Counterfeit and fake goods will be the focus of questioning by the People's Council of Nghe An province.
Faced with the complicated situation of counterfeit and poor quality goods, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council agreed to include this content in the question-and-answer session at the regular mid-year meeting of 2025 held in July.
On the morning of June 6, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council held a regular meeting for May 2025 to evaluate the results of activities in the month, give opinions on some thematic contents and discuss key tasks for June.
Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting.
Attending this content were comrades: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; leaders of the People's Council Committees, Office of the National Assembly Delegation - People's Council, Office of the Provincial People's Committee.
Discuss content for regular and thematic meetings
The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council discussed and gave opinions on preparations for the upcoming thematic and regular meetings of the Provincial People's Council.
Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee has sent an official dispatch to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council proposing to organize a thematic meeting of the Provincial People's Council before June 13, 2026 to consider and decide on 6 contents including:
Resolution on allocating central budget funds for 2025 to implement the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Nghe An province.
Resolution deciding to supplement the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period and the 2025 public investment plan to invest in developing socio-economic infrastructure in the western region of Nghe An province.
Resolution regulating the level of health insurance support for a number of subjects in Nghe An province, period 2026 - 2030.
Resolution approving the list of projects that must change land use purposes with rice growing area in Nghe An province.
Resolution approving the list of projects requiring land acquisition in Nghe An province.
Resolution on the policy of converting forest use to other purposes to implement projects in Nghe An province.
In addition, the Provincial People's Committee also proposed that the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council adjust and supplement the list of resolutions submitted to the Provincial People's Council in 2025. The Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council proposed to organize a meeting between the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the district level before not organizing it at the district level.
At the meeting, in the spirit of companionship, close coordination and responsibility for the common development of the province, the Standing members of the Provincial People's Council agreed to organize a thematic meeting to review and resolve urgent and urgent issues under the authority of the Provincial People's Council submitted by the Provincial People's Committee.
However, regarding the meeting time as proposed by the Provincial People's Committee (before June 13), the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council requested to review and reconsider appropriately, ensuring enough time for agencies and units to carefully prepare the content to be presented; at the same time, complete the review reports and documents according to regulations, ensuring the quality of the meeting.
Regarding the selection of questioning content, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nam Dinh and Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi agreed to choose 2 contents including:
Implementing mechanisms and policies to improve the investment and business environment, remove difficulties for enterprises; and overcome limitations in provincial competitiveness indexes.
State management of production and trading of counterfeit, fake, poor quality goods and dirty food in the province.
These are two highly topical issues, especially related to the improvement of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) which has not yet achieved its target; at the same time, the situation of smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, fake goods, poor quality goods, and dirty food has been and is becoming more complicated, with a wide scope and many subjects, greatly affecting people's health and trust, causing confusion and anxiety in public opinion.
Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh suggested that after agreeing on the content of the question and answer session of the 2025 Mid-Year Regular Session, it is necessary to propose that the leaders of departments and branches be responsible for answering and coordinating the answers. At the same time, the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Council committees work with relevant agencies to prepare content to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the questions.
Regarding the preparation for the upcoming meeting with the Standing Committee of the District People's Council, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Nguyen Nam Dinh, requested that specialized agencies proactively update the latest information from the Central Government, especially the instructions related to the organization of the 2-level local government model, to promptly respond and clarify the contents of transfer, personnel, and organization of the first meeting of the new commune level in conjunction with professional instructions, creating a solid foundation for the local government apparatus to operate effectively, efficiently, and without interruption.
Regarding the selection of content to prepare for questions and answers for the 2025 Mid-Year Regular Session, agreeing with the opinion that this selection is somewhat later than previous regular sessions, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi suggested that the Provincial People's Council Committees need to be more proactive, promote their advisory role, and propose contents; at the same time, it is necessary to increase exchanges and widely collect opinions from People's Council delegates to choose the right and accurate issues; thereby helping the Provincial People's Committee and departments and branches to be proactive in coordinating implementation.
Agree on 2 contents of the questioning
Based on the discussion opinions, on the selection of questions and answers at the 2025 Mid-Year Regular Session, Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council assessed that the contents consulted and submitted to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council for consideration are highly topical, practical, have a direct impact on social life and need to be discussed publicly at the session for voters to monitor and accompany. And based on the assessment and consideration, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council agreed with the 2 contents approved by the majority of opinions in the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council.
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Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Nghia Hieu agreed with the proposal of the Provincial People's Committee to organize a thematic meeting to review and approve urgent contents under the authority of the Provincial People's Council. However, to ensure thorough preparation, he assigned the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council to preside over and coordinate to review and consider specifically the time of the meeting. It is expected that the time of organization can be arranged between June 13 and 16, 2025, in the spirit of both meeting the requirements on progress and ensuring the quality of the meeting.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also agreed with the proposals to adjust and supplement the list of resolutions submitted to the Provincial People's Council in 2025; at the same time, agreed on the policy of organizing a meeting between the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of districts, towns and cities in the coming time.
At the meeting, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council assessed the performance results in May 2025, pointed out positive points, existing contents, and limitations that need to be learned from; at the same time, discussed and agreed on key tasks in June 2025.
The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council also listened to and commented on the report on the people's petition work in May 2025, focusing on the situation of receiving citizens, handling petitions, recommendations and reflections of voters. Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Nghia Hieu agreed with the content of the reports and noted that units need to continue to pay attention and further improve the effectiveness of people's petition work; promptly handle petitions, complaints, recommendations and reflections of voters.