Comrade Tong Thi Phong: Striving to build "city in the forest, forest in the city" in Con Cuong

On the morning of January 22, Comrade Tong Thi Phong - Politburo member, Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly and the working delegation visited, presented gifts and wished a Happy New Year to policy families and poor households in Con Cuong district. Joining the working delegation were comrades: Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Thanh Hien - Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation;... Photo: Thanh Cuong

Strategic recommendations for Con Cuong

In 2018, Con Cuong district's socio-economic situation had positive results. Economic growth rate reached 8.51%, the highest ever. Total budget revenue in the area reached 53.8 billion VND, reaching 270% of the provincial estimate.

Recommending and proposing to the Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, Con Cuong district hopes that the Central Government will soon arrange reserve funds for the 2016 - 2020 medium-term public investment plan budget to implement: construction of Thanh Nam bridge project across Lam river in Con Cuong district; construction of Ethnic Boarding School.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Con Cuong district proposed to allocate budget to implement key priority projects to develop urban functions, meeting the criteria in the direction of ecological urban areas as approved in the project; upgrading 2 traffic routes to tourist destinations in the Western Nghe An World Biosphere Reserve; Project "Conservation and sustainable development of the Dan Lai ethnic minority currently living in the core area of ​​Pu Mat National Park, Con Cuong district, Nghe An province".

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh respectfully thanked the National Assembly delegation for their sincere sentiments. Reporting on the province's socio-economic situation in 2018, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee said that many positive results had been achieved, with 27/27 targets completed and the economic growth rate reaching 8.77%. In the campaign "Tet for the poor in 2019", the province has received about 65 billion VND so far.

Regarding the recommendations of Con Cuong district, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh said that these are strategic recommendations and he hopes that the working group will continue to pay attention and support. Regarding the Thanh Nam bridge construction project, the Ministry of Planning and Investment has now included it in the list of medium-term investment sources, and is waiting for the National Assembly to approve it.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy spoke at the meeting, emphasizing that Nghe An province identified Con Cuong as one of the key tourist destinations. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Building Con Cuong into an ecological urban area is a major direction, because this is the district with the largest forest cover in the province, has Pu Mat National Forest, is the center of the Western Nghe An World Biosphere Reserve. Therefore, the province has identified this as one of the focuses in the coming time: building an ecological urban area associated with community tourism.

For the Dan Lai ethnic group, Nghe An province as well as Con Cuong district determined that, in addition to preserving and maintaining the number, they also focus on preserving cultural characteristics, as well as paying attention to and building local human resources.

"City in the forest, forest in the city"

Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong expressed her impression of the positive development of Nghe An province in general and Con Cuong district in particular, in all areas, with people's lives clearly improved.

“This is clearly demonstrated by the successful completion of 27/27 set targets. This is the effort, consensus and unity of the entire Party and people” - Comrade Tong Thi Phong acknowledged and praised.

Regarding Con Cuong district, the Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly expressed hope that Con Cuong will become one of the famous tourist destinations.

Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong acknowledged and commended the achievements of Nghe An province and Con Cuong district in 2018. Photo: Thanh Cuong

“Building an ecological city is a good way of thinking, in line with the trend of the new era, but it needs to have a solid orientation. How to build “a city in the forest, a forest in the city”, as well as shift production to a sustainable direction, closely linked to the forest” - Permanent Vice President of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong advised.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly presents gifts to policy households. Photo: Thanh Cuong

In addition, the recommendations of Con Cuong district were accepted by the working group and promised to be forwarded to relevant ministries and branches to soon join hands with the district to take care of and make Con Cuong increasingly rich and beautiful.

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, Permanent Vice President of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong sent her warm regards and gratitude to the martyrs' relatives, expressing her deep gratitude for the great contributions of policy families and martyrs' relatives to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

The delegation presented warm clothes to poor students who overcame difficulties to study well. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Comrade Tong Thi Phong affirmed that the Party and State always remember the great contributions and are deeply grateful to the heroic martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers, families of martyrs, people with meritorious services and families of people with meritorious services to the revolution.

Besides, comrade Tong Thi Phong suggested that the province and district pay attention to taking care of Tet for the poor and policy households, as well as units located in the area with the motto of focusing on the grassroots.

Comrade Tong Thi Phong presented New Year gifts to Con Cuong district. Photo: Thanh Cuong

On this occasion, the delegation presented 10 gifts to meritorious households, 200 warm coats, 150 million VND and gifts to Con Cuong district.

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