Ensuring high-quality, feasible resolutions

The incoming 8th session, the year-end regular session of 2025, is one of the two largest Provincial People’s Council (PPC) meetings of the year. With a substantial number of around 45 draft resolutions to be reviewed, the Provincial People’s Committee (PPC) has closely guided and supervised all submission materials for the session, ensuring that they are fully completed in strict compliance with procedures and regulations.

In addition, to guarantee legal validity, rationality, and feasibility, and to enhance the quality of the PPC’s decisions, following the assignment from the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Council (PPC), in recent days, the PPC’s committees have reviewed proposals and draft resolutions with utmost diligence and focus.

Thorough review of regulations

The recent review meeting of the Economic and Budget Committee of the Dong Nai Provincial People's Council, held to examine several items submitted for the regular year-end session of 2025, began at 7:30 a.m. and continued past noon. Throughout this extended period, members of the reviewing committee and representatives from relevant departments and sectors, the drafting agencies, maintained a high level of focus as they analyzed and clarified the legal basis, the necessity of issuance, as well as the content and formatting of 12 proposals and draft resolutions related to economics and budgeting.

Huynh Viet Cuong, Head of the Economic and Budget Committee of the Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council (PPC), speaks at a review meeting for items to be presented at the year-end 2025 regular session of the Provincial People’s Council. Photo: Ho Thao

Huynh Viet Cuong, Head of the Economic and Budget Committee of the Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council (PPC), stated that: At this 8th session, the advisory bodies of the Provincial People’s Committee will submit up to 45 proposals and draft resolutions for consideration. The Economic and Budget Committee has been assigned 23 items for review. The committee organized two sessions to provide feedback and examine these items.

Huynh Viet Cuong emphasized that any resolution, once issued, must align with the Party’s guidelines, fall within the proper authority, comply with legal regulations, and be practical. Producing such a resolution involves a thorough preparation process requiring significant effort from all relevant agencies. In its role as the reviewing body, the committee proactively coordinated with drafting departments and sectors from the moment they registered their proposals, continuously exchanging information and providing feedback throughout the drafting process. For certain items, the committee even conducted field surveys to gather practical data, ensuring the resolutions are both high in quality and feasible for implementation.

“We have to study the legal regulations very carefully. Each session reviews numerous resolutions, and each resolution involves many different legal documents. The most relevant include the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents and the Law on Organisation of Local Government, along with a range of sector-specific laws. Under each law, there are also numerous related decrees and circulars. Some draft resolutions require multiple revisions after receiving feedback before they can be finalized. Some resolutions are only about half a page long, but creating them involves a painstaking process of research, discussion, and drafting,” emphasized the Head of the Economic and Budget Committee of the Provincial People’s Council.

Alongside the significant efforts of the leadership and dedicated staff of the Provincial People’s Council’s committees, the members of the committees also participated responsibly in the review process. Even though their work is often concurrent with other duties, the members actively studied the materials. They contributed numerous high-quality suggestions, helping to finalize the content of both the draft resolutions and the draft review reports of the Provincial People’s Council’s committees.

Proactively considering multiple perspectives

Huynh Ngoc Kim Mai, Head of the Culture and Social Affairs Committee of the Dong Nai Provincial People's Council, shared that: with the large volume of proposals and draft resolutions, preparing for the year-end regular session inevitably brings time pressures. In particular, following the administrative reorganization, many policies became inconsistent between the two former localities, requiring the timely development of a unified policy to be applied after the merger. The pressure of both deadlines and the quality of draft resolutions demands urgent and concerted efforts from both the Provincial People’s Committee and the Provincial People’s Council. In this context, as the reviewing body for culture and social affairs, the Culture and Social Affairs Committee, along with the other committees, has closely collaborated with the drafting agencies, engaging with proposals and draft resolutions from the moment they are submitted.

According to the Head of the Culture and Social Affairs Committee of the Dong Nai Provincial People's Council: “In addition to holding review meetings as required, the committee also invites drafting agencies for early consultations to provide in-depth feedback on the content of each proposal and draft resolution. Throughout the review process, both sides maintain regular communication through various channels to ensure that, by the time a resolution is issued, it is well-developed and highly feasible.”

In reviewing each item, the committee must also consider a wide range of factors. For example, when examining the proposal and draft resolution on health insurance contribution support for specific groups in Dong Nai province for the 2026–2030 period, a policy that has drawn intense public interest, the committee also studied comparable resolutions from neighboring provinces to assess which groups they covered and the level of support provided. These findings were then weighed against the province’s budget capacity. The goal is to ensure that any policy adopted is not only legally compliant but also well-adapted to local realities and aligned with practices in other localities.

Huynh Ngoc Kim Mai also noted that although each committee under the Provincial People’s Council is assigned to a specific field, every resolution has multidimensional impacts. Therefore, during the review process, the Culture and Social Affairs Committee, like other committees, coordinates with its counterparts to jointly contribute to the development of high-quality resolutions.

Alongside the two committees mentioned above, the Legal Affairs Committee and the Ethnic Affairs Committee also focused intently and seriously on reviewing items within their assigned areas. During the review process, in a spirit of frankness and objectivity, the committees provided input to help finalize resolutions. For example, at a recent review meeting of the Ethnic Affairs Committee, when reviewing the draft policy on support for ethnic minority students in Dong Nai province, and the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the Provincial People’s Council frankly stated that: The draft resolution, which set the same support level for all beneficiaries, was found to be inappropriate, as it did not ensure fairness among different groups. To address this, the committee recommended that the drafting agency adjust support levels according to each group and take into account the situation of students at schools both inside and outside the province. The drafting agency incorporated the committee’s suggestions to finalize the draft resolution.

Reviewing proposals and draft resolutions is a task of utmost importance. This process provides objective information and serves as a foundation for Provincial People's Council deputies to deliberate, vote, and issue resolutions that are legally sound, rational, and feasible.

By Ho Thao – Translated by Thu Hien, Minho