Reporter: Could you please outline the action plan of Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee to implement Resolution No. 42-NQ/TW?
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong : The action program to implement Resolution No. 42-NQ/TW has been thoroughly discussed and issued, in which it is determined that: By 2030, Lao Cai will identify 39 specific targets, 3 more than Resolution 42, belonging to 9 groups of issues; the quantitative efforts of the targets are built to ensure consistency with the specialized resolutions of the Provincial Party Committee, Lao Cai province's planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. That is:
Ensure that 100% of people with meritorious services and their families have their material and spiritual lives taken care of, and have a standard of living that is average or higher than that of the community where they reside.
The general unemployment rate remains around 1.2%, the urban unemployment rate is below 4%; the rate of trained workers reaches 80%, the rate of trained workers with degrees and certificates reaches over 45%.
The rate of households taking care of children under 36 months old, pregnant women, and the elderly in poor and near-poor households eligible for social benefits according to regulations reaches 100%; ensuring a minimum standard of living for people in difficult circumstances; providing social benefits for poor households unable to escape poverty.
Build at least 7,600 social housing apartments for low-income people and industrial park workers; eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households, near-poor households, and people affected by natural disasters and climate change; average housing area per capita in the province reaches 27.7m2 of floor space/person.
The minimum rate of people in remote, isolated and border areas enjoying and participating in cultural activities reaches 75%; the minimum rate of communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas enjoying and participating in cultural activities reaches 80%...
Reporter: In the Action Program, there is a highlight "Building a social security system ensuring socialist orientation, leaving no one behind". How will Lao Cai implement this orientation, Comrade Secretary?
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong : Lao Cai builds a social policy system in a sustainable, progressive and equitable direction, constantly improving the material and spiritual life of the people, contributing to the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
Complete a diverse, multi-layered, comprehensive, modern, inclusive, and sustainable social security policy; create opportunities for people, especially the poor, people in difficult circumstances, and people living in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, to access basic social services, especially in health care, education, housing, and information.
Developing a flexible, efficient, internationally integrated labor market associated with sustainable employment; improving the quality of social development management associated with ensuring human rights and civil rights.
In recent times, social security work has always been of interest to Lao Cai province, implemented synchronously and consistently from the province to the grassroots. Social security policies have been fully implemented. Incentive and honor policies for people with revolutionary contributions have been focused on and well implemented. Up to now, about 99% of people with revolutionary contributions have enjoyed average living standards or higher than the living standards of the community where they live; poverty reduction work has been invested in with focus and focus, the average poverty reduction rate has decreased by over 5%/year, exceeding the targets of the Congresses...
Reporter: How well does Lao Cai implement preferential policies for people with revolutionary contributions, comrade?
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong: Lao Cai province currently has more than 25,000 records of people with revolutionary contributions; more than 13,000 households of people with revolutionary contributions, of which more than 3,000 people receive monthly allowances.
In the 10 years (2013-2023), the state budget for preferential treatment for meritorious people has increased every year. The work of verifying records is ensured to be correct in terms of conditions, order, and procedures according to regulations in current documents.
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National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Lao Cai Provincial Party Secretary Dang Xuan Phong visited and presented Tet gifts to People's Armed Forces Hero Nguyen Van Hoa, Kim Tan Ward, Lao Cai City in early 2023. (Photo: HUU HUYNH) |
Every year, Lao Cai province issues nearly 17,000 health insurance cards to meritorious people, soldiers, veterans, and youth volunteers; 100% of meritorious people who have reached their retirement age are entitled to health care and rehabilitation benefits, and are provided with orthopedic assistive devices.
The movement to mobilize the "Repaying gratitude" Fund has always received attention and contributions from all levels, sectors, agencies, units, social organizations and individuals inside and outside the province. Thanks to that, in the period of 2013-2023, the "Repaying gratitude" Fund at all levels has mobilized nearly 55.5 billion VND. The fund is managed and used to support house building and repair for meritorious people, visit and support families of meritorious people with difficult circumstances in life...
Every year, Lao Cai province issues nearly 17,000 health insurance cards to meritorious people, soldiers, veterans, and youth volunteers; 100% of meritorious people who have reached their retirement age are entitled to health care and rehabilitation benefits, and are provided with orthopedic assistive devices.
