​The leading unit in the Southern Key Economic Region

In the past term, in the context of many difficulties and challenges, but with the spirit of solidarity and determination to overcome difficulties, Binh Duong Party Committee continued to promote the spirit of inheritance and innovation, selected correct key and breakthrough issues to promulgate 12 action programs to implement resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Congress, Resolution of the 12^th National Party Congress, of which there are 04 Breakthrough action program. Up to now, the Provincial Party Committee has led, directed and organized successful implementation of the term objectives and promptly and effectively resolved many new problems that have arisen in practice, creating many outstanding marks, affirming the correctness of the goals and development orientation of Binh Duong. In field of economics, the province continues to maintain its position as one of the leading units in the Southern key economic region and the whole country, continue to maintain the high growth rate of 9.35% / year; competitiveness, potentials and economic scale have been significantly improved, GRDP by 2020 is 1.7 times higher than 2015, GRDP per capita reaches 155.7 million VND, higher than the average rate of the Southeast and 2.5 times higher than the national average. The economic structure continues to shift towards modernity, industry - service - agriculture -  taxes minus any subsidies on products, respectively: 66,53% - 22,78% - 2,51% - 8,18%. State budget revenue reached and exceeded both the revenue and growth rate, with an average annual increase of 11.2%, it is expected by the end of 2020, the total budget revenue will be 62,200 billion, increase up 1.7 times compared to 2015. By 2019, 100% of communes will reach new rural standards, complete the plan one year in advance. Currently, Binh Duong is considered by the Central to be one of the leading localities with many successes in the cause of industrialization, modernization and urbanization; continues to make important contributions to the Southern key economic region and the whole country.

Urban infrastructure is synchronously invested

Urban infrastructure is focused on drastic and synchronous implementation between existing urban improvement, new urban construction and implementation of smart urban development strategy, with multiple sources of capital and investment forms.  Urban space is increasingly expanding, with the urbanization rate increasing from 31.6% in 2010 to 82% in 2020.

The Provincial Party Committee continues to implement the policy of "Giving best conditions to call for investment" and "Giving best benefits to invite talents", but with innovative, drastic and appropriate measures and ways which is in accordance with the new situation to mobilize maximum resources to participate in implementing development goals of the province. Up to now, the total social investment capital accounts for 35% of the GRDP; the total number of domestic enterprises registered for business reached 45,500 enterprises, with a total registered capital of about 400,000 billion VND (increase up 2.5 times of the number of enterprises and 2.9 times of capital compared to 2015); The total number of foreign investment projects reached 3,865 projects, with a total registered capital of 34.9 billion USD (increase 1.5 times of the number of projects and 1.6 times of capital compared to 2015).

 Expansion of international cooperation

In the term 2015-2020, Binh Duong has strengthened foreign relations, focused on renewing development models, making breakthroughs in attracting investment, creating new growth engines through cooperation and implementation of Binh Duong Smart City Project. Smart city strategies achieved positive results with Binh Duong officially becoming a member of the world Technopolis Association (WTA) and the intelligent Community Forum (ICF); For 02 consecutive years, it was honored as one of the 21 cities and regions with the world's typical smart city development strategy; at the same time, it was selected as the host of the international event Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (in 2018-2019). In 2019, Binh Duong continues to create a new outstanding remark when organizing the announcement of construction of Binh Duong New City World Trade Center and become a member of the Association of World Trade Centers. Those events have contributed to elevating Binh Duong to a new position, opening opportunities for extensive international cooperation, promoting commercial development and attracting more and more effective investment.

Binh Duong is constantly expanding international cooperation relations

Party Construction and Reorganization

Party Construction and Reorganization, political system construction as received special attention, creating many positive changes. The organizational arrangement of the political system is streamlined, operating effectively and efficiently, associated with the reduction in personnel with good results. Up to now, 14 focal points have been consolidated, merged, and dissolved at the provincial and district levels; implementing the schedule to convert 07 revenue-earning units into joint stock companies; completing the arrangement and placement of cadres, civil servants and part-time activists at commune, district and hamlet levels in accordance with the current regulations; pilot implementation of 05 models of concurrent titles at the provincial and district levels; streamlining 10% of the personnel compared to the 2015 target. Solidarity, unity, and synchronous coordination among the party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have been strengthened; the strength of national unity is strengthened.

In general, Binh Duong today has had rapid and fairly steady development, which is the result of a process of continuous and persistent efforts over many terms. These great achievements are firstly thanks to the leadership and close direction of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, and the Government; the coordination, support and facilitation of ministries, departments, branches and mass organizations at the central level and provinces and cities; especially the spirit of solidarity and unity within the Party and high consensus in society; is the wise, comprehensive, focused, correct, timely and effective leadership of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee through the periods; is the will of self-reliance, aspiration to improve, with the spirit of initiative, creativity, responsibility and continuous striving of the entire political system, all classes of people and the community of businesses  in the province.

Solidarity, unity, and synchronous coordination among the party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have been strengthened; the strength of great national unity is strengthened.

Belief consolidation among people

Binh Duong is the 6^th of 63 provinces and cities which is populous with a lot of pressure because the mechanical population increase rapidly every year and accounts for more than 53.5% of the province's population. Facing this situation, the Provincial Party Committee has focused on leading to better solving the relationship between economic growth and social progress and equity in each step and each development policy, combining quite well between economic policies with social policy. The province has mobilized most of its resources to focus on investment in the development of education and health and well solving social problems. In particular, there have been many policies to mobilize resources to invest in social housing development, housing for workers, up to now it has attracted 86 projects, about 200 hectares land area and 3.9 million m2 of construction floor. Social security and welfare are increasingly expanded and improved, ensuring that all people are cared for; fully and fairly enjoy the achievements from economic development. The quality of life for all classes of people has been improved. The work of poverty reduction has achieved important achievements. In 2017, Binh Duong was recognized as the first province in the country that there is no poor household according to the central standards; the poverty rate according to the provincial standards is below 1%.

Mr. Tran Thanh Liem (the fourth from the right) - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee presents gifts to poor households in Tet holiday

Society and politics are stable; Political security, social safety and order are always maintained, not to be passive, unexpected in all situations. In particular, the province has had many innovative solutions with high efficiency in ensuring security and order. So far, 08 Police stations have been built and put into operation in industrial zones; 515 teams of assault workers and 44 self-defense units in enterprises; established and deployed force part-time 113 in 09 districts, towns and cities; continue to promote the effectiveness of more than 200 models and movements among the people to ensure political security and social order and safety.

​There were Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet - Former member of the Politburo, former President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Mr. Vo Van Thuong - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Commission; members of the Party Central Committee, leaders of Party building committees, ministries, branches and central mass organizations attending the meeting.

Mr. Vo Van Thuong - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Commission and leaders of Binh Duong province toured display area of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee Secretary's photos through the periods

From Binh Duong province, there were Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; leaders, former leaders of the province, leaders of units, localities and 349 official delegates representing more than 48,500 party members in the entire provincial Party.

The congress performed the flag-raising ceremony

On behalf of the Presidium, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Mr. Tran Van Nam delivered a speech to open the Congress. The speech emphasized that over the past time, despite the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic; Binh Duong Provincial Party Executive Committee has focused on leading and directing the successful congress organization of 579 Party cells, grassroots Party Committee and 14 Party committees at higher levels throughout the province. Along with the process of preparing and organizing the Congress, the Party committees, authorities, Fatherland Front and socio-political unions throughout the province have drastically and effectively implemented the "dual task" to both prevent and control Covid-19 epidemics, ensuring the health and life of people and recover and develop the economy with synchronous policies and solutions. With that determination, Binh Duong overcame difficulties and challenges, took advantage of opportunities for economic recovery, continued to maintain stability and promote socio-economic development.

Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation presents the opening speech of Congress

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized that the Congress is responsible for summarizing the implementation of Resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Congress, term 2015-2020, correctly, honestly, objectively, comprehensively evaluated and concluded results of performing tasks on the fields; find out strengths, weaknesses, causes, especially subjective causes and draw lessons learned in leadership and direction; at the same time, properly assess the potentials and strengths of the province to determine the directions, objectives, tasks and solutions for the next term to be close to the actual situation, with feasibility to effectively organize the implementation .

The Congress also has a very important task that is to elect the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the term 2020 - 2025 and elect the Delegation to attend the 13^th National Party Congress. The requirement of the Congress is that each delegate must promote democracy, justice, objectivity and seriousness, promote his or her responsibility to the Party Committee and the people, choose the comrades who truly represent the ethical dignity, intellectual, qualified with a reasonable structure, meeting the requirements of leading and directing the development of province in the next 5 years, to be elected to the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee, term 2020 - 2025; at the same time, elect a delegation of representative comrades representing the Provincial Party Committee, capable of actively contributing to the success of the 13^th National Party Congress.

The 11^th Binh Duong Provincial Party Congress is the Congress of "Solidarity - Democracy - Discipline - Innovation - Development" , which will mark a turning point to bring the province become a new development period: faster, more comprehensive, more sustainable. The success of this congress is great significance to the development of Binh Duong Party Committee from now to 2025 and the following years. Therefore, the Congress will do its best; bring into full play the collective wisdom, sense of responsibility and solidarity, and high unity, all for the good success of the Congress.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presents the political report at the Congress

Presenting the Political Report at the Congress, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that to implement resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Committee Congress, the Provincial Party Committee issued many chapters, plan to lead and organize implementation in each specific period. In particular, the province has identified and focused on implementing 04 key and breakthrough tasks in the fields of economy, culture, society, creating the foundation and driving force to fulfill the objectives and development tasks to develop socio-economic in a sustainable direction, ensure the harmony between economic growth with cultural and human development, solve social problems, protect environmental resources and national defense and security. Up to now, the province has achieved and exceeded 16/18 development indicators of the whole term (of which, there are 06 indicators exceeding the set resolution) and 02 remaining indicators nearly reached the set plan.

Specifically, the gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) increased on average 9.35% / year (Resolution: 8.3% / year). Economic structure (GRDP) in 2020 is industry - service - agriculture -taxes minus any subsidies on products, respectively, reaching 66.53% - 22.78% - 2.51% - 8.18% (Resolution: 63,2% - 26% - 3% - 7,8% ). Per capita GRDP will reach 155.7 million VND by 2020 (Resolution: 142.6 million VND). The index of industrial production (IIP) increased over 9.64% / year (Resolution: 8.7% / year). Budget revenue increases 11.2% / year (Resolution: 8.9% / year). Total social investment capital accounts for 35% of GRDP by 2020.  (Resolution: 35%). The ratio of urbanization of the whole province reaches 82% (Resolution: 82%). Foreign investment attraction reaches over 11.51 billion US dollars (Resolution: 7 billion US dollars).

The ratio of public schools meeting national standards reaches 74.4% (Resolution: 70 - 75%). The ratio of doctors / 10,000 people reaches 7.5 (Resolution: Above 7.5). The number of hospital beds per 10,000 people reaches 21.3 (excluding at the commune level) (Resolution: 27). Annually, creating job for more than 46,500 workers (Resolution: 45,000 labors). The ratio of poor households under indicator of poverty reduction according to the multidimensional poverty index is below 1%. Average housing area is 31.5m2 / person. (Resolution: 30 m2/ person). 100% of communes meet new rural criteria (Resolution: 100%).

In term of environmental indicators, the rate of medical solid waste which is collected and treated is100% (Resolution: 100%); the rate of rural population using pure water 100% (Resolution: 100%); the rate of forest cover, forest trees, perennial industrial trees reaches 57.5% (Resolution: 57.5%).

The congress also listened to the assessment report on the status of delegates, the review report of the 10^th Provincial Party Executive Committee, the report synthesizing the comments of the Party Congress at the grassroots level, the higher level and the Provincial Party Committee Congress with draft Document of the 13^th National Party Congress.

Mr. Vo Van Thuong - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Commission delivers a speech at the Congress

Delivering a speech at the Congress, Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Commission - Mr.Vo Van Thuong praised the achievements that Binh Duong Party Committee has achieved in the past term. Agreeing with the goals and directions, tasks and solutions for socio-economic development of Binh Duong province in the next 5 years, Mr. Vo Van Thuong emphasized a number of solutions for the Provincial Party Committee to focus on contributions to make the economy develop faster and more sustainably, to build Binh Duong become a civilized and modern city, worthy of being an industrial center of the Southern key economic region and the whole country. That is, continue to effectively implement strategic solutions, promote industrialization, modernization, and restructure economic sectors in association with innovation of growth models on the basis of application of economy - society achievements, innovation; speed up industrial restructuring in the direction of developing branches with high scientific and technological content and great added value; vigorously develop urban agriculture, hi-tech application agriculture, and build a new, advanced countryside; mobilize resources to build synchronous infrastructure to connect with Ho Chi Minh City and other localities. To fundamentally and comprehensively renovate education and training, creating a strong breakthrough in the development of high-quality human resources; enhance the education of revolutionary ideals, ethics, cultural lifestyles, arouse patriotism, a sense of self-reliance. Constantly improve the people's material and spiritual life; well implement the policy towards people with meritorious services, people with difficulties and disadvantages in society. Strengthen defense discipline, build an all-people defense posture in association with the people's security; maintain political stability, social order and safety, contribute to creating a peaceful and stable environment for construction and development. Build and reorganize the Party in a clean and strong manner; fight and reject wrong views; prevent and repel degradation of political ideas, ethics, and lifestyle. Continue to renovate and arrange the organizational apparatus, the political system to be streamlined for effectively and efficiently; to plan, train and foster staff to build a contingent of qualified, capable, reputable cadres on a par with the tasks. Check and supervise each stages, fields and areas that arise something negative; resolutely fight against corruption and wastage. Renovate the content and mode of operation of the Fatherland Front and social unions. Emphasize one of the important tasks of the Congress that was to elect the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee, Mr. Vo Van Thuong proposed the Congress to select typical comrades with strong political bravery and pure moral qualities, high sense of discipline, pioneering bravery, close attachment to the people, gathering solidarity in the entire Party, daring to sacrifice for benefits of the Party and the country, contributing to successfully implementing Resolution of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress. 

​Bringing into play the strength of the great national unity

Presenting her speech at the Congress, Ms. Tran Thi Hong Hanh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee said that over the past 5 years, the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels in the province has made efforts to promote and join with the political system to perform the task of propaganda, mobilization and gathering of great unity to actively emulate and participate in economic, cultural and social development. Especially, there are new and suitable ways such as: Implementing the movement "The whole country join hands in building a new countryside" associated with the campaign "All people unite to build the new countryside and civilized city" in the period 2016 - 2020, the Fatherland Front and its member organizations have done well the work of mobilizing people to voluntarily contribute capital, donate land, plants, working days, etc to build inland roads, rural roads, inter-village roads, build works for the residential community. As a result, rural people have been mobilized to contribute 58,458 working days, donate 67,275m2 of land for rural transport; contributed 61 billion VND to the Fund for the Poor at all levels in the province. At the same time, mobilize the community to contribute the amount of 2,247 billion 159 million VND (accounting for 15.66% of the total capital of the province implemented in the period 2016 - 2020).

