At the 20th Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021-2026, Comrade Do Minh Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented a summary report on the socio-economic situation, national defense and security in the first 6 months of the year, and key tasks for the last 6 months of 2024. Thanh Hoa Newspaper respectfully introduces the summary report.
Comrade Do Minh Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented a summary report on the socio-economic situation, national defense and security in the first 6 months of the year, and key tasks for the last 6 months of 2024.
Part One
ECONOMIC - SOCIAL, NATIONAL DEFENSE - SECURITY SITUATION IN THE FIRST 6 MONTHS OF 2024
I. RESULTS ACHIEVED
In the first six months of 2024, in the context of many difficulties and challenges, with the attention and support of the Central Party Committee, the National Assembly, the Government; the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee and all levels and sectors of Thanh Hoa province have closely followed reality, focused on leadership, direction and drastic, synchronous and methodical implementation of tasks and solutions for the development of sectors and fields right from the beginning of the year, with the spirit of "Discipline - Responsibility - Action - Creativity - Development"; along with the active participation of the entire political system, the efforts of the business community and all classes of people, the socio-economic situation, national defense and security in the first 6 months of 2024 of the province continued to be stable and developed, with 8 outstanding groups of results as follows:
Firstly: The economy continues to grow, with many indicators increasing compared to the same period. The growth rate of gross regional domestic product (GRDP) in the first 6 months of 2024 is estimated at 11.5%, ranking 3rd in the country; of which: agriculture, forestry and fishery increased by 3.4%; industry - construction increased by 17.9% (industry 21.1%; construction 8.6%); services increased by 7.2%; product tax increased by 3.6%.
Agricultural, forestry and fishery production achieved positive results; total food output was estimated at 893 thousand tons, up 0.4% over the same period; rice productivity reached the highest level ever. Livestock continued to develop; output of major livestock products increased over the same period; no dangerous epidemics occurred in the area. The whole province planted 6,100 hectares of concentrated forests, equal to 61% of the plan, up 4.8% over the same period. Total output of exploitation and aquaculture was equal to 50.2% of the plan, up 2.4%. In the first 6 months of the year, there were 4 new rural communes, 13 advanced new rural communes and 9 model new rural communes; 34 OCOP products.
Industrial production, despite facing many difficulties and challenges, still developed strongly; the growth rate in the first 6 months of the year is estimated at 21.1%; the industrial production index is estimated to increase by 15.8%; 17/18 main industrial products increased, including some products that increased sharply, such as: iron and steel of all kinds increased by 12.2%; fuel oil increased by 33.9%; electricity production increased by 43.9%. Compensation and site clearance for the 500kV line project, circuit 3 from Quang Trach (Quang Binh) to Pho Noi (Hung Yen) has been completed, earlier than the deadline committed to the Prime Minister. State management of planning, investment, and construction has been strengthened; focus has been placed on accelerating the progress of establishing, appraising, and approving zoning plans and detailed construction plans in the area; in the first 6 months of the year, 39 task files and construction planning projects have been approved.
The service sector continued to grow. Total retail sales of goods and service revenue were estimated at VND94,392 billion, equal to 50.2% of the plan, up 12.9%. Export value was estimated at USD2,881.6 million, equal to 48% of the plan, up 21.9%; import value was estimated at USD5,612.7 million, up 30.8%.
Total tourist arrivals in 6 months are estimated at 9.78 million, equal to 70.9% of the plan, up 16.1% (of which international visitors are 261 thousand, up 21.3%); total tourism revenue is equal to 61.3% of the plan, up 30.2%. Transportation revenue is equal to 48.5% of the plan, up 13.8%. Postal and telecommunication service revenue is equal to 50.6% of the plan, up 16.7%.
Delegates attending the meeting.
State budget revenue in the first 6 months of the year (up to June 30, 2024) reached VND 29,670 billion, equal to 83.4% of the estimate, up 40.6% over the same period; of which, domestic revenue reached VND 18,404 billion, equal to 83.6% of the estimate, up 51.1%; revenue from import-export activities reached VND 11,267 billion, equal to 83.1% of the estimate, up 26.3%.
Second: Foreign affairs activities associated with investment promotion and supporting business development are focused. Provincial leaders have worked with many domestic and foreign corporations, businesses, and organizations to remove difficulties and obstacles, and call for investment in the province.
Mobilizing social investment capital in the first 6 months of the year was equal to 48.8% of the plan, up 3.2% over the same period; attracting 71 direct investment projects (including 15 FDI projects), up 91.9% in number of projects and 22.3% in registered capital over the same period.
