Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee has just held a conference to implement the Resolution of the Provincial Party Committee and the Resolution of the Provincial People's Council on the socio-economic development plan in 2023 in the form of direct and online combination.

Kim Thanh - Lao Cai border gate

The year 2023 is particularly important in the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress and the 16th Provincial Party Congress with many heavy tasks and great pressures.

In order to create a foundation to complete the set goals as well as to shape Lao Cai province to become "the growth pole of the Northern Midlands and Mountains", Secretary of the Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee Dang Xuan Phong suggested the following: At all levels, sectors and localities firmly grasp and understand the theme of 2023 to have solutions and plans to implement the highest completion of the assigned socio-economic goals and targets for 2023.

Among the 25 socio-economic development targets in 2023, the Provincial Party Secretary suggested paying attention and striving hard to complete "5 economic targets - 5 social targets".

Regarding economic indicators: The economic growth rate strives for 11%, ensuring the growth rate of over 10% for the whole term; GRDP per capita will reach 103 million VND, so that by 2025, it can reach 126 million VND/person; local budget revenue reached 12,000 billion dong; will gradually increase every year to achieve the target of 15,500 billion dong by 2025; balance regular expenses.

The total investment capital of the whole society reaches VND 53,000 billion and strives to be higher by the end of the 2021 - 2025 period to reach VND 260,000 billion; import and export value through border gates reached 5 billion USD.

Social indicators that need attention are: Poverty reduction rate reaches 4.0%; the number of doctors per ten thousand people is 14 doctors; the rate of undernutrition among children under the age of height above the age of 25.9%; health insurance coverage rate 97%; the percentage of communes meeting the national standards for new rural areas in the last year has been adjusted down to 56.7% compared to the original plan, ensuring more substance.

Facing the advantages and difficulties and challenges of 2023, Comrade Dang Xuan Phong asked agencies, units and localities to pay attention to implement 05 requirements: Solidarity - Discipline - Action - Creativity - development and 5 tasks: Continue to concretize and implement drastically, synchronously and effectively the Resolutions of the Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee; determine the correct, sufficient and total resources for development in the whole year and the remaining time of the term; pay more attention to the task of cultural development in harmony and on a par with economic and social development; strengthen administrative reform and administrative procedures in a substantive manner; improve the efficiency of foreign affairs and international integration.

According to Mr. Dang Xuan Phong, 2023 is a year where a lot of mechanisms and policies will be removed, serving the province's socio-economic development goals. "The most important thing is the policy after Covid-19 is normal. It is expected that on January 1, 2023, the border gate will be fully open. This is a great opportunity, the Provincial People's Committee needs to direct the planning. Plans and scenarios for implementation otherwise will lose the right to take initiative" - Secretary of Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee said.

Mr. Trinh Xuan Truong, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Lao Cai province requested all levels, branches and localities to absorb the directives of the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee to include in the solutions to direct the problem. implementation, specifically here is the Directive of the Provincial People's Committee.

In 2023, Lao Cai province sets out 25 socio-economic development targets and all are at a high level of striving; leading to great pressure on the direction and administration and will be much more difficult and difficult than in 2022. Accordingly, from the beginning of the year and the beginning of the month, all levels, sectors and localities need must urgently step in, seize opportunities, make greater efforts and seriously and effectively implement them to ensure the achievement of the set targets in 2023.