Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu delivered the opening speech of the meeting.

Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Le Truong Luu; Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Quang Tuan; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Thi Ai Van chaired the meeting. Also attending the meeting were Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Pham Duc Tien; Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Phuong.

Building a medium-term public investment plan

Speaking at the opening of the session, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu emphasized: The session was held in the spirit of companionship, sharing responsibility and proactive coordination between the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee in implementing legal regulations and political tasks in the locality; promptly removing difficulties and obstacles in the management of the Provincial People's Committee, promoting the socio-economic development of the province, striving to complete the goals and tasks of 2024.

Among many contents considered by the Provincial People's Council, notably, the Provincial People's Council gave its opinion on the proposed medium-term public investment plan for the period 2026 - 2030. Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee has developed a proposed medium-term public investment plan for the period 2026 - 2030 to submit to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and opinion with a total amount of VND 36,359.375 billion to implement 248 projects (DA) and other programs and tasks as prescribed. Specifically, the central budget is expected to be VND 20,581.688 billion to implement 46 DA; the local budget is expected to be VND 15,777.707 billion. The list of works and projects is arranged in order of priority, such as capital for payment of completed volume, budget refund, completed and put into use projects, capital for implementing planning tasks, capital for investment preparation, capital for new construction, etc.

Through the review, the Economic - Budget Committee found that the Provincial People's Committee's plan for the medium-term public investment for the period 2026 - 2030 is consistent with the local situation; at the same time, it believes that the expected additional capital from the central budget allocated to the province to implement key projects, serving the socio-economic development tasks of the province is necessary and consistent with the investment needs for the period 2026 - 2030.

Regarding the supplement to the 2024 public investment capital plan, the Economic - Budget Committee believes that the Provincial People's Committee's submission to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and comments on the supplement to the 2024 public investment capital plan of VND 19.6 billion from the central budget to implement the Nguyen Hoang Road and Huong River overpass project is in line with reality. This is a key project of the province, the construction progress ensures the set plan. The Provincial People's Council also approved the plan to use excess lottery revenue and relic visit fee revenue in 2023 with a total amount of VND 107.2 billion.

Delegates attending the meeting

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Provincial People's Council a capital plan for 2024 of VND 92.4 billion to implement 3 projects: Preservation, restoration and rehabilitation of King Tu Duc's tomb (remaining part) of VND 7.4 billion; preservation, restoration and embellishment of the Hue Citadel system - relic restoration and rehabilitation component of VND 22.3 billion; restoration, restoration and embellishment of Can Chanh Palace relic of VND 62.7 billion. Through examination, the Economic - Budget Committee found that the above 3 projects have been added to the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025, ensuring sufficient conditions for assigning the capital plan for 2024 for implementation.

The Provincial People's Council also considered and approved the investment policy for the project of Restoration and adaptation of Dien Thoai Thanh in the Complex of King Gia Long's Tomb Relics; adjusted the investment policy for the project of Dang Tran Con High School (phase 1); adjusted the investment policy for the project of Improving health services in Thua Thien Hue province; adjusted the investment policy for the project of Conservation, restoration and embellishment of Hue Citadel relics; gave opinions on adjusting the investment policy for the project "Program for developing type II urban areas (green urban areas)" - Thua Thien Hue sub-project.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu presented flowers to congratulate Ms. Nguyen Thi Ai Van

Putting resolutions into practice early

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Council considered and approved many other resolutions on supplementing the state budget capital investment plan in 2024, the source of increased revenue, saving regular expenditures of the Central budget in 2023; stipulating the content and level of support to encourage people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to participate in literacy training under the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the province, period 2021-2030; approving the adjustment of the Housing Development Program of Thua Thien Hue province to 2030; approving the project of the Construction Zoning Planning Task (scale 1/2000) of the Resort combined with golf course and ancillary services in Dien Hoa commune, Phong Dien district;...

In his closing speech, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu said that the meeting had passed 23 important resolutions with high consensus from the delegates attending. To successfully implement the resolutions passed by the Provincial People's Council, Mr. Le Truong Luu requested the Provincial People's Committee to promptly issue an implementation plan, ensuring that the resolutions come to life; direct departments, branches and localities to seriously and effectively implement the issued mechanisms and regulations. Committees of the Provincial People's Council and delegates of the Provincial People's Council, according to their functions and tasks, shall supervise the implementation.

Also at the meeting, Mr. Le Truong Luu informed about the progress of building a centrally-run city; at the same time, praised the efforts of departments, branches and sectors in recent times.

Within the framework of the session, the Provincial People's Council considered dismissing Ms. Nguyen Thi Ai Van, member of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairwoman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, from the position of Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council for the 2021-2026 term due to her transfer to a new position.

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