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Provincial leaders attend meeting with Nghe An compatriots association in the Southern region

Pham Bang DNUM_AEZABZCACF 14:10

On the morning of January 4, the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City held a meeting to welcome the New Year 2025 and prepare for the Lunar New Year of At Ty.

Attending the meeting, leaders of Nghe An province were: Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Le Hong Vinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Le Duc Cuong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board; Major General Bui Quang Thanh - Director of the Provincial Police; Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command. Also attending the meeting were members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department;Leaders of provincial departments, agencies and branches; leaders of Nghe An Newspaper, Nghe An Radio and Television Station; leaders of districts, cities and towns.

On behalf of the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City, there were comrades: Nguyen Ky Cam - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, former State Inspector General, former Secretary of Nghe Tinh Provincial Party Committee; Ho Xuan Hung - former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, former Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee; along with leaders of the Association and agencies, units, enterprises, and a large number of Nghe An people studying, living and working in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces.

Các đồng chí Thường trực Tỉnh ủy cùng đồng chí Nguyễn Kỳ Cẩm - nguyên Ủy viên Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng, nguyên Bộ trưởng Bộ Lao động - Thương binh và Xã hội, nguyên Tổng Thanh tra Nhà nước, nguyên Bí thư Tỉnh ủy Nghệ Tĩnh tham dự buổi gặp mặt. Ảnh: Phạm Bằng
The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Comrade Nguyen Ky Cam - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, former State Inspector General, former Secretary of Nghe Tinh Provincial Party Committee attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang
Phó Bí thư Tỉnh ủy, Chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Lê Hồng Vinh trò chuyện với các hội viên Hội đồng hương Nghệ An tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh và các tỉnh lân cận. Ảnh: Phạm Bằng
Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh talked with members of the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Photo: Pham Bang

Unite fellow countrymen - Connect homeland

The Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City was re-established and launched on September 10, 2022. Over the past 2 years, the scale of the organization and the number of participating members have increased, contributing to spreading the spirit of solidarity, attachment, sharing, and responsibility of the community of Nghe An people in the Southern land.

The Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City has demonstrated its role in connecting the community of Nghe An people in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces in the spirit of "Solidarity, sharing, responsibility, and looking towards the homeland".

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Leaders of Nghe An province and localities attended the meeting organized by the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Pham Bang
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Provincial leaders and departments, branches, sectors and localities attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Identifying the sentiment and responsibility for the homeland, the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City has contributed nearly 10 billion VND to support the construction of houses for the poor, build schools in mountainous areas, support people affected by flash floods; give scholarships and Tet gifts to the poor, support facilities for localities...

In 2024 alone, the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City exceeded the target of registering to contribute to support the construction and repair of 100 houses for the poor and those with housing difficulties, as launched by the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee. Including the Associations of the districts, the number of houses supported for construction and repair is more than 200.

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Mr. Nguyen Duc Quang - Chairman of Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City delivered the opening speech at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

In addition, the Nghe An Association has worked with the leaders of Nghe An province and the provincial Center for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion to support, connect and introduce businesses and investors to the province; promote Nghe An's trade and tourism products.

In addition to the provincial-level fellow countrymen's councils, up to now, 18/20 districts and towns have established fellow countrymen's councils. The Nghe An fellow countrymen's council in Ho Chi Minh City is continuing to consolidate and form a 3-level fellow countrymen's council organization: province - district - commune.

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Mr. Phan Dinh Tue - Vice President of Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City reported on the Association's activities in 2024. Photo: Pham Bang
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Comrade Nguyen Ky Cam - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, former State Inspector General, former Secretary of Nghe Tinh Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The association of fellow countrymen in districts and towns is quite active, establishing clubs, organizing cultural and sports activities to meet, exchange, connect, share feelings and support each other.

In addition, the district's hometown association also has many social security activities towards the homeland with a budget of tens of billions of VND to support overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, building houses for the poor, supporting difficult circumstances, supporting facilities for localities...

Continue to care, connect and support the province to achieve development goals.

Speaking at the meeting, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung expressed his joy and emotion at the warm, friendly, traditional atmosphere and good meaning of the meeting, thereby affirming the solidarity of fellow countrymen and the homeland connection between Nghe An people in the Southern land.

