Opening of the 1st Congress of Thai Nguyen Party Committee

Photo caption — Comrade Trinh Viet Hung, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term, read the opening speech of the Congress. Photo: Vu Hoang Giang/VNA

General Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man sent congratulatory flower baskets.

Also attending the Congress were representatives of Central agencies, Military Region 1 and leaders of provinces and cities; Standing Committee of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, former leaders of Bac Kan and Thai Nguyen provinces through the periods; delegates of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor and more than 440 official delegates representing over 140,000 Party members of the Provincial Party Committee.

The Congress has the theme "Strengthening the building of a clean, strong, and comprehensive Party and political system; ensuring national defense and security; promoting the tradition of solidarity, breakthroughs in rapid, unique, and sustainable development; comprehensively improving people's lives, building Thai Nguyen province into a modern industrial center with high average income before 2030".

Speaking at the Congress, General Phan Van Giang acknowledged and highly appreciated the achievements of the Party Committee, government, army and people of all ethnic groups in Thai Nguyen province in the 2020-2025 term. In the coming time, to achieve the goals and tasks of the 2025-2030 term, the General noted that the Provincial Party Committee needs to have a correct understanding of the general situation and context, clearly identify the potential and advantages of the locality, select key tasks and breakthroughs to focus on leadership and direction, and create new changes in socio-economic development. The Provincial Party Committee needs to pay attention to planning and planning management, clearly identify the role and position of Thai Nguyen in the Northern key economic region, the Hanoi Capital region, and attach importance to regional linkages to create development momentum, affirming its role as the center of the Northern midland and mountainous region.

The General emphasized that the merger of the two old provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan opens up a wide development space, creating a harmonious whole, closely linking the dynamic industrial - urban center with unique ecological and cultural tourism potential. This is a favorable opportunity to build Thai Nguyen to develop rapidly and sustainably, with synchronous infrastructure, soon becoming a modern industrial province.

The province needs to focus on developing high-tech industries with competitive advantages, environmentally friendly, economical use of land and human resources, creating stable revenue for the budget; prioritize attracting key industrial types, supporting industries, electronics, information technology, closely linking local industries with foreign-invested industries to support mutual development. The province continues to restructure the agricultural sector towards increasing added value, sustainable development, maintaining and enhancing the brand "Thai Nguyen tea".

The Provincial Party Committee closely combines economic development with the effective resolution of social issues, constantly improving the material and spiritual life of the people, ensuring national defense, maintaining political security and social order and safety, enhancing the role, quality and effectiveness of the activities of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations in participating in Party building, government building and the great national unity bloc...

According to the Political Report of the Provincial Party Committee presented to the Congress, in the 2020 - 2025 term, Thai Nguyen has achieved important results. The Party Executive Committees of the two provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan and the collective Party Committee of Thai Nguyen province (after the merger) have always been united, made efforts, and strictly implemented the principle of democratic centralism to comprehensively lead and direct Party building work in all aspects of politics, ideology, organization, ethics and cadres. From July 1, 2025, Thai Nguyen province officially operated a 2-level local government model that operated synchronously, smoothly and stably; administrative reform achieved positive results. The province's economic growth reached an average of 7.3%/year, the economic structure shifted in a positive direction. In 2025, the total product (GRDP) in the province reached 202,925 billion VND, 1.6 times higher than in 2020; GRDP per capita reached 119 million VND, 1.5 times higher than in 2020.

The province has established 12 industrial parks and 40 industrial clusters, with an average annual increase in industrial production value of 8%; in 2025, the industrial production value will reach 1,156 trillion VND; the export value will always be among the leading localities in the country; the state budget revenue in 2025 will reach 24,735 billion VND, 1.7 times higher than in 2020. Agricultural and forestry production will shift strongly towards commodities, improving product quality and brand. In 2025, Thai Nguyen province will have 575 OCOP products, of which 10 products will achieve the national 5-star OCOP. National target programs on new rural construction, sustainable poverty reduction and socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas will be focused on and comprehensively directed, with the poverty rate decreasing by an average of 1.41% each year, exceeding the target set by the Resolution....

At the end of the opening session, the Congress announced the Politburo's decisions to appoint members of the Executive Committee, Standing Committee, Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Inspection Committee member, Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the Inspection Committee of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee for the 2025 - 2030 term. Accordingly, the Executive Committee of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, term I, term 2025 - 2030, consists of 65 comrades; the Standing Committee consists of 17 comrades. Mr. Trinh Viet Hung, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee for the 2020 - 2025 term, holds the position of Secretary of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, term 2025 - 2030.