On the morning of March 25, in Hanoi, the National Assembly Standing Committee held a national conference summarizing the work of the People's Councils of provinces and centrally run cities in 3 and implementing the work plan. year 2023.
The conference was chaired by members of the Politburo: Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue; Standing member of the Secretariat, Head of the Central Organizing Committee Truong Thi Mai; Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man; Secretary of the City Party Committee, Head of Hanoi's National Assembly Delegation Dinh Tien Dung and Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang. Attending the conference were members of the Party Central Committee; Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee; Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation; Chairman of the People's Council, Chairman of the People's Committee of provinces and centrally run cities; Leaders representing relevant ministries, branches and agencies along with more than 500 delegates from 63 provinces and centrally run cities...
High determination, great effort, drastic action
In his opening speech, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man stated: The activities of the 2021th National Assembly and the People's Council for the 2026 - XNUMX term have gone through more than half of the journey. The National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee have made many innovations and proposed solutions to better perform the function of monitoring and guiding the activities of the People's Council; from perfecting the legal basis to strengthening connection activities between the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, agencies of the National Assembly, agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee and the People's Councils of provinces and cities. city. At the same time, the People's Council also makes many efforts, innovations and creativity in organizing and performing tasks; closely follow the Party's policies and guidelines, and the State's policies and laws; concretized into Resolutions, mechanisms and policies, promptly meeting practical requirements in each locality; making important contributions to the implementation of socio-economic development, defense, security and foreign affairs goals of each locality and the whole country.
According to the Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, at the 2022 Summary Conference, there were 60 recommendations and proposals sent to the National Assembly Standing Committee. To date, agencies of the National Assembly, the Government, and the Party Central Office have considered and responded to 44 recommendations (reaching 73,3%), the remaining recommendations and proposals, agencies continue to research. in the process of perfecting relevant policies and laws. In addition, implement the Project "Continuing to innovate and improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the supervision and guidance of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the activities of the People's Council" of the Committee. Standing Committee of the National Assembly, many activities have been carried out such as: reviewing reports on activities of the People's Council at meetings of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly; Invite representatives of the Standing Committee of the People's Council to participate in the Drafting Committee of draft laws and resolutions, and attend some important contents at National Assembly sessions; Along with the annual organization of the National Summary Conference, it is also an opportunity for the National Assembly Standing Committee to share, create more motivation, and spread the innovation of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee to new opportunities. local elected officials.
In particular, implementing the important direction of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in his concluding speech at the 2022 Summary Conference, the National Assembly Standing Committee has directed specialized agencies to research and submit to the Committee. The National Assembly Standing Committee issued a Resolution guiding the Model Working Regulations of the People's Council; Joint Resolution guiding voter contact activities of People's Councils at all levels. The National Assembly Party Committee has also assigned the Delegates Working Committee to research and advise on the development of a project to innovate the election of National Assembly deputies and People's Council deputies. The National Assembly Standing Committee will discuss and issue it soon to organize implementation.
In addition to the results achieved, through practical monitoring and reports of the People's Councils of provinces and cities, the activities of the People's Councils in some places still have limitations in the quality of meetings; There are no resolute, effective measures, timely and complete implementation of post-monitoring recommendations; Synthesizing and responding to voters' opinions and recommendations in some localities is still slow; The work of directing digital transformation and information technology application has not ensured progress and has not met practical requirements; There are times and places where the coordination between agencies is not really tight, these are problems that need to be determined to overcome.
Emphasizing that 2024 is a year of "acceleration", which is important in implementing the goals of the Resolution of the 2026th Party Congress; Resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels; At the same time, starting work to prepare for Party Congresses at all levels, moving towards the 2031th Party Congress; Preparing for the election of deputies to the 94th National Assembly and People's Council deputies for the XNUMX - XNUMX term, the Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly pointed out that the entire political system must determine the spirit and actions as in the article. by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on the occasion of the XNUMXth anniversary of the Party's founding. That is, in leadership, direction, administration, and implementation, there must be high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, dynamism, creativity, positivity..., promptly removing bottlenecks, problems; Promoting democracy along with maintaining discipline, implementing good coordination in leadership, management and administration; attach importance to quality and practical efficiency; create breakthroughs for development.
The conference is held in 1 day. In order for the Conference to bring practical results, the Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly requested delegates to discuss frankly, with high responsibility, in a constructive spirit, especially with realistic suggestions and recommendations, contributing continuing to innovate and improve the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of the People's Council in 2024 and the term 2021 - 2026; making an important contribution to the successful implementation of the goals of the Resolution of the Party Congresses of provinces and cities and the Resolution of the XNUMXth National Congress of the Party.
