Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Thanh An requested that localities, departments and branches need to change their thinking and approach to adapt to the new context.

Many recommendations need to be resolved

At the meeting, leaders of communes and wards reported the results after 3.5 months of implementing the 2-level government, starting from July 1, 2025, with the highest priority task of arranging and deploying cadres, civil servants, and workers and stabilizing the organizational apparatus; investing in facilities and equipment, promoting the application of information technology, and ensuring the smooth operation of the political system.

In particular, cadres, party members and people acknowledged the spirit of efforts to overcome difficulties, improve service spirit, demonstrate the spirit of being close to the people, and promptly resolve people's difficulties from the team of cadres and civil servants at the commune level.

Besides, localities also reflected many difficulties, requesting the province and the Central Government to remove them, so that commune-level authorities can truly operate effectively, efficiently and effectively, promoting the overall development of each locality.

Of particular concern is the issue of resolving the local surplus and shortage of staff and professional structure, especially the lack of staff in fields requiring specialized expertise; at the same time, promptly deploying the arrangement and establishment of public service units at the commune level to provide basic and essential public services to people and project management boards at the commune level.

Localities also recommended that the province increase the rate of budget revenue regulation for commune level, especially revenue from land use rights, ensure balance of additional expenditure tasks, invest in essential works and pay off basic construction debts from previous communes and wards.

Some localities also reported that the volume of administrative procedures that people need to resolve is large, while the information technology infrastructure; the process and procedures for resolution, especially some procedures in the judicial and civil status fields, are still excessively demanding and the interconnectivity in resolution is still inadequate, causing difficulties for specialized officials and civil servants and reducing the effectiveness of administrative procedure resolution for people.

Many difficulties in granting land use right certificates, finance, budget, public investment, construction, etc. and the existing problems left over from the previous district and commune levels related to site clearance, resettlement, settlement of old collective housing areas, unfinished investment projects, etc. have also been proposed and recommended by localities to the Central and provincial governments for resolution.

Some localities proposed a number of contents related to decentralization and delegation of power; promulgating specific mechanisms and policies, including specific policies for the development of Cua Lo ward.

Need to innovate thinking and approach to adapt

After the leaders of provincial departments and branches received and directly answered a number of issues according to their functions and tasks; concluding the meeting, Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged the efforts and dedication of the team of commune-level cadres and civil servants and the spirit of companionship of provincial departments and branches in the past time, ensuring that the new commune-level apparatus goes into stable operation step by step.

Acknowledging and sharing the difficulties and pressures that the establishments are facing in the fields of natural resources, environment, finance-budget, public investment, planning, construction, organization, staffing, administrative reform, etc. The Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that provincial departments and branches need to study and resolve or advise the province to resolve.

Emphasizing that in a two-level government, difficulties in the initial stage are inevitable, but when the apparatus and each cadre and civil servant adapt to the new operating mechanism, it will create good development momentum; Comrade Bui Thanh An suggested that communes and wards need to change their thinking and working methods; from awareness to action and from action to results; if the old thinking is still applied in the new era, it will be difficult to adapt, adapt and meet requirements.

In addition to the commune level, provincial departments, branches and sectors are also required to change their thinking to adapt to the operation of the two-level government; not only the commune level but also the departments and branches must "run" together on the principle of companionship, establish working groups at the grassroots level to survey, grasp and immediately resolve problems, for the common goal of: Efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency of the apparatus; contribute to promoting the overall development of the province, and effectively resolving the legitimate needs of the people.

Before the meeting, in the morning, Working Group No. 1 of the Provincial People's Committee directly surveyed the actual operation of the two-level government in 6 wards and communes: Truong Vinh, Vinh Hung, Cua Lo, Hung Nguyen, Hung Nguyen Nam, Lam Thanh.

Here are some pictures of Working Group No. 1, Provincial People's Committee in communes and wards: