Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee pointed out 4 difficulties that the city is facing

On the morning of July 7, the 12th session of the Vinh City People's Council, term XXI, 2016 - 2021, continued the discussion in the hall, passed resolutions and closed the session. Photo: Mai Hoa

At the discussion session in the hall, based on the synthesis of 71 opinions mentioned by the City People's Council delegates at the group discussion session on the afternoon of July 6, the City People's Council delegates continued to raise and explain many issues.

Besides some issues related to people's livelihood, many delegates also raised concerns about removing "bottlenecks" to help Vinh city develop faster.

City People's Council delegates reflect on some voters' petitions being slow to be resolved. Photo: Mai Hoa

Speaking at the discussion session, Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Ngoc Tu frankly pointed out 4 difficulties that the city is facing. In addition to the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has reduced budget revenue, affected production and business of enterprises, and increased poverty, the biggest difficulty of Vinh City is falling behind.

Explaining this issue, the Chairman of the City People's Committee informed that currently the country has 117 urban areas, of which 18 are type I urban areas. Vinh City is the 4th earliest established urban area and has the 13th largest area out of 18 type I urban areas, but in terms of development speed, it is in 17th place out of 18 type I urban areas.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Ngoc Tu said that the city needs to change to create faster and stronger development. Photo: Mai Hoa

Another difficulty is the change of the people, especially the cadres who are still afraid of conflict and innovation.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Ngoc Tu said that in order for the city to truly develop faster and stronger, changes must be made from the city to the wards and communes.

Specifically, in leadership and management, there must be a change with a decisive and bold mindset, coupled with reducing meetings and documents. If leaders are in meetings all day and staff are busy writing reports, no one will work.

"One-stop" department of Le Loi ward, Vinh city. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition, it is necessary to improve the quality of the team. Vinh City is setting the goal of building a smart city, the most important and first issue is to build smart people, smart officials; the working style and work handling requirements of officials and civil servants from the city to the ward and commune must ensure speed and accuracy.

Officials and civil servants must spend time researching; increasing learning from experiences of other localities; proactively contacting businesses, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals to consolidate in-depth professional knowledge to serve leadership, direction, and implementation of assigned professional tasks, for the common development of the city.

Delegates vote to pass the resolution at the meeting. Photo: Mai Hoa

Voted to pass 6 resolutions

At the meeting, the City People's Council discussed and approved 6 socio-economic resolutions. Including:

- Resolution on socio-economic development tasks for the last 6 months of 2020.

- Resolution approving the 2019 state budget settlement.

- Resolution on tasks and solutions to implement the budget revenue and expenditure plan for the last 6 months of 2020.

- Resolution approving the adjustment of the 2020 public investment plan from the city budget.

- Resolution approving adjustments and supplements to the city's 5-year medium-term public investment plan 2016 - 2020

- Resolution on the supervision program of the City People's Council in 2021.

Chairman of the City People's Council Nguyen Van Lu delivered a closing speech at the meeting. Photo: Mai Hoa

Speaking at the closing session, Chairman of the City People's Council Nguyen Van Lu requested the City People's Committee to promptly implement and put into practice the resolutions issued by the City People's Council.

It focuses on solutions and measures to resolve issues raised by the City People's Council at the meeting, opinions and recommendations from voters, especially those that voters have repeatedly recommended through many voter meetings, such as the issue of new issuance and reissuance of land use right certificates, resolving problems related to urban order, environmental pollution, water and electricity for people's daily life, etc.