The value of disbursed public investment capital managed by the province by June 30, 2024 reached 49.8% of the detailed capital plan, 20.7% higher than the same period (ranked 2nd in the country).
1,634 new enterprises were established, equal to 54.4% of the plan, an increase of 14.7%, ranking 8th in the country and leading the North Central provinces.
Third: Cultural and social fields continue to progress, social security is ensured. 171 national and provincial science and technology tasks have been managed; 9 tasks have been evaluated and accepted.
Cultural and information activities focus on promoting political tasks and important events of the country and the province. Two more intangible cultural heritages were recognized as national intangible cultural heritages. High-performance sports achieved 76 gold medals, 97 silver medals and 157 bronze medals; in particular, one athlete excelled and won an official ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
At the national high school competition for excellent students in the 2023-2024 school year, Thanh Hoa led the country in the percentage of contestants winning prizes and ranked 4th in the number of contestants winning first prizes; 4 students won prizes at the Olympic competitions, including 1 student who continued to be selected for the team to compete in the International Physics Olympiad. The percentage of schools meeting national standards reached 85.3% (the target for the whole year is 86.67% or more).
Disease prevention and control and public health care are enhanced; attention is paid to the application of new techniques to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment.
Jobs were created for 30,600 workers (of which 5,976 workers went to work abroad), equal to 52.8% of the plan, an increase of 0.2%. Policies and regimes for people with revolutionary contributions and their relatives, social security policies, ethnic and religious policies were fully and promptly implemented. After 2 months of launching the Campaign to support housing construction for poor households, policy households, and households with housing difficulties, very important initial results have been achieved.
Fourth: The management, use of resources and environmental protection have been given attention. The assessment of the ability to meet the demand for common materials for the leveling of construction investment projects in the province has been carried out. By June 15, 2024, compensation for site clearance had been paid for 1,582.7 hectares, equal to 73% of the plan, 1.53 times higher than the same period. Inspection and supervision of the natural resources and environment sector has been strengthened.
Five: The work of reorganizing the apparatus, administrative units, and administrative reform has been actively implemented. Focus has been placed on reviewing and reorganizing the apparatus, administrative units in agencies and units; completing the approval of job positions and civil servant ranks in agencies and administrative organizations in the province; continuing to complete projects to merge administrative units at district and commune levels.
Delegates attending the meeting.
Inter-sectoral inspection teams have been organized to inspect administrative reform work in localities and units; the rate of administrative procedure records resolved correctly and before the deadline reached over 99.99%. The sense of responsibility and efforts of all levels, sectors, cadres, civil servants, public employees and heads of state management agencies have clearly changed. The Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) in 2023 increased by 17 places compared to 2022.
Sixth: The work of document appraisal, dissemination, legal education, and legal aid is improved; inspection, settlement of complaints and denunciations, and prevention and fight against corruption are strengthened.
Focused on reviewing and perfecting institutions, removing difficulties and obstacles for people, businesses and the implementation of tasks of agencies and units, creating favorable conditions to promote socio-economic development of the province; issued decisions to authorize the approval of job positions for agencies and units in the province.
The units have organized 348 administrative and specialized inspections. The work of receiving citizens and handling complaints and denunciations has been carried out in accordance with regulations. The number of complaints and denunciations has tended to decrease; administrative agencies in the province have handled 413 complaints and 27 denunciations. The work of preventing and combating corruption has been focused on.
Delegates attending the meeting.
Seven: National defense - security, social order and safety are ensured. The armed forces have increased patrols on all routes; regularly grasp the situation, not allowing passivity or surprises to occur. The military recruitment target for 2024 has been completed, with 4,096 citizens enlisted; district-level defense area drills have been organized to ensure the set plan. The police force has launched high-point campaigns to suppress crime; increased forces to the grassroots, grasped the situation, promptly detected and strongly fought against all types of crime.
Eighth: The direction and administration of the Provincial People's Committee and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee continued to have many innovations in the direction of being both drastic, specific, in-depth, focused, and key, and comprehensive, with long-term strategic significance. In particular, high focus was placed on directing the acceleration of site clearance and disbursement of public investment capital; removing difficulties and obstacles for direct investment and production and business of economic sectors; accelerating the progress of planning and appraisal; promoting decentralization and authorization, focusing on reviewing and perfecting institutions, removing difficulties and bottlenecks, facilitating the implementation of tasks of agencies and units, etc., making an important contribution to the socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province in the first 6 months of the year.
