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| Overview of the questioning session. |
Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired and directed the session.
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| Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Provincial Party Secretary, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the question and answer session. |
Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, comrades of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, delegates of the Provincial People's Council; leaders of departments, branches and localities.
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| Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa reported on state management of food safety; prevention, control and handling of smuggling and trading of goods of unknown origin; and market planning, business and management. |
The question and answer session of the Director of the Department of Industry and Trade revolved around state management of food safety; prevention, control and handling of smuggling and trading of goods of unknown origin; and market planning, trading and management. These are issues directly and daily related to people's health and life. According to Mr. Pham Van Hoa, the state management of food safety is assigned and decentralized to 3 sectors: Health, Agriculture and Rural Development, Industry and Trade and People's Committees at district and commune levels.
Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa informed: The main violations are failure to comply with legal regulations on food sample storage and three-step food inspection; Food business, display and storage facilities are invaded by insects and harmful animals; Violations of legal regulations on food safety conditions... However, the Director of the Department of Industry and Trade affirmed that the number of establishments violating food safety from 2021 to present has tended to decrease. From 2021 to present, the province has recorded 6 cases of food poisoning under the management of district and commune levels with 175 people infected, no deaths.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
The Director of the Department of Industry and Trade also said that the situation of smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods in Nghe An province has emerged as illegal trading and transportation of drugs, firecrackers, wild animals, livestock and poultry products, cigarettes, consumer goods and the trading of counterfeit goods, banned goods, and goods of unknown origin on the e-commerce system. Mr. Pham Van Hoa informed: In the period of 2021 - 2023, the functional forces and related sectors have organized inspections and administrative sanctions on 20,591 cases, prosecuted 1,050 cases, with a total fine of more than VND 805.731 billion. In the first 6 months of 2024 alone, 4,233 cases were inspected and administratively sanctioned, 896/1163 cases were prosecuted, with a total fine of VND 115.706 billion.
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| Delegate Tran Thi Khanh Linh (Vinh City unit) questioned. |
Responding to the question of delegate Tran Thi Khanh Linh, Vinh City about the current situation of street vendors and goods of unknown origin in front of schools and hospitals that have not been strictly controlled, the Director of the Department of Industry and Trade said that currently, counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, and goods of unknown origin are common in many segments of the market, from remote areas to street vendors, grocery stores in urban areas... Smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods in the e-commerce environment are still taking place and have the potential for complex developments. Tax management and prevention of state budget loss for e-commerce business activities are not effective.
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| Delegate Nguyen Cong Van (Nghi Loc unit) presented the current status of market planning and management in the province. |
Regarding the exploitation and management of markets in the province, Delegate Nguyen Cong Van, Nghi Loc district, stated that the current situation of market planning in the province is facing many shortcomings and needs fundamental solutions. Many questions focused on the group of issues related to market management raised by delegates from Quy Hop and Quy Chau such as the large number of unclassified markets, the competition of e-commerce with traditional markets, fire prevention and fighting, and environmental sanitation that have not been properly invested in?
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| Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa answered questions from provincial People's Council delegates. |
The Director of the Department of Industry and Trade admitted that there have been many problems and issues in market planning for a long time. These include overlaps in legal regulations and development policies. Accordingly, the Government has just issued Decree 60/2024 on market development and management, which will be the direction to remove these problems. Mr. Pham Van Hoa said that in terms of the market network, the whole province has 371 active markets, including 7 class I markets, 20 class II markets, 240 class III markets, and 104 unclassified markets. The whole province has 154 permanent markets, 133 semi-permanent markets, and 84 markets with temporary facilities. The market network in the province has developed in recent times. Market infrastructure has been gradually invested in and built with focus in accordance with the province's overall trade development plan. The socialization of market investment has initially changed positively.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
However, according to Mr. Pham Van Hoa, the approach and conversion of market business models are still slow, not meeting the requirements of digital transformation and the needs of the people. Investment resources for market system development are still limited, not meeting the requirements. On the other hand, some markets operate ineffectively or are not highly effective, the infrastructure is degraded, the water supply and drainage system, fire protection system, and environmental sanitation are still weak. There is no provincial wholesale market to organize links with large goods distribution centers of other provinces and cities in the country.
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| Delegate Hoang Lan (Nghi Loc unit) asked a question to the Director of the Department of Industry and Trade. |
Along with that, the state management of the market system is still inadequate, some markets are not very effective. The work of inspection, examination and handling of violations of the law in market management is still limited.
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| Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan - Deputy Director of the Provincial Police Department spoke to clarify the content of the delegates' questions. |
Clarifying the opinions reflecting the high risk of fire and explosion at markets in the province, Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan - Deputy Director of Nghe An Provincial Police expressed his agreement with the opinions of the delegates. According to Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan, the Provincial Police clearly identified that the risk of market fires and house fires combined with production and business is very high. The Provincial Police have focused on many solutions to resolutely direct the prevention of fires. According to Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan, in the past time, the Police force has focused on propaganda, raising awareness, especially for comrades in the market management board; propagating to the people. The Police have trained many times, organized drills on situations of fire risk at markets and how to handle the situation. Since the beginning of the year, there has not been any major market fire causing human losses in Nghe An province. The Deputy Director of the Provincial Police proposed solutions for the coming time: The Department of Industry and Trade needs to advise the Provincial People's Committee to review the markets in the area to find solutions to plan in accordance with the new situation, ensuring the standards set by the Ministry of Construction.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
For the police force, it will coordinate with departments, branches, and functional forces to continue to focus on inspecting and discovering difficulties, obstacles, shortcomings, and limitations in the process of implementing fire prevention and fighting. In addition, it will continue to propose a number of models and procedures on how to handle fires when they occur to effectively apply them in markets in the province.
