Nghe An: Highlights on July 7

*SJuly 7th,Provincial Party Executive CommitteeThe 18th session held the 18th Conference to listen to and give opinions on many important contents on the socio-economic situation, administrative reform, and streamlining of staff. Concluding the socio-economic contents in the first 6 months of the year, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic had a very profound impact on socio-economic activities and the psychology, life and activities of the people; at the same time, the weather and climate were unfavorable. However, in the context of great difficulties and challenges, the province was steadfast, persistent, hardworking, united, and unified to overcome, overcome and achieve results relatively compared to the general level of the whole country; at the same time, effectively implementing the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic.

Conference scene. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding the tasks for the last 6 months of the year, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that the province must simultaneously carry out 3 tasks: being ready to respond to situations of the Covid-19 epidemic, restoring economic development, organizing grassroots Party congresses and the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025.

*Nto effectively implement solutionsbudget managementOn the morning of July 7, the Ministry of Finance held a national online conference on the implementation of financial and budgetary tasks in the first 6 months of the year and the deployment of plans and tasks for the last 6 months of the year. In Nghe An, despite many difficulties, the province has made great efforts. Thanks to that, in the first 6 months, budget revenue reached 6,964.5 billion VND, reaching 45.8% of the estimate, equivalent to 94.4% over the same period; budget expenditure was 14,224.4 billion VND, reaching 52.4% of the estimate, of which expenditure for development investment was 4,885 billion VND, reaching 74.1% of the estimate. Revenues that reached and exceeded the above estimates include land use fees, personal income tax, land and water surface rental fees, dividends and remaining profits, sale of state shares, and lottery.

Representatives of departments and branches under the finance and budget sector of Nghe An province followed the online conference on budget and financial management from the Hanoi bridge. Photo: Nguyen Hai

*SOn July 7, the Provincial Military Command organizedmilitary-political conferenceThe first 6 months of 2020. At the conference, comments focused on the contents of building strong, comprehensive, exemplary agencies and units with the implementation of the "Year of Discipline and Order 2020". Continuing to lead and direct agencies and units to perform well the task of combat readiness, readiness to mobilize forces and means to participate in natural disaster prevention, storms and floods - search and rescue...

Major General Nguyen Anh Tuan - Deputy Commander of Military Region 4 awarded the title of Emulation Soldier of the whole army to comrades who had outstanding achievements in implementing the 50 Campaign.

*TAccording to data from Nghe An Statistics Office,total retail sales of goodsIn the second quarter of 2020 in Nghe An province, at current prices, it is estimated to reach 14,683 billion VND, down 5.6% over the same quarter last year, making the total retail sales of goods in the first 6 months of 2020 estimated at 30,789 billion VND, up only 0.21% over the same period last year. Of which, the food and foodstuff group accounts for the largest proportion with revenue in the period estimated at 10,900 billion VND (accounting for 35.4% of the total), up 11.09%; cars of all kinds 3,931 billion VND, down 16.86%; means of transport (excluding cars) 2,292 billion VND, up 2.29%; gasoline 2,806 billion VND, down 4.13%...

Despite being heavily affected by the Covid 19 epidemic, Nghe An's retail revenue in the first 6 months of 2020 still increased slightly. Photo: Thanh Phuc

*SOn the morning of July 7, the 12th session of the Vinh City People's Council, term XXI, 2016 - 2021, continued the discussion in the hall, passed resolutions and closed the session. At this session, Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Ngoc Tu frankly stated4 difficultiesthat the city is facing. In addition to the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, which has reduced budget revenue, affected production and business of enterprises, and increased poverty, the biggest difficulty of Vinh city is falling behind.

Delegates vote to pass the resolution at the meeting. Photo: Mai Hoa

*DOn the morning of July 6 and early morning of July 7, Tan Ky districtreceived 97 peoplefrom abroad to centralized medical quarantine areas. Most of them are Vietnamese citizens returning from Laos and Lao students studying in Vietnam.

Citizens wait to complete procedures to enter the quarantine area. Photo: Nhu Lanh

*Nmany casesarbitrarily open a path across the railwayhave caused catastrophic accidents, even costing lives. In Nghe An, there are still 150 civilian level crossings and self-opened paths, with a total length of nearly 100 km, running through 7 districts and cities. This is a core and extremely difficult problem in ensuring railway traffic safety today. According to the Traffic Safety Committee of Nghe An province, from the beginning of 2019 until now, the whole province has had 12 railway traffic accidents, killing 11 people and injuring 5 people.

Many tragic accidents have occurred at self-opened paths, the main cause of which is due to vehicles not paying attention. Photo courtesy

*RCoriander of Dien Thai commune, Dien Chau district has just been approved by the People's Committee of Nghe An province."3 star" ratingaccording to the 2019 OCOP "One Commune One Product" Program. Currently, the price of this spice vegetable is increasing, not enough to supply the market.

Coriander from Dien Thai commune is harvested regularly throughout the year, so it is always available on the market. Photo: Xuan Hoang