Provincial leaders attend meeting with Nghe An fellow countrymen in the Southern region

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 Committee; 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 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, War 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.

Uniting fellow countrymen - Connecting 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, cohesion, 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".

Determining 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.

In addition, the Nghe An Association has worked with the leaders of Nghe An province and the Provincial Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Center 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 council, 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 improve and form a 3-level fellow countrymen's council organization: province - district - commune.

The district and town hometown associations are 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 atmosphere, close to tradition, and good meaning of the meeting, thereby affirming the solidarity of fellow countrymen and homeland connection among Nghe An people in the Southern land.

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, reaching 9.01%. State budget revenue reached over VND25,400 billion. Investment attraction reached over VND61,000 billion, of which FDI capital attraction alone reached nearly USD1.75 billion, ranking 8th out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide.

Culture and society have made breakthroughs and progress; social security is given attention. 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 those 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.

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 more than 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.

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.

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 complete 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 and best congress documents and personnel plans.

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

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung also emphasized that the province will continue to mobilize resources, especially the mechanisms and policies in Resolution No. 137 of the National Assembly to implement key projects and strategic infrastructure. Continue to promote the results of the past years, take advantage of opportunities to accelerate and make a breakthrough in attracting investment, strive to be in the top 10 in the country in attracting FDI capital for 5 consecutive years, 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.

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 in all regions of the country, especially the Nghe An Association in the Southern region, will continue to pay attention, connect and support the province.

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