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Promoting resources, developing Nghe An in the era of national growth

Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee • January 29, 2025 07:37

With the aspiration to rise, strong will and spirit of solidarity, unity and striving, Nghe An province aims to become the center of the North Central region in a number of fields; contributing responsibly and actively to the new era - the era of striving for rich, strong, civilized and prosperous development of the nation.

Nghe An is a land rich in cultural and revolutionary traditions - the homeland of the great President Ho Chi Minh. The province is facing new opportunities and chances to grow stronger. With the aspiration to rise, strong will and spirit of solidarity, unity and striving, Nghe An province aims to become the center of the North Central region in a number of fields; contributing responsibly and actively to the new era - the era of rising up to develop richly, civilized and prosperous of the nation.

In recent important articles and speeches, General Secretary To Lam has clearly defined the idea of ​​a new era - the era of strong national development. This idea was concretized through the Resolution of the 10th Central Conference (13th tenure) and officially became the unified direction and action within the Party, with the destination of a developed, rich, civilized, prosperous country that affirms its position in the international arena. The new era, starting from the 14th National Party Congress, is not only a call for solidarity and efforts of the entire Party and people, but also a measure of the leadership, direction and management capacity of Party committees and authorities at all levels.

In 2024, the world, domestic and provincial situations had many difficulties and challenges, with complicated epidemics and natural disasters. However, under the leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, the support and supervision of the Provincial People's Council, the direction and administration of the Provincial People's Committee, and the consensus of the people and businesses, Nghe An overcame difficulties and challenges, achieving many important, comprehensive and outstanding results in all fields.

Notably, the economy maintained a high growth rate, estimated at 9.01%, ranking 13th in the country. The scale of the province's economy increased rapidly, reaching 216,943 billion VND, ranking 10th in the country. State budget revenue reached more than 25,400 billion VND, exceeding 59.7% of the estimate assigned by the Provincial People's Council, the third consecutive year exceeding 20,000 billion VND. Total export turnover reached nearly 3.7 billion USD, of which export turnover of goods reached over 3.2 billion USD, the fourth year exceeding the target of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress. Investment attraction, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), is a bright spot with a total newly registered and adjusted capital of nearly 1.75 billion USD. This is the third consecutive year that Nghe An has been in the top 10 provinces and cities attracting the highest FDI capital in the country, continuing to demonstrate that Nghe An's investment environment is very attractive to foreign investors.

The fields of Health, Education - Training, Finance - Banking have gradually become the center of the North Central region. The material and spiritual life of the people has been gradually improved. Culture and society have made new breakthroughs and progress; social security has been guaranteed; poverty reduction, preferential policies for people with meritorious services, and health care for the people have been actively implemented.

In particular, the province has supported the construction and repair of 11,787 houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties, reaching 75% of the demand for the entire 2023 - 2025 period compared to the approved program, reaching 66.36% of the arising demand. Administrative reform has changed positively, the implementation of Project 06 of the Government has achieved high results, being commended by the Prime Minister. Foreign affairs and international integration activities have become increasingly in-depth and more effective. National defense and security have been maintained, social order and safety have been ensured.

In 2024, the province has implemented and completed many key tasks and key projects, creating momentum for development in the coming period. Nghe An was issued by the National Assembly Resolution No. 137/2024/QH15 on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for provincial development; the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution 1243/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of district- and commune-level administrative units for the period 2023 - 2025; the Prime Minister approved the Plan to implement the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050.

At the same time, Nghe An has focused on coordinating the implementation of key national projects in the area to ensure progress as required, such as: 500kV line project circuit 3, North - South expressway project. Works and projects, especially key works of the province such as the traffic road connecting National Highway 7C (Do Luong) to Ho Chi Minh road (Tan Ky), Traffic road connecting Vinh - Cua Lo phase 2, Coastal road from Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa) to Cua Lo (Nghe An) are focused on drastic direction, completed on schedule, opening up new development space for localities.

Immediately after the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution No. 1243/NQ-UBTVQH15, Nghe An province directed localities to resolutely implement the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023 - 2025. Closely following the direction and guidance of the Central Government, Nghe An established a Steering Committee and resolutely, effectively and efficiently implemented the summary of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017 of the Party Central Committee (12th tenure) in conjunction with the arrangement and streamlining of the province's political system apparatus.

In addition to the task of socio-economic development, Nghe An pays attention and focus to the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system. The leadership and direction methods of the Provincial Party Committee have been strongly innovated in a scientific, flexible and drastic direction while still ensuring the principle of democratic centralism.

In the fight against corruption, waste and negativity, the province has implemented many drastic solutions, strictly handled violations, created high consensus in society, and contributed to strengthening people's trust. From the beginning of 2024 to now, the province has admitted 6,202 party members, reaching 137.82% of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, reaching 104.8% according to the target of Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW. The team of leaders and managers at all levels has been thoroughly trained, increasingly meeting the requirements in the new situation.

The results achieved not only demonstrate the province's internal strength but also affirm the correct and close leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, the effective support and supervision of the Provincial People's Council, the proactive and flexible direction and management, closely following reality, synchronous, effective, focused implementation of the tasks and solutions set out by the Provincial People's Committee and the consensus and support of the people and business community.

On this occasion, on behalf of the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the veteran revolutionaries, cadres, party members, people and soldiers of the province who have united, strived and actively contributed to the outstanding results in socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, Party building and the political system of the province in 2024.

