On the morning of January 26, in Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa province, in the atmosphere of preparing to welcome the Lunar New Year 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the program of leaders of the Party, State, Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Thanh Hoa province and Ngoc Lac district presenting gifts to policy families, poor households, workers and laborers in difficult circumstances in the district.
According to the report of the Provincial People's Committee Thanh Hoa, the whole province has paid preferential allowances in January and February to more than 64,000 people with revolutionary contributions and relatives of people with revolutionary contributions, with a total cost of more than 420 billion VND; paid social allowances in January 2025 to 187,494 subjects and households caring for and nurturing social protection subjects, with a total cost of more than 142 billion VND; cared for, treated, ensured good policies and regimes and organized Tet and Spring activities for more than 2,000 subjects being cared for, nurtured and managed at social assistance facilities, nursing facilities for people with revolutionary contributions, and public drug rehabilitation facilities in the province.
All levels and sectors in the province have arranged the budget and mobilized socialized resources with a total amount of money and goods worth 375.192 billion VND to give to policy families, poor households, and people in difficult circumstances, specifically: arranging 87.292 billion VND from the budget to organize visits and give gifts to policy beneficiaries, poor households, and people in difficult circumstances,... in which: The central budget and the provincial budget arranged 56 billion VND to implement the gift-giving policy for 185,070 people with revolutionary contributions and relatives; arranged 36 billion VND to give longevity gifts to 89,000 elderly people (an increase of 19,953 people and an increase of 5 billion VND compared to the Giap Thin Lunar New Year).
All levels and sectors mobilized from socialized sources 721,808 gifts worth 287.9 billion VND to support, visit and give gifts to policy beneficiaries, poor households and households in difficult circumstances (an increase of 197,047 gifts and more than 58 billion VND compared to 2024); specifically: The Fatherland Front mobilized 260,180 gifts worth 81.8 billion VND; supported the construction of 1,082 "Great Unity" houses worth 60.77 billion VND. Trade unions at all levels mobilized 375,910 gifts worth 170.3 billion VND. The Women's Union, Youth Union, Farmers' Association and Red Cross mobilized 71,762 gifts worth 29 billion VND. The Provincial Buddhist Sangha Executive Committee mobilized 8,298 gifts worth 4 billion VND; The Provincial Catholic Solidarity Committee, parishes and sub-parishes mobilized 5,658 gifts, worth 2.8 billion VND.
Employment situation, salary, Tet bonus of workers in enterprises: the average salary of workers in enterprises in 2024 reached 7.46 million VND/person/month, an increase of 330,000 VND compared to 2023; in which: LLCs with 100% charter capital held by the State averaged 7.9 million VND/person (an increase of 100,000 VND); joint stock companies with State-dominated capital contributions 8.5 million VND/person (an increase of 200,000 VND); private enterprises 7.2 million VND/person (an increase of 200,000 VND); FDI enterprises 7.5 million VND/person (an increase of 400,000 VND). The highest salary is 410 million VND/person at FDI enterprises; the lowest is 3.45 million VND/person at private enterprises and FDI enterprises.
Support for housing construction for poor households, policy households, and households with housing difficulties in the province according to Decision No. 539/QD-TTg dated June 19, 2024 of the Prime Minister and Directive No. 22-CT/TU dated March 30, 2024 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee has been implemented with attention by all levels and sectors. Up to now, the total amount of support received by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at all levels in the province has reached over 282 billion VND; more than 4,200 houses have been built and repaired for poor households, policy households, and households with housing difficulties, contributing to creating a safe and peaceful "home" for people during Tet.
Speaking at the program, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that in 2024, Thanh Hoa province achieved many comprehensive achievements in all aspects such as double-digit economic growth, good budget revenue, and good implementation of social security work. The Prime Minister hopes that the province will continue to promote the spirit of "Heroic Thanh Hoa" to continue solidarity and unity in the Party Committee, government, society, and people; hopes that the previous leaders have a lot of experience, many years of integration, and understanding of the situation of the province in general and of the people to continue to help the following comrades to fulfill their tasks well; each period, the situation is different, but in general, it is still the value of solidarity. Thanh Hoa is a populous province, with all types of terrain, midlands, mountains, borders, seas, and all types of transportation, which is an advantage.
