Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha works with leaders of Long An province

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha speaks at the meeting

Receiving and working with the delegation were Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Nguyen Van Quyet ; Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut; together with leaders of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee and provincial departments, branches and sectors.

At the meeting, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam reported on the production and business situation, national target programs, infrastructure construction and import and export in the province in 2024, and growth target in 2025.

With the solidarity and consensus of the entire political system, in 2024, the province achieved and exceeded 21/21 planned targets. The GRDP economic growth rate reached about 8.3%. People's lives are increasingly improved, with GRDP per capita reaching 107.3 million VND/year, ranking first in the Mekong Delta.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Van Quyet speaks at the meeting

Building on the achieved results, in 2025, Long An set an initial economic growth target of 8.5-9.0% (in line with the growth target assigned by the Government in Resolution No. 25/NQ-CP, assigning Long An to reach 8.7%). In order to prepare and consolidate the fundamental factors, creating a premise for Long An and the whole country to confidently enter a new era , the province strives for an economic growth rate of 10-11%.

Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam reported on the socio-economic development situation of the province.

In the first quarter of 2025, the province achieved some positive results. The industrial production index increased by 11% (increased by 5% in the same period). The number of domestic investment projects was 15, an increase of 8 projects over the same period, with newly registered capital of VND 3,319.2 billion, an increase of VND 1,012.8 billion. The total allocated capital in 2025 was VND 8,710.8 billion; disbursed VND 893.3 billion, reaching 9.26% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.

Regarding the national target program, the capital plan for 2025 was assigned VND227.4 billion. As of March 19, disbursement reached 5.84% of the plan. Total state budget revenue as of March 19 reached VND6,147.6 billion, reaching 25.56% of the central budget estimate. Exports reached USD1.9 billion, up 9.82%; imports USD1.36 billion, up 20.35%.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut proposed and recommended at the meeting

At the meeting, leaders of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, provincial departments, branches and sectors proposed many important contents, especially proposing the Central Government to support capital sources to implement strategic traffic projects and solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles of the province.

Specifically, the province recommends that the Government and relevant ministries and branches promptly allocate capital to speed up the upgrading and expansion of National Highway 62; consider allocating investment capital to upgrade National Highway N2 to a scale of 6 lanes according to the planning for the 2026-2030 period. At the same time, promptly support the implementation of Provincial Road 827E and landslide prevention and control projects.

The province also proposed to issue a special mechanism to completely resolve the Phuong Nam Pulp Mill Project and adjust the planning, creating favorable conditions to attract investment and avoid land waste. It proposed to adjust the scale of the Green Environment Technology Park from 1,760ha to 200ha, applying combustion technology to generate electricity.

In addition, the province proposed to adjust the medium-term public investment capital plan for 2021-2025, the domestic central budget capital source for the province (VND 139.6 billion) so that Long An has a basis to allocate the public investment capital plan for 2025. Allow the extension of the central budget capital in 2024 to 2025 to continue implementing and disbursing 4 projects with a capital of VND 350.5 billion. At the same time, consider supporting the province with VND 9,785.7 billion to invest in the construction of 10 urgent and urgent projects in the province.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha's delegation worked with leaders of Long An province. Concluding the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested that the province continue to closely follow the general direction on organizing and arranging the apparatus; focus on performing tasks, not interrupting work; deploy measures to ensure the progress of disbursing public investment capital according to plan; continue to deploy measures to remove difficulties and obstacles for people and businesses; exploit potential in improving the efficiency of production, business and import-export activities.

Each opinion and recommendation of the province was recorded by the Deputy Prime Minister and directed by the Ministry and branches to have solutions to promptly resolve them in order to promote economic growth as well as successfully implement the targets and tasks for 2025./.

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