In early January 2024, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and his delegation visited and worked with comrades and people of Ba Ria - Vung Tau and Tay Ninh provinces. This year is identified as a pivotal year of special importance for the two provinces to successfully carry out the tasks of the entire term according to the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, with comprehensive changes in many areas.
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Construction site of road and bridge 991B, a key project of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
With the spirit of solidarity, affection, dynamism, with creative thinking, thinking, and working methods, the Party Committee, government and people of the two above-mentioned provinces have implemented many important and breakthrough mechanisms and policies on socio-economic development, maximizing local strengths and potentials, mobilizing new resources and motivations to promote growth. Continuing the "momentum" of innovation, dynamism and breakthroughs From early morning, hundreds of cadres and workers with long rows of machinery and equipment, heavy trucks of all kinds were ready for the start of the day right on the wide, dusty dirt road, belonging to the construction site of the Component 3 Project of the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Expressway Construction Investment Project in Phu My town. That demonstrated the determination to urgently get to work of the team of workers and laborers right from the beginning of the year. Ba Ria-Vung Tau is located in the southern key economic region, plays a major role in economy and culture, and has a particularly important strategic position in politics, economy, culture, society, national defense, security and foreign affairs of the Southeast region and the whole country. In the process of national construction and development, Ba Ria-Vung Tau has always been the leading flag in the cause of innovation. After 33 years of establishment (1991-2024), effectively exploiting potential and geographical advantages, being the "gateway" to the East Sea of the Southeast region and the whole country; the province has made the right decisions, bold and timely steps, with a turning point in developing the local socio-economy, worthy of the important growth pole role of the country. With the spirit of solidarity, affection, dynamism, and creative thinking and working methods, the Party Committee, government and people of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Tay Ninh provinces have implemented many important and breakthrough mechanisms and policies on socio-economic development, maximizing local strengths and potentials, mobilizing new resources and driving forces to promote growth.
Ba Ria-Vung Tau is currently one of the localities with strong industry, seaports, tourism and high-tech agriculture, in the group of 10 localities with the highest per capita income in the country. The province has always balanced its budget, is among the top localities contributing to the national budget, has a spacious and synchronous road traffic infrastructure, and the quality of people's lives has been comprehensively improved. The economic structure continues to shift in the right direction, increasing the industrial-construction and service sectors; in which, industrial production continues to grow and shift positively, playing a leading role in the economy. The bright spot in the province's development is reflected in the initial results of forming two new industries of the economy. Specifically, the petrochemical industry is the Southern Petrochemical Complex Project with a total capital of 5.3 billion USD and the Polypropylene Production Plant and the Hyosung LPG Underground Storage with a total capital of 1.3 billion USD. The wind power equipment manufacturing industry between Vietnam Oil and Gas Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) and the Danish Energy Company worth 1 billion USD, lays an important foundation to develop the province into a major industrial center of the Southeast region in the future. Resolutely acting with a long-term vision, the planning of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, recently approved by the Prime Minister, sets out a number of major orientations: In the period 2025-2030, focusing on four economic pillars including: Industry, seaports and logistics, tourism and urban areas, and services. By 2030, build Ba Ria-Vung Tau province to develop comprehensively, become a national marine economic center and be among the top five localities in marine economic development in the country, basically meeting the standards of a centrally-run city, with a multi-center urban structure, multi-modal transport infrastructure, firmly maintaining its position in the top 10 localities with the highest GRDP and total state budget revenue in the country. Reporting to the National Assembly Chairman and the working delegation, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Thi Yen said that the province prioritizes allocating resources of more than 80 trillion VND to invest in synchronous development of the regional and inter-regional transport system in the period of 2021-2025. This helps to remove bottlenecks in local economic development for many years. The province continues to implement the policy of selectively attracting investment, in line with world trends, thereby attracting 458 FDI projects with a total registered capital of about 31.35 billion USD and 710 domestic investment projects, with a total investment capital of more than 384,983 billion VND. In the three years of 2021, 2022 and 2023 alone, the province attracted 139 projects, with a total registered capital of 4.65 billion USD. The leader of Tay Ninh province said that as a province in the Southeast region, connecting the South Central Highlands with the Mekong Delta, Tay Ninh has both the characteristics of a plateau and the appearance and nuances of a delta, being a bridge between Ho Chi Minh City and the capital Phnom Penh (Cambodia). The province is considered one of the localities in the Southern Key Economic Zone, with a geographical location and natural conditions quite favorable for socio-economic development. In