Therefore, it is necessary to further promote the spirit of solidarity, mutual assistance and support; it is necessary to exploit strengths, especially the advantage of population because the most valuable is people, the people are hard-working and diligent, therefore it is necessary to promote the human factor, including promoting the strengths and intelligence of people, how to nurture intelligence to develop from generation to generation; taking care of people, that is the content of progress, fairness, social equality, prosperity, happiness, ensuring social security because Thanh Hoa has ethnic groups, has poor households, so it is necessary to pay attention to this field. Although the province has made efforts to reduce it, the poverty rate is still high, especially in some districts.
The Prime Minister noted that the Secretariat and the Prime Minister have issued a Directive to take care of Tet for the people, so Party committees and authorities at all levels should go deep, closely, down to the grassroots, down to the people to review poor households, single households, households in difficult circumstances, families with meritorious services to the revolution, to see who is lacking food, lacking clothes, lacking Tet to have measures to take care of them, especially in mountainous border districts; pay attention to households lacking rice, food, and being sick. Party committees and authorities also need to pay attention to workers in industrial parks, arrange to visit and encourage workers who are working "3 shifts, 4 shifts", "working through Tet, through holidays" on highways, energy projects... in the province.
The Prime Minister emphasized that 2025 is a year with many important events for the country, and is also the year we are actively implementing Resolution 18-NQ/TW on streamlining the organizational apparatus, so Thanh Hoa province must review in accordance with the direction of the Central Government; quickly arrange and reorganize the apparatus, stabilize the situation, and immediately get to work. The Prime Minister directed the Secretary of the Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee to actively direct this work, not to let the work be interrupted or blocked, especially the work related to people and businesses.
The Prime Minister requested that this year, the whole country is striving to ensure growth of at least over 8%, and in the coming years, double-digit growth must be ensured, so the province must maintain momentum and pace for growth in 2025. Accordingly, the province must renew traditional growth drivers (investment, consumption, export), promote new growth drivers such as digital transformation, innovation, circular economy, knowledge economy, etc., ensuring that growth next year is higher than the previous year. The Prime Minister is confident that Thanh Hoa will be able to do it because it has momentum, spirit, and preparation for the next term of double-digit growth; Thanh Hoa must strive for even higher growth because of its large population, small economic scale, etc.; review the 5-year socio-economic development targets to see which targets have been done well and which targets have not been done well and must be overcome immediately.
The Prime Minister requested the province to prepare well for the organization of Party Congresses at all levels, build policies of the Party Committee and leadership that are close to the situation, suitable, feasible and effective; select the "right" personnel, ensure safety; do not affect the targets. Organize well the important anniversaries of the country, which is an opportunity to educate the tradition of patriotism and national pride for cadres, Party members and people. Especially, organize well the event to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Party. Communist Party of Vietnam to review the heroic tradition, thereby consolidating the leadership role of the Party to be more worthy of the stature of the nation and the development of the country. Organize well the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South, the reunification of the country to see the heroic tradition of the nation; the whole country has focused on this victory with the spirit of "all for the frontline", "all for the South", including Thanh Hoa province; thereby educating the young generation to participate in contributing and dedicating to the construction of the homeland, especially the key national projects in the province. Organize well the event to celebrate the 135th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the 80th anniversary of National Day practically and effectively...
The Prime Minister directed the Party Committee, government, army and people of Thanh Hoa province to be determined, have common ideology, be united internally, have high determination, make greater efforts, act more resolutely, complete each task, do not spread out; invest in each project; study the investment in Thanh Hoa expressway (from Nghi Son port) connecting with Hoa Binh and Son La. Respect the role of the growth engine of Nghi Son Economic Zone because of large budget revenue, from there must be determined to expand phase 2 of the economic zone, therefore the Prime Minister hopes the province will focus on doing, said is done, committed must be implemented because phase 1 has been formed with good infrastructure. Promote the role of Tho Xuan airport, study the construction of Sao Vang airport urban area...
The Prime Minister requested the provincial Party Committees and authorities at all levels to actively eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses; promote the spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance, and resolutely complete this work by 2025, so that no one has to live in temporary or dilapidated houses. Actively build housing for workers and low-income people because "only when there is a stable home can there be a stable career". Therefore, the province must pay attention to this work and quickly implement the plan to build housing for workers, especially in industrial parks.
The Prime Minister wished the Party Committee, government, army and people of Thanh Hoa province to achieve higher socio-economic development results in 2025 than in 2024; hoping that Thanh Hoa will develop strongly and become one of the growth engines of the North.
On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented gifts to representatives of policy households and poor households in Ngoc Lac district.
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