Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged Party committees, authorities and organizations at all level in northern Bac Ninh province to ensure a happy Tet (Lunar New Year) for all residents, including revolution contributors, disadvantaged and low-income households, and workers.
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| Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (right) visits people of northern Bac Ninh Province on January 24 ahead of Tet.__ Photo: Tri Dung/VNA |
He was speaking while visiting and extending Tet greetings to the Party organization, administration, and people of northern Bac Ninh province on January 24.
Reporting on the province's achievements, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Dao Hong Lan said from a wholly agricultural locality with underdeveloped infrastructure, Bac Ninh had established itself as a modernity-oriented industrialized province that was among the leading localities nationwide in terms of many socio-economic indexes.
It was also one of the best performers in foreign investment attraction, she said, noting that 38 countries and territories have poured USD 21.2 billion in Bac Ninh.
The province had taken strong and flexible moves in response to the COVID-19 pandemic last year to swiftly revitalize production and business activities and adapt to the new normal, Lan added.
Congratulating Bac Ninh on its substantial efforts and achievements, General Secretary Trong requested the province to continue upholding its glorious traditions so as to build an increasingly clean and strong Party organization and political system and become an exemplary Party organization of the entire nation.
He underlined that economic development must be promoted in tandem with cultural and social development, especially the maintenance of local cultural values as well as the country’s advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity.
The leader expressed his belief that the province’s Party organization, administration, and people would stay united to step up reforms while achieving and surpassing the targets set at the 20th provincial Party Congress in order to secure sustainable development.
He also requested the province to continue effectively implementing social security policies and measures to reduce poverty, sustainably ensure social equality; and take care of material and spiritual life of local citizens, particularly revolution contributors, disadvantaged and low-income households, and workers.
The province would need to pay more attention to improving education and training quality and science and technology, keeping social safety and order, strengthening national defense, and promoting corruption and wastefulness prevention and control, he said.
On this occasion, the Party chief and senior officials offered incense at Do Temple, a special national relic site dedicated to eight kings of the Ly Dynasty (1010 - 1225), and met artisans of the Quan họ Bac Ninh folk songs - part of the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.- (VNS/VLLF)
