People's Council delegates proposed that the province promote investment attraction for key projects.

In the 17th session of the 17th Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Council delegates from the Dien Chau and Quynh Luu districts constituencies conducted group discussions. Delegate Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Director of the Provincial Radio and Television Station chaired the discussion session of group 7.

Participating in the group discussion session wereComrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Cao Thi Hien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council;Representatives of the departments: Agriculture and Rural Development, Finance, Home Affairs, Industry and Trade, Culture and Sports, Provincial Police, Provincial Party Committee Office, Provincial People's Committee Office, Provincial People's Court, Department of Statistics, Cooperative Union, Provincial Labor Federation; Secretary of the District Party Committee, Standing Committee of the District People's Council and Chairman of the People's Committee of Dien Chau and Quynh Luu districts.

ATTRACT INVESTMENT

At the group discussion session, delegates basically agreed and highly appreciated the leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and People's Committee on the socio-economic development situation in 2020, in the context of many difficulties and challenges, especially the Covid-19 pandemic.

In addition, the discussion opinions also reflected concerns and practical problems related to the fields of granting land use right certificates, results of attracting investment and disbursing public investment capital, progress of refunding funds for handing over rural low-voltage power grids, problems in merging hamlets and communes...

Delegate Bang Hong Hien - Director of Nghe An Electricity Company suggested that when attracting investment in industrial parks, the Provincial People's Committee should pay attention to attracting projects that use less energy to achieve the goal of energy saving.

Delegate Hien suggested that the province reconsider the proposal to stop implementing the Quynh Lap Thermal Power Center project (including Quynh Lap 1 Thermal Power Plant and Quynh Lap 2 Thermal Power Plant) and remove it from the draft Power Plan VIII.

Delegate Bang Hong Hien - Director of Nghe An Electricity Company participated in the discussion. Photo: Pham Bang

Delegate Dang Thi Thanh - Vice Chairwoman of Dien Chau District People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to fully allocate funds for compensation for land acquisition and clearance for the National Highway 1A project for local people.

Delegate Thanh also proposed that the Provincial People's Council and Provincial People's Committee have policies to support hamlets and communes after the merger to build cultural institutions, create favorable conditions for people's lives, and support funding to build infrastructure for these communes.

Delegate Dang Thi Thanh - Vice Chairwoman of Dien Chau District People's Council spoke. Photo: Pham Bang

Delegate Nguyen Thi Thanh An - Deputy Director of the Department of Tourism raised the issue that due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, travel agencies have been severely affected. However, so far, there has been no support for these agencies and tour guides. The delegate asked, when implementing Decision 32 of the Government, will travel agencies and tour guides be eligible for support?

Delegate Nguyen Van Thuong - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Quynh Luu district said that Quynh Luu is a locality with a long coastline and great tourism potential. Therefore, he suggested that the province pay attention to attracting investment in tourism projects in the Quynh sea area. At the same time, he suggested speeding up the process of granting and exchanging land use right certificates in the district, because people are currently very upset.

At the group discussion session, representatives of the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment, Home Affairs, Industry and Trade... directly answered and explained the contents of interest to the delegates.

Leaders of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment exchanged opinions with delegates. Photo: Pham Bang

FOCUSED AND KEY RESOURCE ARRANGEMENT

Speaking at the discussion session, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that in 2020, despite facing many difficulties, the socio-economic development results of the province were very positive.

Entering 2021, the province determined that it would continue to face many difficulties due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, in the 5-year socio-economic development plan for the period 2021-2025, the province agreed to allocate resources with focus and key points, which led to some localities and fields having more limited capital allocation.

The assessment of the province's investment attraction results over the past 5 years has not been commensurate with its potential and advantages, and there have been no key projects, but the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that the province has attracted many medium-scale production projects, industries suitable to the province's conditions, environmentally friendly, using little land, and creating many jobs for local children.

In the coming period, the province has determined to change its approach to investors with the view of accompanying and proactively removing difficulties and obstacles for investors in the process of implementing projects in the area. In addition, it will remove bottlenecks in administrative reform and continue to improve the investment and business environment.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee exchanged opinions with delegates attending the discussion session. Photo: Pham Bang

Discussing directly with the delegates’ opinions, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that in the coming time, the province will review the land auction planning to make it more suitable. Regarding the work of granting land use right certificates for cases of land allocation beyond authority, it will take time, because there are currently many problems.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed that the province recommends not to implement projects that do not ensure environmental factors and have the risk of affecting the people. Therefore, the Provincial Party Standing Committee unanimously recommended to stop the implementation of the Quynh Lap Thermal Power Center (including Quynh Lap Thermal Power Plant 1 and Quynh Lap Thermal Power Plant 2) and remove it from the draft Power Plan VIII.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung also directly answered the delegates' opinions on housing support policies for people with meritorious services, compensation costs for land acquisition and clearance on National Highway 1A, the situation of attracting investment in tourism projects in Quynh Luu district, and the handling of projects behind schedule...

GrandfatherNguyen Nhu Khoi - Director of the Provincial Radio and Television Station concluded the discussion session. Photo: Pham Bang

Concluding the group discussion, Mr.Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Director of Provincial Radio and Television Stationhighly appreciated the responsibility of the delegates as well as the participation of departments, branches and localities; at the same time, will synthesize the opinions of the delegates to report to the Provincial People's Council in the discussion session in the hall tomorrow morning (December 12).