continue to closely follow the progress to have a document submitted to the Government to guide the procedures for implementing Resolution 36 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province.

For the Agriculture and Rural Development sector, implement measures to prevent and control plant and animal diseases, prevent cold, and overcome livestock damage; accurately review the number of buffaloes and cows that died from the cold this time to have policies to support the right beneficiaries; review the data on planting the Spring crop in 2022. In addition, the sector needs to pay attention to implementing the plan to build new rural areas from the beginning of the year.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that the Department of Industry and Trade should pay attention to promoting industrial production products according to the growth scenario; especially key industrial products that have a great impact on achieving the growth target.

The Industry and Trade sector also needs to pay attention to organizing dialogue conferences with local export enterprises to find solutions to continue promoting export activities. In addition, the sector needs to complete and supplement the renewable energy planning so that the province has conditions to attract investment, especially clean energy, solar power, and wind power.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

The Department of Tourism develops a plan to restore tourism in the province, tourism promotion activities; and develops human resources after the epidemic season.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment needs to complete the district-level land statistics, appraise and approve the land use plan for the 2021-2030 period, and the 2022 district-level land use plan; deploy an interdisciplinary team to inspect mineral exploitation activities; and advise on strict handling of mineral exploitation in the area.

The head of the provincial government requested the Department of Construction to review and re-evaluate all urban planning and construction funding activities and propose solutions to improve the effectiveness of urban planning funding to ensure quality and efficiency.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Management Board of the Southeast Economic Zone to coordinate with investors to implement projects that have been granted investment certificates; closely follow the progress of submitting to the Prime Minister for approval of investment policies of Hoang Mai 1, Hoang Mai 2, and Tho Loc Industrial Parks; pay attention to the appraisal of general adjustments of the Southeast Economic Zone; coordinate with the health sector and localities to remove obstacles for enterprises, especially FDI enterprises, and be proactive in labor and Covid-19 prevention and control.

Regarding promoting the disbursement of public investment capital and urging the implementation of key projects, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung directed the implementation of a review to clarify the causes and responsibilities of all levels, sectors, and investors in the disbursement of public investment capital in 2021 to identify issues that need to be overcome.

The Planning and Investment sector reviews, advises and proposes eligible capital sources for extension and recovers ineligible capital sources. It is recommended that sectors and localities base on the disbursement plan commitment and proactively remove difficulties and obstacles, especially in site clearance work, to focus on speeding up procedures for new investment projects to promptly disburse capital to achieve the committed target.

For the Department of Transport, it is necessary to focus on key projects such as the coastal road project, Vinh - Cua Lo Boulevard, National Highway 7C. To speed up the progress of the coastal road project, the Department of Finance needs to pay attention to arranging capital for site clearance for the coastal road project, the section through 33km of agricultural land, about 140 billion VND.

In addition, the Department of Transport will join Project Management Board 6, Ministry of Transport to monitor the progress, remove difficulties and obstacles of the North-South expressway project; and prevent shortages and price increases of construction materials for the project.

Regarding budget management activities, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Finance sector to direct measures to collect budget according to strict management progress, spend budget effectively and economically; prioritize resources to prevent and fight the epidemic, support people in difficulty, support natural disaster prevention and control, and support key projects.

The Tax Department and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment coordinate with localities to control the collection of land use tax for each land auction project and real estate project to ensure timeliness, completeness, and avoid errors.

Regarding the socio-cultural field, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to continue implementing support policies for workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure the right policies and targets; regularly monitor policies and resolve problems arising between business owners and workers to avoid conflicts and disputes leading to strikes; connect labor supply and demand, support businesses with labor shortages in industrial parks.

For the Education and Training sector, it is necessary to uniformly direct the opening of schools in the province in accordance with the epidemic situation under the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training and the Health sector.

The Department of Culture needs to strengthen the management of festival activities, advise on organization towards the 132nd anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the Sen Village Festival program; coordinate and organize activities carefully, launch the movement to build cultural life at the grassroots level.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested all levels and sectors to focus on implementing key tasks on digital transformation in state agencies; proactively propose and complete the content to be submitted to the extraordinary meeting of the Provincial People's Council in March 2022.

Also in the morning, the Provincial People's Committee gave opinions on a number of other important issues related to the province's socio-economic development in the coming time./.