The Provincial Party Standing Committee approved the Congress of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee for the 2020 - 2025 term.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and leaders of departments and branches. Photo: Thanh Duy

ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CENTER OF THE NORTHWEST REGION OF NGHE AN

Overall, over the past 5 years, the Party Committee and people of Thai Hoa town have achieved important results in all areas. The average economic growth rate in the period 2016 - 2020 is estimated at 7.26%.

In 2020, budget revenue is estimated at 200 billion VND; average added value per capita is estimated at 47 million VND; the poverty rate is estimated at 1.16%.

The economic structure is shifting towards increasing the proportion of services, industry and construction; and gradually reducing the proportion of agriculture, forestry and fishery.

However, the Party Executive Committee of Thai Hoa town has also frankly pointed out that the goal of becoming a type III urban area by 2020 has been vigorously implemented but has not been achieved. The town has not really promoted its role and position as the economic, cultural and social center of the Northwest region of Nghe An.

Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council Cao Thi Hien acknowledged the development steps of the town, as well as the work of directing the organization of grassroots congresses; at the same time, she also requested to analyze and clarify the reasons why the goal of achieving a type III urban area has not been achieved; as well as raise the issue of whether to calculate the expansion of the town's urban space to have more room for development.

In the 2020 - 2025 term, the Party Committee of Thai Hoa town is determined to build the town into a type III urban area by 2025; a green, clean, beautiful, safe, livable urban area; an economic, cultural and social center of the Northwest region of Nghe An.

Regarding this goal, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son emphasized that the position of the town in the Northwest region of Nghe An has been established.

In the new term, should the town raise the issue of expanding urban space? Build a roadmap to convert communes into wards; attract investment, build centers of the Northwest region for services - trade, education - training; healthcare to increase the mechanical population size faster.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung assessed that Thai Hoa town's infrastructure is quite good compared to the general level of localities in the region; however, to be a young and dynamic town, it needs to make more breakthroughs in the coming time.

Besides, Thai Hoa town should be connected with Hoang Mai town (Nghe An) and Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa) to become a dynamic triangle of the South Thanh - North Nghe region to take advantage of development opportunities.

Giving comments to the Standing Committee of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee, at the meeting, some opinions also said that the town needs to resolve the relationship between the orientation of the central urban area of ​​the Northwest Nghe An region and a district-level unit that meets new rural standards.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Thai Hoa town also needs to strengthen development links with other districts in the Northwest region; focus on improving the economic - cultural development level and people's knowledge; build new term targets with appropriate growth rates; consider more reasonable breakthroughs; pay attention to administrative reform;...

CONSTRUCTING THAI HOA TOWN INTO A TYPE III URBAN AREA

Concluding the document, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee acknowledged the congress preparation work of Thai Hoa town; agreed with the assessments on the implementation results of the 2015 - 2020 term.

However, according to the Provincial Party Secretary, Thai Hoa Town needs to review and carefully analyze the difficulties and limitations of this term, in which 10/40 targets were not achieved, especially 8 socio-economic targets with many extremely important criteria such as: growth rate, budget revenue, economic structure were not achieved;...

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee delivered a concluding speech on the content of the documents of the Congress of Delegates of the Thai Hoa Town Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

The town also needs to pay attention to evaluating the work of ensuring security and order in the area; managing and using mineral resources, especially land in small scale and area conditions, which need to be used effectively.

Regarding the orientation for the next term, the Provincial Party Secretary agreed with the orientation of building the town into a type III urban area by 2025; however, Thai Hoa Town continues to review the criteria to have more basis; ensuring compliance with legal documents.

Regarding the targets, Thai Hoa Town needs to target training staff; pay attention to the income and budget collection targets in the new term.

Thai Hoa town needs to determine to build itself into a center of the Northwest region in the fields of services, trade; education and training, vocational training; and healthcare to have incentives and promotion with specific solutions.

From the above orientation, in the tasks and solutions, Thai Hoa Town needs to plan for these centers, especially in the zoning planning, it needs to pay close attention; from there, there will be policies and solutions to determine attracting investors to invest in the above fields.

Comrade Pham Tuan Vinh - Secretary of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee spoke to receive opinions at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

On the other hand, to build a type III urban area, along with building a new, advanced, model rural area, the town also needs to set a goal of building the remaining communes into wards with a specific roadmap; at the same time, it is necessary to have a good orientation to exploit the regional linkage factor in the Nam Thanh - Bac Nghe region.

Finally, regarding the town's solutions, in order to complete the set goals, the head of the Provincial Party Committee advised that it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the spirit of solidarity and unity throughout the town's political system.

For breakthroughs, Thai Hoa Town also needs to more clearly identify bottlenecks and problems that need to be resolved more clearly and devote more resources to create breakthroughs.

The Provincial Party Standing Committee agreed on the time to organize the 3rd Thai Hoa Town Party Congress on July 23 and 24, 2020.

Duc Chuyen - Thanh Duy