NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - A national conference reviewing theperformance of the People’s Councils of provinces and centrally-run citiesnationwide in 2023 and launching 2024 tasks wrapped up in Hanoi on March 25.
In his closing speech, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said after one day of sitting, the event fulfilled all its set agenda. He requested collecting all feedback at the event to submit to the NA Standing Committee for consideration.
The top legislator asked the People's Councils to continue to closely follow the leadership of the Party Committees and their standing boards and strengthen the implementation of functions of local people-elected bodies according to the provisions of law to best fulfil their tasks in 2024.
According to Permanent Vice Chairman of the NA Tran Thanh Man, over more than half of the 2021-2026 tenure, the NA and its StandingCommittee have carried out a number of reforms and devised measures forbetter supervising and directing activities of the People’sCouncils from perfecting the legal foundation to increasingactivities that connect the NA, its Standing Committee, and their agencies withthe provincial-level People’s Councils.
The People's Councils have also exerted efforts toboost reforms and creativity during the performance of tasks. Closely followingthe Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, they have issuedresolutions, mechanisms, and policies meeting demand in their localities,thereby substantially contributing to the realisation of local and nationalsocio-economic development, defence, security, and external affairs targets, hecontinued.
The organisation of the annual conference was anoccasion for the NA and its Standing Committee to enhance the momentum forreform at local people-elected bodies, Man added.
However, the official also pointed out severalshortcomings, elaborating that the quality of meetings of some People’sCouncils remains limited. Some have yet to take strong or effective enoughmeasures for fully handling post-supervision opinions.
The settlement and reply to voters’ opinions andpetitions are still slow in some provinces and cities. Besides, some people'scouncils haven’t released digital transformation and IT application directionson schedule while agencies’ coordination is still lax./.
