The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee held its regular meeting in April.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades representing a number of Central Party Committees and comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and a number of relevant departments and branches.

Overview of the working session of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

GIVE OPINIONS ON THE PROJECT "CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHY OF NGHE AN PROVINCE"

At the meeting, the Provincial Party Standing Committee listened to and gave opinions on the explanation of the Project "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province". Also attending this content was Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Loi - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

After the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee had a policy to implement the Project "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province", the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics took the lead in coordinating with the Nghe An Historical Science Association to develop an explanatory note for the Project. The explanatory note has gone through many drafts, consulting opinions from many experts, scientists, officials, managers in many different fields, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee... to supplement and complete.

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Loi - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics presented the project "Geography of contemporary Nghe An province". Photo: Thanh Duy

Before submitting to the Provincial Party Standing Committee for further comments at the regular meeting in April 2022, the Science and Technology Council conducted an appraisal.

“Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer” has immediate and long-term significance, fully and honestly reflecting the nature, society, ethnicity and people of Nghe An, and the province's socio-economic activities.

The project has inherited and updated the information content that has been researched about Nghe An, especially the inheritance and development from the Nghe An Toan Chi project, mobilizing a large team of research staff to participate.

On the other hand, after 35 years of implementing the Party's Renovation policy, the contemporary appearance of Nghe An therefore requires continued research, analysis, evaluation, and summary from a theoretical and practical perspective in a more diverse, rich, and worthy manner, including the work "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province".

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province gave comments on the Project "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province". Photo: Thanh Duy

“Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer” is a new research work that will have very useful contributions both in science and practice, both in the short term and in the long term. According to the explanatory content, there will be 10 parts including 76 chapters. After being approved by the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the implementation progress will be from 2022 to 2024.

This is a comprehensive database of fields, including printed products and digital products applying modern software, according to the National standards. Thereby, it helps leaders and managers at all levels to research and make policies; investors have more useful information about the land and people of Nghe An to improve the effectiveness of investment cooperation in developing fields in the area.

Along with that, “Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer” also helps leaders, managers and people of Nghe An understand their homeland more deeply, and answer with more scientific basis the issues related to natural conditions, administration, population, politics, economy, culture, society, etc. that have been, are and will be raised, with the goal of developing Nghe An in a fast and sustainable direction.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave comments on the Project "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province". Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, the comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee highly appreciated the explanation of the Project, and at the same time raised a number of opinions related to the participants, a number of related contents; socialized funding...

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the urgency of the Project; however, he also suggested considering and adding more representative members from Nghe An province to the Project Management Board.

Concluding this content, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy highly appreciated the participation of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and the Nghe An Historical Science Association; demonstrating the hard work in research, analysis, evaluation, and compilation; especially the Project has directed the additional digitization step, thereby conveniently serving the need for information exploitation after the project "Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer" is completed.

Agreeing with the structure and progress of implementation, the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also noted that it is necessary to absorb the opinions of comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee for implementation; at the same time, he emphasized the viewpoint during the implementation process that it is necessary to expand the coordinating units from Nghe An province, as well as exploit and effectively use existing data and documents. On the other hand, in this project, the names, statistics, and listings must be tight and accurate. After completion, according to the 5-year cycle, the project "Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer" needs to be updated and supplemented.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary delivered a concluding speech on the Project "Geography of Contemporary Nghe An Province". Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial Party Secretary also gave his opinion on the composition of the Steering Committee, the Project Management Board, the participating members, and the Appraisal Council so that the project "Contemporary Nghe An Province Gazetteer" could be coordinated and implemented to ensure the most effective and quality results.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy also requested the Project Management Board to report to the Provincial Party Standing Committee in the middle of the Project implementation period on the progress and implementation content to receive timely and close comments and direction.

AGREEMENT ON THE PROMULGATING OF DIRECTIVES ON ETHNIC WORK

At the meeting, the Provincial Party Standing Committee discussed the policy of promulgation and the expected content of the Directive on "strengthening the Party's leadership over ethnic work and implementing ethnic policies in Nghe An province for the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030".

The ethnic minority and mountainous areas of Nghe An province have an area of ​​13,145km², accounting for 83% of the province's natural area, the population in the whole region is about 1.2 million people, accounting for 41% of the province's population, of which ethnic minorities are 491,267 people, accounting for 14.8% of the province's population and 36% of the population in mountainous areas.

Comrade Vi Van Son - Head of the Provincial Ethnic Committee presented the Proposal of the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee proposing to issue a Directive of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership over ethnic work and implementing ethnic policies in Nghe An province for the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030. Photo: Thanh Duy

This is a region with a particularly important strategic position in terms of economy, politics, national defense - security and ecological environment protection, with great potential. In the period of 2021 - 2025, the ethnic minority and mountainous areas of the province include 131 communes (76 communes in area III, 55 communes in area I), 588 extremely disadvantaged villages.

Discussing this content, the opinions of the Provincial Party Standing Committee mentioned many aspects related to the development of ethnic minority areas in the province, especially the need to promote resources, focusing on solving issues such as production land and housing for ethnic minorities.

Comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

In particular, the discussion comments assessed that the ethnic policies and guidelines are very good and there are many documents, plans, and conclusions for implementation, but currently the implementation phase still has some contents that are not really effective. This is a problem that is being raised.

From that reality, Major General Pham The Tung - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police Department suggested that it is necessary to accurately assess the effectiveness of implementing policies for the people, thereby clearly stating the tasks of agencies, departments and branches in implementing policies and supporting the people in the Directive.

Major General Pham The Tung - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police Department spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

With the same viewpoint, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung emphasized: The Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to issue a Directive on "strengthening the Party's leadership over ethnic work and implementing ethnic policies in Nghe An province for the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030" to strengthen leadership and direction in the implementation of ethnic work, especially improving the effectiveness of the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021 - 2030.

Concluding this content, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy agreed to issue the Directive to improve the effectiveness of leadership and direction in implementing policies and ethnic affairs in the province, especially to overcome the problems that have not been good in the implementation process for a long time. The Provincial Party Committee Secretary requested the Provincial People's Committee's Party Committee to assign the Provincial Ethnic Committee to receive opinions, coordinate with Party committees and the Provincial Party Committee Office to complete the Directive project to submit to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee for further listening and comments before promulgation.

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