Opening of the 27th Congress of Con Cuong District Party Committee, term 2020 - 2025

Delegates attending the Con Cuong District Party Congress perform the flag-raising ceremony before the official congress session. Photo: Nguyen Son

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee attended and directed the congress. Also attending the congress were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Ho Phuc Hop - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Party building committees, and a number of provincial departments and branches.

The opening session of the congress spent time listening to the political report and review report of the XXVI District Party Executive Committee, term 2015 - 2020.

The reports presented at the congress affirmed the comprehensive leadership and direction of the Party Committee, the District Party Executive Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Con Cuong District Party Committee for the 2015-2020 term.

During the term, the Executive Committee and Standing Committee of the District Party Committee issued 55 programs, 9 resolutions, 21 directives and 4 circulars to lead socio-economic development, ensure national defense and security, and build the Party organization and political system.

Panorama of the 27th Congress of Con Cuong District Party Committee, term 2020 - 2025. Photo: Nguyen Son

Delegates attending the congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

In addition, the Party Committee also issued 743 decisions, regulations, and statutes on personnel work, inspection and supervision work, and a number of other tasks and works; 734 directive documents; 552 conclusions of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee; 169 plans; 55 programs, 362 reports, and 18 projects in all fields.

In leadership and direction, the District Party Executive Committee and the District Party Standing Committee correctly identified key and focal tasks at each time, clearly defined time regulations, assigned specific responsibilities to the responsible Party committee members to effectively direct, monitor and implement; strengthened inspection, supervision, interim and final reviews and proposed appropriate solutions at each time, contributing to creating comprehensive changes in socio-economics, national defense and security, Party building and the political system in the district.

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Con Cuong District Party Committee opened the congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

Notably, during the term, the district had 14/19 socio-economic targets achieved and exceeded the set targets; the remaining 5 targets, although not achieved, demonstrated the great efforts of the entire district Party Committee.

In particular, the average economic growth rate in the period 2015 - 2020 reached 9.41%. The average income per capita in 2020 reached 30.08 million VND, an increase of 1.6 times compared to 2015.

The National Target Program on New Rural Development has been actively implemented. Up to now, 3/12 communes and 20/115 villages have been recognized as meeting New Rural standards; the average number of criteria per commune has reached over 12/19 criteria, an increase of 4 criteria compared to 2015..

Comrade Vi Van Son - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Committee presented a political report at the congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

FieldCulture and society continue to develop. During the term, 6 more schools reached national standards level 1 and 4 schools were upgraded to level 2; raising the rate of schools reaching standards to 82.60%. The work of career guidance and orientation after junior high school and high school was focused on; raising the rate of junior high school graduates receiving vocational training to 30%; and high school graduates receiving vocational training to 60%.

The infrastructure system and the quality of health care for the people have been improved. The whole district has 10/13 communes and towns that meet national health standards. The cultural, spiritual and sports life of the people is taken care of. National defense and security continue to be strengthened, ensuring political security and order in the area.

Delegates attending the Con Cuong District Party Congress approved the contents of the congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

Party building work is comprehensively taken care of in terms of politics, ideology; organization, cadres; inspection, supervision; mass mobilization; internal affairs and anti-corruption. The work of building the government, the Fatherland Front, and mass organizations is also focused on leadership, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of operations.

Accordingly, the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party committees and organizations from district to grassroots levels have been enhanced; the working style, methods, manners and sense of responsibility of cadres, Party members, civil servants, public employees and workers in the political system have changed in a positive direction.

Party committees at all levels have also paid attention to directing the work of receiving people, dialogue and resolving citizens' petitions, complaints and denunciations, which have been well implemented, creating high consensus among the people, limiting complicated and prominent cases at the grassroots level...

Delegates from Cam Lam commune speak at the Con Cuong District Party Congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

Discussing at the congress, delegates focused on clarifying and concretizing the achieved results as well as lessons learned from leadership and direction during the 2015-2020 term; at the same time, frankly pointed out some shortcomings and limitations, thereby proposing a number of tasks and solutions that need to continue to focus on leadership and direction during the 2020-2025 term.

A corner of Con Cuong town. Photo: Sach Nguyen

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the Congress. Photo: Nguyen Son

Speaking at the congress, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee praised the spirit of solidarity, dynamism, creativity, determination to innovate, efforts to overcome all difficulties and challenges and the results that the Party Committee and people of all ethnic groups in Con Cuong district achieved in the term 2015 - 2020.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong also directed the Con Cuong District Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term to pay attention to planning work, especially the planning of Con Cuong district's construction in the direction of ecological urban development, as a basis for sustainable socio-economic development of the district.

Delegates attending the Con Cuong District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025. Photo: Nguyen Son

At the same time, the District Party Committee needs to lead and direct the promotion of trade, tourism and service development, gradually developing into a service and trade center in the Southwest region of Nghe An province; promoting the restructuring of agricultural production towards commodities, applying high technology, clean and safe agriculture, forestry and food; determined to build Con Cuong into a major center for application and transfer of technology in the forestry sector.

Regarding cultural and social tasks, the district needs to focus on promoting sustainable poverty reduction, improving people's material and spiritual life; preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups; gradually eliminating backward customs, pushing back social evils, especially drug abuse.

Khe Kem Waterfall is one of the tourist attractions of Con Cuong district. Photo: Hai Vuong

Emphasizing that Con Cuong is a mountainous border district, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong also requested the district Party Committee to continue to take care of leading and directing national defense and security work; maintain sovereignty and border security, and focus on building a strong political system.

Regarding Party building work, the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee directed the district to focus on strengthening the work of developing Party members; promoting and improving the effectiveness of implementing Resolution 4 of the Central Committee (term XII) in conjunction with Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo and regulations on setting examples; creating new changes in the leadership capacity, fighting strength of the Party Committee, the effectiveness and efficiency of management and administration of the government and the quality of activities of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations.

Immediately after the congress, the Party Executive Committee of the district, term XXVII, is requested to urgently develop a plan and action program, assigning specific organizations and individuals responsible for implementing the Congress Resolution.