The People's Council contributes to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of government operations at all levels.

On the morning of March 25, in Hanoi, the National Assembly Standing Committee held a national conference to review the work of the People's Councils of provinces and centrally run cities in 2023 and deploy the work plan for 2024.

Speaking at the Conference, many delegates emphasized the important role of the People's Council in the political system, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of government operations at all levels.

Innovate content, improve operational efficiency

Proposing "Solutions to promote the role and authority of the Provincial People's Council and People's Council delegates in deciding and supervising important local issues in building a socio-economic development mechanism for Quang Ninh province in 2023," Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Quang Ninh Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Ky, said that this is a content close to reality in the breakthrough and innovative thinking of the locality in recent times.

In 2023, the People's Council of Quang Ninh province has made many organizational and operational innovations to realize democratic institutions, becoming a most important component of local governance, especially in terms of representing the will and aspirations of the people, deciding important local issues, and supervising state power in the province.

Quang Ninh has successfully organized 4 Sessions, issued 68 correct and accurate Resolutions, consistent with the practical requirements of local development innovation in 2023, maintained GRDP growth momentum above double digits for 9 consecutive years (2015-2023) reaching 11.03%; double the national average, leading the Red River Delta, the economic scale reached 315,839 billion VND, ranked 3rd in the Northern region, increased 1.5 times compared to 2020; created a breakthrough in attracting foreign direct investment reaching over 3.1 billion USD, the highest ever.

During the year, the People's Council, the Standing Committee, the Committees, and the People's Council Delegation Groups of Quang Ninh province conducted 7 thematic supervisions on the implementation of the Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council. At the same time, 32 regular and unscheduled supervisions and surveys were carried out with focus and key points, promptly providing information for the general leadership, direction, and administration of the province to serve the review of the contents presented at the meeting.

"The province no longer has poor households according to the national multidimensional criteria; the province has built and implemented a new poverty standard 1.4 times higher than the poverty standard prescribed by the Central Government on income criteria. The people's trust index for the Party and the Quang Ninh government through sociological surveys reached over 96%" - Mr. Nguyen Xuan Ky emphasized.

Putting the legitimate rights and interests of people and businesses at the center.

Presenting on "Some outstanding results of the People's Council of Hau Giang province in 2023, especially the role of the People's Council in promoting local socio-economic development," Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Hau Giang province Tran Van Huyen said that since the beginning of the 2021 - 2026 term, the Party Delegation of the Provincial People's Council has advised the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to issue a directive on strengthening and innovating the Party's leadership over the activities of the People's Councils at all levels in Hau Giang province to direct Party committees at all levels to regularly pay attention to, orientate innovation, improve and enhance the quality and effectiveness of the activities of the People's Councils at all levels in the province in a synchronous, unified and comprehensive manner.

Since the beginning of the term, the Provincial People's Council has held 18 meetings, issued 224 resolutions, with many important resolutions, institutionalizing new directions and policies of the Central Government, specific policies of the province, issues arising in the administration of the government, having a spillover effect on local socio-economic development, creating favorable conditions for the direction and administration of the Provincial People's Committee.

Resolutions were issued promptly to concretize new policies under the direction of the National Assembly and the Government in accordance with the actual situation of the locality; at the same time, specific policies were issued synchronously in various fields, especially the four pillars of development of the province to promote and create strong changes in the socio-economic development of the province...

Mr. Tran Van Huyen said that the innovations in recent times have created a strong change in improving the quality and efficiency of the People's Councils at all levels of Hau Giang province, affirming their important position and role in the political system, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the authorities at all levels. Thereby, in directing and operating the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security, a number of important, outstanding and comprehensive results have been achieved.

In the coming time, the People's Council of Hau Giang province will continue to innovate, improve the quality and efficiency of its operations, contributing to promoting local socio-economic development. In particular, it will continue to closely coordinate with the Provincial People's Committee to institutionalize and concretize the policies and resolutions of the Party, the National Assembly Resolution, the Government Resolution, the Provincial Party Committee Resolution, the State's laws and effectively implement them in life, especially effectively implementing the provincial planning associated with regional planning, promoting regional linkages to ensure synchronization and unity.

Along with that, strengthen the work of direction, inspection, supervision, persistently reform administration; build the province's policy mechanism in the direction of completeness, synchronization, unity, timeliness, feasibility, stability, publicity, transparency, breakthrough, innovation, creativity, focusing on the legitimate and legal rights and interests of people and enterprises; effectively implement the three breakthrough tasks: promoting the role and responsibility of the Provincial People's Council delegates; Bringing the Provincial People's Council resolutions into life; Improving the quality of organizing district-level People's Council meetings./.