Along with the propagation, mobilization and gathering of all classes of people to participate in economic development, the Fatherland Front at all levels has strengthened the mobilization of maximum resources to contribute to support social security and prompt care and adequate policies and regimes for people with meritorious services, social objects, the poor, children with special circumstances and workers in the province according to the motto "Leave no one behind". The quality of life for all classes of people has been improved with per capita income reaching 155.7 million VND by 2020, 109.2% higher than the proposed resolution.

In the past 5 years, implementing the movement "All people protect national security", the Fatherland Front at all levels and member organizations have closely coordinated with the police and functional agencies to organize the effective implementation, there are many movements and models of creativity and self-governance among the people such as: Club (club) Inn owners in self-governing security and order, crime prevention club, "Security surveillance camera"; "Security light for rural area", "Self-management group for road safety",etc. with over 200 movements and models in the whole province. Thereby, it contributes to maintain political security, social order and safety in residential areas and in the province, not to be passive unexpectedly, even in times of complicated situation occurring in some  neighbor areas, have contributed to creating a favorable environment for the province's socio-economic development.

Ms. Tran Thi Hong Hanh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee presents at the Congress

The solidarity tradition of the Party Committee, authorities and people in the province is considered one of three core values of Binh Duong. The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee at all levels has closely coordinated with the authorities, member organizations at the same level and related branches to effectively propagate, mobilize and gather all classes of people to well obey undertakings of the Party, policies and laws of the State; participate in supervision, social criticism, contribute to building the Party, building the government, creating consensus and unity among the people, building block of great national unity, contributing to strengthening the social foundation , creating a driving force for the successful implementation of socio-economic development tasks according to resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Congress, term 2015-2020, political tasks and the breakthrough program of the province has set out, maintaining political stability, ensuring social order and safety in the province in recent years.

Develop Trade Union organizations in enterprises

Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh - Chairman of the Provincial Confederation of Labor, said that by June 2020, trade unions at all levels had established 1,600 grassroots unions, increased by nearly 200,000 union members, with 95 % of units and enterprises in the non-state sector that employ 30 or more employees have trade unions, and the rate of union members in enterprises with grassroots trade union is 92.37%. The whole province also has 3,719 grassroots trade unions, with 764,416 union members / 827,494 workers, ranking the second in the country in terms of number of union members. In which, there are 2,956 grassroots trade union, accounting for 79.48% of the total number of grassroots trade union in the whole province, the union members in the business sector account for 94.8%.

The work of participating in building Party, building a clean and strong government of Trade Union at all levels continues to have positive innovations. The work of fostering, introducing and developing the Party is concerned. In the period 2015-2020, Trade Union at all levels in the province introduced 8,118 excellent union members to the Party committee for fostering, there were 3,516 elite union members admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam, including 405 elite union members are direct production workers, accounting for 11.5% of the total number of admitted party members. Trade unions at all levels in the province have actively gathered many opinions of union members and workers participating in building legal policies and building strong Party and government.

Binh Duong is an industrial development province, Trade Union activities are conducted mainly in the non-state sector where most of them do not have Party organizations, in order to effectively implement the process of international economic integration, remain socio-political stability in the context of our country's participation in the new-generation free trade agreements is a challenge for the Trade Union organization and the local political system. Therefore, strengthening the block of great national solidarity in the process of international integration, in which building the working class and organizing a strong Vietnam Trade Union is an important task.

The provincial Confederation of Labor will continue to closely follow the area, the grassroots, promptly grasp the thoughts and aspirations of the union members and employees, forecast the situation to advise, propose to the party committee, coordinate with the government, the unions to best perform the role and responsibility of representing, caring for and protecting the interests of workers and being as a solid socio-political foundation of the Party; focus on leading, directing and mobilizing cadres, union members, workers, employees and labors to successfully implement resolution of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress.

Ensuring security and public order

Colonel Trinh Ngoc Quyen - Director of Provincial Public Security affirmed that the local socio-economic development achievements over the past 5 years have contributed to and played an important service role in ensuring security and order of the entire provincial police under the direct leadership of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee.

The province continues to seriously implement the point of view "Active security, remote defense" in grasping the situation and managing subjects; well perform the task of protecting internal political security, timely detect and prevent the manifestations of "self-evolution", "self-transformation", not to form political opposition organizations in locality, the most of cadres, party members and people in the province have absolute belief in the leadership of the Party, the management of the State and local governments. Organize effective combat against spies of foreign specialized agencies, promptly remove and manage suspect objects that are the focal point of foreign specialized agencies. Grasp the situation, proactively advise the commissars and authorities at all levels to quickly and promptly settle complicated disputes and complicated complaints; to prevent and fight with the reactionaries, the number of political opportunists who take advantage of lawsuits to distort and incite protest activities. Do well the work of taking advantage of dignitaries in religions, reputable people to implement national solidarity. It is highlighted that with the creative and unified implementation and operation of the command board mechanism, the coordination with departments, mass organizations has well implemented security and order schemes in industrial zones and clusters, detecting and promptly processing information and situations about security and order, not allow passive, unexpected issues occurring or forming "hot spots".

The police force has well done the task of grasping the situation, coordinating with the departments and branches to do well the work of social prevention, speed up the attack on suppression of crimes, combining the transformation of the key complicated areas in social order and safety; curbing, decreasing 32.09% of criminals happening over the previous term, the rate of investigation and discovery reached 91.77%. Focus on fierce fighting with all kinds of crimes, as a result, economic crimes are found to increase 17.8%, detect and handle many violations of management and use of State assets, causing losses, waste, and violation of regulations on land management that affect public opinion; drug-related crimes were found to increase by 25.99%; violations of the law on the environment were found to increase by 107.5%; Many criminal wires, organizations and groups have been discovered and eradicated, especially crimes related to black credit (valuated by the Ministry of Public Security as the leading locality in the country in handling this type of crime); Many particularly serious cases were investigated and quickly discovered, creating consensus and support from the public and the people.

With the results achieved in many of the above fields, it has created a stable social security environment, ensured public order and social safety, creating belief for people, enterprises are assured to do business, live, promote local socio-economic development. 

Colonel Trinh Ngoc Quyen - Director of the Provincial Public Security presents at the Congress

In the coming time, Binh Duong province will continue to promote the attraction of foreign investment, socio-economic development, especially development of high-quality urban and industry - services, striving to become a smart, rich and beautiful city. It is predicted that mechanical population will continue to increase, creating pressure on the locality in population management, social security and ensuring security and order; Disputes and lawsuits related to land, economic security, worker security, security of religion, ethnicity, especially in key areas, industrial zones and clusters still have many hidden and complicated risk. The hostile and reactionary forces have intensified many sophisticated, dangerous and dynamic tricks, especially on cyberspace.

