Vinh City People's Council held the 17th session to consider and decide on a number of important issues under its authority.

The city's average income per capita reached more than 138 million VND/year.

At the meeting, the Vinh City People's Council listened to the leaders of the City People's Committee report on the implementation of the 2024 socio-economic development plan and the 2025 socio-economic development plan.

Specifically, in 2024, the City People's Committee has closely followed the directions of the Central Government, the Province, the City Party Committee and the resolutions issued by the City People's Council to concretize and implement; clearly identify key, key, specialized and strategic tasks in each field to focus on drastic direction; at the same time, strengthen the focus on handling and rectifying outstanding issues, difficulties and obstacles, speeding up the implementation of socio-economic development tasks in 2024 as well as the entire period of 2021 - 2025.

As a result, the city's total economic output growth rate in 2024 will reach 9.86%. Per capita income will reach 138.4 million VND/year. In 2024, the city will have 1,038 newly established enterprises and 4,842 business households. Total budget revenue in the area is estimated at 7,908.2 billion VND, reaching 258.8% of the plan assigned by the province and 117.8% of the plan assigned by the City People's Council, equal to 178.5% compared to 2023.

Many urban beautification projects and works have been focused on and completed, contributing to the construction of a spacious and modern urban appearance. Investment has been attracted in 8 projects, with a total registered capital of over VND 8,771 billion.

The cultural and social fields continue to receive attention and direction and have made progress; in which education and training maintain the leading position in the province in terms of quality; the rate of schools meeting national standards reaches 95.87%.

Administrative reform, discipline, and digital transformation are directed centrally, increasing the rate of implementation of online public services throughout the process, digitizing records, and making online payments...

National defense, security, and social order and safety in the area are ensured; the rate of handling complaints, denunciations, recommendations, and reflections from the people reaches 97%.

The city actively coordinates with departments and branches to implement Resolution No. 39, dated July 18, 2023 of the Politburo and Resolution No. 137, dated June 26, 2024 of the National Assembly; complete the merger and put the new Vinh city apparatus together with a number of new wards into operation, without interrupting the direction of implementing political tasks as well as serving people and businesses according to Resolution No. 1243, dated October 24, 2024 of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

In addition to the achieved results, the city has frankly acknowledged some shortcomings and limitations in order to continue to have solutions and higher determination in the coming time. It is worth noting that the management of land, urban areas, environment, and cemeteries within the city still has shortcomings; solutions for the construction of some works and projects still exist; the quality of education is not uniform; the system of cultural and sports institutions has not been invested synchronously in some blocks and hamlets...

Administrative reform, discipline and administrative discipline in some agencies, units, wards and communes still need to be rectified. There are still many petitions arising in the fields of land, compensation and site clearance, etc.

Consider and pass 6 resolutions

The City People's Council also reviewed, discussed and passed 6 resolutions presented at the meeting, including:

Resolution on organizing the 2025 regular session of the 22nd City People's Council, term 2021 - 2026; Resolution on implementing the socio-economic development tasks in 2025; Resolution on adjusting the budget revenue and expenditure estimates of Vinh City in 2024; Resolution on approving the budget revenue and expenditure estimates of Vinh City in 2025; Resolution on approving the results of reviewing the legal Resolutions issued by the Vinh City People's Council from December 31, 2023 and earlier that are still in effect; Resolution on abolishing the Resolutions of the Vinh City People's Council.

Identify key tasks for decisive direction

Speaking at the closing session, comrade Phan Duc Dong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Vinh City People's Council highly appreciated the leadership and management role of the City People's Committee and specialized departments, agencies, as well as the high sense of responsibility in discussing and contributing opinions of the City People's Council delegates at the session.

The Chairman of the Vinh City People's Council also emphasized many key tasks in 2025 that were unanimously approved by the City People's Council at the meeting. In particular, focusing on reviewing and accelerating the direction to complete and exceed the targets and tasks set out in the Resolution of the City Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term, creating a solid foundation for the 2025-2030 term. Resolutely directing the implementation of Resolution No. 16 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on "Building and developing Vinh City to 2030, with a vision to 2045" in conjunction with the implementation of Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo and Plan No. 271 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on the implementation of Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province, including Vinh City.

Deploying the construction of a "drug-free" city. Proactively prepare conditions to ensure the successful organization of grassroots Party congresses and the 25th City Party Congress, term 2025 - 2030...

To ensure the good implementation of the goals, targets and tasks for 2025 as well as the resolutions issued by the City People's Council at the session; Chairman of the Vinh City People's Council requested the City People's Committee to actively direct specialized departments, offices and affiliated units to promote propaganda, encourage people, mobilize all resources, and focus on overcoming difficulties and problems.

Regarding the responsibilities of the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Council committees, the City People's Council delegations and the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of wards and communes, it is necessary to strengthen and improve the quality of supervision activities. Regarding the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and socio-political organizations from the city to the grassroots level, it is necessary to strengthen coordination with the People's Council and the People's Committee to encourage union members and members to actively participate in emulation movements and contribute to the development of the city.