Ninh Binh province delegation works with the Ministry of Information and Communications

Comrade Nguyen Manh Hung, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications , Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Vice Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation and Comrade Doan Minh Huan, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Ninh Binh Provincial Party Committee co-chaired the meeting.

Also attending were Mr. Mai Van Tuat, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Information and Communications; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of Departments and Bureaus under the Ministry of Information and Communications; leaders of a number of relevant departments and branches of the province; representatives of a number of enterprises in the Information and Communications sector.

Ninh Binh province delegation works with the Ministry of Information and Communications — Comrade Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Doan Minh Huan spoke at the meeting.

Speaking at the opening of the working session, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Doan Minh Huan respectfully thanked the Minister and leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications for taking the time to work with the province. Congratulating the Ministry on its important achievements and contributions to the country's development in recent times, he also thanked and appreciated the Ministry's attention, assistance, and active support to help Ninh Binh achieve many important and relatively comprehensive results in all fields.

Emphasizing that the content of the working session is about innovation and attracting investment to make Ninh Binh an innovation center, the province hopes that the Ministry of Information and Communications will continue to pay attention to coordinate, suggest, and help the province solve difficulties and problems in terms of methods, approaches, and implementation organization. The Provincial Party Secretary also said that today's working session is just the beginning to shape the viewpoints, goals, visions, local needs, and the Ministry's ability to support the province, so in the coming time, Ninh Binh hopes to have further working sessions in the locality to specify the issues that have been raised.

Reporting on the socio -economic situation of Ninh Binh province in 2023 and proposing innovative content and investment attraction to make Ninh Binh province an innovation center, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Quang Ngoc affirmed: With the spirit of solidarity, unity, responsibility, courage, focusing on directing new and difficult tasks, persevering with goals, drastic leadership and direction, together with the efforts and high determination of all levels, sectors, business community and people in the province, in 2023, Ninh Binh has achieved relatively comprehensive results in all fields. Completed and exceeded 14/17 planned targets. The economy maintained development, GRDP growth rate ranked 23/63 provinces and cities nationwide; GRDP per capita reached 88.03 million VND. The economic structure shifted strongly towards industry and services. Since 2022, Ninh Binh has become a self-balancing budget province.

Regarding the results of implementing digital government, digital transformation, and the information technology industry, by the end of 2023, Ninh Binh has basically completed the targets and tasks of developing infrastructure and digital platforms. Completed the deployment and stable and effective exploitation of digital platforms and shared information systems, creating a premise to promote the construction and development of digital government and digital transformation. Basically completed the pilot implementation of the district-level digital transformation model, piloted digital transformation at the department and branch levels; 92 communes (reaching a rate of 64.3%) completed digital transformation at the commune level according to the criteria of model version 1.0; 193 digital technology enterprises, 30% of small and medium enterprises used digital platforms.

Sharing the goals, visions, and development directions of the province's sectors and fields in the coming time, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said: Ninh Binh strives to become a fairly developed province by 2030, a growth pole among the southern provinces of the Red River Delta, basically meeting the criteria of a centrally-run city, and by 2035 becoming a centrally-run city with the characteristics of a Millennium Heritage City, a creative city; a large center with high brand value in tourism, cultural industry, and heritage economy of the whole country and the Asia-Pacific region; a leading center of the country in mechanical industry, modern transportation; an innovative startup center of the southern provinces of the Red River Delta. A solid area in terms of national defense and security. Building a strong, clean and comprehensive Party and political system, a developed economy, a prosperous society, and happy people.

To realize the development orientation, Ninh Binh proposes that the Ministry of Information and Communications, central ministries, branches, and the business community share and support Ninh Binh province in building mechanisms, policies, and operating models to become one of the innovation centers; support the development of orientations, strategies, plans, and programs to attract investment focusing on developing fields with high science and technology content, innovation, attracting smart projects to develop industry, culture, health, education, digital infrastructure and quality human resources to develop industries and fields that bring high added value to the province. In addition, the province also wishes to be supported in developing the information technology industry; support the tasks of developing the Information and Communications sector, including human resources, quality of 4G services in the area, technology to control information on social networks, etc.

Speaking at the meeting, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung and delegates congratulated Ninh Binh province on its achievements in recent times, and highly appreciated the province's goals, visions, and aspirations, especially its determination to build the province into a center of innovation.

Analyzing the potentials, advantages as well as the difficulties, challenges and opportunities for Ninh Binh when building an innovation center, the Minister and delegates said that the province needs to be bold and proactive to create breakthroughs. It is necessary to increase the budget for new products and new technologies, create attractive markets to attract digital enterprises, innovative and creative enterprises to invest and seek development opportunities. In addition to paying attention to investing in some fundamental factors, infrastructure and human resources, the important and decisive factor is to have digital leaders to lead the entire development process.

First, Ninh Binh needs to prioritize comprehensive digital transformation in areas that are strengths and development priorities of the province such as tourism, automobile industry, semiconductor industry, high-tech agriculture, etc.

Emphasizing once again the role and significance of green transformation and digital transformation that will create rapid and sustainable development, the Minister of Information and Communications also said that today's working session has opened up major orientations to form an action program and detailed plan to build Ninh Binh into a center of innovation. He also affirmed that the Ministry of Information and Communications will always accompany and stand side by side with the province, ready to share, support and help the province to solve difficulties and problems related to the field of the industry in charge.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Doan Minh Huan sincerely thanked the Minister and delegates for their sharing and comments at the meeting. At the same time, he affirmed that the results of the meeting had helped the provincial leaders, leaders of departments, branches and sectors have new thinking, methods and approaches to build Ninh Binh into a center of innovation. The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also requested the Ministry of Information and Communications to continue to help, research and suggest areas in which the province can attract digital enterprises, innovative and creative enterprises to invest. He wished that the good relationship between Ninh Binh province and the Ministry of Information and Communications would be increasingly tightened and effective for the development of the province and the Ministry, contributing to the development of the whole country.