Leaders of Nghe An - Thanh Hoa - Ha Tinh provinces exchange experiences and cooperate for development

On the morning of August 7, in Sam Son City, Thanh Hoa Province, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committees of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Ha Tinh provinces held a conference to exchange experiences and cooperate in development between the three provinces.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

3 PROVINCES HAVE MANY SIMILAR CONDITIONS

Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh are three provinces located in an important strategic position in the North Central region, the Central coastal region and the whole country with many similar conditions in terms of geography, people and history. In the historical process of building and defending the country of our nation, mentioning Thanh - Nghe - Tinh is mentioning the lands of "beautiful customs and good customs", rich in cultural identity and historical traditions, one of the "cradles" of the Vietnamese revolution, always playing an important role in politics, economy and military of the country.

The comrades chaired the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh always had special affection and concern for his homeland Nghe An and the two provinces of Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh. He advised Nghe An province to “be determined to strive to build our province into one of the best provinces in the North”, to Ha Tinh province to “make the situation stand out” and “build a Ha Tinh province that is good in all aspects”; to Thanh Hoa province, he assigned the task of “making Thanh Hoa province become a model province”.

Comrade Do Trong Hung - Secretary of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

To realize his wish, which is also the request of the Central Committee, the earnest desire of the Party Committee, the government and the people of all ethnic groups in the provinces, in his opening speech at the conference, comrade Do Trong Hung - Secretary of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee emphasized: In addition to promoting different potentials, outstanding opportunities, comparative advantages, with the spirit of "self-reliance and self-improvement"; it is necessary to strengthen, consolidate and further enhance the relationship of association, cooperation, deep integration, and mutual development between the three localities.

Leaders of Nghe An province at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

As the proverb says, “Birds of a feather flock together”, the connection and cooperation between the three localities not only promotes the development of each province, but also contributes to affirming the important role and position of each locality in the development of the North Central region, the Central coastal region and the whole country,” the Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Secretary emphasized.

Comrade Do Minh Tuan - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province presented on the potential, advantages, development opportunities and the possibility of cooperation and regional linkage between the three localities. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, the leaders of the three provinces: Nghe An, Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh agreed on the need to link and cooperate more strongly to effectively promote the huge space for development: a large natural area of ​​more than 33,600km2, accounting for more than 10% of the country's area; a coastline of 321km, accounting for 9.8% of the country; rich and diverse natural resources with marine ecosystems, plains, midlands, mountains...; 807km of border adjacent to Laos, accounting for 35% of the total length of the whole route (2,300km).

In particular, all three provinces have a large consumer market, abundant labor resources with a population of over 8.5 million people, accounting for 8.6% of the country. The socio-economic activities of the three provinces are vibrant and have achieved many solid achievements, opening up opportunities and cooperation needs in many fields. The economic scale of the three provinces by 2021 is about 460 trillion VND, accounting for 5.5% of the country's GDP.

Comrade Dang Ngoc Son - Vice Chairman of Ha Tinh Provincial People's Committee presented a speech on experience in building new rural areas and potentials and prospects for linkage and cooperation in developing agricultural production and consuming agricultural products of the three provinces. Photo: Thanh Duy

On that basis, Comrade Do Minh Tuan - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province presented the potential, advantages, development opportunities and the possibility of cooperation and regional linkage between the three localities. Comrade Dang Ngoc Son - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province presented a speech on the experience of building new rural areas and the potential and prospects for linkage and cooperation in developing agricultural production and agricultural product consumption of the three provinces.

On behalf of the leaders of Nghe An province, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee discussed the potential and prospects for cooperation and tourism development between the three provinces.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province presented a speech on the potential and prospects for cooperation and tourism development between the three provinces. Photo: Thanh Duy

Accordingly, to maximize the potential and opportunities for tourism development, in the coming time, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province proposed to review and adjust the regional tourism development plan to reallocate tourism development resources in the direction of prioritizing the exploitation of potential and comparative advantages of each locality with specific tourism products; gradually limit duplication of tourism products between localities, minimize costs to improve tourism business efficiency.

