Nghe An Provincial People's Council held the 20th Session to consider and decide on a number of important contents.

The meeting was held to promptly resolve urgent issues, creating a legal basis for the direction and administration of authorities at all levels to complete the tasks set out in 2024 and the following years.

Accordingly, at this session, the Provincial People's Council considered and decided on the policy of arranging commune-level administrative units in Nghe An province, period 2023 - 2025; the policy of expanding administrative boundaries and urban space of Vinh city, establishing wards and arranging commune-level administrative units in Vinh city, Nghe An province.

Regulations on state budget expenditure norms for implementing Project 2: Diversifying livelihoods, developing poverty reduction models under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction; Contents of project support, plans, and production development options under the National Target Programs for the period 2021-2025 in Nghe An province; adjusting the central budget capital plan to implement the National Target Program on New Rural Construction for the period 2021-2025 and annually.

The Provincial People's Council will also decide on the allocation of the central budget to support overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and landslides; the allocation of the local budget for the third period in 2024; the allocation of the targeted supplementary central budget for the fourth period in 2024; and give opinions on the land price adjustment coefficient in 2024.

At the same time, regulations and policies on social security, cultural and sports development, and national defense and security assurance were approved, such as policies to support the implementation of the Program for stable population arrangement in the period of 2024 - 2030; amend and supplement regulations on special nutrition regimes and a number of support policies for coaches and high-performance athletes in Nghe An province; regulations on criteria for establishment and criteria for the number of members of the Security and Order Protection Team; support and training levels for participants in the Security and Order Protection Team and expenditure levels for forces participating in security and order protection at the grassroots level.

Investment policies and adjustments to investment policies for projects: Renovation and upgrading of inter-commune traffic roads Nghia Xuan - Minh Hop - Ha Son, Quy Hop district; D1 axis road, Thai Hoa town (phase 1); National Highway 48 bypass road through Thai Hoa urban center (phase 1); Traffic route connecting National Highway 46 to Ngoc Son commune, Thanh Chuong district with Nam Hung commune, Nam Dan district and National Highway 15.

Through the list of works and projects requiring land acquisition; changing the purpose of using rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land to implement investment projects in the province.

Promoting lessons learned in leadership, direction, management, and successful organization of 19 sessions since the beginning of the term, to prepare for this session, agencies of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee and relevant departments, branches, and units have proactively coordinated closely in performing assigned tasks. The review of reports and draft resolutions submitted to the session has been carried out early, seriously, thoroughly, and with quality assurance. The Provincial People's Committee and relevant branches and levels have actively coordinated, seriously accepted, and explained satisfactorily.

Speaking at the opening of the 20th Session, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation requested the Provincial People's Council delegates and delegates attending the session to uphold the spirit of responsibility, promote democracy and intelligence, focus on research, discussion, and contribute opinions to the contents of the session; participate in the resolutions with high concentration, contributing to the early implementation of policies and guidelines, effectively promoting resources, creating high support and consensus among voters and people of the province.

At the meeting, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council listened to Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee present a report on the submissions and draft resolutions to be submitted to the meeting; Comrade Cao Tien Trung - Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council presented a report on the results of the examination of the submissions and draft resolutions to be submitted to the meeting. The delegates discussed and voted to approve 18 draft resolutions to be submitted to the meeting.

After a serious and democratic working session, the 20th Session - thematic session of the Provincial People's Council, term XVIII completed all the contents and agenda and was a great success. Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province, on behalf of the Provincial People's Council, requested the Provincial People's Committee, all levels, branches, localities and relevant units to focus on synchronously and drastically implementing 3 groups of solutions so that the resolutions that have just been passed can soon take effect.

The Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province proposed to continue actively preparing for the 21st session of the Provincial People's Council - the regular mid-year session of 2024 scheduled to take place from July 9-10, 2024 in the direction of innovating the organization of the regular mid-year session of 2024.

Reviewing the province's outstanding socio-economic results over the past 5 months; at the same time, the draft Resolution on piloting the addition of a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province has been submitted by the Government to the National Assembly and will be approved at the end of the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly, comrade Thai Thanh Quy emphasized: These are extremely important premises and motivations for all levels and sectors in the whole province to continue to strongly promote the spirit of solidarity, unity, determination, determination, and efforts to complete the goals and tasks of 2024 and the following years.