Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a hybrid conference on September 28 with representatives of 26 northern provinces and centrally-run cities to draw lessons from the response to recent Typhoon Yagi and subsequent rains and floods.
Opening the conference, PM Chinh stressed that typhoon Yagi and subsequent rains, floods and landslides left very heavy losses of life and property, and badly affected the health, life and spirit of the people.
He highlighted the swift and coordinated response to the typhoon, noting that immediately after it made landfall, the Politburo, under the direction of Party General Secretary and President To Lam, convened a meeting and issued a directive to guide disaster relief efforts. The Government held several conferences and meetings, while government leaders conducted on-site inspections of affected areas and convened meetings to direct response efforts.
Following a conference on September 15, the Government issued a Resolution on September 17 outlining key tasks and solutions to urgently remedy the disaster consequences, focusing on supporting victims, restoring production and business, propelling economic growth, controlling inflation, and ensuring major economic balances.
He praised Cabinet members, ministers, and local authorities, particularly the military and public security forces, relevant ministries, electricity and telecommunications sectors, for their effective response on-the-ground.
The leader also expressed gratitude to the people for their continuous support, solidarity, and trust in the Party and State during the response to the typhoon.
PM Chinh urged participants to contribute their opinions, identify shortcomings, and draw experiences in the forecasting, prevention and control, response and settlement of consequences of the typhoon.
He also asked delegates to put forth tasks and solutions to soon stabilise the situation, support the people, restore production and business, promote economic growth and well control inflation./.
