Addressing the event, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang TrungHai highlighted achievements the capital city has recorded over the past ninemonths despite an array of difficulties like climate change, flooding anddrought.
Efforts by all-level Party committees, authorities, businesses and people ofHanoi have been mirrored through a decent growth rate, higher State budgetcollection and investment compared to the same period last year, pricestability and curbed inflation, he said.
Attainments have also been made in such areas associal welfare, culture, education, health care, urban management, new-stylerural area building, national defence, political security, social order andexternal relations, the official noted.
A report presented at the meeting shows that Hanoi’s gross regional domesticproduct (GRDP) in the first three quarters rose by 8.1 percent. With this pace,the city’s yearly target of 8.5 percent could be reached.
The city contributed 146.4 trillion VND (6.4 billion USD) to the State budget,equivalent to 71.5 percent of the estimate and up 16.2 percent year-on-year.Its State budget collection in 2017 is projected at over 207.6 trillion VND(9.1 billion USD), exceeding the target set by the municipal People’s Council by1.4 percent and up 15.8 percent from last year.
The meeting heard that apart from these achievements, there remainedlimitations in the application of high and new technologies in agriculturalproduction, and production-processing-consumption linkages.
Local agro-forestry-fishery products also failed to meet food hygiene andsafety requirements, said Nguyen Van Suu, Standing Vice Chairman of themunicipal People’s Committee, adding that industrial growth tended to slow down.
He pointed out other issues like illegalconstruction and traffic jam, plus wrongdoings in urban, constructioninvestment and land management.
Director of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade Le Hong Thang saiddrastic solutions are needed to deal with difficulties in investment attractionin the remaining three months, especially at industrial parks in Dong Anh, MeLinh and Soc Son districts, and the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park.
The hardest job lies in land clearance, he said, urging the districts tourgently remove difficulties facing businesses.
The delegates agreed to continue improving the local investment climate,removing bottlenecks in production and business and speeding up disbursementwhile raising the efficiency of the use of public investment, fulfilling budgetcollection and spending targets, and intensifying urban planning andmanagement.
Apart from ensuring political security, social order and safety and nationaldefence, and improving the efficiency ofexternal relations, the city will push up administrative reform andanti-corruption fight.-VNA