recent times, Tay Ninh has effectively implemented three national target programs in the area, especially the national target program on new rural construction in accordance with local conditions; improved the effectiveness of law enforcement and public service performance; improved the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of state management, and ensured discipline and order. Another key content is to focus on implementing administrative reform tasks, improving the investment and business environment associated with digital transformation to clearly improve administrative reform indicators, public administration, and provincial competitiveness... Members of the National Assembly's working group on this occasion are interested in learning about the locality's effective implementation of the Provincial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, ensuring compliance with the resolutions of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly and national planning, regional planning on the basis of promoting investment and maximizing the exploitation of infrastructure, especially infrastructure linking development with dynamic zoning in the spirit of the Resolution of the Politburo on socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the Southeast region to 2030, with a vision to 2045. The major goals that provincial leaders, ministries and branches are interested in are: how and specifically to improve the quality of development planning work Urban development in a synchronous, modern, smart and ecological urban direction associated with tourism development, adaptation to climate change; strong and synchronous development of national and international logistics systems, improving the operational efficiency of international border economic zones, developing border economy; expanding the industrial development space of the region... With the goals clearly stated in the planning of the two provinces in particular, one of the contents that National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested local leaders to continue to have a plan to organize the socio-economic development space in the direction of "multi-function, multi-driving force, multi-objective and multi-polar growth". The two localities need to renew and add strength to existing growth drivers, promote the formation of new growth drivers, especially drivers of innovation and digital transformation... Discussing with the Standing Committee of the Tay Ninh Provincial Party Committee, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue agreed with the province's choice of development breakthroughs including: infrastructure development; human resource development; institutions; Developing small and medium enterprises; sustainable development: Green Tay Ninh; developing tourism; developing service economy. Spreading the spirit of initiative, creativity and innovation . In localities, important results are also shown in the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system, which has been carried out comprehensively, synchronously, drastically and effectively with many good models and practices in both Party building, building the political system and socio-economic development. For example, in Tay Ninh, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee closely directs the work of cadres, building the organizational apparatus, and protecting internal politics. Directing and organizing the vote of confidence for positions elected and approved by the People's Council according to Resolution No. 96 of the National Assembly; the positions of Secretary, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee according to Regulation No. 96 of the Politburo are carried out seriously and in accordance with regulations. Reality shows that the activities of the National Assembly Delegation and National Assembly deputies and People's Councils in many localities across the country are increasingly innovative, practical, effective, and closely following reality. The method of attending online meetings or following live meetings at Dien Hong Hall, the National Assembly House, and the Standing Committee of the People's Councils of localities seriously absorb and learn a lot of experiences. This contributes to increasing flexibility, dynamism, and creativity "from early on, from afar" in many local activities. Conveying a strong message in 2024, a pivotal year of special importance for the 15th National Assembly. The National Assembly Chairman affirmed: From now on, the National Assembly and the Government need to immediately start implementing and carrying out major policies approved by the National Assembly, continuing to prioritize promoting economic growth, maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, and ensuring major balances of the economy. National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue stated: "The National Assembly not only strives to become an increasingly professional, modern National Assembly, promoting democracy and increasing the rule of law, but also must be very flexible, creative, keeping up with the requirements of life, closely following the practical situation of the country. In addition, the National Assembly and each National Assembly deputy need to make more efforts, demonstrating the highest spirit of creation, development and increasingly deep international integration, for the benefit of the country, for the benefit of the people" - the National Assembly Chairman emphasized. These impressive figures show the very important achievements of the innovation, development and integration process of Ba Ria-Vung Tau since the beginning of the term: The economy continues to develop steadily, the growth rate remains at a fairly high level. The gross regional domestic product (GRDP) in the 2021-2023 period increased by an average of 5.94% per year. The economic scale of the province in 2023 reached 366,456 billion VND (equivalent to 15.250 billion USD, accounting for 3.51% of the country's total GDP).
With an area of 9% and a population of 20%, the Southeast region has contributed more than 30% of GDP, about 45% of total state budget revenue and more than 32% of the country's export turnover.
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