Nghe An: Highlights on February 18

*On the morning of February 18, in Hanoi, the Liaison Committee of Nghe An Fellow Countrymen Association in Hanoi chaired and coordinated with the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, and General Company 36 of the Ministry of National Defense to organizeMeeting program for Nghe An businessmen in Hanoito mobilize investment to develop the homeland and support house building for the poor in the province.

Although many results have been achieved in socio-economic development, the province has a large area, complex terrain with over 83% of mountains and hills, strongly divided; often affected by natural disasters, storms and floods, so the lives of a part of the people still have many difficulties.

Up to now, the whole province still has more than 55 thousand poor households, more than 53 thousand near-poor households; of which 15,300 households are facing housing difficulties (including 9,200 households in need of new construction and 6,100 households in need of housing repair), in dire need of the cooperation and help of the whole society.

Speaking at the program, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy earnestly called on the people of Nghe An province, businessmen in Hanoi, especially businessmen and enterprises who are children of Nghe An in Hanoi to support and help the poor have a solid and warm house to "settle down and make a living", have more motivation to escape poverty, build a better life; contribute effort and money to help the province complete the social security program and achieve the goal of building 9,200 new houses and repairing 6,100 houses by 2025.

“The province is committed to accompanying, sharing, supporting and assisting businesses, including those from Nghe An in Hanoi, to research and invest in the province,” affirmed Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy.

Updated to noon on February 18, the program to mobilize support for building houses for the poor and people in difficult circumstances has received a donation of 33.3 billion VND from Nghe An businessmen in Hanoi, far exceeding the registered target of 10 billion VND.

Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented a letter of thanks and flowers to thank businesses, organizations and individuals supporting the program. Photo: Thanh Duy

*In Nghe An, the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee directlythoroughly implement Directive No. 21of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued on February 10, 2023 on strengthening the Party's leadership in mobilizing and supporting the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties; Plan No. 69 of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee on mobilizing and supporting the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties in Nghe An province for the period 2023-2025; at the same time, launching the construction of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties.

Comrade Phan Thi Hoan - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nghe An Province's Business Bloc awarded Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Party Standing Committee to 4 collectives and 2 individuals who met the criteria for excellently completing typical tasks for 5 consecutive years. Photo: Mai Hoa

*In the economic field, recently, in Nghe An, the interdisciplinary inspection team continuously discovered many enterprises.exploiting sand and gravel in excess of permitted levelsfor many years. Meanwhile, local authorities say it is difficult to monitor this issue.

Regarding this issue, the People's Committee of Nghe An province has just issued a Plan to strengthen the state management of minerals in the province. Accordingly, the People's Committee of the province requires departments, branches, units and localities to clearly define the main tasks and coordination tasks in the state management of minerals, as a basis for synchronous, timely and effective implementation of assigned tasks. On the other hand, strengthening the state management of minerals, exploiting and using mineral resources reasonably and economically, meeting the requirements of sustainable development, increasing economic efficiency and revenue for the state budget...

A sand gathering site by the Lam River. Photo: TH

*On the morning of February 18, thousands of students attended the Program.Admissions consulting - career guidancein Vinh city.

This is an annual activity organized by Tuoi Tre newspaper in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education and Training), the General Department of Vocational Education (Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs), the Department of Education and Training, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union and Vinh University.

The program attracted thousands of students from Vinh City High Schools and many other schools in neighboring areas of Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces.

Universities directly advise students at booths. Photo: My Ha

*Vinh City Police have just searched the 37-09D Vehicle Inspection Center, arrested 1 Deputy Director and 2 inspectors of the Center for the act of "Giving and receiving bribes", and seized many related documents and evidence.

Accordingly, the police agency arrested 3 subjects for the act of "Giving and receiving bribes" stipulated in Article 354 of the Penal Code, including: Nguyen Tien Hoa (born in 1983), residing in Xuan Duc hamlet, Nghi Duc commune, Vinh city, Deputy Director of the Inspection Center, Head of the inspection line; Nguyen Ngoc Thach (born in 1991), residing in hamlet 1, Quynh Hung commune, Quynh Luu district, is an inspector; Cao Xuan Dat (born in 1988), residing in hamlet 3, Dien An commune, Dien Chau district, is an inspector.

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