Actively innovate, improve quality and operational efficiency
Report summarizing the organization and operations of the People's Councils of provinces and centrally-run cities in 2023, Head of the Delegate Working Committee Nguyen Thi Thanh said that in 2023, despite facing many difficulties, difficult and challenging, but our country has successfully implemented its goals and tasks with quite comprehensive results and many outstanding marks. In that common achievement, there is an important role of elected bodies, the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, agencies of the National Assembly, agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee, and People's Councils at all levels. Actively innovate and improve the quality and efficiency of operations in both legislative work, supervision and decision-making on important national and local issues.
Coordination and maintaining working relationships between central and local agencies have been strengthened; Carefully prepare the contents to successfully organize meetings, including promptly institutionalizing Central Resolutions such as Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies currency to support socio-economic recovery and development programs, Resolution No. 68/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on the 2023 socio-economic development plan, Resolution No. 81/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly Conference on national master planning for the period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050; Participate in the supreme supervision delegations of the National Assembly and local supervision and re-supervision activities.
The agencies have coordinated well in contacting voters, resolving letters, complaints and denunciations from citizens... creating flexibility, openness and more effective use of resources, creating breakthrough, contributing to improving infrastructure, solving social security and environmental issues... Many new operating methods implemented by the People's Council have brought high efficiency and interactivity. , is watched and highly appreciated by voters.
The reason for the achieved results is that the People's Council has thoroughly grasped and seriously implemented the Party's guidelines and policies and the state's laws; At the same time, closely follow the work program and regularly evaluate the results of task implementation; proactively and flexibly solve arising problems; High unity and strict compliance with the principle of democratic centralism in all activities, along with a spirit of responsibility, solidarity, initiative, positivity, and close coordination in organizing and performing the tasks of People's Council delegates , the Committees of the People's Council, the People's Council Delegate Group and relevant agencies and organizations in the local political system, closely following the practical situation, life's requirements, will, thoughts and aspirations. of the People and voters to prepare "early, from afar" the content of activities. At the same time, the initiative, expertise, professionalism, diligence, concentration and thoughtfulness of the team of officials and civil servants advising and serving the activities of the People's Council are increasingly improved.
Besides the achieved results, there are still some difficulties and limitations: The quality of organizing some extraordinary meetings is limited, the allocation of time for verification and discussion is limited, and documents are sent slowly. Research and participation in meeting resolutions is difficult, supervision work in some fields or some content arising between two sessions or in some localities implementing the urban government model, especially Especially, there are no effective measures to effectively implement the recommendations after monitoring. The synthesis of responses to voters' opinions and recommendations in some localities is still slow. The work of directing digital transformation and applying information technology in People's Council activities in many localities is still slow, not very effective, and has not built a connected database system according to the direction of the Standing Committee. Congress.
The cause of the limitation is that the agencies assigned to draft reports, projects, and draft resolutions have not been proactive, and the coordination in survey work and impact assessment between the submitting agency and the verifying agency In some localities, it is not good; Some delegates have not taken the time to fully participate in voter contact activities... The delay in sending documents has not been resolved. In addition, due to the increasing workload, great pressure, many urgent and complicated tasks, high requirements for quality and progress while the majority of People's Council delegates work part-time...
Head of the Delegates' Working Committee said that 2024 is determined to be the year of acceleration and breakthrough in implementing the Resolution of the 5th National Party Congress, Resolutions of Party Congresses of provinces and cities, and Development Plans. socio-economic 2021-year period 2025 - XNUMX, which is important for completing the set goals and plans, in the context of an uncertain and unpredictable world situation. With the motto: Proactive legislation, effective supervision, timely decision-making, breakthrough development, based on the Resolution of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly has issued Resolutions on socio-economic development with great determination. The People's Councils of provinces and cities have also issued resolutions according to law.
Based on the results and lessons learned from the beginning of the term until now, the National Assembly Standing Committee recommends that the People's Councils of provinces and cities need to make greater efforts, have greater responsibility, and take more drastic actions. , promote the spirit of self-reliance, self-reliance, proactive adaptation, flexibility, active innovation and creativity for rapid and sustainable development, well prepare personnel for Party Congresses at all levels; Election of deputies to the 2026th National Assembly and People's Council deputies at all levels for the 2031 - XNUMX term.
Specifically, it is necessary to continue to deeply grasp, seriously comply with, synchronously institutionalize, drastically supervise, effectively and practically implement the Resolution of the 06th National Congress of the Party, 06 Resolutions of the Party Resolutions of the Politburo on socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in 2030 regions until 2045 and vision XNUMX, resolutions of the National Assembly of the Government on socio-economic development, Resolution resolutions of Party Congresses of provinces and cities and legal regulations to ensure synchronization and effective implementation. Pay early attention to strengthening the personnel of the Standing People's Council and the People's Council Committees in some localities, which are currently lacking.
In addition, it is necessary to closely follow the National Assembly's law-making program to guide the activities of the People's Council; fully participate in surveys and monitoring according to programs and plans of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee and National Assembly agencies; Actively and effectively participate in improving institutions and organization of law enforcement in the locality; Implement well the issue of decentralization and decentralization of power to localities, especially for cities that are implementing the urban government model./.
