Dien Bien develops towards green, smart and sustainable economy

On the morning of October 15, the 15th Congress of the Dien Bien Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030, opened with the theme: "Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee; promoting the strength of great national unity; promoting socio-economic development; ensuring national defense and security, expanding foreign relations; making Dien Bien a province developing towards a green, smart, sustainable economy, striving to develop quite well in the region". Attending the Congress were 358 outstanding delegates, representing more than 49,000 party members of the entire Dien Bien Provincial Party Committee.

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Photo caption — The Presidium of the 15th Congress of the Dien Bien Provincial Party Committee, term 2025 - 2030. Photo: Xuan Tu/VNA

General Secretary To Lam sent a flower basket to congratulate the Congress.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council attended and directed the Congress. Also attending the Congress were representatives of leaders of central and local departments, ministries, branches, and organizations; leaders and former leaders of Dien Bien province through the periods.

Effectively exploiting potentials and advantages, promoting socio-economic development

The Congress listened to the Political Report of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, term XIV, 2020-2025, presented to the 15th Provincial Party Congress, term 2025-2030; Report reviewing the leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, term XIV, 2020-2025...

During the past term, the Party building work in terms of politics, ideology and ethics was paid attention to and achieved many positive results, especially in educating the heroic tradition of "Dien Bien Phu". The Party's leadership method for the political system has many innovations, especially the establishment of Steering Committees by the Provincial Party Standing Committee to directly lead and direct the entire political system to carry out many important tasks of the province. The Party building work in terms of organization, apparatus and cadres has achieved many important results, basically meeting the requirements of the tasks; synchronously arranging and streamlining the apparatus of agencies and organizations under the province, building a 2-level local government to ensure smooth, effective, efficient and effective operations, in accordance with the requirements of the Central Government and in accordance with the local reality.

The Party's inspection, supervision and disciplinary work has been implemented synchronously, comprehensively and effectively. Mass mobilization work has had many innovations, promoting its role and effectiveness, especially in mobilizing and propagating in ethnic minority and religious areas and some key projects. The effectiveness of government management and administration, administrative reform and digital transformation has been improved. The Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have innovated their activities, focusing on the grassroots level, promoting the role of supervision and social criticism, contributing to strengthening the solidarity of ethnic groups.

During the past term, Dien Bien province's economy maintained an impressive average GRDP growth rate of 8.76% per year (exceeding the target set by the Resolution); GRDP per capita reached 54 million VND, an increase of more than 60% compared to 2020; State budget revenue in the province also exceeded 2,000 billion VND.

The most prominent highlight of the term was social security work, demonstrating the spirit of “no one is left behind”. The province has completed supporting the construction of over 22,300 Great Solidarity houses for poor households; the number of poor households has decreased to 17.66%.

The last term was also the period when Dien Bien made a strong mark in the field of tourism and services. The biggest success was the successful organization of the 70th Anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory and the National Tourism Year - Dien Bien 2024. In 5 years, the province attracted 5.5 million visitors, earning over 9,400 billion VND in revenue, affirming the position of tourism as a key economic sector.

Regarding infrastructure, the province has completed many key projects, creating the premise for a new development phase. The completion of the Dien Bien Airport expansion project has improved the capacity of traffic connections with the regions. The province has also brought the national grid to remote areas, with 96% of households using electricity, and more than 94% of communes having car roads to the center, ensuring infrastructure for synchronous and sustainable development...

Developing towards a green, smart and sustainable economy

On behalf of the Politburo, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang congratulated and commended the achievements of the Party Committee, government, armed forces and people of all ethnic groups in Dien Bien province during the past term. He affirmed that our country is entering a new era, an era of national development and growth. The great achievements over 40 years of innovation, construction and development of the country have further affirmed the talented leadership role of our Party, the patriotism and invincible solidarity of our people.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang agreed with and highly appreciated the Political Report, the Review Report of the Provincial Party Committee and the documents submitted by the Provincial Party Committee of the 14th tenure to the Congress. The documents were carefully, scientifically and thoroughly prepared, demonstrating a sense of responsibility, being comprehensive, objective, and having a true assessment, being highly constructive and combative...

