(HBO) - Member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of Hoa Binh province’s Party Committee Bui Van Tinh had a working session with the provincial Department of Information and Communication on its implementation of political tasks in 2015 – 2017, major tasks in 2018-2020 and some other relevant matters. Attending the meeting were Nguyen Van Toan, Head of the provincial Party Committee’s Commission on Information and Education, and Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.
Bui Van Tinh, Party Central Committee member
and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, addresses the working session.
In the period 2015-2017, the information and
communication sector has developed strongly. Specifically, the post and
telecommunication industry has improved quality of services, while information
safety and security was insured without network congestion, thus better serving
the direction and management work of Party Committees and administrations at
all level and meeting people’s demand.
As of 2017, the province had 216
postal service points with a network of 26 post offices with 10 secondary mail lines
and 34 third level ones. All communes, wards, towns, and agencies received newspapers
during the day. Networks using optical cable have reached all districts and
cities across the province, and the centres of 209 out of 210 communes,
accounting for 99.5 percent, while 184 out of 210 communes had broadband
internet infrastructure.
The province has 743 thousand
mobile phone subscribers, and 50 percent of the local population using the
Internet. Telecommunication revenue is about 1 trillion VND per year, with over
80 billion VND channelled to the State budget per year.
As much as 100 percent of the communes have accessed
central and local radio and television broadcasting services, while 93 percent
of households have television sets, 80 percent of households watch digital TV
in different forms, and 71 out of 210 communes have their own local system of
loudspeakers.
Regarding key tasks in the coming time, the provincial
Party Committee Secretary requested departments, agencies and press agencies
pay attention to promoting the image and socio-economic potential of the
locality, and organise events effectively.
He asked for more attention to cyber
security issues in order to prevent the abuse of Internet to commit law
violations, and urged the authorised agencies to consider issuing mechanisms
for information provision, improve the quality of press briefings, and hold
emergency press conferences when necessary.
The provincial leader also
suggested holding more meetings online, while improving the operation quality
of websites of sectors and localities, well implementing the regulations on spokesperson,
and re-evaluating the results of coordination with Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper.
Press agencies should increase
activities to popularise the Law on Cyber Security, he said, adding that the
provincial authorities should design plans to enforce the law effectively./.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.