Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy outlined 7 tasks for Vinh city.

Continue to affirm the position of growth locomotive

On the afternoon of December 13, the Vinh City Party Committee held a conference to review Party building work in 2019 and deploy tasks for 2020. Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and directed the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

In 2019, Vinh City Party Committee continued to focus on directing the implementation of programs and projects to implement the Resolution of the City Party Congress for the 2015-2020 term, in conjunction with the implementation of targets and tasks for socio-economic development, national defense and security in 2019.

Accordingly, the city's economy in 2019 had a good growth rate, estimated at 9.15%. The economic structure shifted in the right direction, with the proportion of services accounting for 66.3%; industry - construction 32.5% and agriculture, forestry and fishery 1.2%. The total social investment capital is estimated at more than 17,115 billion VND, up 11.06% over the same period.

Comrade Phan Duc Dong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee said that 2019 was a year with many difficulties, but thanks to the focused leadership and direction with the strong determination of the entire Party Committee and the contributions and consensus of the people and businesses, Vinh city continued to develop. Photo: Mai Hoa

In 2019, Vinh city also implemented many solutions to find and remove "bottlenecks", creating an economic breakthrough for the city in the coming time.

Specifically, organizing economic development consultation conferences; researching the establishment of economic development advisory groups; promoting infrastructure investment, supporting compensation for site clearance; supporting tax policies, encouraging start-up businesses and business households; promoting night-time economic activities, etc.

The fields of culture - society, national defense - security; especially education, health care, vocational training, job creation, administrative reform, and handling of complaints and denunciations have received attention and direction and created many positive changes.

Vinh City has many apartment complexes with inadequate investment in traffic infrastructure and public works. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Party building work is given comprehensive attention from political and ideological work; organization and personnel; inspection and supervision; mass mobilization; government building, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and mass organizations.

In particular, the work of inspection, supervision and enforcement of Party discipline was strictly ensured. During the year, the city disciplined 52 Party members; of which 26 were reprimanded; 12 were warned and 14 were expelled; and 10 were suspended from Party activities.

7 tasks to focus on

Speaking at the conference, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the achievements of the city in 2019, affirming the central role and locomotive of the province's economic growth as well as taking the lead in cultural and social development.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy gave a speech at the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

Pointing out concerns for the Party Committee and government from the city to the grassroots level to continue to consider and come up with positive solutions to resolve them, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy also mentioned 7 tasks that the city needs to focus on.

Affirming the strategic position of the city from many historical periods and currently the city is identified by the Politburo as the center of the North Central region, therefore, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the city to be proactive in approaching and attracting investment, creating momentum for the city's development.

Along with that, it is necessary to review the specific mechanisms that the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee has approved for the city; in which it is necessary to clarify the difficulties and obstacles in the operation of those mechanisms, which sectors are not determined, do not proactively cooperate, do not want to delegate power to the city or are due to regulations to report to the province for resolution.

On this occasion, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 10 exemplary strong and clean grassroots Party organizations in 2019. Photo: Mai Hoa

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also emphasized that the orientation for the city is to become a smart city and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to first build an e-government, use digitalization and information technology in handling the work of people and businesses, minimize the access of people and businesses to officials and civil servants, and limit negativity; at the same time, leaders can also control the work and handle it promptly.

The city also needs to focus on site clearance to speed up the construction progress of works and projects, creating momentum for the city's development, especially the 72m road project, which both solves the infrastructure and appearance of the city and attracts investment.

The city also needs to innovate its thinking and approach to planning, planning management, urban management, land, environment, etc.; in which it promotes the exemplary and serious role of leaders.

The Standing Committee of the City Party Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to party members who achieved the title of excellently completing their tasks in 2019. Photo: Mai Hoa

Economic development is associated with building a good culture, building many convenient services for people, from education, health care, commerce... for people.

Affirming that the human factor determines the city's development, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that the city review, rearrange, and reassign staff at all levels; associated with good personnel preparation for the next term congress. Pay attention to ideological work, timely orienting public opinion; work of receiving people, resolving complaints and denunciations of citizens...