Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai chaired the Conference to assess the socio-economic situation in the first quarter of 2025.

(LĐ online) - On April 9, Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai chaired an online conference from the whole province to the People's Committees at the commune level, to assess the socio-economic situation in the first quarter and deploy tasks in the second quarter.

Attending the Conference were leaders of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, members of the Provincial People's Committee, Committees of the Provincial People's Council; Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee...

Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai chaired the Conference to assess the economic situation in the first quarter.

In his opening speech, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai reviewed the positive results in the first quarter, such as: budget revenue exceeding 10% over the same period, calling for investment 15 times higher than the previous year, disbursement of public investment capital is accelerating, tourism increased by 30%... The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also highly appreciated the activities of the Working Groups to resolve difficulties that have helped localities remove and resolve obstacles...; discovered many issues affecting employment that hindered the implementation of projects... However, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also reminded about the target of 9-10% development by 2025 and budget revenue of up to 15 trillion, it is necessary to closely follow the growth scenario, pay attention to development pillars..., strive to achieve 60% or more of the plan by June 30, 2025...

Regarding the provincial merger, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai requested departments, branches and localities to support the Department of Home Affairs in implementing the provincial merger; focus on removing difficulties...

Director of the Department of Finance Ton Thien San presented the Report on the assessment of the socio-economic situation in the first quarter.

The report on the socio-economic situation in the first quarter of 2025, presented by the Director of the Department of Finance, Ton Thien San, said: In the first quarter of 2025, the province has merged and established 6 departments under the Provincial People's Committee; units urgently stabilized their organizations and working headquarters from March 1, 2025 to ensure smooth implementation of tasks, without work interruption or delay. Timely propagate, disseminate and thoroughly educate all cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees, workers and people in the province about continuing to implement the policy of arranging and streamlining the apparatus and 2-level government according to the direction of the Central Government.

Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment Hoang Si Bich reported on the growth scenario and answered the recommendations (filling land, planning, etc.)

Director of the Department of Construction Nguyen Van Gia reports on the progress of the Expressway Project.

Import, export, production, business, service, tourist attraction activities... developed stably and increased compared to the same period; budget revenue had positive changes, total state budget revenue in the area reached the set growth scenario (estimated at 4,000 billion VND), up 1.5% over the same period, of which revenue from taxes, fees and charges increased by 10.3% over the same period; Investment attraction also had positive changes, in the first quarter, 2 non-budget investment projects were attracted, with registered capital of 1,304 billion VND (of which, there was 1 foreign direct investment (FDI) project with registered investment capital of 20 billion VND); management of non-state budget investment projects was strengthened...

Director of Department of Science and Technology Vo Thi Hao reports on digital transformation work

Director of the Department of Home Affairs Pham Thi Tuong Van reports on the situation of streamlining local government.

Director of the Department of Health Huynh Thi Phuong Duyen reports on the situation of medical activities in the area.

Tasks in the cultural and social fields continue to be focused on; investing in school facilities, classrooms, teaching equipment, management staff - teachers... in the direction of meeting standards; organizing many programs, festivals, cultural, artistic and sports activities; implementing well the policy for people with revolutionary contributions, ensuring social security; paying attention to developing social housing, poverty reduction, ethnic minorities, remote areas, vulnerable groups,... Effectively controlling epidemics, ensuring adequate medicine, medical supplies, biological products for medical examination and treatment. Continuing to implement the emulation movement "Joining hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in Lam Dong province in 2025"... National defense - security, social order and safety are basically maintained; traffic accidents have decreased in 3 criteria...

Colonel Le Hong Phong - Deputy Director of Lam Dong Provincial Police reported on the work of ensuring security and order during the country's major holidays.

Colonel Le Anh Vuong - Deputy Commander of Lam Dong Provincial Military Command reported on the regulations of national defense zones in the area.

The report also pointed out shortcomings and limitations: Forest protection and management work needs to be paid attention to, directed continuously and resolutely. Although the number of violations of the Forestry Law has decreased by 41%, the area of ​​damaged forest products has increased by 53%, the volume of damaged forest products has increased by 429% (including 1 prominent complex violation whose violator has not been detected). Disbursement of public investment capital is low (reaching 6% of the plan, 0.9% lower than the same period, about 9.0% lower than the proposed growth scenario), the progress of implementing works and projects is still slow; compensation and site clearance work still has many obstacles; the capacity of some investors, consulting units, and construction contractors is still weak, many projects need to be adjusted and supplemented;...

The lives of a segment of the population are still difficult, especially in remote areas and ethnic minority areas. The work of streamlining and reorganizing the apparatus has been implemented promptly and effectively; however, the number of redundant cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers after the reorganization is relatively large, affecting the thoughts, feelings, aspirations, and policies of a segment of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers...

Leaders of departments and branches attended the Conference directly at the Provincial People's Committee

Leaders of departments and branches attended the Conference directly at the Provincial People's Committee

Speaking at the discussion session, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Ngoc Hiep requested departments, branches and localities to aim for the target of 50-60% of the plan to be completed in the second quarter, in line with the time to streamline the apparatus and merge the province... Leaders of localities and departments and branches focused on removing difficulties and obstacles in implementing budget collection, disbursement of public investment capital, attracting investment...

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Ngoc Phuc requested localities to focus on the following contents: Districts that meet the new rural criteria must urgently prepare documents to submit to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment for recognition; focus on site clearance for expressway projects; request investors to propose sources of land for filling; violations of forestry laws must have evidence for handling (images); review public assets to arrange accommodation for civil servants from localities coming to the province to work...

Local leaders report difficulties and propose solutions via videoconference

Concluding the Conference, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai affirmed: The work of streamlining the grassroots government apparatus is very important, it cannot be arranged arbitrarily, the planning lacks development space... Merging the province, Lam Dong has both borders and islands, so the opportunity to promote investment has a lot of room, it is necessary to have a coordination mechanism to promote advantages; propaganda work needs to have orientation to create public consensus on the policy of arranging administrative units at all levels and building a model of organizing a 2-level local government... The whole province focuses on completing the arrangement and merger of commune-level administrative units; ensuring that it does not affect the operations of agencies, organizations and units; statistics, review, management and use of public assets to have effective use plans, especially assets of agencies and units after arrangement and merger, avoiding waste of resources...

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Hong Thai concluded the Conference

Heads of departments, branches and localities must try to solve problems to remove bottlenecks in planning, land use, public investment disbursement...; and try to solve them within their authority, if beyond their authority, they must propose a plan to the province. The province has completed the allocation of public investment capital, localities, especially Da Lat and Bao Loc, need to speed up the disbursement of public investment capital, remove difficulties to bring projects into life, promote efficiency... Review and resolutely recover projects that cannot be implemented; at the same time, apply and remove difficulties for projects that can be implemented and investors with capacity and enthusiasm... In particular, be determined, mobilize all resources, prepare well for investment preparation to speed up the implementation of the two expressway projects Tan Phu - Bao Loc and Bao Loc - Lien Khuong...

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also assigned specific tasks to departments and branches. With the assessment that the tasks in the coming time will be basically favorable, but there will be many difficulties. Therefore, it is necessary to strongly innovate the direction and management methods; focus on handling and removing "bottlenecks" and "barriers", thoroughly resolving weaknesses and bottlenecks related to planning, investment, and land to mobilize and unblock all resources to participate in investing in socio-economic infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, health care, education, culture, sports and climate change response... Prioritize attracting investment in the fields of urban development, commercial housing, social housing, high-end service sectors, high-quality hospitals...

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