Combining the central budget and local budget, Lao Cai province has developed a housing support project for meritorious people and has completed support for 2,680 households, with an implementation cost of more than 96 billion VND. From the support source of the "Repaying gratitude" Fund in the period from 2013-2023, the whole province has supported housing for 1,024 households of meritorious people, with a cost of more than 36.5 billion VND.
Up to now, in Lao Cai province, there are only more than 900 households with housing difficulties in need of support. In the coming years, Lao Cai province will continue to pay attention to implementing housing support policies for people with meritorious services. Strive to complete support for eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for 100% of households in the area before September 2025...
Reporter: Could you please share the lessons learned in effectively implementing sustainable poverty reduction policies, associated with implementing specific policies of Lao Cai province - a locality that is assessed to have been very determined, creative and early in implementing poverty reduction policies?
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong : The lesson in effectively implementing the sustainable poverty reduction policy, associated with the implementation of specific policies of Lao Cai province, is the highest sense of responsibility and determination, with the drastic participation of the entire political system under the close and timely leadership of the Provincial Party Committee; the proactive, active, accompanying, and close coordination of the Provincial People's Council and agencies in the political system; the drastic, creative, and flexible direction of the Provincial People's Committee, all levels, sectors, and localities; the support and active participation of the people and the business community...
The lesson in effectively implementing the sustainable poverty reduction policy, associated with the implementation of specific policies of Lao Cai province, is the highest sense of responsibility and determination, with the drastic participation of the entire political system under the close and timely leadership of the Provincial Party Committee; the proactive, active, accompanying, and close coordination of the Provincial People's Council and agencies in the political system; the drastic, creative, and flexible direction of the Provincial People's Committee, all levels, sectors, and localities; the support and active participation of the people and the business community...
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong
The Provincial Party Committee has directed the review, development and promulgation of key projects and thematic resolutions to lead and direct the implementation of key contents and programs such as Project No. 05 on mobilizing resources for investment and development in Lao Cai province, period 2020-2025; Project No. 10 on sustainable poverty reduction in Lao Cai province, period 2020-2025,...
Complete and establish the Steering Committee to implement national target programs at all three levels in a timely manner according to the Central's instructions;...
At the same time, the Provincial Party Committee assigned the comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to be responsible for helping 10 communes with the highest poverty rate in the province in socio-economic development; assigned each comrade the task of leading agencies and units to help 1 commune implement the national target program...
Reporter: The highlight of the Action Program is “Strengthening inspection, examination, and supervision to promptly detect, prevent, and strictly handle acts of policy profiteering and law violations; strengthening inspection, supervision, and monitoring of guidance from Party committees and authorities at all levels on the task of innovating and improving the quality of social policies”. Could you elaborate on this issue?
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong : Currently, state management of social security policies is in many sectors, in many fields, at all levels of government, assistance policies are issued at many different stages, applied to many groups of subjects, so it is easy to have overlaps, duplicate subjects, causing difficulties in managing social security policies and beneficiaries of those policies. Therefore, paying attention to improving the effectiveness of state management of implementing social policies is very important.
The province strengthens inspection, examination, supervision and evaluation of the implementation of social security policies, contributing to ensuring that the development and implementation of social policies are organized, disciplined, disciplined and strict. At the same time, it detects policies that are no longer suitable, legal regulations that are inadequate and difficult to implement locally, in order to promptly supplement and amend according to authority or recommend competent authorities to amend, supplement and abolish.
Party committees and authorities at all levels must enhance their responsibilities, identify the task of comprehensively caring for, innovating, and improving the material and spiritual life of the people, ensuring social security as one of the goals of development; an important, regular, and continuous task; closely and reasonably combining economic development with the work of comprehensively ensuring social security...
In the process of implementing social security policies, Party committees and authorities need to strengthen inspection and supervision, promptly adjust and supplement the implementation of policies in the area, ensuring that policies reach beneficiaries, and preventing waste and negativity.
In the process of implementing social security policies, Party committees and authorities need to strengthen inspection and supervision, promptly adjust and supplement the implementation of policies in the area, ensuring that policies reach beneficiaries, and preventing waste and negativity.
Comrade Dang Xuan Phong
The Action Program to implement Resolution 42-QD/TW of Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee especially emphasizes the role of People's Councils at all levels in supervising the implementation of legal policies and resolutions of the Provincial People's Council on social security policies; the role of supervision and social criticism of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and socio-political organizations and mass organizations in implementing social policies in the locality.
Reporter: Thank you very much, comrade!
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