Focus on developing tourism types suitable to the potential and advantages of the three localities such as developing beach resort tourism, cultural, historical and spiritual tourism, community tourism, rural agricultural tourism, culinary tourism with an ecosystem that is a chain of separate product and service values, intertwined and complementary between localities.

Leaders of Nghe An province attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Complete the tourism infrastructure system, especially the transport system of each locality, connecting with the inter-regional, regional and international transport system. Upgrade the transport axes connecting with economic corridors and international border gates in the region. Coordinate with airlines to open more domestic and international routes.

Along with that, cooperate to build a unified regional economic tourism space on the basis of connecting tours, points and tourist areas; exploiting and preserving cultural heritages in the region; forming highly competitive destinations domestically, regionally and internationally and creating chains of tourism events such as festivals, international cultural festivals, and typical national festivals.

In addition, coordinate in building policies and mechanisms on investment in tourism technical infrastructure; coordinate in researching and proposing regional policies to mobilize and prioritize attracting strategic investors and multinational corporations to invest in important areas such as: tourism infrastructure development, development of national tourism areas/destinations, development of high-quality human resources, development of unique tourism products with high competitiveness in the region and internationally.

Leaders of Ha Tinh province attended the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province also proposed to coordinate to promote destinations; invest in and build regional tourism brands and improve regional tourism competitiveness. In particular, focusing on public-private cooperation in building destination brands, promoting and advertising tourism at home and abroad; developing policies to support local tourism businesses to accelerate the digital transformation process. Strengthening coordination, sharing information and experience in planning and state management of tourism. Promoting linkages and cooperation in training and recruiting tourism human resources in the region, especially high-quality human resources.

"If you want to go far, go together"

In the North Central region, the three provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Ha Tinh have many similar characteristics in terms of geography, society, and humanity, creating favorable conditions for association and cooperation for development. In particular, in the context of many opportunities and challenges today, there is an increasing need for association and cooperation between localities to exploit and promote strengths, limit weaknesses, and contribute to the successful implementation of development goals of each locality.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Therefore, speaking at the conference, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy emphasized the viewpoint of association, coordination, and cooperation for development with the spirit: "If you want to go far, go together" based on three general principles: Economic and social development must be associated with ensuring national defense and security, especially protecting the ecological environment; minimizing direct competition and conflicts of interest; needing to complement each other, develop together, form sub-regions, strong growth poles of the country; at the same time ensuring unified leadership of each province.

In order to further develop the cooperative relationship and bring practical meaning, the Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee proposed to organize an annual summit of the leaders of the three provinces; at the same time, sign a memorandum of understanding of this conference to serve as a basis for re-evaluating the cooperation results.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also asked the leaders of the three provinces to create conditions for the sectors to actively work and build coordination and cooperation programs with each other.

Comrade Hoang Trung Dung - Secretary of Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the conference, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education Nguyen Dac Vinh congratulated the socio-economic achievements of the three provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh; and assessed that this region, compared to other regions in the country, is developing quite rapidly and its position is increasingly improving.

In order for the three provinces to develop faster and more sustainably, comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh suggested that the provinces actively learn from each other's experiences; need to promote links in infrastructure, tourism connection, information sharing; support service development; develop human resources; share in the health sector; pay attention to cooperation and investment in the education sector.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

In his closing speech at the conference, Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Secretary Do Trong Hung believed that after the success of the first conference on experience exchange and development cooperation on a large scale and comprehensively in all fields between the three provinces, it would create a new momentum and favorable premise to bring the relationship of association and development cooperation between the three provinces to a new height, for the prosperity of each locality and for the development of the North Central region, the Central coastal region and the country.

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

After this conference, the Party Secretaries of Nghe An, Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh provinces will sign a memorandum of understanding. On that basis, the sectors and fields of each province will promote cooperation and exchange with each other. The leaders of the three provinces also agreed to organize an annual conference between the high-ranking leaders of the three provinces.