Hung Yen Provincial People's Council holds the 2025 Mid-Year Regular Session

Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Tran Quoc Toan delivers the opening speech

In his opening speech, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Tran Quoc Toan emphasized that the 28th Session of the Provincial People's Council took place in a special context: in just a few days, from July 1, 2025, Hung Yen province, together with Thai Binh province, will officially reorganize provincial-level administrative units according to the Resolution of the National Assembly. Also from this time, the two-level local government model (provincial and communal levels) will be officially established and put into operation, replacing the current three-level government model. In the context of this historic transition, the requirement is to ensure institutional stability and smoothness in administrative management, avoid legal gaps, policy disruptions, resource disruptions or inadequacies in serving the people and businesses. The role of the Provincial People's Council is becoming more and more important, with the responsibility of shaping the legal framework for the transition period, preparing the necessary conditions for the new provincial government to operate stably and effectively immediately after the merger. Therefore, the 28th Session is not only an annual session as prescribed by law, but also a pivotal session - playing a particularly important role in establishing the legal, administrative and organizational basis to prepare for the new provincial government to continue to develop stably, inherit and operate effectively. At this session, the Provincial People's Council will discuss, consider and decide on important contents. The Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested that the Provincial People's Council’s delegates to promote the highest sense of responsibility to voters, focus on studying documents, discussing democratically, frankly, objectively and constructively, contributing profound, quality and practical opinions.

Next, Ms. Tran Thi Tuyet Huong, Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council, on behalf of the Standing members of the Provincial People's Council, presented a Report summarizing voters' opinions and recommendations before the 2025 mid-year regular meeting of the Provincial People's Council.

At the meeting, on behalf of the Provincial People's Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Le Huy presented a Report on the implementation of the socio-economic development plan; state budget revenue and expenditure; public investment capital plan for the first 6 months of the year and key tasks and solutions for the last 6 months of 2025 and a draft Resolution on continuing to boost the implementation of socio-economic development tasks for the last 6 months of 2025;

Delegates attend the meeting

Accordingly, in the first 6 months of 2025, in the context of the world and domestic situation having many rapid, complicated and unpredictable changes, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee have focused on leadership, direction, and drastic improvement of the investment and business environment, promoted transformation, along with the efforts of the business community and the consensus of the people, the socio-economic situation of the province continued to maintain stable growth, maintained major balances and achieved quite comprehensive results in most areas. Regarding the economy: The economy continued to maintain a good recovery and growth momentum. The total product in the province (GRDP) increased by 9%. The industrial production index increased by 9.9%. The production value of the following sectors: industry and construction increased by 10.67% (of which the industrial production value rose by 9.65%; the construction production value increased by 22.78%); trade and services increased by 6.61%; agriculture, forestry and fishery rose by 2.39%. Regarding conomic structure: Industry and construction accounted for 64.08%; trade and services accounted for 22.24%; agriculture and fishery accounted for 7.43%. Total retail sales of goods and services reached VND 55,420 billion, gaining 48.2% of the plan, up 5.58% over the same period last year. Total social development investment capital reached VND 37,782 billion, attaining 47.9% of the plan, up 18.5% over the same period. The estimated implementation in the first 6 months of the year, total state budget revenue reached VND 37,022.6 billion, reaching 82.41% of the assigned estimate, the highest ever. Total state budget expenditure is estimated at VND 14,282 billion. Regarding society: The sex ratio at birth reached 119 boys/100 girls; creating new jobs for 126,000 workers; the rate of people participating in health insurance is 94%; the rate of working-age people participating in social insurance is 48%; the rate of communes recognized as meeting national health standards is 85.61%; the rate of poor households is 0.44%. Regarding the environment and urban areas: The rate of hazardous waste collected and treated is estimated at 100%; the rate of urban solid waste collected and treated is estimated at 100%; the urbanization rate is estimated at about 48.2%; the rate of rural population using clean water is 100%; 118/118 communes meet advanced new-style rural standards, 57/118 communes meet model new-style rural standards. Regarding administrative reform: In 2024, the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) entered the Top 10 nationwide for the first time (up 2 ranks, up 1.09 points compared to 2023); the province's administrative reform index (PAR INDEX) increased by 12 levels, ranking 14/63 provinces and cities; the SIPAS index ranked 8/63 provinces and cities; the PAPI index ranked 19/63 provinces and cities.

Also at the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Provincial People's Council the following reports, proposals and draft resolutions: the Plan to supplement the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025 of Hung Yen province from unallocated reserve funds; allocate additional public investment plan for 2025 from provincial budget capital managed (phase 3); assign additional medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025; allocate capital for 2025 (phase 2) from provincial budget capital managed to implement the National Target Program on new-style rural development in Hung Yen province; supplement a number of articles of Resolution No. 301/2022/NQ-HDND dated December 8, 2022 of the Provincial People's Council promulgating the Regulations on principles, criteria and norms for allocating regular expenditure estimates of the local budget of Hung Yen province for the period 2023-2025 and Resolution No. 302/2022/NQ-HDND dated December 8, 2022 of the Provincial People's Council promulgating the Regulations on decentralization of revenue sources, expenditure tasks and percentage (%) of revenue sharing among budget levels of Hung Yen province for the period 2023-2025; assign revenue and expenditure estimates of the commune-level budget after the rearrangement of commune-level administrative units of Hung Yen province in 2025; approve the change of land use purpose for rice cultivation in the province; approve the list of projects requiring additional land acquisition in 2025; adjust the assignment of public service payrolls in public service units of the province in 2025; adjust the allocation of civil servants and contract workers to support and serve in administrative agencies and organizations after restructuring the system of inspection agencies; approve the public investment policy for a number of works and projects in the province.

