Restructuring the economy, innovating the growth model, developing Thanh Hoa quickly and sustainably

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivered a speech directing the 20th Congress of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

Speaking at the Congress, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent to the leaders, former leaders of the Party, State and Thanh Hoa province, delegates, distinguished guests and 487 delegates, representing the will and aspirations of more than 240,000 Party members in the entire Party Committee, their respectful greetings, affectionate regards and best wishes and wished the Congress great success.

The Prime Minister emphasized that Thanh Hoa is a land of “spiritual land and talented people”, rich in historical and cultural traditions; the origin of the ancient Vietnamese people with the brilliant Dong Son culture; the birthplace of many heroes and heroes whose names and careers have contributed to glorifying the homeland and the country; and at the same time, it is also a place where a treasure trove of rich and unique tangible and intangible cultural heritage converges. The long history has forged the glorious traditions and good nature of the people here. Thanh Hoa people are industrious, hard-working, studious, hard-working, creative in labor; brave, indomitable in combat, upright, straightforward, loyal, and affectionate; always loving, united, and caring for each other…

During the nation's long resistance wars, the ethnic people of Thanh Hoa province, under the leadership of the Party, together with the people of the whole country, established many glorious feats; contributed human and material resources; were ready to fight and sacrifice in bombs and bullets; and devoted all their efforts to support the front line, including 55,977 martyrs, 43,610 wounded soldiers; 4,634 mothers were awarded the title of Vietnamese Heroic Mother; hundreds of collectives and individuals were awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces, Hero of Labor. It can be said that, throughout the historical periods, generations of Thanh Hoa's children have always known how to sacrifice and are ready to sacrifice for our people and our country.

Scene of the 20th Congress of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The Prime Minister emphasized that, looking back at the 2020-2025 term, Thanh Hoa has achieved very important and quite comprehensive results in most fields, notably in "6 points":

Thanh Hoa Party Committee has led the government, army and people in the province to overcome many difficulties, challenges and complicated issues, especially the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, extreme storms and floods...

Focus on comprehensively implementing Party building and political system building work; seriously, urgently and resolutely arranging the organization and operation of two-level local governments; gradually improving the operational efficiency of the political system, especially grassroots governments.

GDP maintained a high growth rate, with an average growth rate of 2 digits (10.24%), ranking 4th in the country. The economic structure shifted in the right direction, with industry and construction (51%), services (37%) and the proportion of agriculture gradually decreasing. Annual budget revenue was among the top 10 provinces and cities in the country.

Infrastructure is increasingly improved, improving the quality and efficiency of 5 modes of transport, especially highways and inter-provincial connecting roads. Socio-economic infrastructure is focused, investment resources are prioritized, and a number of major key transport projects have been put into operation. Healthcare infrastructure, education infrastructure, and energy infrastructure are increasingly consolidated and enhanced.

The implementation of social security policies and new rural construction is always among the leading groups in the country. The poverty rate has decreased by an average of 1.56% per year (to 0.52% in 2025). 14,780 temporary and dilapidated houses have been eliminated. 99.8% of families with meritorious services have a standard of living equal to or higher than the average of the local people. The lives of people, especially ethnic minorities, mountainous areas, remote and isolated areas have been gradually improved.

Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Doan Anh delivered the opening speech at the 20th Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Congress, term 2025-2030. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

National defense and security have been strengthened, firmly ensuring national sovereignty and border security; the all-people national defense posture, combined with the people's security posture and the solid people's hearts posture, have been increasingly consolidated and strengthened. Foreign relations and international cooperation have been deepened, especially with Laos.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, the Prime Minister acknowledged, highly appreciated and warmly commended the important results that the Party Committee, Government and people of all ethnic groups in Thanh Hoa province have achieved in the past term, contributing to the common achievements of the whole country.

In addition to the achievements, the Prime Minister agreed with and appreciated the comrades' frank recognition of the limitations and weaknesses pointed out in the Political Report, and emphasized three more points:

The leadership capacity and fighting strength of some party organizations and party members have recently revealed many limitations; many cadres who violated discipline must be disciplined, including criminal prosecution. The principle of democratic centralism is sometimes and in some places implemented in a formal manner, not really profound; solidarity but not yet strong. The potential differences, outstanding opportunities, competitive advantages, especially the people with a population of more than 4.3 million people have not been fully exploited; development is high but not sustainable.