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang assessed that the task of building Dien Bien province into a province that develops in the direction of green, smart, sustainable economy, striving to develop well in the region, is a consistent goal and has a very important meaning. To achieve this goal, Dien Bien province needs to have specific, synchronous tasks and solutions, and requires the entire Party Committee and people in the province to have high efforts and determination.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang emphasized a number of key tasks for the Congress to discuss, reach high consensus and effectively implement in the coming time:

Firstly, focus on mobilizing investment resources to quickly complete the socio-economic infrastructure system, especially the connecting highway system, to remove the "bottleneck of the bottleneck" for the development of Dien Bien province and the entire Northwest region in recent years; focus on developing economic space according to the model of 4 dynamic axes - 3 economic regions - 4 growth poles according to the planning; strengthen international connectivity to exploit the economic potential of border gates, especially A Pa Chai border gate; focus on upgrading and building infrastructure to ensure effective response to climate change and the impact of natural disasters and extreme weather...

Second, establish a new growth model for the province associated with three important pillars: Ecological and high-tech agriculture associated with processing industry; cultural, historical and ecological tourism; cross-border border gate economy. In particular, the province needs to focus on improving the quality, efficiency and sustainable development of agriculture and forestry on the basis of promoting the application of scientific and technological advances, digital transformation in production, processing and consumption of products; perfecting mechanisms and policies and enhancing the province's competitiveness, creating a favorable environment to attract investment, especially strategic investors...

Third, preserve and promote the unique cultural values of the ethnic groups in Dien Bien province, considering this as an endogenous resource and an important driving force for sustainable development. The province needs to step up the construction of a healthy cultural environment, arouse the pride, self-reliance, solidarity, humanity and aspiration of the people of Dien Bien; link cultural preservation with tourism development; thoroughly grasp the viewpoint: development must be associated with caring for the lives and happiness of the people, to continue to do well the work of "repaying gratitude", taking care of policies for people with meritorious services, vulnerable groups; effectively implement multidimensional poverty reduction programs, sustainable poverty reduction, narrowing regional disparities...

Fourth, continue to strengthen national defense and security; build defense zones, build all-people national defense, people's security posture and link it with a solid people's hearts posture; maintain political stability, ensure a peaceful, stable and safe environment for cooperation and socio-economic development; closely combine socio-economic development with strengthening and enhancing national defense and security potential in border areas...

Fifth, improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of party organizations and party members; continue to promote the implementation of the Central Resolution and Conclusion on Party building and rectification and the political system; continue to perfect the streamlined organizational apparatus, operate effectively, efficiently and effectively according to the 2-level local government model, close to the people, close to the grassroots, creative, serving development; soon perfect the team of commune and ward-level cadres, especially professional cadres...

Regarding the important task of the Congress, which is to elect the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the 15th term, 2025-2030, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang requested delegates to uphold their spirit and responsibility, promote democracy, impartiality and objectivity, and wisely select comrades who meet the standards and conditions to be elected to the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the 15th term; in the spirit of succession, pay attention to female cadres, young cadres, ethnic minority cadres, science and technology cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, gather the strength of great solidarity of the Party Committee and people of all ethnic groups in the province; select comrades who meet the standards, are typical and worthy to be elected as delegates to the 14th National Congress of the Party; spend time discussing and contributing opinions to the draft documents to be submitted to the 14th National Congress of the Party, as a basis for the Politburo and the Secretariat to direct the study, absorb and perfect the draft documents.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang believes that the Party Committee, the government, the armed forces and the people of all ethnic groups in the province will overcome all difficulties and challenges, create new miracles, and make Dien Bien a fairly developed province in the Northwest region, affirming its increasingly high position on the national development map. That is the journey for people to trust and love the Party more, to pay attention to the Party and the people's hearts together, so that each person of Dien Bien can be more proud of the heroic land, rich in revolutionary traditions, which is now transforming strongly, breaking out of the "lowland" of development, creating a bright, prosperous future with the whole country entering the era of prosperity and strength of the nation.

According to the program, in the afternoon session on October 15, delegates will discuss in the Delegate Groups.

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