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| Delegate Nguyen Duy Can (Vinh City unit) questioned. |
Also at the question and answer session this morning, delegate Nguyen Duy Can (Vinh City) raised the current status of market planning and management in the province in the recent past, the shortcomings, limitations, causes and solutions to implement market planning according to the approved provincial planning. Clarifying the content that delegate Nguyen Duy Can was interested in, comrade Vu Tuan Dung - Deputy Director of the Department of Construction said: Markets are an element associated with urban planning in general and the market network in the whole province is associated with the provincial planning.
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| Delegate Vi Van Quy (Quy Hop unit) raised a question. |
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| Delegate Le Thi Kim Chung (Quynh Luu) raised a question. |
In the process of regional planning, general planning of urban development space, and zoning planning of urban areas, the Construction industry always focuses on urban management and urban development space.
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| Director of the Department of Health Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa further clarified the content of the delegate's questions. |
In particular, urban areas all have market planning points for people based on the current status of the existing market system. The current status of locations and locations for market planning in the past and present are locations with commercial advantages. The Deputy Director of the Department of Construction said: "The construction industry hopes that in the near future, after the Government's guidelines to amend Decree 23, there will be clear guidance on the bidding process for traditional markets, especially related to bidding for public assets. From there, localities will be able to overcome difficulties in market planning; at the same time, solving the interests of investors with the interests of society and people in these locations".
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| Provincial Party Secretary, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Thai Thanh Quy delivered a concluding speech at the question and answer session. |
Evaluating the content of the questioning session related to a group of issues in the field of Industry and Trade related to state management of food safety; prevention, control and handling of violations in the transportation and trading of smuggled goods of unknown origin; planning, model conversion, investment in construction, business, exploitation and management of markets in Nghe An province, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Thai Thanh Quy said that the atmosphere of the questioning session was very responsible, exciting and frank. The 16 delegates who raised questions were all clear about the content. Director of the Nghe An Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa, who answered the questions, had a relatively firm grasp of the content and the field of the industry he was in charge of, responsibly answered the issues raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates, and at the same time clearly analyzed the causes and proposed a number of solutions to better perform these tasks in the coming time.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
Concluding this content, comrade Thai Thanh Quy affirmed that the state management of food safety; prevention, control and handling of smuggling and trading of goods of unknown origin; and planning, trading and market management are issues closely related to daily life and people's health. However, this is also a very difficult and quite complicated issue, posing many challenges to the state management of functional agencies and even to each citizen, especially in a province like Nghe An due to its large area, large trade, and uneven living conditions and awareness.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
However, the results of the report at the questioning session showed that, in recent times, the authorities have achieved many results in many fields, including the work of preventing smuggling, fighting against counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, etc., which has been highly appreciated by the Central Committee. However, besides the achieved results, there are still shortcomings and limitations in this field. Specifically, the propaganda work has not created a widespread effect, has not changed the culture of the people in the fight against the trading of counterfeit goods, fake goods, poor quality goods, and goods that do not ensure food hygiene and safety. The work of controlling, inspecting, checking, and preventing this field has not been really drastic. The coordination between provincial agencies and localities to clearly define responsibilities is still lacking, and there is even a situation of shifting responsibility. Approaching, transforming market models and having policy mechanisms from planning, calling for social resources to invest in market areas, especially traditional markets and rural markets, have not been clearly effective.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
Faced with this situation, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Thai Thanh Quy, requested the Provincial People's Committee, relevant departments and localities to pay attention to studying and reviewing the system of legal documents to make recommendations suitable to the specific situation of Nghe An. It is necessary to strengthen propaganda to the people to join the relevant agencies in saying no to dirty food, goods of unknown origin, poor quality goods and counterfeit goods. Continue to promote inspection, control and fight more fiercely against this problem. At the same time, it is necessary to provide the market with clean products and products of guaranteed quality for people to access and use through promoting clean food chains into the market, controlling product quality right from the input, strengthening linkages and stimulating domestic consumption.
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| Provincial People's Council delegates attending the meeting. |
Regarding the planning and management of markets in the province, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Thai Thanh Quy suggested that it is necessary to study and call for the construction of additional wholesale market systems. Along with the concern and call for the construction of new market systems in localities to replace the temporary market system, the Department of Industry and Trade also needs to strengthen the training of knowledge on state management for market management boards; at the same time, strengthen coordination, especially with the provincial Steering Committee 389 and localities to effectively fight against the trading of smuggled goods, goods of unknown origin, goods of poor quality, and goods that are unsafe for food safety./.
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