The Prime Minister basically agreed with the five lessons learned pointed out by the Congress, and emphasized the following points:

Grasp the situation, closely follow the policies, viewpoints and directions of the Party, regularly and directly by the Politburo, the Secretariat, headed by the General Secretary; from there apply flexibly, appropriately to the practical situation of the locality; respond to policies proactively, promptly, appropriately, flexibly and effectively; especially must maintain courage, creativity, confidence, not be subjective in the face of favorable conditions, but also not be pessimistic in the face of difficulties.

Imbued with the idea of “people are the root” in all activities; because strength comes from the people; must be receptive and listen to the people, must be for the people, must ensure that all policies are directed towards the people and all people enjoy the fruits of innovation, development and activities of Party committees at all levels and state management organizations; strength comes from the people.

Unity plays an important role, deciding success and failure. We must strengthen unity within the Party, among the people, among ethnic groups in the whole province and in the whole society. Uncle Ho once advised to preserve unity and solidarity within the Party as "preserving the apple of one's eye".

During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh - the great teacher of the Vietnamese Revolution, the national liberation hero, the world cultural celebrity of Vietnam, visited Thanh Hoa 4 times and sent many letters of encouragement, greetings, and praise to the army and people of Thanh Hoa province through the periods. During his last visit, in 1961, at the provincial stadium, Uncle Ho led the people and people of Thanh Hoa to sing the song "Solidarity" - expressing his wishes and aspirations for strengthening solidarity within the Party and people of all ethnic groups in Thanh Hoa province.

The Prime Minister emphasized that entering a new development phase, in the context of more difficulties and challenges than opportunities and advantages; the Prime Minister basically agreed and highly agreed with the viewpoints, directions and development goals stated in the Documents submitted to the Congress; at the same time, emphasized the following 5 key tasks:

Firstly, building Thanh Hoa into a "model province" according to President Ho Chi Minh's instructions. Accordingly, we need to focus on thoroughly grasping and effectively implementing the Resolution and Action Program of the 14th National Party Congress and the 20th Provincial Party Congress; urgently and synchronously implementing the recent strategic decisions of the Politburo in key areas. Conduct a preliminary review and assessment of Resolution 58 dated August 5, 2020 of the Politburo on building and developing Thanh Hoa province to 2030 with a vision to 2045; Resolution 37 dated November 13, 2021 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Thanh Hoa province to continue reviewing, adjusting, and building the province's development programs and plans in line with the country's development strategy.

Second, constantly improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization and Party members. During his first visit to Thanh Hoa in 1947, Uncle Ho emphasized: "In my opinion, Thanh Hoa province must become a model province, because it has a large population, large land area, and a lot of wealth, but only lacks management and arrangement." Therefore, the Prime Minister suggested:

We must attach importance to the work of building a streamlined, clean, strong, and comprehensive Party and political system. We must thoroughly grasp, seriously and effectively implement, and flexibly and creatively apply the Party's five principles of operation and five leadership methods, especially the principle of democratic centralism and the principle of solidarity and unity within the Party.

Focus on operating the local government at two levels in a synchronous, smooth and effective manner; drastically transform the state from mainly handling administrative procedures to a creative administration serving the people. Build digital government, digital society, digital citizens. Focus on researching and rearranging the staff and be determined in the "Digital Education for All" movement; strengthen the connection between data centers.

Do a good job in personnel work, considering it the “key of the key” task. Build a team of cadres and party members, especially leaders, with sufficient capacity, prestige, and equal to the task. Arrange cadres in the direction of “selecting the right people, assigning the right jobs, promoting strengths, improving capacity, dedicating oneself and knowing how to sacrifice”.

Tighten discipline, strengthen inspection and supervision work, proactively prevent small violations from accumulating into big shortcomings "early and from afar". Resolutely prevent and fight corruption, waste, and negativity, "not allowing dark areas, gray areas, or areas of private interests".

Third, rapid and sustainable economic development with five breakthroughs:

Restructuring the economy, innovating the development model based on science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; building a green economy, digital economy, circular economy, sharing economy...

