Provincial Party Committee Reporters Conference August 2022

On the morning of August 22, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department held a Provincial Party Committee Reporters Conference for August 2022.

Attending were Deputy Heads of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Provincial Party Committee reporters; leaders, officers, and specialists of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; leaders of the Propaganda Departments of district, city, town Party Committees, and affiliated Party Committees.

Reporters attending the conference. Photo: My Nga

At the conference, the Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training informed about the results of the recent high school exam. The exam was held safely and smoothly. The graduation rate of Nghe An students this school year reached 99.51% and was higher than the national average of 99.16%.

According to statistical results, Nghe An ranked 20th out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide (including independent candidates) with an average score of 6.44 points. This result increased 14 places compared to 2021 (ranked 34th). This is an outstanding result of Nghe An Education sector in the 2022 High School Graduation Exam after many solutions to improve the quality of comprehensive education.

Regarding the results of the 2021-2022 school year, the leaders of the Department of Education and Training said that last school year, Nghe An students won 3 international and regional prizes in the subjects: Mathematics, Informatics, and Biology. 97 students won national excellent student prizes, putting Nghe An in the top 5 provinces with many high prizes nationwide. In addition, Nghe An students also won many high prizes in competitions such as: Youth studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology and morality; Road to Olympia. This shows that Nghe An students not only study well in culture, but are also comprehensive in many aspects.

Candidates taking the 2022 High School Graduation Exam. Photo: Duc Anh

In the 2022-2023 school year, Nghe An Education Department will focus on recruiting 2,720 teachers according to the Government's allocation, mainly preschool teachers. In addition, it will increase resources to take care of building infrastructure for mountainous schools, aiming to "reduce combined classes and add more layers".

Also at the conference, the reporters were informed by the Director of the Provincial Social Insurance, Hoang Van Minh, about the results of the implementation of the Health Insurance and Social Insurance policies in the past time, and the key tasks in the coming time.

Up to now, Nghe An province has 3 million people participating in health insurance and social insurance. In addition, the timely and accurate settlement and payment, ensuring the rights of beneficiaries of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance regimes are given special attention. Notably, 200,000 employees of 7,000 enterprises are entitled to unemployment insurance, with an amount of 600 billion VND. The provincial social insurance has coordinated with the health sector to fully implement health insurance medical examination and treatment, ensuring the rights of participants. The provincial social insurance has paid for over 26 million medical examinations and treatments under health insurance, with an amount of 2,265 billion VND.

In the coming time, the Provincial Social Insurance will focus on developing social insurance and health insurance participants; Strengthen collection, reduce arrears, control health insurance medical examination and treatment costs; Strengthen inspection and examination work, especially surprise inspection and examination of units showing signs of violating the law on social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance payments.

Nghe An Social Insurance officers advise people on participating in social insurance and health insurance. Photo: Duc Anh

At the conference, the reporters also heard information about the international situation, with hot spots such as: the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the relationship between Russia and the West, Russia-China....

Regarding the propaganda orientation in the coming time, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Tran Quoc Khanh suggested that reporters focus on propagating major holidays and events in September such as: 92 years of Nghe Tinh Soviet, 120 years of the birth of comrade Le Hong Phong; 60 years of the establishment of Vietnam - Laos diplomatic relations...

Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Tran Quoc Khanh gives directions for propaganda in the coming time. Photo: My Nga

In addition, focus on disseminating information on preparations for the 2022-2023 school year; the province's socio-economic situation in the first 8 months of 2022; and calling on people to get vaccinated amid signs of a return of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department suggested continuing to propagate and disseminate the Resolutions of the 5th Central Conference, 13th term. Accordingly, reporters need to study good methods and practices to bring the resolutions into life, closely following the situation of each locality./.