II. DIFFICULTIES, LIMITATIONS AND CAUSES
1. Difficulties and limitations
- Prices of animal feed, veterinary medicine, and vaccines for animal husbandry remain high. There are no new industrial products, products with high scientific and technological content and added value. Development of social housing for workers has not met the demand.
- Credit growth is still slow. The operations of a number of businesses are still facing difficulties. The number of businesses returning to operation decreased by 12.3%, the number of businesses registering to temporarily suspend operations increased by 18.9%, and the number of dissolved businesses increased by 34.5%.
- Not many projects have been attracted in mountainous areas. The progress of investment projects in infrastructure business of industrial parks, industrial clusters and solid waste treatment projects is slow...
- The preparation of documents and investment procedures for some projects is still slow. The progress of implementing some large, key projects on transportation, urban areas and culture has not met the requirements.
- The number of teachers is still far short of the central target. There is still a shortage of medicine and medical supplies. The social insurance coverage rate tends to increase slowly; debt and late payment of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance in enterprises show no signs of decreasing.
- Some areas still cause environmental pollution. The time to issue land use right certificates in some localities is still prolonged.
- The quality of consulting and handling some tasks is sometimes slow, the quality is not guaranteed, and there is a lack of determination in following up on work; a number of cadres, civil servants, and public employees (including managers and heads) in some localities and units sometimes do not carefully study legal regulations to advise and implement, leading to a fear of making mistakes and being responsible.
- Drug-related crimes on the border are complicated; the religious and social security situation has many potential complications, especially related to site clearance and land acquisition for investment projects in coastal areas. Traffic accidents have increased in the number of injured people.
2. Causes of difficulties and limitations
- Objective reasons: The world situation continues to be unstable. Some legal regulations are not unified, not suitable but are slow to be amended. Capital needs for site clearance, investment in infrastructure projects of economic zones, industrial parks, large industrial clusters, while state budget capital is still limited.
- Subjective causes: Coordination in performing tasks between some units and localities is not tight; the capacity, responsibility and service attitude of some officials and civil servants (including management staff) are not high. Some investors have not promoted their sense of responsibility; the capacity of some Project Management Boards has not yet met the requirements; some investors, contractors and consulting units have limited capacity and have not fulfilled their commitments in the bidding documents and investment policies. Ensuring labor safety at some enterprises and labor-using establishments has not received due attention at times and in some places.
Part Two
KEY TASKS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS OF 2024
I. REMAINING TASKS FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS OF 2024
Based on the results of the first 6 months of the year, to complete the goals and tasks of the 2024 plan, the remaining tasks of some key targets in the last 6 months of 2024 are as follows:
1. With the target of GRDP growth for the whole year being 11% or more, the GRDP growth rate in the last 6 months of 2024 must reach 10.6% or more, of which: agriculture, forestry and fishery increase by 2.6% or more; industry - construction increase by 10.7% or more; services increase by 10.9% or more; product taxes increase by 22.6% or more.
2. Food output reaches 646,971 thousand tons or more (to reach 1.54 million tons for the whole year).
3. Export turnover reaches 3,118.4 million USD or more (to reach 6,000 million USD for the whole year).
4. Mobilize total social investment capital to reach 69,115 billion VND or more (to reach 135,000 billion VND for the whole year).
5. State budget revenue strives to reach 20,275 billion VND or more.
6. Accumulate and concentrate land for large-scale agricultural production, applying high technology to increase by 2,108.2 hectares or more (to reach 6,200 hectares for the whole year).
7. Add 1 district, 13 new rural communes; 2 districts, 6 advanced new rural communes; 1 model new rural commune or higher (to achieve the annual plan of having 1 more district, 17 new rural communes; 2 districts, 19 advanced new rural communes; 10 model new rural communes).
8. Number of newly established enterprises: 1,366 or more (to reach 3,000 enterprises for the whole year).
9. For key indicators without statistics for the first 6 months of the year, strive to complete and exceed the plan.
II. KEY TASKS AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS OF THE YEAR
To complete the plan targets for the whole year 2024, in the context of forecasted difficulties and challenges in the last 6 months of the year; sectors, localities and units must focus on effectively implementing the following 11 key groups of tasks and solutions:
1. Continue to effectively implement the provincial planning and Thanh Hoa urban master plan; programs, projects, mechanisms, policies; conclusions of the Prime Minister at the working session with provincial leaders. Speed up the progress of establishing, completing, and submitting for approval functional zoning plans and detailed construction plans.
