Delegates attending the ceremony

Attending the ceremony were Mr. Le Truong Luu, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council, Head of the City National Assembly Delegation; city leaders of all periods; leaders of the City Party Committee, City People's Committee and departments, branches, sectors, and organizations...

Speaking at the ceremony, Secretary of Huong Thuy Town Party Committee Le Ngoc Son informed that during the national defense war, to gain independence, freedom and national reunification, our people had to go through countless sacrifices and losses. Huong Thuy Town is a land rich in revolutionary traditions, where there were 2,541 martyrs, 690 wounded soldiers, and 1,524 people with revolutionary contributions. Thousands of cadres, party members, and people were arrested, tortured, and imprisoned in colonial and imperialist prisons; thousands of soldiers from all over the country fought steadfastly and heroically sacrificed.

After 15 years of establishment of the town, the overall socio-economic picture of Huong Thuy has developed more and more clearly, the appearance has changed significantly. The economy has achieved a fairly good growth rate; the average production value increased by 13.5%/year. The economic structure has shifted in the right direction, gradually increasing the proportion of industry - construction accounting for 86.7%; services accounting for 9.6%, reducing the proportion of agriculture by 3.7%. The average gross domestic product per capita by 2025 is estimated at 174.5 million VND, an increase of 7.09 times compared to 2010. The total social investment capital in 15 years reached more than 52 trillion VND. The total budget revenue of the town, wards and communes in 15 years reached more than 10,253 billion VND.

The work of urban beautification and development of the town's economic and social infrastructure has achieved remarkable results; the urban appearance is increasingly spacious, many new urban areas in Thuy Duong and Thuy Thanh have been invested in and filled with a synchronous and modern technical and social infrastructure system. Traffic infrastructure, commercial and service infrastructure have been invested synchronously, creating favorable conditions for the development of the town's services.

In the area, there is Phu Bai Industrial Park with a scale of nearly 400 hectares filled and Gilimiex Industrial Park infrastructure is being invested to complete with a scale of 460 hectares; along with Thuy Phuong Industrial Cluster of 150 hectares, not only creating jobs for thousands of workers but also promoting the development of industry and services.

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The cultural and social fields have many positive changes. The quality of teaching and learning is increasingly improved; the whole town has 40/40 schools meeting national standards, leading the whole city.

Social security work is also ensured, people's lives are constantly improving. The poverty rate has decreased sharply, to only 0.38%; the work of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses has been focused on, striving to be completed in the third quarter of 2025. Medical work and people's health care are focused on. The medical facility system in the area has been invested in and upgraded, the town's Medical Center was upgraded from grade 3 to grade 2 in 2018 and became a satellite hospital of Hue Central Hospital...

Speaking at the ceremony, Secretary of the City Party Committee Le Truong Luu congratulated the efforts and achievements of Huong Thuy's hometown over the past 50 years and after 15 years of establishing the town.

At the same time, he emphasized that entering a new period, the country is rapidly shifting to a knowledge-based economy, a circular economy, a sharing economy, opportunities and challenges await. The Standing Committee of the City Party Committee hopes that the Party Committee, army and people of Huong Thuy will continue to promote the heroic revolutionary tradition, the will to overcome difficulties, self-reliance and self-strengthening; the spirit of studiousness, exploiting local resources well; strengthening solidarity and unity within the Party, government, front and socio-political organizations; creating consensus among the people to perform well the tasks in the new period, contributing to the whole country entering a new era - the era of national development.

In the immediate future, the town will seriously and urgently implement and ensure the progress of the organization and apparatus arrangement of the political system to be "streamlined - compact - strong - effective - efficient - effective" according to the policies, regulations and instructions of the Central Government, creating consensus and unity in the implementation process. The town needs to promote the development of digital transformation infrastructure, especially effectively implementing Resolution No. 57 of the Politburo and Action Program 115 of the City Party Committee on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation.

Huong Thuy needs to proactively exploit its full potential and advantages to strongly develop its economy and infrastructure; focus on improving the investment environment; develop service industries with potential and advantages; services for industrial parks, urban areas, airports... At the same time, focus on mobilizing all resources and solutions to accelerate and strongly break through economic development in the coming time.

In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to and comprehensively develop cultural and social fields and improve the material and spiritual life of the people; lead the implementation of national defense and security tasks well; build a truly solid people's position, maintain political security stability and social order and safety in the area.

News and photos: Hoang Trieu