Ho Chi Minh City People's Council opens 17th session, discusses many important issues

TPO - According to Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council Nguyen Thi Le, the session will conduct supervision and questioning of the Director of the Department of Information and Communications, Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Tan District and carry out personnel work.

On the morning of July 15, the People's Council of Ho Chi Minh City opened the 17th session (regular session in mid-2024), discussing and giving opinions on many important contents. The session is scheduled to take place from July 15 to 17.

Speaking at the opening of the session, Ms. Nguyen Thi Le - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council said that the City People's Council will review, comment and decide on important contents.

In particular, focusing on objectively and comprehensively assessing the economic - cultural - social and national defense and security situation in the first 6 months of 2024, directions and tasks for the last 6 months of 2024. At the same time, delegates will focus on discussing and considering the adoption of resolutions related to the economic, urban, cultural - social, educational fields... in the area.

Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council Nguyen Thi Le delivered the opening speech of the session. Photo: Ngo Tung

The meeting will also conduct direct supervision through questioning according to regulations on Director of the Department of Information and Communications Lam Dinh Thang and Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Tan District Nguyen Minh Nhut. The meeting will also carry out personnel work.

This session reviews and gives opinions on adjusting budget revenue and expenditure targets in the 5-year financial plan for the period 2021 - 2025; the list of land acquisition projects for socio-economic development for national and public interests; regulations on revenue items and collection levels, revenue and expenditure management mechanisms for services serving and supporting educational activities of public educational institutions from the 2024 - 2025 school year; the Sustainable Poverty Reduction Program for the 2021 - 2025 period; regulations on tuition fees for public preschool and general education from the 2024 - 2025 school year and the following school years...

Assessing the socio-economic situation in the first half of 2024, Ms. Nguyen Thi Le said that although the world situation continues to develop in a complicated and unpredictable manner, affecting socio-economic development, the city's policies and implementation solutions have created changes and achieved some positive results.

Accordingly, the gross regional domestic product (GRDP) in the first 6 months is estimated to increase by 6.46% over the same period in 2023, the number of newly established enterprises is estimated to increase by 9.6% in quantity; state budget revenue reached 54.77% of the yearly estimate, up 16.02% over the same period; the job creation rate increased by 2.44%, the new job creation rate increased by 1.55%...

Delegates of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council attend the meeting. Photo: Ngo Tung

Along with that, key works and projects have had many positive movements, legal problems have been focused on finding ways to resolve to implement the first steps, bringing encouraging results such as starting the construction of urban railway line No. 2, the project to renovate Tham Luong - Ben Cat canal - Nuoc Len canal; construction during Tet of key traffic works such as the investment project to build Ring Road 3; An Phu traffic intersection; upgrading and expanding National Highway 50; underpass at Nguyen Van Linh - Nguyen Huu Tho intersection; road connecting Tran Quoc Hoan - Cong Hoa.

These projects will move to a new phase. “That is the phase of synchronous construction of all construction packages, speeding up disbursement and construction progress to soon complete works to serve the people,” Ms. Le emphasized.

Despite achieving many important results, it is forecasted that in the last 6 months of 2024, the city will continue to face many difficulties and challenges that require focusing on removing obstacles, bottlenecks, and obstacles to promote growth.

The Chairman of the People's Council of Ho Chi Minh City requested the delegates to focus on studying and discussing carefully to have quality contributions and solutions for each content that Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen directed at the Conference of the City Party Executive Committee in mid-June, along with new legal documents passed by the National Assembly,... in order to open up many new opportunities, creating momentum to promote socio-economic development in the last months of the year and many years to come.

Ngo Tung

Source: https://tienphong.vn/hdnd-tphcm-khai-mac-ky-hop-thu-17-ban-nhieu-van-de-quan-trong-post1655003.tpo