2. Focus on reviewing and evaluating the remaining tasks of the last 6 months of 2024. For goals and targets with positive results, it is necessary to continue to strive to achieve the highest level, creating a premise for the 2025 plan. For goals and targets that are lower than planned, and are forecasted to have many difficulties and challenges, it is necessary to focus on leadership and direction to effectively develop and implement feasible and breakthrough solutions in the last 6 months of the year, striving to complete all socio-economic goals and targets in 2024. Organize a preliminary review of 3 years of implementing Resolution No. 37 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Thanh Hoa province.
Overview of the meeting.
3. Focus on implementing the 2024 Summer-Autumn crop production within the appropriate time frame; synchronously implement solutions for livestock development, disease prevention and control; strengthen the management of fisheries exploitation, ensuring safety for people and fishing vessels operating at sea. Perform well the work of natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue, minimize damage caused by natural disasters, accidents and incidents, maintain the achievements of socio-economic development.
4. Proactively inspect and grasp the fluctuations in prices of raw materials, fuels, input materials, electricity consumption and operations of industrial enterprises to remove difficulties, boost production and consumption of products, and avoid production interruptions; encourage and support enterprises to maximize capacity and increase output to compensate for shortages in industrial products with reduced output. Develop and implement plans to ensure adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and subsequent years under the direction of the Prime Minister.
5. Promote trade and service activities associated with domestic market development; promote the distribution of goods through digital platforms and e-commerce; consolidate and expand the market share of goods in traditional markets, expand new potential export markets. Strengthen activities to link Thanh Hoa tourism development with key tourism provinces and cities to attract tourists to Thanh Hoa. Strengthen market management and inspection, prevent and combat smuggling and trade fraud.
6. Continue to promote digital transformation, effectively implement Project 06 and digital transformation projects. Promote administrative reform, create an open and attractive investment and business environment; synchronously implement measures to improve low-ranking component indices of PCI, PAR INDEX, PAPI, SIPAS. Improve investment promotion activities; regularly monitor, urge, and support the resolution of "bottlenecks", especially site clearance to hand over to investors for construction and accelerate the implementation of direct investment projects, infrastructure investment projects in industrial parks and industrial clusters.
7. Resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement tasks and solutions for state budget collection, striving to exceed the state budget collection estimate for 2024. Well implement the state budget management and operation, ensure efficiency, flexibility and balance of resources to complete the 2024 expenditure tasks; use the budget economically and effectively to focus resources on development investment and urgent tasks.
8. Focus on directing the drastic, synchronous and effective implementation of solutions to accelerate the progress of implementation and disbursement of the 2024 public investment capital plan; strengthen urging construction contractors to concentrate human resources, materials, equipment, and supplement construction teams to speed up project implementation progress; resolutely and strictly handle construction contractors and consulting units that do not comply with the commitments in the bidding documents. Focus on resolving "bottlenecks" to effectively implement the site clearance plan in the province in 2024.
9. Continue to organize and implement activities, events, culture, sports and tourism in 2024; strengthen the work of preserving and promoting cultural heritage values associated with tourism development; synchronously implement measures to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment; fully and promptly implement programs and policies on poverty reduction, ensuring social security; closely monitor developments in the labor and employment market to have timely support plans to overcome the shortage of labor to serve production and business of enterprises. Strengthen national defense and security, create a safe and stable environment for socio-economic development; synchronously implement measures to control traffic accidents, prevent and fight fires and prevent drowning for children.
10. Focus on preparing the contents expected to be submitted to the Provincial People's Council at the meetings in the last 6 months of the year to ensure quality. Continue to promote the sense of responsibility, determination, efficiency, and timeliness in direction and administration; tighten discipline and administrative discipline; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state agencies at all levels and the role of leaders in direction and administration; strengthen inspection and supervision of task performance, promptly detect and strictly handle cases with negative signs, causing difficulties and troubles in performing public duties. Improve the effectiveness of inspection, handling complaints and denunciations, and preventing corruption.
11. Focus on advising and submitting to competent authorities to issue documents to specify and implement newly issued laws and decrees; strengthen propaganda, dissemination, introduction, and create unity in awareness, in order to better serve the direction and administration of state agencies at all levels and the investment, production, and business activities of people and enterprises.
Regarding the specific tasks of provincial departments, branches, sectors, units, and People's Committees of districts, towns, and cities, they have been stated very specifically and in detail in the report of the Provincial People's Committee sent to the delegates. Immediately after this session, the Provincial People's Committee will continue to focus on directing sectors and levels to implement, aiming to successfully complete the set goals and tasks.
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