Mr. Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Mr. Dau Thanh Tung, Provincial Member, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee witnessed the signing ceremony. Attending and witnessing the signing ceremony at the bridgehead of Thanh Hoa city were comrades: Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Head Thanh Tung, Member of Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People’s Committee; representatives of relevant departments. Delegates attended the signing ceremony at the bridgehead of Thanh Hoa city. Cong Thanh 1x600MW coal-fired clean energy project, designed according to supercritical technology to improve power generation efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. According to the cooperation agreement, Trung Nam Electricity Design Institute will arrange for a commercial loan of about 1 billion USD to Cong Thanh Group to implement the project. With this cooperation agreement, the two sides expect that Cong Thanh 1x600MW Coal-fired clean energy project will be a green, clean, advanced thermal power project in harmony with nature; become a bridge for the two sides to cooperate in business, share and develop together. Trung Nam Electricity Design Institute is committed to focusing resources and techniques to implement the Project, meeting the requirements of a thermal power project using supercritical clean technology. Overview of the signing ceremony in Thanh Hoa. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee congratulated Trung Nam Institute of Electricity Design and Cong Thanh Group on reaching capital arrangement agreements, creating an important first step to develop the project. deploying 1x600MW Cong Thanh coal-fired clean energy project. This is one of the important projects for the development of Nghi Son Economic Zone in particular and Thanh Hoa in general. Comrade Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the signing ceremony. Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Lai The Nguyen expressed his hope that the parties would reach further cooperation agreements to soon implement the project in reality. Thanh Hoa will create all the most favorable conditions for the parties to implement the project according to the plan, contributing to the common development.

Overview of the 15th session, the provincial People’s Council term 2016-2021. Attending the conference were the comrades: Trinh Van Chien, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, former Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council; Lai The Nguyen, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Do Minh Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee; Nguyen Dinh Xung, former Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, former Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee; Trinh Tuan Sinh, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; members of the Provincial People’s Council for the 2016-2021 term; leaders of districts, towns and cities. The delegates performed the flag-raising ceremony. Speaking at the opening of the meeting, Comrade Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People’s Council Do Trong Hung emphasized: Since the 14th session, under the leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, the People’s Council, the Provincial People’s Committee has focused on consolidating the organization. The apparatus, urgently implemented drastically and synchronously the Resolution No. 330 / NQ-HDND, dated December 6, 2020 of the Provincial People’s Council on the directions and tasks in 2021, determined to successfully implement the objectives and tasks. crop year 2021 right from the first days, the first month of the year. Comrade Do Trong Hung, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council, Head of the Youth Union delegation of Thanh Hoa province gave the opening speech at the 15th session, the provincial People’s Council term 2016-2021. In the first quarter of 2021, Thanh Hoa province achieved many positive results. Notably, it continued to successfully implement “dual goals”, both actively and drastically preventing epidemics and overcoming difficulties to promote production and business. Accordingly, the economy has grown well, some indicators have increased significantly over the same period. The growth rate of gross product (GRDP) reached 7.11%, lower than the same period last year, but higher than GDP growth of the whole country. Agricultural production continued to develop. Industrial production maintained a fairly good growth rate. Service industries have gradually recovered and developed. In the context of many difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the province soon re-activated tourism activities in the area. Investment promotion activities were promoted; Public investment implementation and disbursement progress was faster than the same period last year and was among the top 10 provinces and cities with the highest disbursement rate in the country. The culture – society has many progressive changes; organized for the people to celebrate spring, welcome the Tan Suu Lunar New Year. National defense – security, social order and safety are guaranteed. Party building work and the political system have been strengthened. The preparation for the election of the XV National Assembly and deputies to the People’s Councils at all levels, for the term 2021-2026 was implemented early, carried out methodically and in accordance with the law. Comrade Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council stated: The 15th session of the Provincial People’s Council, term XVII, had many very important contents. Therefore, delegates of the Provincial People’s Council, delegates attending the meeting should raise their spirit, responsibility, promote their intelligence, focus on careful study of documents, discuss democratically, frankly, actively contribute. There are many quality opinions that make an important contribution to a successful meeting. Mr. Le Duc Thuan, Chief of the Office of the Provincial People’s Council presented a report on the establishment of the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People’s Council on the basis of merging the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Office of the Provincial People’s Council. At the conference, delegates of the provincial People’s Council listened, considered and resolved in the Report of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Council on the establishment of the Office of the National Assembly delegation and the provincial People’s Council on the basis of merging the Office of the National Delegation. Association and Provincial People’s Council Office. Comrade Le Minh Nghia, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of Department of Planning and Investment presented investment related reports. Review and decide on 20 reports of the Provincial People’s Committee, including: 4 related papers on mechanisms and policies to support the development of raw green thorn, in the period of 2021-2023; policies to socialize preschool education until 2033; Regulations on some levels of spending for the election of deputies to the XVth National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026; the percentage of budget revenue sources at all levels for 10 newly established wards in Thanh Hoa city; 5 papers on investment plans and capital allocation, notably resolutions on the first proposed medium-term public investment plan from the State budget for the period 2021 – 2025 managed by the province; assigning detailed plans of reciprocal capital from investment capital sources in the provincial budget balance in 2021, arranged for projects using ODA capital (phase 2); adjusting and supplementing plans for public investment capital in 2020 are allowed to extend implementation and disbursement time to 2021 of projects using provincial budget capital; 7 reports on investment policy in projects, such as: Van Thien Street to Ben En, Khe Chon Bridge and Bridge Roads, Thanh Quan Commune, Nhu Xuan District and electrical infrastructure projects, historical works. chemistry, school, office. Mr. Pham Tien Dung, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment presented the papers on the field of land and mineral resources. The delegates of the Provincial People’s Council also considered other important issues such as: Adjustment of investment policy for group C projects which were decided on investment policy by the Provincial People’s Committee in accordance with the 2014 Law on Public Investment; the list of investment and lending sectors of Thanh Hoa Investment and Development Fund for the period 2021 – 2025; list of works and projects subject to land acquisition, change of land use purpose for rice cultivation, protective forest land and decision on policy of changing forest use purpose by 2021; approving the project to adjust and supplement the approved mineral exploration and exploitation plannings before January 1, 2016 (the second supplementation). Comrade Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Economic – Budget Department of the Provincial People’s Council presented the reports on verification of the submission and draft resolutions. At the meeting, delegates also listened to the Department of Economy – Budget, Legal Department, Department of Culture – Social Affairs of the Provincial People’s Council reporting verification of the submission and draft resolutions. Thanh Hoa e-newspaper will continue to update …