Long An strives to fulfill socio-economic development target in 2021 at highest level

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut speaks at the conference

In the past 9 months, despite facing many difficulties due to the Covid-19 epidemic, with the determination and efforts of all levels, sectors, people and business community in the province, the socio-economic development situation in the province has achieved certain results.

In 2021, the Provincial People's Committee forecasts that 15 out of 21 targets will be met or exceeded. In particular, the outstanding production of food, high-quality rice, the number of communes meeting new-style rural standards, etc. The targets were not met the standard, mainly due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The General Statistics Office forecasts that the province's economic growth in the last 6 months of 2021 will only increase by 1.65 percent, leading to the economic growth rate of the whole year 2021 reaching only about 3.72 percent compared to 2020. In terms of finance, budget, by September 17, 2021, the total state budget revenue in the province reached more than 13,000 billion VND, reaching 87.01 percent of the central estimate, 84.7percent of the estimate assigned by the provincial People's Council.

The industry - construction sector faced many difficulties due to complicated developments of the epidemic. From mid-July, most businesses and projects had to suspend operations, for businesses operating under the "3-on-site" measure, only 10 - 50 percent of businesses operating compared to the normal.

In terms of culture and society, in the first nine months of 2021, the health sector focused on the Covid-19 prevention and control. Other socio-cultural activities are almost suspended, the welfare work was focused on implementation.

At the conference, representatives of a number of localities, departments, departments and branches of information, answered a number of problems and difficulties and proposed and recommended some solutions to organize the implementation of socio-economic tasks in the remaining 3 months of 2021.

Addressing the conference, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut asked the units to strive to disburse 100 percent of the public investment plan in 2021, in case of failure, the head of the unit must take responsibility before the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

Heads of departments and branches, chairpersons of People's Committees of districts, town and city continue to effectively implement "dual goals", both drastically and effectively preventing and controlling epidemics, protecting people's health and speeding up socio-economic development; strive to achieve the highest socio-economic development target in 2021, strive for an economic growth rate of 4-5 percent, etc.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut requested that departments, committees, branches and localities absolutely not be negligent and subjective in epidemic prevention and control, make complete statistics and actively develop Covid-19 vaccination plans for shot 2 according to the schedule.

In addition, the economic fields, the sectors need to closely monitor the epidemic situation on crops and livestock, strengthen the exploitation of sources to achieve the maximum results and pay attention to the consumption of agricultural products. He suggested that sectors actively promote investment via online channels, creating conditions for infrastructure appraisal for infrastructure investors to receive and attract investment. Focus on removing difficulties for businesses, developing specific plans for disbursement of public investment capital for each specific project, removing difficulties in ground clearance for implementing the project.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that all levels, branches and localities strive to collect the State budget in the spirit of achieving and exceeding the targets assigned by their upper level. Revenues from land are assigned to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to review, make statistics and report to the Provincial People's Committee. He asked to pay attention to teaching and learning, returning schools to serve teaching and learning. The povince organizes effective implementation, support the right people in accordance with the Government's Resolution 68.

In addition, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed departments, branches and localities to thoroughly grasp the spirit of cadres, civil servants, public employees and employees, with a reasonable division of work. They are proactive in handling face-to-face and online applications. He emphasized that administrative reform is very important, especially the current work is very much, so he suggested that the units actively develop plans and concretize tasks in the last months of 2021 in the spirit of solving all work, not work enough time./.

By Thanh My – Translated by Duc Tam

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