Director of the Provincial Public Security affirmed that the Party Committee of the Provincial Public Security continued to thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the viewpoint "Active Security", well organized the work of grasping, analyzing, evaluating and forecasting impact on local security, especially in the field of internal security, economic security, ideological  - culture security and social security to be considered as a basis for advising security solutions in the locality; firmly grasp the situation of reactionaries, political opportunists, extremists in religion, nation, strictly control, not to form publicly opposite political organizations in the area. In addition, to focus on doing well the internal protection, preventing and combating "self-evolution", "self-transformation", implementing the motto "proactively preventing and maintaining the main part"; continue to coordinate with branches to manage workers, students not to be dragged into demonstrations, disrupting or protest politics; proactively advise the party committees and local authorities to resolve issues of ethnicity, religion, democracy, complicated cases, disputes and complaints arising under the 4-spot motto, no gathering people, no taking advantage of inciting the formation of "hot spots", riots and terrorism from hostile forces, contributing to maintain political stability, creating a favorable environment for local economic, cultural - social development.

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​Delivering a speech for his presentation, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Mr. Tran Van Nam would like to thank the delegates who have elected the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee. This is a special honor, as well as a great responsibility to the Party Committee and people of the province. The collective of the 11^th Provincial Party Committee, term 2020-2025, promises to continue to inherit and promote the spirit of solidarity, democracy, responsibility and exemplary lifestyle, sticking to the people, continue to creating, renewing the ways of thinking, methods, ways of working, improving leadership capacity, building a scientific working style, always sticking to the practice, talk the talk walk the walk, building the collective of provincial Party Executive Committee to be really clean, strong, worthy being a trustworthy leading agency of the Party Committee, successfully implementing resolution of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress.

The Congress also elected 17 official delegates and 02 alternate delegates to attend the 13^th National Party Congress.

The Provincial Party Executive Committee, term 2020-2025 presents

The delegation of Binh Duong province attend the 13^th National Party Congress​

​Explaining comments to evaluate the implementation results of the Congress Resolution

Regarding the implementation results of the Congress Resolution, there were many comments of delegates proposing to further evaluate the role and contribution of the labor force outside the province to the economic development of the province. Mr. Mai Hung Dung said that in recent years, all levels and branches from the province to grassroots have always agreed with the view that the labor force outside the province is one of the resources that play an important role in the development process of the province. Therefore, the province is always interested in implementing well social security policies, constantly improving the material and spiritual lives of labors. However, the Presidium consulted the Congress not to individually evaluate the contribution of this force, because in the content of evaluating the role of contributions of all classes of people, it has covered all the subjects in society, including the labor force outside the province.

Particularly for the proposal to clearly state the cause of the two unsatisfactory targets in the Resolution is the ratio of doctors/10,000 people and the number of patient beds/10,000 people. Mr. Mai Hung Dung said that, in recent years, Binh Duong has a high mechanical population growth rate; it is estimated that, annually, the province has increased more than 80,000 people from outside the province to work and live; up to now, the proportion of people outside the province accounts for 53.5% of the province's population; this has helped the province to have human resources to meet the labor needs of the province, but also creates great pressure on the province in terms of infrastructure, social security, order and security, especially medical care and education. In the past term, the province has mobilized the maximum resources to focus on health and education development, and well solve social problems, in which, facilities, equipment and human resources of the Health branch are interested in investing, the grassroots health network has been gradually strengthened and completed. The socialization of health care has been promoted, attracting many participants, including, developing private hospitals with foreign investment capital. In 2020, Binh Duong and the whole country have made efforts to control the Covid-19 pandemic well, prevented cases from occurring outside the community, which is a great effort of the entire political system of the province, in which, especially the Health branch.

However, with high mechanical population growth, the province has strived to nearly reach two targets on the ratio of doctors/10,000 people to 7.5 doctors (Resolution with over 7.5), the number of hospital beds/10,000 people to 21.3 (Resolution with 27). To ensure the successful implementation of the targets set out by the Resolution of the 11^th Congress, including Health targets and objectives, the Presidium asked for the comments of the Congress to assign the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee to continue to lead and direct all levels, branches, localities and units to make efforts to overcome difficulties from the pressure of mechanical population growth to well solve problems of people's health care, education, and social security.

Explaining directions, targets and tasks for the term 2020-2025

Giving comments to the general targets and key tasks, strategic breakthroughs, there are  suggestions in the coming time, it is necessary to orient strategy and planning for Binh Duong to become a center of urban development, industry, education - training, science - technology, a center for international link and integration of the region.

In this issue, Mr. Mai Hung Dung said that this is a contribution of strategic direction, with a view of sustainable development, integration and quality on the basis of science and technology, high quality human resources. The Presidium proposed the Congress to take over, and at the same time assigned the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee to study and develop a plan with specific schedule and solutions.

For the proposal to clarify the basis to determine the general target: "By 2030, Binh Duong will become a modern industrial center, by 2045 it will be a smart city of the region and the country". Explaining at the Congress, Mr. Mai Hung Dung affirmed that the construction of the above general target was built by the 10^th Provincial Party Executive Committee on the basis of receiving comments from the Central Organizing Committee and Central Economic Committee, and at the same time basing on the actual situation of the locality. In particular, for the target up to 2030, Binh Duong to become a modern-oriented industrial center is a feasible target, because in the current period, based on the expected targets in the draft Industrial province criteria set of the Ministry of Planning and Investment and other provinces and cities, some main targets are: the proportion of industry in economic structure, proportion of non-agricultural labor, urbanization rate, GRDP per capita, HDI index, rate of households using electricity and Internet, etc. of Binh Duong province today have reached and exceeded higher. Therefore, compared with the average level of the whole country and the Southern key economic region, that Binh Duong is expected, by 2030, to become an industrial center in the direction of modernity, is a highly feasible target.

For the target, up to 2045, Binh Duong will be a smart city of the region and the country, set by the 10^th Provincial Party Excutive Committee on the basis of the Project on sustainable smart city development in Vietnam in the period 2018 - 2025 and the Government's orientation to 2030 (according to Decision no. 950/QD-TTg, dated August 01, 2018), the framework model for the construction of a smart city meeting regional standards from now to 2030 by the Ministry of Information and Communications along with the initial achievements in the implementation of the province's Smart City Project in recent years, Binh Duong has basically met the standards and requirements set out in comparison with the domestic and international standards. Thus, it is appropriate to set progress and vision to 2045 as a smart city of the region and the whole country.

Explaining specific targets

Delegates proposed to adjust the Target of province's Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) to strive to reach 9%/year. GRDP per capita will reach VND 210 - 215 million by 2025. Mr. Mai Hung Dung suggested not to adjust this target because the targets of economic growth and GRDP per capita in the Political Report submitted to the Congress were balanced towards high striving on a multi-year database, calculated and forecasted by specialized agencies; at the same time, it has consulted with Ministries and Central branches that it is suitable with the general situation of the country.

In response to the questions of delegates about the feasibility of the economic structural target with the proportion of industry and services accounting for over 90% in the world and domestic economy seriously affected by the Covid – 19 pandemic, Permanent Vice Chairman Mai Hung Dung added that in the past term, with the aim of accelerating the economic restructuring in the direction of prioritizing the development of industry - services associated with the urbanization process, the Provincial Party Committee has identified industrial development as the focus and accelerated the industrial restructuring in the direction of improving productivity, efficiency, competitiveness and creating a driving force for the urban and service development in the province. Along with that, the Provincial Party Committee implemented a breakthrough program to continue developing high-quality services for industrial and urban development of the province in the period of 2016 - 2020 and achieved many important results.