Looking to the future, Nghe An has shaped ambitious development strategies and goals with a far-reaching vision. By 2030, Nghe An strives to become a fairly developed province in the country, with a fast and sustainable economic development, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An; a center of the North Central region in terms of trade, logistics, healthcare, education and training, science and technology, industry and high-tech agriculture. By 2045, Nghe An will be a fast, sustainable, comprehensive, civilized and modern province, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An; one of the driving forces for development in the North Central region.

2025 is the final year of the term, a year of utmost importance, a year of acceleration and breakthrough to successfully complete the 5-year Socio-Economic Development Plan (2021-2025), a year of many important events of the country. However, the forecast of the international, domestic and provincial situations has many opportunities and advantages, but also poses many difficulties and challenges, requiring the Party Committee, Government and People of the province to be determined and make maximum efforts to achieve the set goals.

The Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee will lead and direct the implementation, determined to accelerate and make breakthroughs to complete the highest level of the goals and targets set by the 19th Provincial Party Congress, striving for double-digit economic growth. At the same time, Nghe An will resolutely and effectively deploy the contents related to the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo; Resolutions of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific policies and mechanisms for the province's development and the Provincial Planning to create motivation, resources and consolidate a solid foundation for the province's development.

Nghe An will focus on carefully preparing, quality and successfully organizing party congresses at all levels, towards the 20th Provincial Party Congress and the 14th National Party Congress. In this task, Party committees and authorities at all levels must pay special attention to the work of drafting congress documents in the spirit of innovation, reducing the evaluation part, increasing the direction and tasks part; incorporating new viewpoints and contents into the documents. The draft resolution of the congress must be practical, full of life, concise, easy to remember, easy to understand, easy to implement and must be accompanied by projects, plans and action programs for immediate implementation.

In addition, pay attention to and prepare well the personnel plan that meets the standards and conditions for participating in the Party Committee and key leaders at all levels in the entire Party Committee for the 2025 - 2030 term, especially female cadres, young cadres and cadres from ethnic minorities. Resolutely do not let cadres who do not meet the standards, conditions, capacity, qualities, are afraid of making mistakes, push them away, or avoid entering the new Party Committee.

Following the direction and guidance of the Central Government, Nghe An province is determined to resolutely and effectively implement the summary of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, associated with the revolution in arranging and streamlining the political system of the province in the direction of: "Slim - Compact - Strong - Effective - Effective - Efficient". Identifying this as a revolution, Nghe An is determined to carry it out with the highest and most resolute spirit, on that basis creating new momentum and new spirit for the development of the province in the coming period.

Continuing the success of recent years, Nghe An continues to take advantage of opportunities to accelerate and make breakthroughs in attracting investment, promoting administrative reform, implementing stronger digital transformation, improving the investment environment with the spirit of creating favorable conditions for domestic enterprises and foreign investors to effectively implement projects in the province.

The province continues to mobilize resources, especially mechanisms and policies in Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly to implement key projects, especially strategic infrastructure projects such as: Cua Lo Deepwater Port Construction Investment Project; Vinh International Airport Expansion and Upgrade Project; Quynh Lap LNG Thermal Power Project and continues to select key projects to implement in order to create spillover effects, consolidating the foundation for the province's development in the new term. On the other hand, focus on accelerating the progress of site clearance for Tho Loc Industrial Park (phase 1), Hoang Mai II Industrial Park and carrying out procedures to submit to the Prime Minister for approval to establish new industrial parks to create conditions to attract investors.

Thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing the Party's viewpoint that economic development must go hand in hand with social progress and equity, Nghe An continues to lead, direct, and devote resources to caring for the material and spiritual lives of the poor, people in difficult circumstances, ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, first of all, on the occasion of welcoming the New Year 2025 and the Lunar New Year of At Ty.

The province focuses on mobilizing and allocating sufficient resources to complete the Program of mobilizing and supporting the construction and repair of houses for the poor and those with housing difficulties before August 31, 2025, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the country. Strengthening the assurance of national defense, security, order and social safety; paying attention to solving the legitimate needs of the people, maintaining stability for the development of the province.

In addition, Nghe An has constantly innovated the leadership methods of Party committees at all levels, built a truly clean and strong political system in the spirit of the Resolution of the 4th Central Committee, Session XII, Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW of the 4th Central Committee Conference, Session XIII on promoting the building and rectification of the Party and the political system; promoted internal solidarity, created high unity and consensus among the people; resolutely prevented and strictly handled cadres, party members, and civil servants who degraded in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, showed signs of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation", had public opinions and expressions that caused trouble and difficulties for people and businesses, and hindered the development of the province.

The results that Nghe An has achieved today are thanks to the attention and support of the Central Government, the crystallization of the spirit of solidarity, unity, striving efforts and aspirations of the entire Party Committee, Government and People of the province. I believe that, with the spirit of innovation and determination, and constant efforts, we will overcome all difficulties and challenges, and turn great aspirations into reality soon. Nghe An will be one of the provinces that contributes responsibly and actively to the new era - the era of striving to develop richly, civilized and prosperous of the Vietnamese people.

On the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year of At Ty 2025, I would like to send my best wishes to my compatriots, comrades and readers near and far for a new year of peace, prosperity and happiness. Wishing our homeland Nghe An a spring filled with joy and hope!