Provincial leaders meet with key leaders and former leaders who are ethnic minorities

Attending the conference, leaders of Nghe An province included comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and representatives of the Standing Committees of District Party Committees and Town Party Committees of mountainous districts.

Ethnic work and ethnic policies have achieved many positive results.

In 2024, ethnic work and implementation of ethnic policies achieved many positive results, and were assessed by the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee as having excellently completed assigned tasks.

The whole region's economy has grown continuously over the years, reaching 5.44% in 2023 and 7.79% in 2024. More and more models and bright spots in effective agricultural and forestry production have appeared; eco-tourism and community tourism models have initially attracted tourists, gradually changing the thinking, mindset and way of working of ethnic minorities.

Socio-economic infrastructure in ethnic minority and mountainous areas has received investment attention; the fields of health, culture and education have made much progress.

The lives of ethnic minorities are improving day by day. The income of ethnic minorities in 2024 will reach 45 million VND/person. The poverty rate will decrease to 29.15% in 2024.

The work of preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities is of concern to Party committees and authorities at all levels.

Patriotic emulation movements have been actively responded to and effectively participated in by ethnic minorities. Since then, many typical collectives and individuals have emerged in various fields, and have been commended and rewarded by all levels and sectors.

Local Party committees and authorities have done a good job of propagating the Party and State's policies and guidelines; promptly grasped the legitimate aspirations and wishes of ethnic people and issues arising at the grassroots level.

Social security work is regularly paid attention to, localities have implemented policies well for the people, especially poor households, ethnic minorities and the disadvantaged. The province has promptly implemented policies for prestigious people among ethnic minorities.

Successfully organized the 4th Congress of Ethnic Minorities at District and Provincial Levels in 2024. Successfully organized the Folk Performing Arts Festival of Ethnic Minorities in Nghe An Province.

At the conference, former leaders and key leaders at district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities expressed their excitement and joy at the socio-economic development results of the province in general and the changes and progress of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in particular.

Delegates also gave their opinions on the implementation of national target programs for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; training, fostering, and arranging the use of provincial and district-level leaders of ethnic minorities; having a separate mechanism for recruiting ethnic minority officials; the rate of students knowing ethnic languages ​​is getting lower and lower...

Continue to promote the role and prestige, contributing to the development of the province

Speaking at the conference, sharing information on outstanding results in socio-economic development, national defense and security of the province in 2024, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that those results have important contributions from ethnic work, ethnic minorities and especially from leaders and former key leaders at district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities.

Emphasizing that Nghe An is a province with a large area and a large population, with ethnic minorities accounting for nearly 15%, with nearly 500,000 people, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that in recent years, the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee have continued to pay special attention to ethnic work and implement ethnic policies.

The province has issued many resolutions, directives, programs and projects to lead and direct the implementation of ethnic policies; focusing on mobilizing and integrating resources from socio-economic development programs, especially national target programs with the goal of improving the material and spiritual life of ethnic minorities in the province.

Despite the difficulties, the ethnic minority and mountainous areas have had positive developments and changes in recent times. The economic structure has shifted positively, with the emergence of many models and bright spots in effective agricultural and forestry production and eco-tourism models.

The socio-economic infrastructure of ethnic minority and mountainous areas has received investment attention. The lives of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have improved, the poverty rate has decreased sharply. The political security situation and the grassroots political system have been consolidated and strengthened. Attention has been paid to the work of building a contingent of ethnic minority cadres.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that in 2024, the province's ethnic minorities, leaders and former key leaders at district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities have promoted the tradition of solidarity and patriotism, made efforts to overcome difficulties and achieved many achievements.

On behalf of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung acknowledged, highly appreciated, and warmly commended the results that the province's ethnic minorities, leaders, and former key leaders at district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities have achieved in 2024.

Emphasizing the development orientations in 2025, Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that this is the final year of the term, of extremely important significance, a year with many important events of the country.

Therefore, the province is determined to accelerate and make breakthroughs to implement and complete at the highest level the goals, targets and tasks of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, striving for double-digit economic growth. At the same time, the province will make careful and best preparations to successfully organize Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 20th Provincial Party Congress, especially focusing on document and personnel development.

Besides, the province will effectively and successfully carry out the revolution to reorganize and streamline the apparatus of the provincial political system, in which leaders and heads of all levels, sectors and localities must set an example, be resolute and determined to implement, and if they want the revolution to succeed, they must make sacrifices for the common goal.

To promote resources for development, the province will continue to vigorously implement the contents related to the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo; mobilize resources to implement key projects, especially strategic infrastructure projects, such as the Cua Lo Deepwater Port Construction Project; Vinh International Airport Upgrade and Expansion Project; Quynh Lap LNG Thermal Power Project and continue to select key projects to create spillover effects, promoting the province's development in the coming period.

In 2025, the province will direct the implementation of the Program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties in the province, striving to complete before August 31, 2025.

Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo clearly defines the province's development orientation as rapid and breakthrough development in the Eastern region to promote and sustainably develop the Western region.

On that basis, in ethnic work, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Provincial Ethnic Committee to closely coordinate with sectors and localities to review and advise the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and Provincial People's Committee on the contents, mechanisms and policies for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; in particular, to strengthen inspection and evaluation work so that the province can issue effective policies, creating trust among the people and leaders, former key leaders at district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities.

At the same time, it is recommended that the Provincial Ethnic Committee promptly advise and proactively remove obstacles and difficulties in implementing national target programs for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; proactively arrange the organizational apparatus in the Provincial Ethnic Committee.

Having high expectations for the leaders and former key leaders at the district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities, Provincial Party Secretary and Provincial People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Trung hopes and requests that they pay attention to studying, giving opinions and participating in major orientations, key tasks and solutions for socio-economic development of the province in general, especially for ethnic affairs and ethnic policies, socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in particular, including the contents on ethnic affairs in the documents of congresses at all levels and of the province.

With their own prestige and voice, we hope that the leaders and former key leaders at the district and provincial levels who are ethnic minorities will have a voice in support so that the province can effectively implement the policies and guidelines of the Central, the province and the district; especially, support the ethnic minority cadres working in agencies and units to carry out and excellently complete the assigned tasks, making meaningful contributions to the common work of the province.

In addition, pay attention to mobilizing people, especially ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, to understand, agree with and comply with the policies of the Central, province and district to make a common contribution to the development of the province in general and sectors and localities in particular in 2025 and the coming period.