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Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting, sincerely thanking the sentiments and hearts and congratulating the results achieved by the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces over the past 2 years. Photo: Pham Bang

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung provided an overview of the outstanding results in socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, and key tasks of the province in 2024.

Notably, the economy maintained a high growth rate of 9.01%. State budget revenue reached over VND25,400 billion. Investment attraction reached over VND61,000 billion, of which FDI attraction alone reached nearly USD1.75 billion, ranking 8th out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide.

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Leaders of Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Culture and society have made breakthroughs and progress; social security is of concern. The province's key education quality ranks 4th nationwide, and comprehensive education quality ranks 12th nationwide. 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 period of 2023 - 2025.

In 2024, the province also carried out and completed many key tasks and key projects. Nghe An was granted Resolution No. 137 by the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for provincial development; the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution 1243 on the arrangement of district and commune-level administrative units for the 2023-2025 period; the Prime Minister approved the Plan for implementing the Provincial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

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Leaders of departments, branches, sectors and localities attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Activities in foreign affairs, national defense, security, Party building and the political system achieved many positive results. The provincial police and armed forces received the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces.

After listening to the report, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung emphasized that although the re-establishment period was only over 2 years, the results of the activities of the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City were very meaningful, impressive, and worthy of respect, especially the spirit of solidarity among fellow countrymen and the connection with the homeland.

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Members of the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Especially the connection of fellow countrymen's feelings, the pride of Nghe An people living in the Southern region. In the community of Nghe An people, there have appeared many examples of overcoming difficulties, achieving success, and becoming famous in the Southern land, this is the pride of the homeland.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung respectfully thanked the sentiments and hearts and congratulated the results achieved by the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces over the past 2 years.

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Leaders of departments, branches, sectors and localities attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Affirming that despite many difficulties, in 2025, Nghe An province sets very high development goals, the Provincial Party Secretary said that the province is determined to accelerate, break through, and effectively utilize resources to achieve the highest level of goals and targets set by the 19th Provincial Party Congress, striving for double-digit economic growth.

The province will also focus on leading, directing the implementation and successful organization of party congresses at all levels, towards the 20th Provincial Party Congress and the 14th National Party Congress, focusing on building the highest quality congress documents and personnel plans.

Following the direction and guidance of the Central Government, Nghe An province is determined to effectively and resolutely implement the summary of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, associated with the revolution in streamlining the organization and apparatus of the political system, on that basis creating new momentum and new spirit for the development of the province in the coming period.

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Members of the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City attended the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung also emphasized that the province will continue to mobilize resources, especially mechanisms and policies in Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly to implement key projects and strategic infrastructure. Continuing to promote the results of the past years, taking advantage of opportunities to accelerate and make breakthroughs in attracting investment, striving to be in the top 10 in the country for 5 consecutive years in attracting FDI capital, aiming to be in the top 10 localities with the highest accumulated FDI capital in the country in the next 10 years.

In addition, Nghe An will also devote resources to social security work, especially caring for poor households, disadvantaged households, and vulnerable groups, especially during the Lunar New Year 2025 so that everyone can have a Tet holiday; strive to complete the Program to mobilize and support the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with housing difficulties before August 31, 2025, right on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the country.

Các đồng chí Thường trực Tỉnh ủy chụp ảnh lưu niệm với Hội đồng hương Nghệ An tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh và các tỉnh lân cận. Ảnh: Phạm Bằng
The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee took souvenir photos with the Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Photo: Pham Bang

Emphasizing that implementing development goals and tasks and paying attention to improving people's lives is the responsibility of the Party Committee, authorities at all levels and sectors, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that in order for the province to achieve these goals, it is very necessary and hopes that the Nghe An Association across the country, especially the Nghe An Association in the Southern region, will continue to pay attention, connect and support the province.

Hội đồng hương Nghệ An tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh trao số tiền 500 triệu đồng ủng hộ người nghèo tỉnh Nghệ An đón Tết Nguyên đán Ất Tỵ 2025. Ảnh: Phạm Bằng
Nghe An Association in Ho Chi Minh City donated 500 million VND to support the poor in Nghe An province to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2025. Photo: Pham Bang

On the occasion of the New Year 2025, preparing to welcome the traditional Tet At Ty, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Duc Trung sent to the uncles, brothers and sisters in the Nghe An Association in the Southern region wishes for good health, a new year of peace, prosperity, happiness and success.

Pham Bang