Innovation for 'Lam River Aspiration'

PERSISTENTLY REALIZING THE VISION

In recent years, especially in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past 2 years, it is possible to see a significant mark of innovation in thinking, defining a vision in policies and actions as well as cultivating and nurturing the aspiration to rise up of Nghe An province. That aspiration is concretized through the spirit of determination, perseverance in closely following and successfully carrying out tasks, especially those tasks that are assessed as difficult, based on the foundation of promoting the spirit of solidarity and unity, first of all from the Standing Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee.

The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee held its regular meeting in March to discuss the Plan to summarize 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW, dated July 30, 2013 of the Politburo on Nghe An. Photo: Thanh Duy

A clear mark is that in just a short time, the province has proactively proposed and advised the Government and the National Assembly so that at the 2nd Session of the 15th National Assembly, Resolution No. 36 on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province was issued. This is considered a very important policy corridor to help Nghe An more effectively implement Resolution No. 26 of the Politburo.

In their vision, Nghe An leaders are also working hard to create more foundations, mechanisms and policies to create momentum for the province's development. Currently, Nghe An has initiated steps to summarize 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 26 - NQ/TW of the Politburo on the direction and tasks for the development of Nghe An province. Recently, comrade Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat hasagree on the policyand assigned the Central Economic Commission and the Party Central Office to report to the Politburo to include this content in the Politburo's 2023 Working Program; as well as assigned the above two agencies to preside over and coordinate with Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and relevant ministries and branches to organize the summary.

Panoramic view of the central area, Vinh city, Nghe An. Photo: Thanh Duy

In many forums, comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council repeatedly emphasized the importance of this task, because through that, along with reviewing a decade of putting Resolution No. 26 into life, it is even more important to advise the Politburo to issue a new resolution on Nghe An in conjunction with assigning the National Assembly and the Government to concretize it with new, stronger mechanisms and policies for the province's development.

SOLVING CHALLENGES

Looking back at the past year, despite the extremely difficult context, the province has many bright spots in many fields. That exciting movement was created from colorful pieces. Each collective, individual, enterprise... in their position has actively and effectively performed their work to bring about common results and in this process, many typical examples have appeared such as: Comrade Nguyen Manh Hung - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hoa Hieu Ward, Thai Hoa Town was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee "Excellent grassroots Party Committee Secretary".

Or the young man of the "Gen Y" generation, Ho Xuan Vinh - a business owner in Quynh Luu district, was honored by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Vietnam Young Talent Support Fund as one of the 10 Outstanding Young Vietnamese Faces in 2021. Although he is quite young, Ho Xuan Vinh is one of the pioneers in the innovative startup movement in Nghe An with nearly 30 inventions protected by the Intellectual Property Office.

Ho Xuan Vinh - the only representative of Nghe An province in the top 10 Outstanding Young Vietnamese Faces of 2021. Photo: PV

Nghe An is also the homeland, where the first bricks were laid in the development journey of the TH true MILK fresh milk brand under the leadership of the Labor Hero of the Renovation Period Thai Huong. From the starting point in Phu Quy, after 12 years, TH true MILK has become a National Brand - the pride of the Vietnamese people and reached out to the world;…

In early April, during a working trip to Nghe An province, Comrade Vo Thi Anh Xuan - Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice President visited the TH Group's dairy farm cluster that focuses on applying high technology with the world's largest closed-loop production process and highly appreciated the Group's vision, strategy, and outstanding achievements.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan visited and listened to an introduction about the Mombasa grassland of TH Group in Nghia Dan. Photo: Thanh Duy

However, to realize the "Lam River aspiration", Nghe An still has a lot of work to do, must do really quickly and effectively. Currently, the province has fully identified and formatted the challenges to find solutions, in which an issue that is always topical is to build and promote the public service apparatus to operate with higher efficiency. Many experts have pointed out that: If the provincial leaders have determination and vision, but the apparatus below is sluggish and lacks capacity, it will not be able to realize the vision and determination of the leaders.

Therefore, the provincial leaders have directed very thoroughly the solutions to reform the public administration, especially reforming administrative procedures through accelerating the digital transformation process. Along with that, right from the beginning of the term, the Provincial Party Standing Committee has repeatedly sent out a strong warning message that it will resolutely and strictly handle violations of the law and public ethics of cadres and civil servants; there is no room for cover-up or intervention. And as we can see, recently, not only commune-level cadres but also those at the provincial department and branch levels have been prosecuted by the authorities. This, although painful, is necessary to warn the whole system; there are losses but it must be done to warn cadres.

Along with focusing on administrative reform, Nghe An also pays special attention to innovating mechanisms to clear bottlenecks, mobilize, allocate and effectively use all resources with the motto that internal resources are fundamental and external resources are important; closely combining internal resources with external resources to create optimal combined resources to solve infrastructure bottlenecks, especially the two key infrastructures: deep-water port and Vinh airport.

Nghe An province is speeding up the progress of provincial planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. Photo courtesy: Book Nguyen - Thanh Cuong - Le Thang

It can be said that with the very fundamental and fundamental changes in the past time, we believe that Nghe An will soon realize the "Lam River aspiration" as President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the province in his speech at the 60th anniversary of Uncle Ho's second visit to his hometown at the end of 2021: "Honoured and proud to be the homeland of the great President Ho Chi Minh, Nghe An needs to clearly see its noble responsibility to fulfill the things he wished for during his lifetime. Therefore, with the will of self-reliance, self-reliance, and the desire to rise up, we in Nghe An need to make more efforts and determination to create a "Lam River miracle" that the whole country is waiting for".