Addressing the congress, Party leader Manh praised Tuyen Quang’s five-year socio-economic development achievements as well as its efforts to reach targets adopted at its previous Party Congress.

The congress should analyse advantages and disadvantages to draw up effective measures to boost socio-economic development and improve local people’s living standards, Mr Manh stressed.

However, Mr Manh pointed out limitations including the low per capita income (equivalent to only 60 percent of the country’s average), failure to fulfill 8 of its 28 set targets, low paced economic restructuring and development of services, low competitive capacity and the poor quality of education, training and human resources.

The Party leader called on the province to promote socio-economic development by investing in disadvantaged areas, boosting potential industries, diversifying high-quality services and encouraging economic sectors to develop tourism.

It is essential to ensure social welfare, reduce poverty and improve the quality of Party members and enhance the “Studying and Following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example”, Mr Manh emphasised.

In his report, Secretary of the Tuyen Quang provincial Party Committee, Nguyen Sang Vang, said over the past five years, Tuyen Quang has maintained an annual economic growth rate of 13.5 percent with per capita income of US$702 per year. Remarkable progress has been seen in industry, agriculture, trade, service, economics, education, healthcare, culture and social welfare while political stability and national security and defence have been reinforced and leadership capacity has been enhanced, thus bringing a facelift to the province.

The same day, the 10^th Congress of the Bac Kan provincial Party Committee (2010-2015 term) was held, in the presence Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem with 324 delegates representing 23,000 Party members.

Over the past five years, the Bac Kan provincial Party Committee has recorded significant socio-economic achievements with an annual average economic growth rate reaching 11.2 percent. The province has made headway towards cultural and social development, poverty reduction and social security thereby remarkably improving local people’s material and spiritual lives

The congress reviewed reports from the ninth Party congress and aims to work out orientations and tasks for the 2010-2015 period to help Bac Kan get out of its underdeveloped status by 2015.

The Vinh Long provincial Party Committee also opened its ninth Party Congress (2010-2015 tenture) the same day with the participation of 306 delegates representing 26,000 Party members.

In his speech, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung highlighted the significant achievements the province has recorded over the past five years with a GDP growth rate hitting 11.3 percent per year and per capita income of US$1,000 per year.

Apart from reviewing activities from the previous term, participants discussed solutions for socio-economic development throughout 2015 with a focus on turning Vinh Long into a province with a relatively high economic growth rate in the Mekong Delta region.