The Subcommittee on Documents of the 20th Congress of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee held its first session.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Head of the Document Subcommittee chaired.

Attending the meeting were comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Subcommittee and members of the Subcommittee.

Comment on 5 important contents

On June 14, 2024, the Politburo issued Directive No. 35-CT/TW on party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress; which clearly states that the time for the congresses of party congresses directly under the Central Committee shall not exceed 4 days, to be completed before October 31, 2025.

To prepare for the 20th Provincial Party Congress, term 2025 - 2030, Nghe An province has established 4 sub-committees including: Documents Sub-committee, Personnel Sub-committee, Service Organization Sub-committee and Propaganda Sub-committee.

In particular, the Document Subcommittee is responsible for preparing the Political Report to be submitted to the 20th Provincial Party Congress, term 2025 - 2030; researching and promulgating regulations on principles, regimes, working methods and responsibilities of members; deciding to establish an Editorial Team based on task requirements, capacity, professional qualifications and work experience of staff.

At the meeting, comrade Nguyen Dinh Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, Chief of the Provincial Party Committee Office presented the draft: Preliminary outline of the Political Report of the 19th Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee to be presented to the 20th Provincial Party Congress; Plan to prepare the Political Report of the Document Subcommittee; Working regulations of the Document Subcommittee; Notice of assignment of tasks to members of the Document Subcommittee; Decision to establish an Editorial Team to assist the Document Subcommittee.

Members of the Document Subcommittee gave their opinions and suggestions to complete the above drafts, to supplement and edit them for promulgation and to organize the next steps to meet the set quality and progress.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Document Subcommittee discussed and gave opinions on a number of related contents; especially on the draft outline of the Political Report, he suggested continuing to clearly express the viewpoint of "fast, sustainable and stable development" in the new term.

At the same time, comrade Nguyen Van Thong also proposed to clearly express the viewpoint of combining harmoniously and smoothly, promoting potential and advantages but at the same time not avoiding, but confronting difficulties and disadvantages in the development process.

Ensuring the quality and progress of the political report to be submitted to the 20th Congress

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy - Head of the Document Subcommittee concluded and gave clear directions to complete the content of the above draft documents.

In particular, regarding the draft Working Regulations of the Document Subcommittee, he emphasized the requirement to strictly regulate the tasks, authority, and activities of the Subcommittee, the Standing Subcommittee, and the Editorial Team, ensuring principles while being flexible and of high quality.

Regarding the draft Notice on assignment of tasks to members of the Document Subcommittee, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized the need to review and assign tasks with the motto "right role, right responsibility", to promote the most effective use of Subcommittee members in drafting Congress documents.

Regarding the draft Decision to establish an Editorial Team to assist the Document Subcommittee, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy emphasized: it is not necessary to have many people, but to select talented and knowledgeable personnel in the field to contribute and directly write the draft documents.

Accordingly, the Provincial Party Secretary assigned comrade Pham Trong Hoang - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Inspection Committee to be the Head of the Editorial Team; at the same time, clearly stated the orientation for selecting members of the Team, especially the participation of experts in a number of fields.

The Provincial Party Secretary assigned the Editorial Team, after its establishment, to develop operating regulations and report to the Standing Committee of the Document Subcommittee for approval.

Regarding the draft Plan to prepare the Political Report of the Document Subcommittee, the Provincial Party Secretary requested to develop details and assign specific tasks to the Editorial Team, the Standing Committee of the Subcommittee, the Document Subcommittee; and a roadmap for reporting to the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee with a specific timeline.

Accordingly, by September and October 2024 at the latest, the Provincial Party Executive Committee will listen to and comment on the detailed outline of the Political Report, and by the end of March 2025, there will be a draft of the 4th report to collect opinions from the grassroots and upper-level Party Congresses and the people; and it is expected that by August 2025 it will be completed to be ready to submit to the Politburo for approval of the 20th Provincial Party Congress.

Regarding the preliminary outline of the Political Report of the 19th Provincial Party Executive Committee presented to the 20th Provincial Party Congress, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Provincial Party Secretary, Head of the Document Subcommittee clearly stated the view that it is necessary to think that this is not a product of addition from the combination of the contents of the reports, but must follow a logical flow to ensure depth and coherence; at the same time, when writing, it is necessary to skillfully combine the two methods of "horizontal and vertical division", but it is necessary to pay more attention to the "vertical division" method to express the content more deeply, logically and attractively.

Regarding the assessment of the 5-year implementation of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, the Provincial Party Secretary requested that it be complete and in-depth, especially assessing the positive changes in the development perspective, leadership, direction... of the province in the 2020-2025 term; from there, summarize and replicate in the new term.

Regarding the direction, goals, tasks and solutions for the 2025 - 2030 period, the Provincial Party Secretary basically agreed with the draft's structure; agreed to maintain the development perspective to ensure consistency in the province's development process; however, it is necessary to study whether to include the list of key projects in the document in the new term or not.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy requested to study the Government's set of indicators to select and build a suitable system of main indicators for the 2025 - 2030 term of Nghe An province.

The Head of the Document Subcommittee also noted that Resolution 39 of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Provincial planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050; Resolution 36 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province, Resolution 137 of the National Assembly on piloting the addition of a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province are very important bases for building directions, goals, tasks and solutions for the period 2025 - 2030. However, the process of writing documents needs to be selective and appropriate for each stage of development to approach accurately.