In particular, in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic and world economic recession occur, negatively affecting the socio-economic development and people's life, Binh Duong is one of the localities in which the Central departments, Ministries and branches highly appreciate the spirit of proactively implementing the dual goal of pandemic prevention and control and making efforts to promptly support enterprises to develop production and business, ensure jobs, stabilize life, and help workers overcome difficult times. In the first 9 months of 2020, Binh Duong continues to receive a big wave of investment with a total investment capital of social development estimated at VND 88,575 billion, up 10.2% over the same period.

Setting key objectives, targets and tasks in the term 2020-2025, the Provincial Executive Committee has analyzed, evaluated and considered the actual situation of the province, the socio-economic situation that the Central Executive Committee has identified in the next 5 years to forecast; therefore, the economic structure target has the proportion of industry and services accounting for over 90% in the term 2020 - 2025, the Provincial Standing Party Committee, the Executive Committee of the Provincial Party Committee unanimously stated that it is a reality.

Specific directions and tasks in all sectors and fields

Regarding the economic growth model, the delegates proposed to identify and evaluate specifically the economic growth model of Binh Duong. Reporting to the Congress, Mr. Mai Hung Dung affirmed, with the structure of industry and services set out over 90% of the economic structure, this has shown that the economic model of the province in the coming term continues to be industry – service which accounts for the main proportion. In addition, the province continues to seriously implement the tasks, solutions and direction of the Central Government in implementing vigorously renovating the growth model, restructuring the economy, improving productivity, quality, competitiveness and efficient use of local resources.

For the development of various types of services, many suggestions proposed more clearly the solution to develop the logistics service industry and build a network of logistic infrastructure, develop the supply chain to support production, consumption of goods in the country, export and import. Mr. Mai Hung Dung informed that, in the period 2016 - 2020, the Provincial Party Committee issued Program no. 24-CTr/TU dated August 16, 2016 on continuing to develop high quality services to serve industrial development and urban area of the province, in which basic and long-term targets, tasks and solutions were set out; up to now, the province has achieved initial results. In the coming time, in order to deeply, broadly integrate and catch up with the 4.0 technology Revolution, towards building a smart city, taking advantage of the connectivity advantages of the Southern key economic region, the province will continue to focus on developing logistics services and building a network of logistic infrastructure with specific solutions mentioned in the Breakthrough Action Program summited at the Congress on "Focusing on developing high quality service industries in association with industrial and urban development towards civilization and modernization".

Regarding the synchronous development of the infrastructure system, a number of comments proposed to evaluate and clarify the development of transport infrastructure, urban, industrial and commercial zones, in the past term; solutions of prioritizing sustainable urban development, building synchronous infrastructure, connecting industrial parks - urban areas in the South and North of the province, connecting waterways - roads to exploit ports on Saigon river and logistic areas. Mr. Mai Hung Dung reported to the Congress, the province has always paid attention to mobilization of investment resources for development of socio-economic infrastructure, in the Document to be submitted to the 11^th Congress, a strategic breakthrough program (on transport infrastructure) and 01 key task (on synchronous development of the urban system) were also proposed. In the period 2020 - 2025, the province will focus on mobilizing and attracting many resources with many investment modes to develop transport infrastructure, especially important external traffic works towards synchronous and uninterrupted direction, giving priority to properly connecting provincial roads and district roads with the national traffic system and provinces and cities in the Southern key economic region. Together with the programs of urban development, new-style rural development, housing development projects for poor households, housing program for families with meritorious services, etc. as a premise for the development of residential areas, housing and improvement of the rural infrastructure system, gradually improving the material and spiritual life of the rural people, narrowing down the distance between urban and rural areas in the province. At this Congress, the Executive Committee proposed 28 Lists of key projects to be implemented in the term 2020-2025 (including 15 traffic works, 04 industrial - service infrastructure works). To promote investment in construction of these breakthrough infrastructure projects, the province will lead and direct branches and localities to build a list of specific projects and works for each year.

For suggestions for additional evaluation of the implementation of the set targets for the contents of the planning organization, adjustment and implementation, the Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reported to the Congress, in recent years, the organization of urban planning and subdivision planning in the province has been implemented synchronously, regularly reviewing to ensure the suitability between planning types and the reality, general socio-economic development orientation of the province and of each urban area; in which, the province's general planning, subdivision plan, and new-style rural construction planning are now covered, reaching the rate of 100%. Currently, according to the Law on Planning, the task of provincial regional planning was also passed by the province and approved by the Prime Minister.​

​Attending the press conference were the comrades: Nguyen Hoang Thao - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Minh Thuy - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Organization Committee of Provincial Party Committee; Le Huu Phuoc - Head of Propaganda Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

Reporting the results of the Congress, Mr. Bui Minh Thanh - Chief of the Provincial Party Committee's Office said that the 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong province, term 2020 - 2025, has completed the whole program set out and finished successfully.

Specifically, there were 349 delegates attending the Congress, representing more than 48,500 party members from 14 Party Committees under the Provincial Party Committee, of which 41 delegates were naturally comrades of the 10^th Provincial Party Committee and 308 delegates were elected from the grassroots upper level party Congress. The Congress was honored to welcome Mr. Vo Van Thuong - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department, on behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat to attend and direct the Congress.

Overview of the press conference

The Congress discussed in a democratic way and 100% of the delegates voted unanimously to approve the Congress Resolution. A new feature in determining the development targets for the period 2020 - 2025 is that each target has been scientifically calculated, feasible in implementation, with a development orientation to 2030 and 2045.

Promoting the spirit of solidarity and democracy, strictly implementing the election regulations in the Party, the Congress elected the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee, term 2020 - 2025 including 49 comrades. At the first meeting, the 11^th Provincial Party Executive Committee held the election of 15 comrades to the Provincial Standing Party Committee; Comrade Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of 10^th Provincial Party Committee continued to be elected Secretary of 11^th Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee (Session X), Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Member of the Provincial Standing Party Committee (Session X), Chairman of the Provincial People's Council were elected Deputy Secretaries of the 11^th Party Committee. The Provincial Party Executive Committee elected the Inspection Committee of 11^th Provincial Party Committee, term 2020 - 2025 including 11 comrades, Mr. Pham Van Chanh - Member of the Standing Committee of Session XI was elected to be the Head of Inspection Committee of 11^th Provincial Party Committee.

The Congress elected delegates to attend the 13^th National Congress of the Party including 17 official delegates and 02 alternate delegates.

Speaking at the press conference, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao thanked officials and reporters of news agencies and newspapers for always accompanying the province, especially reflecting boldly and promptly on Congress.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee speaks at the press conference

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao emphasized that, during the past time, the news agencies and the press have always accompanied and coordinated strongly propagating the congress of Party grassroots organizations, Party Committees of the province, especially the 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong province. After the Congress, Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee expected news agencies and press to actively propagate the results of the Congress as well as the determination of the Party Committee, authorities and people of Binh Duong province in implementing successfully the Resolution of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025. Especially the leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, the administration and implementation of government at all levels and the efforts of cadres, party members, all classes of people in implementing the Resolution.

​At the congress, Chairman of Provincial Fatherland Front's Committee Nguyen Van Loc appealed all delegates attending the 11^th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025, with their feelings, to contribute and support in order to share difficulties with the people in the Central region severely damaged by floods, to help the people in the affected regions to overcome the damage and soon stabilize their living.