Renewing traditional growth drivers of investment, consumption and export with the motto: taking internal resources as fundamental, strategic and decisive, external resources as important and breakthrough. Effectively exploiting natural resources, effectively preventing natural disasters such as storms and floods.

Breakthrough development of 4 dynamic economic centers "Tu Son": Nghi Son, Sam Son, Bim Son, Lam Son, in which research and development of project to propose mechanisms and policies to make these Centers become economic locomotives leading the whole province. Phase 2 of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Complex must be built, in which the management of this complex must be restructured. Nghi Son general port must become a national general port, a regional logistics center, one of the international seaport centers in the North.

Breakthrough in synchronous infrastructure development, especially transport infrastructure and regional connectivity infrastructure; speed up the progress of North-South expressways, coastal roads, West Thanh Hoa-Northwest connecting routes...; especially responsible for site clearance for the North-South high-speed railway; develop digital infrastructure, tourism infrastructure, services...

Breakthrough in innovative thinking and decisive action to unleash resources from thinking, motivation from innovation and strength from the people; thereby looking far and wide, thinking deeply, doing big. Creatively applying science and technology to effectively exploit the potential of the marine economy, space and underground.

The Prime Minister said that General Secretary To Lam gave instructions to successfully organize the 20th Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Congress, in which great importance was attached to focusing on completing the Program of building border schools in the province in the 2026-2027 period with the connection of State resources and construction resources.

Fourth, developing socio-culture and ensuring social security:

- Focus on developing culture and society in sync with economic development; Effectively implement the recent Resolutions 71 and 72 of the Politburo on developing education, training and health. Well implement social security policies, ensure progress and social justice; equal access to education and health. Take care of the material and spiritual life of the people, especially ethnic minorities, remote areas, and the western border areas of the province. Develop a traditional culture rich in identity to become an endogenous strength, a new driving force for development of the province. At the same time, pay attention to developing cultural and entertainment industries.

Fifth, strengthen national defense and security potential and raise the level of foreign affairs, with three basic contents:

Focus on building a strong defense zone; build a national defense posture associated with a people's security posture and especially a solid people's hearts posture, so that each person is a border marker. Implement the motto of ensuring "security, safety and public safety" in all regions of the province; build a drug-free province.

Proactively grasp the situation, ensure "3 no's": do not be passive or surprised in any situation; do not let complications arise right from the grassroots; do not let hot spots form.

Focus on expanding foreign relations, building a peaceful, stable, cooperative and developing border with our brotherly Laos. Especially promoting border gate economy, strengthening regional linkages with our neighbor to expand economic development space.

The Prime Minister stated that one of the important tasks of the Congress is to elect the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the 20th term and elect the Delegation to attend the 14th National Party Congress; he requested the Congress to promote the spirit of democracy, heighten responsibility, and wisely select truly exemplary comrades to build:

The new Party Executive Committee is a collective with unified will, exemplary in leading in solidarity, in innovation and effective action.

For each member of the Executive Committee, it is necessary to focus on setting 3 examples: Setting an example in improving leadership capacity and fighting strength; Setting an example in applying science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; Setting an example in preserving moral qualities and lifestyle; daring to think, daring to do, saying what you do, doing more and talking less.

With the revolutionary cultural tradition of the heroic homeland; with the aspiration to overcome difficulties and rise up of hardworking and creative people; with great potential, strengths and resources; with the breakthrough vision and determination to act of the entire political system in the province; together with the attention, leadership and direction of the Central Government, the consensus, support and backing of the people and the business community, the Prime Minister believes and hopes that Thanh Hoa province will develop strongly, comprehensively and sustainably, becoming one of the growth engines of the whole country; a place: "Gathering elites - Origin of creativity - Creating development - Brightening the future - Realizing aspirations - People are increasingly prosperous and happy".

Once again, the Prime Minister wishes the Congress great success! Wishing the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in Thanh Hoa province to always be united, unanimous, innovative, creative, and join hands to build a model province in all aspects as the beloved President Ho Chi Minh wished, together with the country to develop rapidly and sustainably in the era of prosperity, civilization and happiness, firmly advancing towards socialism.

THANH GIANG

Source: https://nhandan.vn/tai-co-cau-nen-kinh-te-doi-moi-mo-hinh-tang-truong-phat-trien-thanh-hoa-nhanh-va-ben-vung-post915441.html