The session was co-chaired by Mr. Luong Ngoc Binh, Member of the Central Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council, and members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Council.

Present at the session were provincial leaders; representatives of agencies and unions at provincial levels, leaders of districts and city together with deputies of the 16th Provincial People’s Council.

Chairman of the provincial People’s Council made a speech at the opening ceremony of the 6th session

Addressing the opening ceremony, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council Luong Ngoc Binh stressed that the 6th session would focus on discussing and deciding a wide range of major issues of the province. In order to achieve good results, Chairman Binh asked that deputies need to raise their role and responsibility, uphold the democracy, contribute the qualified ideas and take practical measures in accordance with the province’s socio-economic situation, contributing to successfully implementing the socio-economic development plan for 2013.

Deputies should focus on dealing with difficulties and challenges to improve the quality and efficiency of production and business activities; strengthen management on cultural - social affairs, consolidate national defence and security, maintain social safety and order; make full use of all resources and bring into play internal force to fulfill the targets and tasks set by the provincial People’s Council, Chairman added.

The Provincial People’s Committee, departments and branches, localities and units should closely coordinate and take effective measures to timely consider and solve the voters’ petitions, the deputies’ questions and issues that the people concerned, said Mr Binh.

In the first working day, the Provincial People’s Council will hear nine reports and seven statements on evaluating the implementation of socio-economic development tasks in 2012; the plan for socio-economic development in 2013; operation results of the provincial People’s Council, People’s Court and People’s Procuracy; implementation of State budget estimate of the province in 2012 and the plan for State budget estimate in 2013; ideas and petitions of the people before the 6th session; the 4th session outcomes of the 13th National Assembly; the investigation reports made by the Departments of the Provincial People’s Council.

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