Gia Lai (VNA) - The first Gia Lai provincial Party Congress for the 2025–2030 term opened on October 3, drawing 449 delegates representing more than 147,000 Party members from 139 local Party organisations.
Addressing the event, Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information, Education, and Mass Mobilisation, highlighted the historic merger of Gia Lai and Binh Dinh provinces on July 1, saying that it has created a larger, more competitive political, administrative, and economic entity, primed to skyrocket growth and plug into global and domestic value chains.
To realise the vision of transforming Gia Lai into a relatively developed province and a key growth engine for the central and Central Highlands regions, he called for continued efforts to build a clean and strong Party and political system. Equally critical, he noted, was the need to ensure the effective, efficient, and seamless operation of the two-tier local administration model to serve citizens and businesses better.
Attention should be paid to maintaining national defence and security, political stability, social safety and order, while resolutely countering “peaceful evolution” and “subversive” plots by hostile and opportunistic forces, he said.
At the Congress, Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Bui Thi Quynh Van announced the Politburo’s decision appointing 60 members to the provincial Party Committee and 18 to its standing board for the 2025–2030 term.
Sen. Lieut. Gen Thai Dai Ngoc, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, was appointed as Secretary of the provincial Party Committee for the new term.
Later in the afternoon, delegates turned to group discussions on the Congress’s documents and draft documents for the 14th National Party Congress./.
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