The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council requested the People's Committee to improve the effectiveness of State management in many fields.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Participating in the verification were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Council: Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and Hoang Viet Duong - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu and leaders of a number of provincial departments and branches. Photo: Mai Hoa

26/27 targets achieved and exceeded

Reviewing the report on the socio-economic situation in 2019 and the socio-economic development plan for 2020, members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council highly appreciated the efforts and drastic direction and management of the Provincial People's Committee with many projects and plans issued to focus on completing the socio-economic targets and tasks in 2019. Overall, 26/27 main socio-economic targets achieved and exceeded the set plan.

The economy continued to grow in all sectors: agriculture increased by 4.81%; industry and construction increased by 13.51%; services increased by 7.51%. Average income per capita in 2019 is estimated at over 43 million VND.

In the fields of culture, society, security and defense, many synchronous solutions and measures have been implemented, creating many positive changes.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy affirmed that the principle of allocating capital for basic construction investment in 2020 and the next phase is to prioritize debt repayment, followed by transitional projects, capital for implementing counterpart projects, and finally, newly started projects but not spread out. Photo: Mai Hoa

Many problems are slow to be resolved.

During the review, many opinions also raised concerns, requesting the Provincial People's Committee to continue to consider solutions for direction and management in 2020.

Deputy Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council Dang Quang Hong is concerned about the issue of shifting crop structure and increasing value per unit area, which is not really clear.

Therefore, in the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee will pay attention to research to introduce suitable plant varieties for the soil, combined with the application of science and technology, and promoting and building the brand of Nghe An agricultural products.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Viet Duong pointed out many shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome. Photo: Mai Hoa

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Viet Duong pointed out a series of existing problems and requested the Provincial People's Committee to continue to take more drastic measures, namely slow progress in land and forest allocation; debt in basic construction, and handling of projects that are behind schedule and do not meet requirements.

The implementation rate of projects and works for which the Provincial People's Council issued resolutions on land use conversion and recovery of rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land is still low.

Some opinions also raised concerns about the allocation of resources for education and training; the Western region, especially the 27 border communes, has not met the requirements. The work of handling after inspection, examination and implementation of audit conclusions and recommendations after supervision by the Standing Committee and the Provincial People's Council Committees is not very effective.

Vinh City has many apartment complexes with inadequate investment in traffic infrastructure and public works. Photo courtesy of Thanh Cuong

Regarding administrative reform, the Deputy Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee is concerned that currently most agencies have only achieved level 2 public services, accounting for 81%; while levels 3 and 4 are very few.

Besides, the review and simplification of administrative procedures has not been proactively carried out by departments and branches, but has only been carried out according to procedures issued by ministries and branches...

Concluding on this content, in addition to appreciating the drastic direction and management of the Provincial People's Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son also requested the Provincial People's Committee to absorb and supplement the opinions of the Standing members of the Provincial People's Council to complete the report and draft resolution; at the same time, propose solutions and positive measures to overcome the situation.

Notably, attention should be paid to better resolving issues of tax debts, basic construction debts, social insurance debts; projects behind schedule; arranging counterpart funds for works and projects. Along with that, it is necessary to continue to strengthen effective management of land, minerals, and the environment; publicity and transparency in auctioning land use rights; building new rural areas in 27 border communes...

Regarding the socio-cultural field, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also requested the Provincial People's Committee to pay attention to propaganda and orientation for people to participate in legal labor export; take care of child care; and create jobs for mountainous and ethnic minority workers.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son requested the Provincial People's Committee to have solutions and measures to overcome the shortcomings and limitations in managing socio-economic development. Photo: Mai Hoa

The province also needs to continue promoting administrative reforms to meet the satisfaction of people and businesses; at the same time, pay attention to solving practical problems related to the "post-" arrangement of commune-level administrative units and the merger of blocks, hamlets, villages, etc.

Also this afternoon, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council reviewed the report on the implementation of the 2019 public investment plan, the 2020 tasks and the draft resolution on the 2020 public investment plan.

Concluding this content, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Xuan Son agreed with the report and draft resolution submitted by the Provincial People's Committee; at the same time, emphasized a number of requirements in allocating public investment capital such as: ensuring principles and not spreading investment, not allowing outstanding debts to arise in basic construction; paying attention to allocating capital for urgent infrastructure investment such as urban infrastructure, environment, etc.