The Socio-Economic Advisory Group contributed ideas to build the Political Report of the 19th Congress of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee.

The province's Socio-Economic Advisory Group includes comrades: Truong Dinh Tuyen - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Trade, former Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Advisory Group; Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dinh Thien - former Director of the Vietnam Economic Institute, member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Group, Deputy Head of the Advisory Group; Ho Xuan Hung - former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, former Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam General Association of Agriculture and Rural Development; Dr. Nguyen Sy Dung - former Deputy Head of the National Assembly Office; Tran Ngoc Chinh - Chairman of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, former Deputy Minister of Construction; Le Xuan Dai - former member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, former Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Ms. Thai Huong - Chairman of the TH Group's Strategy Council, General Director of Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, along with comrades members of the Document Subcommittee, representatives of leaders of departments and branches of the province. Photo: Pham Bang

RESPONSIBLE, DEVOTED, HONEST

Implementing Directive No. 35 of the Politburo on Party congresses at all levels towards the 13th National Party Congress and the Central Party Office's Guidance on the process and responsibilities for preparing, editing and promulgating resolutions of provincial and municipal Party congresses; in the past time, the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee have focused on drafting, listening to and commenting on the Political Report of the 19th Provincial Party Congress.

The Provincial Document Subcommittee has issued a Plan to collect comments on the draft Political Report. Through this meeting, members of the Advisory Group with their enthusiasm, intelligence and experience will make many important contributions to help the Document Subcommittee build a Political Report with comprehensive and scientific summary value, demonstrating intelligence and responsibility in evaluating the leadership and direction of the Party Committee in the past term.

Comrades in the Provincial Socio-Economic Advisory Group attended the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the same time, the Political Report demonstrates strategic thinking and vision, sets out major policies and orientations, the ability to forecast and propose goals, directions, tasks, and solutions for leadership and direction of all aspects of work, areas of social life, organizations in the political system, and tasks of Party building and the political system for the next term.

Comrade Le Xuan Dai - former Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave his comments on the re-evaluation of the budget collection results for the 2015 - 2020 term, as well as the goals for the new term. Although the assessment of administrative reform in the last term was carried out drastically and vigorously, Mr. Le Xuan Dai said that the speed of improving the investment environment is still slow. Therefore, in the draft Resolution for the 2020 - 2025 period, Nghe An must be determined to strive to improve its investment environment ranking...

Comrade Tran Ngoc Chinh - Chairman of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, former Deputy Minister of Construction spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Comrade Tran Ngoc Chinh suggested that there should be solutions to exploit the province's potential on par with development from industrialization, modernization, and urbanization. In particular, Nghe An is interested in raising the target of increasing the urbanization rate to about 40% in the next 5 years, in which it is necessary to develop some more urban areas.

With the location of Vinh City, the Political Report needs to have a separate section about this urban area, which is true to its nature as a central urban area with regional connectivity; a coastal urban area associated with the Southeast Economic Zone.

Ms. Thai Huong - Chairwoman of TH Group's Strategy Council suggested focusing on developing and perfecting the seaport system; identifying high-tech agricultural zones in Western Nghe An to have policies for high-tech agricultural zones; developing tourism, especially historical and ecological tourism.

Dr. Nguyen Sy Dung assessed that in the current context, Nghe An has a great opportunity after the Covid-19 pandemic, so he recommended that the province should seize the opportunity to realize Nghe An's potential. Regarding solutions, in addition to attracting resources and developing infrastructure, it is necessary to focus on administrative reform and applying a modern and effective human resource management model.

Dr. Nguyen Sy Dung - former Deputy Head of the National Assembly Office spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Commenting on the draft Political Report, comrade Ho Xuan Hung said that in the limited part, it should be further assessed that it has not attracted many large enterprises, created breakthroughs; and has not exploited many strengths from forests, tourism and historical culture.

Regarding tasks and solutions, the Chairman of the Vietnam General Association of Agriculture and Rural Development suggested clearly defining the development of large-scale concentrated goods in the direction of clean agriculture; encouraging accumulation and concentration, thereby building large fields; promoting the wood and non-wood forest product processing industry; having solutions to use farms and forestry farms more effectively;...

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dinh Thien suggested that the Political Report should include an assessment of the implementation results of Resolution 26 of the Politburo on the direction and tasks for the development of Nghe An province. In addition, Nghe An needs to set higher development goals; to do so, it is necessary to choose strong breakthrough coordinates to have policy priorities.

Comrade Truong Dinh Tuyen - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Minister of Trade, former Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Advisory Group spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Comrade Truong Dinh Tuyen suggested that the Political Report needs to analyze the context more clearly when the global economy is being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; the protectionist trend is quite strong in the world causing globalization to slow down; the era of the 4.0 industrial revolution.

In addition, he also suggested some development directions for the province such as: connecting Vinh - Cua Lo town; strong decentralization, creating special mechanisms for Thai Hoa town and Hoang Mai town to develop stronger and more sustainably; accelerating the development of the digital economy and considering this a breakthrough.

CLARIFY MANY ISSUES

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that the opinions of the Advisory Group members were very valuable, not only helping the Document Subcommittee complete the Political Report, but also helping to form ideas and actions to make Nghe An develop more strongly in the coming time.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Discussing the province's perceptions and bottlenecks, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized a number of core solutions for the province in the coming time, especially the need to promote internal resources more effectively; at the same time, expressed the hope that the members of the Advisory Group would continue to share and participate with the province in the process of organizing the implementation of the resolution's goals.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong also suggested that the draft Political Report should add a section on assessing the situation in the context of the next term, thereby serving as a criterion for building a more specific action program.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee thanked the comrades in the Advisory Group for contributing ideas to the draft Political Report with a spirit and attitude of utmost responsibility and enthusiasm; especially for frankly pointing out the bottlenecks and obstacles for the province.

The Document Subcommittee also has a clearer view of many issues from the stage of assessing and forecasting the situation, understanding the context; vision, strategic thinking through receiving opinions from members of the Advisory Group on viewpoints, goals, targets, tasks, and solutions to carry out the province's tasks for the 2020-2025 term. On behalf of the Document Subcommittee, the Provincial Party Secretary received opinions to complete the Political Report.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee delivered a concluding speech at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, through the meeting, the opinions not only contributed to the draft Political Report but also helped the province see how to approach and solve many problems. In the coming time, to carry out the remaining steps in building the Congress documents, depending on the professional fields of the Advisory Group members, the province will continue to register to work with each member to continue perfecting the Political Report./.