Nghe An Provincial People's Committee held a thematic meeting in June 2025: Comprehensive assessment, promoting tasks for the last 6 months of the year

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Phu Hien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phung Thanh Vinh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; members of the Provincial People's Committee...

Comprehensive assessment of multiple key areas

Regarding the practice of thrift and anti-waste, many remarkable results have been achieved, contributing to improving the efficiency of public finance management, public assets and resource use.

Specifically, in the field of construction investment, the whole province has cut 301.43 billion VND from reviewing and adjusting the list and scale of projects. Regarding the preparation, appraisal, approval of estimates, settlement, management and use of state budget funds, the amount of savings reached 771.33 billion VND, demonstrating efforts to tighten financial discipline and public spending.

In the field of management, exploitation and use of natural resources, the Provincial People's Council approved the policy of land recovery for 773 projects and works, with a total area of ​​2,145.9 hectares.

Regarding tax work, the total tax debt as of May 31, 2025 is estimated at VND 2,905 billion, a decrease of VND 122 billion (equivalent to 4%) compared to December 31, 2024. Of which, the estimated debt collection and settlement of recoverable debts from the previous year is VND 665 billion, equivalent to 30% of the total recoverable debt as of the end of 2024.

One of the key contents that the People's Committee of Nghe An province focused on discussing at the meeting was administrative reform (AR). With the consistent guiding principle of "5 clear" (clear content, clear advice, clear person in charge, clear time, clear product), the Provincial PAR Steering Committee issued the 2025 work program and selected 6 units to direct the pilot.

The Provincial People's Committee has also issued the 2025 Administrative Reform Plan, identifying 8 goals, 45 specific tasks and 6 groups of synchronous solutions. The selected theme for 2025 is: "Determination, timeliness - discipline - exemplary - taking the satisfaction of people and businesses as a measure". To date, 25/45 administrative reform tasks have been completed, reaching 55.6% of the progress.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee regularly requests sectors and localities to continue improving the efficiency of administrative procedure settlement, promoting digital transformation and applying information technology to handle work "fast - correct - effective". The working groups established by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee are also promoting their role in grasping and promptly resolving difficulties for people and businesses.

The Provincial People's Committee listened to the Provincial Inspectorate report on the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity; receiving citizens, handling complaints and denunciations. Notably, the work of preventing and combating corruption in agencies, organizations and units continues to be focused on. In the first 6 months of 2025, investigation agencies at all levels under Nghe An Provincial Police accepted and investigated 18 cases with 43 defendants. The People's Procuracy at 2 levels accepted and resolved 7 cases with 21 defendants. The People's Courts at all levels accepted 6 cases with 17 defendants.

According to the report of the Provincial Police, the damage caused by corruption crimes is more than 206 billion VND and more than 87 billion VND has been recovered, showing the continuous efforts in overcoming the consequences, ensuring deterrence and effective law enforcement in preventing and combating corruption and negativity in the locality.

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee heard a report on the situation of ensuring traffic order and safety; preventing and combating crimes and law violations. Thereby, it showed that crime prevention work achieved positive results, all types of crimes continued to be controlled and reduced deeply; crimes against social order decreased by 5.5% compared to the same period, exceeding the target set by the Ministry of Public Security.

The fight against all types of crime has achieved many remarkable results. The rate of criminal case discovery reached 92%, exceeding the target by 7%; serious cases reached 100%. Many large and complicated cases related to "black credit", high technology, gambling, theft, and professional fraud have been destroyed.

In particular, the movement to build "drug-free border communes" has achieved remarkable results. To date, 281/412 communes in the province have met the criteria. The arrest, detention, handling of criminals, and execution of sentences are in accordance with the law, without injustice or mistakes; the rate of handling denunciations and reports of crimes exceeds the target assigned by the National Assembly.

Promoting effective management and administration in the two-level local government model

The Provincial People's Committee also listened to the 2024 State financial report of Nghe An province. After listening to the discussion opinions, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh gave specific conclusions and directions for each content, requesting the competent agencies to absorb and complete the draft report to submit to the Provincial People's Council, at the same time, effectively serving the leadership and management work in the last 6 months of 2025.

In particular, regarding the practice of thrift and anti-waste, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested to ensure accuracy and correctness in the appraisal of works and projects to both save and anti-waste, but still be effective; avoid adjusting the total investment level to exceed the reserve capital ratio.

Regarding administrative reform, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assessed that the propaganda and dissemination of policies and guidelines were implemented regularly and continuously, with both strong direction and strict warnings from provincial leaders and superiors to subordinates. However, in addition to the achieved results, there are still shortcomings and limitations that need to be analyzed and dissected more deeply in the report.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh also requested to recalculate the method, frequency and focus of administrative reform inspection, ensuring real effectiveness; avoiding formality and favoritism. This requirement is even more urgent when the whole province is preparing to deploy a 2-level government model with 130 communes and wards.

The report on administrative reform work also needs to demonstrate more clearly the role and impact of institutional reform. In particular, the result of cutting 40% of administrative procedures must be stated specifically and clearly quantified. The implementation of Project 06 and the application of information technology in handling administrative procedures continue to be a key task in the coming time.

Regarding the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity; receiving citizens, resolving complaints and denunciations, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the competent authorities to analyze and clarify the causes of complaints and denunciations, most of which are related to land disputes.

It is forecasted that in the last 6 months of the year, when the district-level government model no longer exists and the Provincial Party Congress is held, the number of petitions may increase, especially pending cases.

Therefore, it is necessary to urgently review and resolve the cases, especially in the remaining 15 days before officially operating the 2-level local government model.

He also emphasized the need to focus on promptly handling issues related to compensation and site clearance for National Highway 1A and a number of other key projects.

Regarding the work of preventing and combating crimes and law violations, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh suggested continuing to pay attention to fully deploying regular police forces in communes and wards in the 2-level local government model to ensure security and order right from the grassroots level.

In particular, it is necessary to strengthen information and propaganda work and proactively combat law violations among young people, which tend to increase, especially in suburban areas.

Regarding the work of ensuring traffic order and safety, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested to strengthen propaganda and mobilize people to strictly comply with traffic laws. At the same time, the authorities need to resolutely and strictly handle violations, especially the situation of drivers with drugs in their bodies - in the first 5 months of the year alone, 104 cases were discovered, a very worrying number.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested that the Police force organize additional driving test courses and issue driving licenses outside of working hours to meet the needs of society, especially giving priority to students and workers in the transportation sector.