Nghe An: Highlights on July 7

*SJuly 7,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 contents on the socio-economic situation 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 daily 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 has been steadfast, persistent, hardworking, united, and unified to overcome, overcome, and achieve results that are relatively comparable 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 management, on 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

*Sáng 7/7, Bộ Chỉ huy Quân sự tỉnh tổ chức military conferenceThe first 6 months of 2020. At the conference, the contributions 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 tasks of combat readiness, readiness to mobilize forces and means to participate in natural disaster prevention, storms and floods - search and rescue...

Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Anh Tuấn - Phó Tư lệnh QK4 trao danh hiệu Chiến sỹ thi đua toàn quân cho các đồng chí đã có thành tích xuất sắc trong thực hiện Cuộc vận động 50.

*Theo số liệu từ Cục Thống kê Nghệ An, total retail sales of goods quý II/2020 trên địa bàn tỉnh Nghệ An theo giá hiện hành ước đạt 14.683 tỷ đồng, giảm 5,6% so với cùng quý năm trước làm cho tổng mức bán lẻ hàng hóa 6 tháng đầu năm 2020 ước đạt 30.789 tỷ đồng, chỉ tăng 0,21% so với cùng kỳ năm trước. Trong đó nhóm lương thực, thực phẩm chiếm tỷ trọng lớn nhất với doanh thu trong kỳ ước đạt 10.900 tỷ đồng (chiếm 35,4% tổng số), tăng 11,09%; ô tô các loại 3.931 tỷ đồng, giảm 16,86%; phương tiện đi lại (trừ ô tô) 2.292 tỷ đồng, tăng 2,29%; xăng dầu 2.806 tỷ đồng, giảm 4,13%...

Mặc dù bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề do dịch bệnh Covid 19 song doanh thu bán lẻ 6 tháng đầu năm 2020 của Nghệ An vẫn tăng nhẹ. Ảnh: Thanh Phúc

*Sáng 7/7, kỳ họp thứ 12, HĐND thành phố Vinh khóa XXI, nhiệm kỳ 2016 - 2021 tiếp tục phiên thảo luận tại hội trường, thông qua các nghị quyết và tiến hành bế mạc kỳ họp. Tại phiên họp này, Chủ tịch UBND thành phố Trần Ngọc Tú thẳng thắn nêu 4 khó khăn mà thành phố đang đối mặt. Ngoài khó khăn do dịch bệnh Covid-19 tác động làm giảm thu ngân sách, sản xuất và kinh doanh của doanh nghiệp bị ảnh hưởng, người nghèo gia tăng, thì khó khăn nhất của thành phố Vinh đó chính là sự tụt hậu.

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

*DOn the night of July 6 and the 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 railwayhas 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 to now, there have been 12 railway traffic accidents in the province, 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: Archive

*RCoriander of Dien Thai commune, Dien Chau district has just been recognized 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