Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh will organize the 2nd Conference on experience exchange and development cooperation.

Comrade 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 chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades representing leaders of Central Party Committees; comrades of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and a number of relevant departments and branches.

Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh are three provinces located in important strategic positions in the North Central region, the Central coastal region and the whole country; having many similar conditions in terms of geography, people and history.

The total natural area of ​​the three provinces is more than 33,600km², accounting for more than 10% of the country's area; 321km long coastline, accounting for 9.8% of the country; rich and diverse natural resources with marine, delta, midland, mountainous ecosystems...; 807km of border adjacent to Laos, accounting for 35% of the total length (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 great demand for cooperation 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.

The conference on experience exchange and development cooperation between the three provinces, between the Standing Committees of the Provincial Party Committees of Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, and Ha Tinh provinces, was held for the first time on August 6 and 7, 2022 in Thanh Hoa. At the conference, the leaders of the three provinces agreed on the need to link and cooperate more strongly to effectively promote the space for development of the three provinces; at the same time, a memorandum of understanding was signed. The leaders of the three provinces also agreed to organize the conference annually.

This is the first time the three provinces have organized a regional and comprehensive cooperation conference in all fields. The success of the conference has created a new momentum and favorable premise to bring the development cooperation between the three provinces to a new level, for the prosperity of each locality, while promoting the role of growth poles in the development of the North Central region, the Central Coast and the whole country..

This year, the Conference will be held in Nghe An, scheduled for September 16 and 17 to evaluate the results of one year of development cooperation between the three provinces and set out directions and tasks for the coming time; at the same time, exchange information and experience in leadership and direction of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, building the Party and the political system.

In the working program at the regular meeting in July 2023, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee discussed and agreed on the contents to organize the conference. Based on the opinions and conclusions of this content, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy basically agreed on the time and draft plan to organize the program.

The head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee requested the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to direct relevant agencies to coordinate with Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh provinces to collect opinions on the plan; develop a joint report summarizing the results of one year of implementing the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation; on that basis, reach an agreement for implementation.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also noted some contents related to the invited participants of the conference; preparation work, especially the production of television reports of each province on socio-economic results, ensuring national defense, security, and Party building work in the past year, associated with integrating coordination activities with the remaining two provinces.

The Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also proposed to coordinate with the two neighboring provinces to direct the press agencies of each locality to promote communication work about the cooperation of the three provinces; strengthen information and communication work in the locality and the central press agencies about the event.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy also agreed and encouraged the departments, branches and sectors of the three provinces to organize exchanges and discussions on the 1-year implementation of the cooperation program for the fields under their management.