General Secretary: Building the new An Giang province into a national marine economic center

After listening to the report and opinions exchanged at the working session, General Secretary To Lam pointed out that although they are adjacent to each other and both belong to the key southwestern region of the Mekong Delta, the connection between Kien Giang and An Giang provinces is still loose, not fully exploiting their complementary potential and comparative advantages.

General Secretary To Lam speaks at the meeting

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According to the General Secretary, the connectivity in planning development space, attracting investment, developing raw material areas, tourism and services is not commensurate with potential and expectations, limiting market scale, reducing the effectiveness of investment attraction, wasting resources, and making it difficult to create development breakthroughs.

The General Secretary emphasized that the combination of An Giang and Kien Giang will create a development axis of "mountains - plains - borders - islands", integrating border economy and marine economy.

This merger will open up opportunities to restructure the regional infrastructure system, forming more closely linked value chains from production, processing, logistics and export; creating conditions for the formation of new key economic zones, attracting strategic investment, enhancing internal strength and competitiveness for the entire Southwest region.

The General Secretary stated that from now until the completion of the merger, the two provinces need to strengthen close coordination in leadership and management of common tasks with the spirit of "one province - one vision - one action - one belief", absolutely avoiding the mentality of "my province - your province" which causes division and stagnation.

The General Secretary noted that all plans need to be developed in detail, with many different scenarios in mind to ensure that when the merger is officially completed, all activities of the new province will take place smoothly, seamlessly, and without interruption at any stage.

The General Secretary emphasized that it is necessary to effectively and systematically reorganize the government apparatus according to the two-level model: province - commune; there needs to be a flexible administrative organization mechanism for special areas such as Phu Quoc, Tho Chu, Kien Hai special zones, suitable to specific development requirements, especially in the context of moving towards building special economic, tourism, defense - security, and foreign affairs zones.

During the reorganization process, the General Secretary noted that the selection and assignment of cadres must be based on standards of quality, capacity, qualifications, courage, sense of responsibility and trust among the people; it is necessary to review, assess the impact and implement reasonable support policies for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers affected by the reorganization process; strictly manage records, assets, headquarters, budget, ensure transparent handover, avoid loss and waste...

General Secretary To Lam works with the Standing Committee of Kien Giang Provincial Party Committee and the Standing Committee of An Giang Provincial Party Committee

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Personnel arrangement should avoid locality.

The General Secretary pointed out that after the merger, the most important task is to unify ideology, build consensus, promote revolutionary traditions and aspirations of both provinces.

The new An Giang province needs to clearly define its vision of becoming a dynamic, comprehensive and sustainable development center of the Mekong Delta region, playing a strategic role in connecting sea - border, urban - rural areas, services - production - tourism.

In particular, aiming to become a national marine economic center, in which Phu Quoc is an international-class eco-tourism resort center, while the quadrilateral area of Long Xuyen - Chau Doc - Rach Gia - Ha Tien will be the driving force for industrial, logistics and cultural development of the whole region, contributing to reshaping the role of the new An Giang in the national economic structure and regional value chain.

The General Secretary also stated that one of the urgent requirements for the new province after the merger is to strongly shift to a development model based on knowledge, technology and high-quality human resources.

The personnel work of the new provincial party congress after the merger must be carefully prepared, in accordance with principles, procedures, democracy, impartiality, and objectivity, ensuring the building of a new provincial Party Committee and government leadership team with quality, courage, solidarity, vision, and modern management capacity.

Personnel arrangement and assignment must be harmonious between regions, avoiding localism or group interests. Personnel must truly be the center of reform, the leader of innovation, have prestige, a spirit of service and dare to take responsibility before the Party, the State and the people.

According to the plan approved by the Party Central Committee at the 11th Central Conference, the two provinces of An Giang and Kien Giang will merge into a new An Giang province, with the administrative center located in Kien Giang province. According to the plan to merge the two provinces, An Giang province after the merger will have 102 grassroots administrative units (including: 85 communes, 14 wards, 3 special zones).