(AG Provincial E-Portal) - On the afternoon of October 23, Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung chaired a working session with Chau Doc City People's Committee to orient and remove difficulties and obstacles of the locality in implementing the socio-economic tasks in 2024 and directions, tasks in 2025.
Also attending were Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Le Van Phuoc; Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of Chau Doc City Party Committee Lam Quang Thi; representatives of leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors; Chau Doc City Party Standing Committee, People's Committee, leaders of departments, branches and localities of Chau Doc city.
Reporting at the meeting, Permanent Vice Chairman of Chau Doc City People's Committee Tran Quoc Tuan said that in the first 9 months of 2024, Chau Doc city's socio-economic situation has developed positively; many key projects and works received investment attention from the Central and the province. Visitors coming to the city have been over 5 million (an increase of 3.26% over the same period). Total local budget revenue has obtained over VND 639 billion (an increase of 8.58% over the same period in 2023).
In addition, the cultural and social sectors, especially education and training, and health care have made much progress; social security work has been well implemented and the target on no more poor households has been maintained. Chau Doc City has successfully organized the provincial-level events on Ba Chua Xu Festival of Sam Mountain in 2024 and the 10th anniversary of the festival on being recognized as a National Heritage; commemorating the 195th anniversary of the death of the famous General Thoai Ngoc Hau (1829 - 2024)... Political security, social order and safety, traffic safety have been ensured; the border has been stable, the cooperative and friendly relationship with Boray Chulsa district (Kingdom of Cambodia) is maintained... contributing significantly to the city's socio-economic development.
Regarding the organization of activities to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Vinh Te Canal completion (1824 - 2024), the locality is coordinating with departments and branches to urgently implement to ensure the event taken place successfully.
At the meeting, leaders of provincial departments, branches, and sectors, the city departments and sectors focused their intelligence, discussed and gave opinions on the results, causes, and shortcomings in socio-economic development in the past 9 months, key tasks for the last 3 months of 2024, orientations for 2025, especially goals and solutions for local tourism development; urban planning, land use planning in the coming time...
Speaking at the Conference, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts and achievements of Chau Doc city in the last 9 months with many targets achieved and exceeded compared to the same period, especially tourism targets and local budget revenue, contributing to the socio-economic development of the province. In particular, Chau Doc city is the first locality in the province achieving no poor households; political security, social order and safety are maintained.
In order for Chau Doc to soon become a class I city, Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung requested the City People's Committee to continue advising the the City Party Standing Committee to effectively implement Resolution 02- NQ/TU of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on building and developing Chau Doc city until 2025, with a vision to 2030; proactively advising the the City Party Standing Committee to develop a socio-economic development plan in conjunction with local and provincial planning. Strictly and effectively implementing the province's directives, resolutions and plans on socio-economic development of the province and city.
“The city must focus on completing the socio-economic development targets and tasks in 2024, review to complete the targets of the 2020 - 2025 term. For existing problems and limitations, it is necessary to quickly overcome them. Regarding the socio-economic development orientation of Chau Doc in the coming time, it is necessary to closely follow the planning of the province and locality, exploit the available potentials and advantages, especially develop spiritual tourism. It should strengthen the State management of tourism, especially the management of the tourism environment. At the same time, socio-economic development must be associated with environmental protection” - Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung noted.
Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested Chau Doc City People's Committee to fully prepare the contents to submit to UNESCO for recognition of Ba Chua Xu Festival on Sam Mountain as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; Review local planning work; continue to propose to the province on infrastructure development investment; Strengthen investment promotion and attraction; Promote administrative reform, improve the investment and business environment to create the best conditions for people and businesses; Implement well the State management of land and urban order, not allowing violations to occur; Pay attention to the fields of culture, education, and health; Continue to fight against all types of crimes, especially smuggling crimes; Implement well the work of ethnic and religious affairs; the coordination of organizing activities to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Vinh Te Canal completion (1824 - 2024)./.
News by Thu Thao
Translation by Thi Huynh