After the appealing from the Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front's Committee, delegates supported more than VND 2.3 billion. In which, Becamex IDC Corporation supported VND 02 billion.

Delegates attending the 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong province support the flood-affected people in the Central region

Mr. Pham Ngoc Thuan - General Director of Becamex IDC Corporation, representing for the Corporation supports the people in Central provinces damaged by floods

Over the past few days, people across the country are heading towards the Central region, where it was heavily affected by storm no. 7 with very serious and tragic statistics. The latest statistics from the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, extensive rain and flood, storm circulation no. 7 have caused many types of extreme natural disasters, causing 40 deaths (of which: Quang Tri 12 people, Thua Thien Hue 8 people, Quang Nam 9 people), 8 missing people, 585 houses collapsed, broke down, damaged, 135,731 houses flooded.

It is forecasted that the weather development is still complicated and will cause many other serious consequences.​

​It is divided into 07 discussion groups in the congress. Promoting collective intelligence, with a vibrant, frank, serious, responsible and constructive spirit, the Delegation Groups gave a lot of insightful and convincing opinions when participating in discuss about the specific issues in the draft documents.

High consistency

The comments basically agreed with the draft document of 13^th National Party Congress and it is said that the draft document  which is developed by the Party Central Committee basically followed closely with the actual situation of country in the context of international economic integration. The draft document was built in a scientific layout, reasonable and coherent sequence, clear sentences, and relatively comprehensive and complete content. At the same time, it has summarized the Vietnamese revolution objectively, deeply, practically, especially the practice of 35 years of national renewal. The Draft Document also directly pay attention to the truth, pointing out the limitations, weaknesses, existing issues in many aspects of social life, organizations and activities of the Party and State. Therefore, the draft document has both summarized the fact and had the meaning of clarifying theory.

Groups discuss at the congress

Regarding the Document of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress, the majority of opinions agreed with the contents in general. The delegates said that the draft political report which was submitted to the Congress had objectively and comprehensively evaluated the achievements in aspects of economic, cultural - social, security - defense and construction of political system in term 2015-2020 of the Provincial Party Committee. The content is carefully prepared, meticulously and qualitatively, with a reasonable layout; at the same time, it shows a high consensus with the assessment on implementation of resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Congress. The report frankly acknowledged the shortcomings and weaknesses, found the objective and subjective causes of the limitations, draw lessons learned from 5 years of implementing the resolution; unify goals, tasks and solutions which were set out in term XI (2020 - 2025). Most of the opinions were agreed, positive effects of the achievements after 20 years of re-establishment of the province are great and fundamental significance to help the Provincial Party Committee fulfill the political tasks and step by step development. The implementation of resolution of the 10^th Provincial Party Congress in the past 05 years has achieved important results.

Many devoted comments

With the spirit of frankness, democracy, openness and responsibility, the delegates contributed devoted comments to the making effort-oriented action programs for the period 2020-2025. The discussions have analyzed, clarified, deepened and added many important contents to build upcoming solutions for the fields of social life, the administration in economic development - social, ensuring national defense - security, etc. Specifically, in term of transport infrastructure construction in the coming period, Mr. Tran Ba Luan - Director of the Department of Transport said that the Transport sector will focus on developing traffic infrastructure in the direction of urbanization, building Binh Duong Smart City; implementing key programs and projects, building medium-term development plans and solutions to overcome difficulties. In particular, there will be a strategic vision of synchronous development of both waterways and urban railways in order to reduce the pressure on road traffic

Groups discuss at the congress

The issue of building a startup ecosystem is also particularly interested by the delegates. Accordingly, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Cuong - Director of the Department of Science and Technology said that this content should be added to the document of Congress. According to Mr. Cuong, in the near future, it is necessary to promote the program of developing and forming a culture of innovation, along with that, it is necessary to enhance the creative capacity of young people, particularly at high schools. At the same time, the province must also have mechanisms and policies to encourage innovation.

Many opinions revolve the breakthrough program "Developing and improving the quality of human resources, meeting the requirements of building Binh Duong with sustainable development in the direction of a smart, civilized and modern city" Mr. Nguyen Huu Tri - Permanent Deputy Secretary of Tan Uyen Party Committee said that in order for this breakthrough program to be effective, it is necessary to emphasize the efficiency of attracting talents as well as the foreign training regime in recent years. In addition, the program that takes the doctor on the facility must be more realistic and in-depth. Especially, being an industrial province, attracting a large number of workers to work, so the issue of childcare for workers is very urgent. Therefore, public preschools must provide childcare service until 20 hours to meet the needs of workers. However, it is necessary to consider an appropriate regime for teachers to raise children if applying this framework.

Participants also said that, in the next term, Binh Duong should focus on a schedule to build high-quality human resources, thus meeting the development requirements of province in the coming time. In addition, there should be a protection mechanism for cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to fight against wrong forces, adopt policies to encourage children in difficult families to study and ensure security.

All comments in the discussion were received by the Presidium of the Congress to supplement and complete the Documents.

Tomorrow, October 14, the congress will officially open and start working on the main contents.

Delegates contribute ideas to the Congress documents

​At the Binh Duong bridge point, attending were leaders of the Department of Home Affairs and departments, committees and branches.

At the conference, the delegates were introduced to the basic contents and new points of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the Government and the Law on Organization of Local Governments and other related documents.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the Government and the Law on Organization of Local Governments takes effect from July 01, 2020. The Law has amended and supplemented 5/50 articles of the Law on Organization of the Government and 38/143 articles of the Law on Organization of Local Governments with many notable points such as: Stipulating the authority of the Government in regulating the number of specialized agencies under the People's Committees of provinces and districts and the criteria for establishment; minimum number of personnel, maximum number of deputy leaders of organizations belonging to the organizational structure of Ministries, branches or local governments. The Law clearly stipulates the number of delegates to the People's Council from 10% to 15% in each type of administrative unit; the number of Vice Chairmen of the People's Councils at the provincial and district levels; Specialized Deputy Head of the Provincial People's Council, etc.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees takes effect from July 01, 2020 with many new points such as: Amending the concept of civil servants; adjusting the policy for talented people in public service activities; recruiting civil servants, evaluating and ranking the quality of civil servants; types of employment contracts for public employees; limitations period, time limit, disciplinary action against retired cadres, civil servants and public employees, etc.

Overview of the conference at Binh Duong bridge point

At the conference, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan said that, after nearly 5 years of applying, the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees have achieved many positive results, but there are still some shortcomings that need to be amended and supplemented to be consistent with Central Resolution 4, session XII, on strengthening the building and regulating the Party, preventing and repelling the political, ethical, and lifestyle recession; self-evolving, self-transforming manifestations internally; Resolution of the Central Conference 6-7, Session XII on a number of issues to continue to innovate, streamline the organizational structure of the political system, to operate effectively and efficiently, etc. Currently, Decrees guiding the implementation of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees have basically been issued and promptly adjusted specific issues. Deputy Minister said that the exchange of problems in practice when implementing the law to agree on correct understanding; issues that have not been guided will be synthesized to report to the Government, so that the revised contents of the 4 Laws can be implemented effectively and practically in practice.

​Time to visit the Provincial Martyrs' Cemetery is from 6:30, October 13, 2020 (Tuesday).

Participants include leaders of the Provincial Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee - Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee; Delegates attending the 11^th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025 and invited delegates.

The Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs is assigned to preside over, and coordinate with the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism, the Department of Health, the Provincial Military Command, the Provincial Public Security and relevant branches to organize the ceremony to visit the provincial martyrs' cemetery to be thoughtful, dignified, safe and ensuring effective prevention and control of Covid-19 pandemic.

The Provincial Party Committee Office presides over and coordinates with relevant units to arrange buses and pick up delegates to the Provincial Martyrs' Cemetery to ensure thoughtfulness and safety.

The Provincial Public Security ensures traffic security, order and safety and arrange vehicles to guide the delegates at the visit ceremony.​

​Attending the ceremony, on the side of Binh Duong province, there were Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet - Former President; Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representative leaders of departments and branches.

On the side of Tay Ninh province, attending were Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tam - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ngoc - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, and representative leaders of departments and branches.

Delegates perform the groundbreaking ceremony of road and bridge construction connecting Binh Duong and Tay Ninh provinces

Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet (5^th from the right) - Former President of the country and leaders of the two provinces attend the groundbreaking ceremony

The road and bridge project connecting Binh Duong and Tay Ninh provinces is the cooperation agreement of Binh Duong and Tay Ninh provinces, aiming to complete the inter-regional road network in general, between Binh Duong province and Tay Ninh province in particular, ensuring continuous road traffic connecting the traffic network, serving the travel and goods transportation needs of the people of the two provinces, contributing to the socio-economic development of the two localities.

In terms of scale, the project is a grade 2 transport work, with a length of 800.39 m. The approaching road to Binh Duong province is 377.7 m long; approaching road to Tay Ninh province is 92.2 m long. The project has a total investment of more than VND 369.98 billion. The Project is by the Provincial Construction Investment Project Management Unit as an investor. The bridge is pre-stressed reinforced concrete with a design life of 100 years. The road is designed according to the standard of grade 3 plain road and the design speed of 80km/h. The project is implemented from 2020 to 2024, by the investor directly managing the project with investment capital from the provincial budget.

Mr. Mai Hung Dung (right) – Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on behalf of leaders of Binh Duong province presents a souvenir photo to the leaders of Tay Ninh province

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Mai Hung Dung – Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee praised the investor's efforts and attempts; the coordination of departments, committees and branches in Binh Duong and Tay Ninh provinces. At the same time, he acknowledged and highly appreciated the determination to soon complete the site clearance of Dau Tieng district, Binh Duong province and Duong Minh Chau district, Tay Ninh province. The Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested related units, after the construction was commenced, to immediately deploy synchronous construction solutions, ensuring the quality schedule; to closely coordinate with the relevant departments and localities in Tay Ninh province, in order to promptly resolve problems that may arise during the construction process.

​Attending were Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Council; Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Commission for Mass Mobilization of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Binh Duong Provincial Fatherland Front's Committee; comrades in the Provincial Standing Party Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, People's Committee; Party Committee leaders of agencies, units and localities in the province and 104/105 female delegates attending the 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong Province, term 2020-2025.

The 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong Province, term 2020-2025 takes place from October 13-15, 2020, with 105 female delegates representing 17,613 female party members and thousands of cadres and civil servants, officials and employees to attend the Congress. These are excellent delegates in all fields elected by the Party Committees to the Congress.

According to the report at the meeting, at the last Congress at all levels in the province, the proportion of young and trusted female cadres elected to join in the Party Executive Committee, the Standing Committee of the Party Executive Committee all exceeded the target compared with Directive no. 35 of the Central Government regulated. Specifically, female cadres participating in party executive committees of grassroots reached 26.5%; of upper level grassroots reached 25.21%, up 2.56% compared with the previous term; joining the Standing Committee at upper level grassroots reached 20.28%, up 1.7% compared with the previous term; many comrades were elected to hold key positions in the party executive committee; the proportion of female cadres participating in leadership and management has increased more and more than before.

For the Personnel Project submitted to the 11^th Provincial Party Congress, the female structure recommended for the Congress to consider and elect to the Executive Committee is 12/54 comrades, reaching a fairly high rate (22.22%). The proportion of female delegates attending the Congress is 105/350, accounting for 30%, higher than the previous Congresses, in which, young female delegates under 40 years old account for 32.3%.

At the meeting, the female delegates expressed their joy and excitement at the attention of the Provincial Standing Party Committee, Provincial People's Council, People's Committee, and authorities at all levels in the work of female cadres; at the same time, expressed their honor and pride in being able to represent the will, aspirations and wisdom of all female cadres and party members in the entire Provincial Party Committee to the Congress.

Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation speaks at the meeting

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation acknowledged and warmly praised the achievements and positive contributions of the women towards the province's development over the years. At the same time, he requested that the female delegates promote the spirit of enthusiasm, energy, aspiration to rise, well perform the functions, tasks, powers and responsibilities of the delegates, actively participate in contributing to the Congress, contributing to the success of the Congress, deserve the faith and respect of the Party Committee for female cadres.

Recognizing the opinions and recommendations of the female delegates in the meeting, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized that in the coming time, the province will create favorable conditions and continue to pay more attention to the work of female cadres, to the life, feelings and aspirations of female cadres, so that female cadres can be assured of working, participating in many fields to practice, approach and undertake higher tasks.

Provincial leaders take souvenir photos with the female delegates

​Implementing Directive no. 35 of the Politburo, Plan no. 101 of the Provincial Standing Party Committee and directing and guiding documents of the Central Government on the Party Congress at all levels towards the 13^th National Congress of the Party, after a period of active, serious and responsible preparation, with the consent of the Politburo, the 11^th Party Congress of Binh Duong province, term 2020-2025 takes place from October 13-15, 2020 at Provincial Exhibition and Convention Center.

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam speaks thoroughly at the Preparatory session

Speaking thoroughly at the Preparatory session, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam emphasized that, from the successes of the Party Congress at grassroots and upper level grassroots in the whole province, the draft documents of the 11^th Provincial Party Committee Congress were focused on leading by the Provincial Party Committee to prepare democratically, fully, closely and seriously in accordance with the guiding spirit in Directive 35 of the Politburo and the direction guidelines of the Central Party Construction Committees. Up to now, Binh Duong has met all the conditions for organizing the 11^th Provincial Party Congress. Before the official opening, the Congress held a Preparatory session for delegates to promote collective intelligence, electing the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Delegate Eligibility Appraisal Board to operate the activities in the Congress; agree on working rules and regulations, election regulations and give comments on building the agenda of the Congress scientifically and fully content; organize the division of the discussion group on the Documents of 13^th National Congress of the Party, Documents of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress and prepare some other contents for the official agenda of the Congress to take place as expected and with great success.

With the contents and work set out, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee proposed the delegates to strictly execute and implement the nature of the Party, the organization, promote the sense of responsibility of each delegation, give comments and unify the content of the Preparation session to contribute to the success of the Congress. At the same time, strictly obeying the rules and regulations of the Congress, in which attention should be paid to ensuring information security as prescribed. Each delegate must uphold a sense of responsibility in discussing, voting, electing and deciding important issues of the Congress.

The Secretary affirmed that, with the responsibility to the Party Committee and people in the province, the Congress will do its best, promote democracy, wisdom, discipline, sense of responsibility, solidarity and unity for the Congress to achieve the objectives and requirements set out and ensure the success of the Congress.

Delegates vote to approve the election of the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Delegate Eligibility Appraisal Board

At the Preparatory session, the Congress elected the Presidium of 11 comrades, elected the Secretariat of 03 comrades and the Delegate Eligibility Appraisal Board to the Congress of 07 members. Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Tran Thanh Liem - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and comrades in the 10^th Standing Party Committee participated in the Presidium of the Congress.

