During his 15 months as Secretary of the City Party Committee (February 5, 2016 - May 10, 2017), Mr. Dinh La Thang went to many field trips and had strong directions on people's livelihood issues.
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| On the afternoon of February 5, 2016, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee held a ceremony to announce the Politburo's decision on personnel work. Accordingly, Mr. Dinh La Thang joined the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Executive Committee for the 2015-2020 term and held the position of Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee. In his inaugural speech, Mr. Dinh La Thang said that from this moment on, his entire mind would be devoted to Ho Chi Minh City. |
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| Shortly after taking office, Mr. Dinh La Thang set up a hotline to receive information from Ho Chi Minh City residents. The information was received, compiled and reported to him for processing. And within just 43 hours, there were 1,200 calls and more than 800 messages via this hotline reflecting on the field of urban management (especially traffic congestion, flooding, environmental pollution), security and order, administrative reform, complaints and denunciations...) |
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| "The quality of public service is challenging the aspirations of Ho Chi Minh City" - Mr. Dinh La Thang frankly pointed this out at the closing session of the last meeting of the 8th term Ho Chi Minh City People's Council (April 21, 2016) when citing data showing that the 2015 Provincial Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) of Ho Chi Minh City ranked 47th out of 63 provinces and cities, down 29 places compared to 2011. |
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| “If you are not in the position of the people, get out of the system” - the head of Ho Chi Minh City said so when working with leaders of many departments and branches of Ho Chi Minh City in Hoc Mon on the afternoon of May 19, 2016 after noting that we must raise our thinking about adjusting and removing suspended planning to have enough anxiety and determination to do it. “Put yourself in the position of the people, unable to repair the house, hot and cramped, no toilet. We must end this suffering of the people”. |
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| Mr. Dinh La Thang has also repeatedly expressed his candid views on the working style of officials. "Not doing the work, sitting around evaluating the competition" - at a meeting with the Tan Binh District Party Committee on the morning of December 12, Mr. Dinh La Thang criticized the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Flood Control Management and Operation Center for being absent from meetings due to... being busy evaluating the competition. |
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| "Without traffic connectivity, don't even think about regional connectivity" - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang affirmed at the conference on traffic connectivity between provinces in the Southern Key Economic Zone in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of August 18. According to him, due to the lack of an operating mechanism, there are no suitable solutions, leading to regional issues being resolved in a scattered, fragmented manner and according to the interests of each locality. |
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| In response to the fact that Ho Chi Minh City will have its budget allocation ratio cut from 23% to 18% (2017-2020 period), at the meeting with voters after the 2nd session of the 14th National Assembly, with voters of Hoc Mon district, Mr. Dinh La Thang affirmed that the projects in the 7 breakthrough programs that Ho Chi Minh City is focusing on will still maintain their goals and receive large investments. And that Ho Chi Minh City will strive to overcome. |
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| “How can you understand people’s feelings when you sit in an air-conditioned car?” - this was Mr. Dinh La Thang’s statement at the conference summarizing the propaganda work in 2016 and deploying tasks for 2017 of the Propaganda Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee on the morning of January 12. Mr. Thang said that if you want to find a solution to reduce traffic congestion, the first thing to do is: “Comrades, go out on the street by motorbike to feel the suffering of people because of traffic jams. As for leaders who sit in air-conditioned cars, they will never feel the real emotions from a street intersection.” |
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| Faced with the complicated situation of crime, when visiting PCC45 of Ho Chi Minh City Police, Mr. Dinh La Thang requested: "Strike hard, strike accurately, strike continuously on crime". The Secretary of the City Party Committee said that the reduction of crime in the past year was clearly felt by the people of the city through a more peaceful daily life. However, the crime rate is still high and the people's demand is to reduce it even more. |
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| To help dairy farmers in the area, especially in Cu Chi district, Mr. Dinh La Thang directly worked with Vinamilk and affirmed that he would closely coordinate with Vinamilk to "renew" the entire dairy herd in Ho Chi Minh City according to Vinamilk's breed and technology, aiming to increase productivity from 17-18 liters/cow/day to over 30 liters/cow/day. |
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| Regarding social housing, Mr. Dinh La Thang cited commercial housing that still costs 13 million VND/m2.2There is no reason why social housing costs up to 15 million VND/m2.2making it unattainable for workers. Therefore, we must find a way to reduce the price of social housing to about 5 - 6 million VND/m2, by having the State bear all land costs and the land must be clean as well as other priorities... In the photo: Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang talks with leaders of the City Labor Federation |
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| Regarding the issue of education, Mr. Thang also clearly stated his view that if autonomy is granted, there should be no limit on staffing in the working session of the Standing Committee and the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee on implementing autonomy, socialization in education and orientation for the development of the city's education sector until 2020. |
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| One of Mr. Dinh La Thang's last activities as Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee was a meeting with many Japanese government officials and businesses to "present" attractive investment opportunities in Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Chi Minh City is ready to welcome new investment flows from Japan. (Photo: Mr. Dinh La Thang met and exchanged information with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida) |
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| On May 10, 2017, Mr. Dinh La Thang, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for the 2015-2020 term, received a decision to resign from the position of Secretary of the City Party Committee and was transferred to the position of Deputy Head of the Central Economic Committee. Mr. Dinh La Thang said that after only 15 months of working in the city, he has felt the affection of the people and considered this a priceless asset. He hopes the city will consider him as a son of the city. (Photo: Ms. Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council presented flowers to Mr. Dinh La Thang)/. |
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