Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the meeting in HCM City on September 23. (Photo: VNA) At a working session with him during his working visit there, the StandingBoard of the municipal Party Committee reported on the implementation outcomesof the resolutions adopted at the 13th National Party Congress and the 11thmunicipal Party Congress.
It proactively issued a resolution for the recovery period as soon as HCM Cityhad basically brought the COVID-19 pandemic under control. Its Standing Boardalso ordered the issuance of a local socio-economic recovery and developmentprogramme for 2022 - 2025.
As a result, the city posted economic growth of 3.82% in the first half of2022, a rate expected to reach 9.71% in the first nine months. It has enjoyedfair growth in foreign trade, strong recovery in trading, services, andtourism, and 2.91 billion USD in FDI attraction so far. Encouraging outcomeshave also been recorded in cultural and social affairs, health care, education- training, science - technology, COVID-19 response, defence - security ensuring,and foreign relations.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong greets HCM City officials at the meeting on September 23. (Photo: VNA) Theleader once again expressed his sympathies with the people of the city and thewhole region over the huge and unprecedented losses caused by the COVID-19pandemic.
He demanded full and proper awareness of the city’s potential, outstandingadvantages, and its particularly important position and role in the nationalreform, development, and defence, as well as in the development of thesoutheastern region.
To successfully make strategic breakthroughs and tackle bottlenecks in terms ofregulations, infrastructure, and human resources, the leader pointed out thenecessity to further promote economic restructuring in combination with growthmodel reform, and enhance the city’s capacity and the quality ofinstitutionalising and implementing the Party’s guidelines and the State’s lawsin a way appropriate to the local situation and conditions.
The city should prioritise the creation ofstronger breakthroughs in its urban infrastructure and the building of ahigh-capacity public transport system, as well as improve the current transportsituation and work out more fundamental solutions to deal with problems onenvironment, climate change and rising sea level, he stressed.
An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA) At the meeting, he also asked HCM City to improve local residents' spirituallife, resolutely prevent and eradicate social vices and crimes, reduce trafficaccidents, ensure due attention to defence - security safeguarding, stay readyto respond to any circumstances, and capitalise on the combined strength of theentire political system and the great national solidarity.
The local Party Organisation needs to unceasingly reform and enhance itsleadership and combatant strength, properly carry out the Party building andrectification, and build a truly incorruptible and strong political system, theGeneral Secretary said, demanding it to take this as a key task decisive to thesuccess of other fields.
He emphasised the importance of further strengthening the Party andadministration’s ties with the people, relying on the people to build the Partyand political system, and using the people’s satisfaction as the measurement ofall-level Party committees and administrations’ performance.
The leader expressed his belief that the Party Organisation, administration,and people of HCM City will further cement solidarity, make stronger reforms,and live up to its role as the biggest development driver for the southeasternregion and the country./.
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