This morning's session also approved the agenda, working regulations, rules of the Congress and thoroughly grasped some contents of the Party's Election Regulations, instructed and divided the discussion group to contribute draft Documents of the 13^th National Party Congress and Documents of the 11^th Provincial Party Congress.

This afternoon, the delegates divides into 07 groups to discuss the Congress Documents.

​Interested in developing Trade Union members

Trade Union of Fujikura Fiber Optics Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Vietnam - Singapore I Industrial Park) has 100% foreign capital with a total of 2,239 employees and 100% employees participate in the trade union organization. In addition to taking care of member's life and protect their benefits, the Company Trade Union always focuses on propagating the Party's undertakings and guidelines, the State's policies and laws as well as resolutions, direction from trade union at higher level. In particular, in the emulation movement for good production from 2015 to 2020, there are 189 initiatives that bring benefits of 100 billion VND to businesses. The activities launched by the Company's trade union have practical significance, help to increase labor productivity, improve the lives of workers (employees), which are connection to mobilize and persuade business owners to support, implement undertakings and resolutions of the Party and State as well as take care of the members' interests. The role of grassroots trade union at the Company is increasingly clearly asserted; the number of trade union officials participating in the professional work at management level account for 13%, office workers account for 37% and direct manager of production area accounts for 50%.

Chairman of the provincial Confederation of Labor - Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh visits workers

At the beginning of the term 2015-2020, Binh Duong Confederation of Labor was assigned a new development target of 285,000 Trade Union members and newly established 1,471 grassroots trade union. Along with that, the Provincial Party Committee also issued the Program No. 16-CTr / TU on the building and development of Party organizations, socio-political organizations in SOEs for the period 2016 - 2020. This is a very heavy task but also an opportunity for the Confederation of Labor to better perform the role of representing, taking care of and protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the employees. In order to really create attraction for the union members and employees in the enterprise, the trade union organization has carried out the reform to renovate its operation content.

Trade union at all levels increasingly acts as a solid fulcrum for employees through direct and thorough solutions to employees' frustrations and difficulties. Accordingly, all levels of trade union regularly coordinate with functional agencies to inspect, supervise and grasp the situation in order to promptly resolve labor disputes and strike, which aims to protect employees' rights and interests in accordance with the law.

Protecting employees' rights and interests is the solution for the trade union at all levels to develop their union members

Mr. Luu The Thuan - Head of Propaganda Department - Internal Affairs, Provincial Confederation of Labor said: "The work of building a strong grassroots trade union is concerned and has many changes. Every year, over 50% of the SOEs sector's grassroots trade union become strong, excellent; 100% of grassroots trade union in units and enterprises in the non-state sector propagate for employees to self-study in order to improve professional qualifications, professional skills. Every year, each grassroots trade union introduces on average one excellent member to the Party".

On the other hand, trade union at all levels have made great efforts in investigating, surveying and developing plans to implement the membership development program with diverse solutions, achieving many important results, with the focus in the business sector that employs 30 or more employees. As a result, 95% of units, SOEs with 30 or more employees have trade union organization. The whole province currently has 3,794 grassroots trade union with 764,573 members / 829,122 employees in units with trade union.

At the meeting with the Provincial Confederation of Labor, Mr. Ngo Duy Hieu - Vice Chairman of Vietnam General Confederation of Labor highly appreciated the sense of responsibility, dynamism and creativity in the management of the provincial Confederation of Labor and trade union at all levels: "It can be said that Binh Duong Confederation of Labor has performed well the role of protecting legal and legitimate rights and interests for employees. Although the province has a large number of workers, the provincial Confederation of Labor has been very flexible in solving arising problems, well implementing the situation of labor relations, persistent efforts in establishment of grassroots trade union and developing the union members ".

Enhance the role of Party organization

Determining the important role of Party organizations, socio-political organizations in enterprises, in recent years, the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises has thoroughly grasped and strictly implemented the directives, the conclusions of the Central and Provincial Party Committees on the building and development of Party organizations, socio-political organizations in SOEs and the admission of eligible private business owners to the Party, initially achieved positive results. The Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises currently manages 137 Party grassroots organizations (of which 66 Party Committees and 71 grassroots cells , 404 cells under the grassroots Party Committee), with a total of 7,935 Party members, including 41 Party organizations in SOEs (12 Party Committees and 29 Party Cells) with a total of 1,823 party members.

In fact, the Party organization in strong enterprises is the basis for the unions to operate well, creating a driving force for the  labor emulation of production in enterprises; being a connection to create harmonic benefits between employees and employers. Many Party grassroots organizations have shown the role of a political nuclear, promoting their functions and tasks well, creating a reputation for business owners and employees, positively contributing to the stability and development of the business; Every year, Party organizations are assessed and classified, and all of them are assessed for completing the task.

In the work of creating sources for the development of party members, Party committees at many levels have worked closely from the evaluation and selection of typical masses, giving political theory courses for those who are admitted to the Party (over the past time, there are 773 elite masses participating). The development of party members in the enterprise cells is concerned, with appropriate solutions and specific steps in creating resources, developing party members, and organizing the Party. Fostering of the elite masses is to create a source of party members' development, in accordance with the characteristics, working conditions and living activities of workers and employees, etc.

The development of unions in SOEs is an important basis for the development of party members.

Party committees and authorities at all levels play an important role in the development of Party organizations in SOEs. With the motto "Accompanying with businesses", the proposals of enterprises are concerned by the Party committees and authorities and facilitate to remove difficulty for businesses, from which many business owners, especially foreign businesses have an appreciation of the position, role and necessity of building Party organizations in the enterprise.

Although the development of Party organizations in SOEs is extremely necessary but difficult, the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises especially focuses on quality, operational efficiency rather than quantity. Mr. Huynh Tan Dinh - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises said: "Party organizations can only be set up when they have developed a force of reputable and capable party members in the enterprise. Party committees must really have power in the business, Party members must be an exemplary person who is trusted by the masses, then the Party Committee will advise, consult, contribute to the business and mobilize and persuade the business owner in the work of building the Party, unions and developing party members and union members, taking care and protecting the benefits of employees. Solution at the party committees at higher level to assign full-time and part-time officials to regularly monitor and help the Party organization in SOEs in the early stage of establishment in order to promptly solve difficulties and problems, creating faith and resources to help the grassroots to fulfill its assigned mission. "

Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises also regularly coordinates with the provincial Confederation of Labor, Youth Union to implement activities to take care and ensure the benefits of employees, as a basis for party member development. Party cells and Party committees have directed unions to promote efficiency, mobilize and well organize emulation movements to select and introduce elite masses to supplement source for development of party members; at the same time, creating an environment and assigning experienced party members to follow up and help a party sympathizer objects grow alive the ideal, voluntarily strive and train to be a member of the Party soon.

With many strong solutions and drastic action, the number of Party organizations in newly established SOEs has increased year by year. If in term 2010-2015,  there were 17 Party organizations in SOEs being established, in term 2015-2020 , the number nearly doubled (33 Party organizations), exceeding the assigned target (target of 20 party organizations). During the term, the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises has developed 386 members in SOEs (target of 150), contributing to complete the targets of Provincial Party Committee Resolution and strengthening the leadership of the Party in the private economic sector.