The 23rd session of the 18th Nghe An Provincial People's Council passed 25 resolutions.

Comrades: 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; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent 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.

Attending the meeting were comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, leaders of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, and delegates of the Provincial People's Council.

Timely decide on urgent issues within authority

The meeting was held to promptly decide on urgent issues within its authority to serve socio-economic development and ensure national defense and security.

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Council reviewed and approved the support policy for cadres, civil servants, public employees, labor contract workers, part-time workers and other redundant subjects due to the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels in the province. This is a separate policy of the province in addition to the policies on streamlining the payroll according to the Government's regulations, aiming to encourage and motivate those affected by the arrangement of administrative units, creating conditions for localities in perfecting, arranging and stabilizing the apparatus when implementing major policies of the Party and State.

The Provincial People's Council also reviewed and approved the list of land plots for bidding to select investors to implement land-using projects for the Quynh Lap LNG Power Plant project - one of the important projects under the National Power Development Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

Approving the 1/2000 scale construction zoning plan for area D, Nam Cam Industrial Park. Approving policies and adjusting investment policies for projects; list of works and projects requiring land acquisition, land use conversion, and forest use conversion to other purposes to implement projects, creating a basis for accelerating the progress of works and projects, effectively promoting resources; attracting investment, promoting socio-economic development.

The Provincial People's Council has approved resolutions to adjust the medium-term public investment plan; the implementation status of the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025 and the expected demand for the medium-term public investment plan from the State budget for the period 2026 - 2030.

Adjusting the central budget for implementing the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction; approving the adjustment of revenue, expenditure and payment estimates to the state budget from retained fees, local budget allocation; percentage for calculating land rental prices; number of cars for common use in agencies and units in the province and some other contents under its authority.

Focus on synchronously and drastically implementing solutions so that the newly passed resolutions can soon take effect.

In his closing speech, on behalf of the Provincial People's Council, comrade Thai Thanh Quy requested the Provincial People's Committee, all levels, sectors, localities and relevant units to focus on synchronously and drastically implementing solutions so that the recently passed resolutions can soon take effect.

In particular, regarding the policy to support redundant subjects due to administrative unit rearrangement, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct the dissemination of information, timely and complete guidance on the content of the policy; create favorable conditions for procedures, documents, and implementation processes; strengthen the inspection of policy implementation, creating fairness and high consensus among cadres, party members and people.

Regarding the Resolution approving the list of land plots for bidding to select investors to implement the Quynh Lap LNG Plant project, emphasizing that this is an important power source project in the list of implementing the VIII Power Plan, contributing to ensuring national energy security, comrade Thai Thanh Quy requested that the Provincial People's Committee urgently direct the implementation of procedures for approving investment policies, bidding to select investors with capacity and experience to implement the project in accordance with the provisions of law and ensure progress.

“Regarding resolutions on investment policies, adjustments to project investment policies; adjustments to medium-term public investment plans, and adjustments to the allocation of state budget estimates, the Provincial People's Committee is requested to complete procedures, speed up disbursement progress, and promptly implement projects to effectively promote resources,” the Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province emphasized.

Acknowledging the positive results in all aspects of the province in the first 9 months of the year; however, forecasting that the situation in the remaining months of 2024 will have unfavorable factors, affecting people's lives and the implementation of socio-economic development goals and tasks of the province, comrade Thai Thanh Quy, on behalf of the Provincial People's Council, requested the Provincial People's Committee, all levels and sectors to continue to focus on comprehensively, drastically and flexibly implementing the tasks and solutions set out in the resolutions, plans and annual work programs; reviewing the targets that are still low and difficult to achieve to continue to have appropriate and effective solutions.

Regarding the regular meeting of the Provincial People's Council at the end of the year, expected to be held in early December, it is recommended that the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Council Committees, the Provincial People's Committee and sectors and localities proactively prepare carefully, ensuring the quality and progress of the contents submitted to the meeting.

In particular, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to closely coordinate with central ministries and branches to propose and submit to the Government for timely promulgation of mechanisms and policies within their authority in concretizing Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province; at the same time, direct departments and branches to advise on the contents stipulated in Resolution 137 to submit to the regular session of the Provincial People's Council at the end of the year, ensuring the implementation of the Resolution of the National Assembly as soon as it takes effect from January 1, 2025.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also emphasized: The Provincial People's Council Committees need to continue to promote the spirit of initiative, accompany the specialized agencies of the Provincial People's Committee in the process of preparing draft resolutions to submit to the Provincial People's Council session; survey, grasp the situation, work with relevant departments, branches and localities if necessary to serve the questioning and examination of reports and draft resolutions submitted to the session to achieve high efficiency.

“I request that the provincial People's Council delegates fulfill their responsibility of meeting voters; report to voters on the results of their duties as delegates during the year; listen to voters' opinions and recommendations to reflect and convey to the provincial People's Council session; actively research specialized fields and groups of issues that many voters and people are interested in, and provide quality opinions at the session,” said the Chairman of the provincial People's Council.