Opening of the 31st Session, Nghe An Provincial People's Council, 18th term

Guests from central agencies included representatives from the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, the Central Inspection Commission, the Central Party Office, and the Region II Audit.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Le Hong Vinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province, and members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

Comrades: Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting.

Guests attending the meeting included leaders of departments, branches, and chairmen of People's Councils of 130 communes and wards.

The 31st session is very important and pivotal in two aspects; this is the first session after Nghe An province completed the arrangement of administrative units and officially operated the 2-level local government model (province, commune) and entered the last 6 months of the term to implement the Resolution of the 19th Congress of the Provincial Party Committee.

The Provincial People's Council will discuss, comment on and approve 19 important thematic resolutions, including many contents directly related to the management and operation of authorities at all levels in the context of the new organizational model such as adjusting the budget revenue and expenditure estimates, medium-term public investment plans, decentralization of revenue sources, budget expenditure tasks; collection levels of fees and charges for online public services; amending the levels of business trip expenses and conference expenses; regulating the content and levels of expenses for recruiting civil servants and public employees, considering promotion of professional titles of public employees; content and levels of expenses for industrial promotion activities; authority to decide on investment and procurement for information technology application activities; housing development programs, etc.

These are important decisions that need to be carefully considered and comprehensively evaluated to ensure consensus, feasibility, and practicality; at the same time, the work of perfecting the personnel of the Provincial People's Committee members must be carried out according to authority.

The Provincial People's Council conducts supervision through reviewing and giving opinions on reports of the Provincial People's Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Committees of the Provincial People's Council, and a number of agencies and units submitted at the session according to regulations.

The session will also review the Provincial People's Council's report on the results of thematic supervision on planning and arranging the network of schools and classes at educational institutions in the province.

The Provincial People's Council will also question groups of issues including: Implementation of mechanisms and policies to improve the investment and business environment, remove difficulties for enterprises; overcome limitations and improve the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI). State management of the production and trading of counterfeit, fake, poor quality goods and dirty food in the province. These are all "hot" and urgent issues that voters and the people are particularly concerned about.

In preparation for the 31st Session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee have actively coordinated to prepare the contents of the session early, with quality, in accordance with authority and regulations. The Committees of the Provincial People's Council have conducted examinations and participated in many specific opinions, the Provincial People's Committee has received and completed the draft before submitting it to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and decision.

The meeting duration continues to be shortened to 2 days. This is also the first meeting of the Provincial People's Council since the official implementation of the 2-level local government model, with the participation of 130 chairmen of the People's Councils of communes and wards in the province. The success in organizing this meeting of the Provincial People's Council will be valuable experience for the People's Councils of communes and wards to organize regular mid-year meetings.

With such importance, in his opening speech, Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the delegates of the Provincial People's Council to continue to uphold the spirit of innovation, responsibility, promote intelligence, carefully study the contents, actively discuss in the Group and the Hall, participate in questioning, clearly express opinions, especially on issues with different opinions, create high unity so that the People's Council can make decisions in accordance with the law, in accordance with the practical situation; requested the leaders of the agencies and units invited by the Provincial People's Council to attend the session to fully participate and actively contribute to the contents of the session.

At the working session, the Provincial People's Council listened to a summary report on the socio-economic situation in the first 6 months of 2025, tasks for the last 6 months of 2025; announcement on the activities of the Provincial Fatherland Front in participating in government building, opinions and recommendations of the People; proposals and recommendations to the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee; reports on submissions and draft resolutions submitted by the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee to the session and the verification report.

The Provincial People's Council's monitoring delegation also reported the results of the Provincial People's Council's thematic monitoring on planning and arranging the network of schools and classes at educational institutions in the province.

The Provincial People's Council has carried out the procedure to dismiss from the position of Provincial People's Committee member for the 2021-2026 term Major General Bui Quang Thanh - former Director of the Provincial Police Department and Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - former Commander of the Provincial Military Command due to being transferred and appointed to new jobs.

At the same time, the Provincial People's Council elected two additional members of the Provincial People's Committee for the 2021-2026 term, including: Colonel Dinh Viet Dung - Director of the Provincial Police Department and Colonel Dinh Bat Van - Commander of the Provincial Military Command.

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