Government's delegation works with Bac Ninh and Lang Son provinces

Participants attend the conference at Bac Ninh’s venue.

Mrs.  Nguyen Huong Giang, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Ngo Tan Phuong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, branches and sectors attended the conference at Bac Ninh’s venue.

At the conference, leaders of Bac Ninh and Lang Son provinces reported the situation of production and business, public investment, infrastructure construction, and import-export in the provinces in the first 2 months of 2024.

At the conference, Chairwoman Giang said that Bac Ninh has received the support from ministries and branches in solving the province’s difficulties and problems in the province, especially policy problems.

In the first 2 months of the year, the socio-economic development situation still faced many difficulties, but total state budget revenue in the province increased by 11.4% over the same period last year; total retail sales of goods and services revenue increased by 4.8%; cultural and tourism activities have prospered; tourism revenue increased by 33.7%; imports increased by 1.1%... However, the industrial production index decreased by 14.9% over the same period; the labor utilization index of the entire industrial sector decreased by 3.1%; export turnover decreased by 10.7%.

Bac Ninh focused on directing the deployment and disbursement of public investment capital right from the beginning of the year; continued to assign tasks to inspect, urge, remove difficulties and obstacles, and promote disbursement of public investment capital in 2023 and following years. By February 19, the whole province had disbursed VND 317 billion, reaching a rate of 8.1% of the capital allocated by the People's Committees at the three levels of province, district, and commune in detail to each project.

At the conference, ministries and sectors exchanged and clarified the recommendations and proposals of the two localities, contributing to effectively implementing the tasks of managing socio-economic development in the area.

Concluding the conference, Minister Dao Hong Lan acknowledged and highly appreciated the outstanding achievements of Bac Ninh and Lang Son provinces on the socio-economic development in the first months of 2024. she asked that ministries and sectors continue to pay attention and consider responding to and resolving local requests as quickly as possible, thereby establishing the best conditions for localities to achieve socio-economic growth.