Next, the representative of the Economic - Budgetary Affairs Board presented the Report on the review of the implementation of the economic – budgetary development tasks in the first 6 months of 2025 and the goals, tasks and solutions for the last 6 months of 2025; Report on the review of reports, submissions and draft Resolutions of the Provincial People's Committee submitted at the Session. The representative of the Cultural - Social Affairs Board and the Provincial People's Council presented the Report on the review of the implementation of the cultural - social development tasks in the first 6 months of 2025, the key tasks and solutions for the last 6 months of 2025; Report on the review of reports, submissions and draft Resolutions of the Provincial People's Committee submitted at the Session. The Legal Affairs Board of the Provincial People's Council presented the Report on the review of the implementation of the law and judicial activities, national defense and security, and government building in the first 6 months of the year, the tasks and solutions for the last 6 months of 2025; Report on the review of reports, submissions and draft resolutions submitted by the Provincial People's Committee at the Session.

Next, the Chief Justice of the Provincial People's Court Le Van Tuan presented the Report on the trial work in the first 6 months of 2025, the direction and tasks for the last 6 months of 2025.

Under the direction of Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Tran Quoc Toan, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council highly agreed with the reports, submissions and draft resolutions submitted at the Session.

Next, the Session voted to dismiss the members of the Provincial People's Committee, term 17, period 2021-2026, for Colonel To Thanh Quyet, former member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Chief of the Provincial Military Command; Colonel Nguyen Thanh Truong, former member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Director of the Provincial Police; Mr. Vu Van Kien, former Director of the Department of Home Affairs due to being transferred, appointed, and assigned to other tasks. Also at the Session, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council voted to elect additional members of the Provincial People's Committee, term 17, period 2021-2026, for Mr. Dao Hong Van, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Director of the Department of Home Affairs.

The Standing members of the Provincial People's Council present flowers to congratulate Mr. Vu Van Kien and Nguyen Thanh Truong

The Session proceeded to vote to pass the Resolutions submitted at the Session, the delegates of the Provincial People's Council attending the meeting reached a high consensus, voting to pass 20 thematic Resolutions and 04 Resolutions on personnel work.

In his closing speech at the Session, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Tran Quoc Toan requested the Provincial People's Committee to promptly organize the implementation of the resolutions passed by the Provincial People's Council, ensuring efficiency, on schedule and in accordance with the requirements of the transition to the new administrative unit. The implementation process needs to be placed within the overall political tasks of the province, linked to the progress of organizational arrangement, ensuring that there is no policy delay or confusion in management and administration, especially in localities with major changes in administrative boundaries. It is recommended that specialized agencies and localities proactively review tasks, clearly define the specific responsibilities of each unit, each level, each sector; develop a roadmap, progress and implementation plan suitable to practical conditions. The Boards of the Provincial People's Council and the delegates of the Provincial People's Council continue to promote their supervisory role, proactively monitor, urge and inspect the implementation of the resolutions of the Provincial People's Council, ensuring that each issued resolution is seriously and substantially carried out, with clear results in practice. At the same time, it is necessary to receive feedback from the grassroots to promptly adjust and remove obstacles in the implementation process, contributing to maintaining political stability, social order and promoting local socio-economic development in the transition period and after the new administrative unit officially operates from July 1, 2025.

The work tasks from now until the end of 2025 are very large, in the immediate future, the People's Councils at the provincial and communal levels need to focus on preparing and organizing well the first session of the People's Councils in the administrative units after the arrangement, bringing the 02-level local government of the new Hung Yen province into synchronous, unified, effective and efficient operation right from the first days of i the new organizational model implementation, from July 1, 2025. To timely promulgate Working Regulations, Coordination Regulations, and Action Plans of the People's Council in the last months of 2025, ensuring the maintenance of order and quality of supervision, resolutions, and voter contact activities in the context of many changes in the locality and organizational apparatus. To strengthen close coordination with the People's Committees at the same level in reviewing, adjusting, and completing socio-economic development, defense and security targets and tasks according to the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress; carefully prepare the necessary conditions to develop personnel plans and organize the election of People's Council’s deputies at all levels for the 2026-2031 term in accordance with the Central's guidance timeline. With a proactive, decisive and responsible spirit, the People's Councils at all levels need to promote their central role in organizing, leading and supervising the transfer process, making an important contribution to building a stable and effective local government that meets the expectations of voters and the people.