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Nghe An Newspaper, Radio and Television respectfully introduces the full text of the opening speech of the session by comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council.

Dear Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Provincial Party Secretary!

Dear National Assembly delegates and invited delegates!

Dear delegates of the Provincial People's Council!

Dear voters and people of the province!

Today, the 18th term People's Council of Nghe An province solemnly opened the 31st session - the regular mid-year session of 2025. On behalf of the Chairman of the session, I respectfully send to the Provincial Party Secretary, National Assembly deputies, guests, Provincial People's Council deputies, and all voters and people of the province my wishes for health, happiness and success!

Dear delegates and voters!

The 31st session - the regular mid-year session of the Provincial People's Council in 2025 is a very important session, 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); we are entering the last 6 months of the term of implementing the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, a time that requires high unity and drastic, synchronous action to reach the right destination, at the right level. From July 1, 2025, the 2-level administrative unit apparatus officially came into operation, marking a new development stage of the country.

Up to now, the operations of the new commune and ward governments in the area have been basically smooth and stable; the grassroots cadres and civil servants have promptly caught up with their work with higher determination and greater responsibility in the spirit of serving the people; the settlement of administrative procedures for the people has been quick and uninterrupted. The Provincial People's Council has acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of all levels, branches and agencies in the political system who have actively and urgently completed the preparations and implementation of the two-level government model; at the same time, sincerely thanked the high support and consensus of voters and people of the province, contributing to the overall results of the province in implementing the policies of the Party and State, ensuring progress and quality, ready for our country to develop and strive in the new era of development.

Dear delegates and voters of the province!

According to the approved program, the 31st session of the Provincial People's Council will consider many important contents, including:

The first,Assess the implementation of socio-economic development tasks; estimate revenue and expenditure of the budget; implement the public investment plan for the first 6 months of the year and key tasks and solutions for the last 6 months of 2025.

In the first 6 months of the year, along with the drastic and urgent implementation of the organizational restructuring revolution, all levels and sectors have made efforts to carry out the socio-economic development tasks and achieved many positive and quite comprehensive results in all fields: The growth rate of total product in the province in the first 6 months of the year is estimated at 8.24%.(ranked 12th/34 provinces and cities; first in the North Central sub-region)), budget revenue reached 13,890 billion VND, reaching 78.4% of the estimate, up 14.5% over the same period in 2024; investment attraction achieved positive results; public investment disbursement was higher than the same period in 2024. Cultural and social fields continued to receive attention and direction and achieved many positive results, national defense, security, social order and safety were maintained.

However, in addition to the achieved results, there are still some shortcomings and limitations such as: The economy has grown quite well but has not yet reached the set scenario, creating pressure on the completion of the growth scenario for the remaining quarters, striving to achieve the growth target for 2025 still has many challenges; production and business activities of enterprises still face many difficulties. The progress of implementing a number of key projects and works in the area, disbursement of public investment capital from some sources is still slow. Attracting FDI to economic zones and industrial parks has not achieved high results, lower than the same period. State management of natural resources and environment is still inadequate; the situation of overload in a number of hospitals, the situation of medical and pharmaceutical establishments without practice licenses has not been completely overcome; skilled and highly skilled human resources have not met the needs of enterprises. Provincial competitiveness index (PCI), administrative reform index (PAR INDEX), public administration governance index (PAPI), and local innovation index (PII) have not improved and their rankings have decreased compared to the previous year...

Propose that the Provincial People's Council delegates carefully study the reports and submissions, focus on discussing and comprehensively evaluating the achieved results, frankly pointing out the limitations, shortcomings and causes, especially subjective causes in the implementation stage; propose to supplement and adjust specific and feasible solutions to best achieve the 2025 target and solutions to effectively and smoothly operate the two-level local government model.

Monday,The Provincial People's Council will discuss, comment on and pass 19 important thematic Resolutions, including many contents directly related to the management and operation of local governments 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...

These are important decisions that need to be carefully considered and comprehensively evaluated to ensure consensus, feasibility, and practicality. At the same time, the Provincial People's Council will carry out the work of perfecting the personnel of the Provincial People's Committee according to its authority.

Tuesday,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 to the session according to regulations. The session will review the Report on the results of the Provincial People's Council's thematic supervision on planning and arranging the network of schools and classes at educational institutions in the province.

Conducting questions on 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 "hot" and urgent issues that are of special concern to voters and the people.

Dear delegates and voters of the province!

In preparation for the 31st Session, the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee 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 conducted examinations and participated in many specific opinions, and the Provincial People's Committee absorbed and completed the draft before submitting it to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and decision.

The duration of the session continues to be innovated in the direction of shortening from 3 days to 2 days. This is also the first session of the Provincial People's Council since the official implementation of the two-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 session of the Provincial People's Council will be valuable experience for the People's Councils of communes and wards to organize regular sessions in mid-2025.

Therefore, we request that the delegates of the Provincial People's Council 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 their opinions, especially on issues with different opinions, creating high unity so that the People's Council can make decisions in accordance with the law, in accordance with the practical situation. We request that the leaders of the agencies and units invited by the Provincial People's Council to attend the meeting fully participate and actively contribute to the contents of the meeting.

During the session, the Provincial People's Council organized an online hotline to receive suggestions and feedback from voters. It is requested that press, radio and television agencies strengthen information and propaganda work to promptly, fully and accurately convey activities at the parliament to voters and all classes of people.

In that spirit, I declare open the 31st Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council./.