After five years of implementing the Resolution of the Provincial Party Congress for the 2020–2025 term and the resolutions of the 10th Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council for the 2021–2026 term, amid the intertwined difficulties and challenges, the province has recorded important and comprehensive results across most fields.
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| Comrade Ton Ngoc Hanh, Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Chairwoman of the Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council, speaks at the first session of the 10th Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council for the 2021–2026 term. Photo: Cong Nghia |
Within those overall achievements, the Provincial People’s Council has continued to affirm its role as the local organ of state power, representing the will, aspirations and the people's right to mastery, playing a central role in promptly and fully institutionalizing Party guidelines into resolutions, thereby providing a solid legal framework for development.
Strengthening the role of the local organ of state power
On May 23, 2021, together with the rest of the country, Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc provinces successfully held elections of deputies to the National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021–2026 term. At their first sessions, the People’s Councils of the two provinces elected the key provincial leadership positions, ensuring stable, continuous and uninterrupted operation of local government between the two terms.
Implementing the policy of reorganizing administrative units, the new Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council officially began operating under the two-tier local government model from July 1, 2025. The Provincial People’s Council’s apparatus was streamlined, with six standing members and four specialized committees, ensuring alignment with practical conditions, clear assignment of responsibilities and the promotion of the role and accountability of each deputy. After more than half a year of implementing the new model, the Provincial People’s Council has continued to affirm its important position and roles within the local government apparatus, particularly in renewing its operational methods, enhancing the quality of supervision, and deciding on major issues of the province.
Assessing those changes, comrade Ha Anh Dung, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Dong Nai Province, said that: In the past term, one of the key requirements for improving the quality of the People’s Council’s operations was to renew question and answer activities. The groups of People’s Council’s deputies carefully prepared their content and selected the appropriate issues, sectors, and departments of concern to voters for practical and relevant questioning. At the same time, departments and sectors improved the quality of their replies by being more direct and substantive and avoiding evasiveness, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of supervision and strengthening public trust.
During the 2021–2026 term, the Provincial People’s Council’s deputies raised 90 interpellation items, more than 40 of which were directly conducted at regular sessions. On that basis, the Provincial People’s Council issued seven resolutions and four conclusions on questions and answers, requiring relevant agencies and units to address shortcomings and improve the effectiveness of state management. The interpellations focused on issues of concern to the voters such as planning and urban management, food safety, crime prevention and control, social housing development, rural clean water, environmental protection, and the handling of complaints and petitions.
Before the reorganization, the Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council held 29 sessions and issued 405 resolutions, while the Binh Phuoc Provincial People’s Council held 25 sessions and issued 321 resolutions. After the merger, the new Dong Nai Provincial People’s Council has held 8 sessions and issued 114 resolutions, including 52 normative legal resolutions and 62 individual resolutions, focusing on making timely decisions on issues arising during the merger and the operation of the new local government model. The sessions were organized in accordance with legal regulations, and the quality of resolutions has steadily improved, ensuring strict compliance with procedures and processes, proper authority and a high degree of feasibility.
In particular, the Provincial People’s Council’s resolutions have fully concretized the targets, tasks and solutions for socio-economic development set out in the Resolution of the Provincial Party Congress, providing an important legal basis for the Provincial People’s Committee and functional agencies to launch the implementation. Many of the resolutions are strategic in orientation and have strong spillover effects, notably those on medium- and annual-term public investment plans; support for infrastructure development in industrial clusters; and mechanisms and policies to support investment through land, technical infrastructure and interest rates, thereby creating a more favorable environment to attract investment, promote growth and economic restructuring in a sustainable direction.
Comrade Nguyen Thi Xuan Hoa, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Party Secretary and Chairwoman of the People’s Council of Phu Rieng commune and a Provincial People’s Council’s deputy, said that the Provincial People’s Council’s activities had become increasingly effective and innovative, particularly the flexibility and creativity shown by the chair in running sessions, especially during questioning sessions. According to her, in a context where voters placed high expectations, that style of leadership met the voters’ expectations and helped improve the quality of the People’s Council’s operation.
Continuing strong innovation
Alongside efforts to renew its operational methods, voter outreach has remained a core task. During the term, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Council coordinated to hold 16 rounds of meetings with nearly 98,000 voters, collecting more than 2,200 opinions and petitions for submission to competent agencies. About 97 per cent of those opinions were reviewed, resolved and answered, with many receiving broad public agreement. Citizen receptions were also maintained on a regular basis, with 285 sessions held and more than 7,000 petitions received and processed, helping safeguard the lawful and legitimate rights and interests of the people.
Le Ly Trinh, a voter from Phuoc Long ward in Dong Nai province, shared: “After attending meetings between voters and People’s Council deputies at all levels, I find this as a sound and politically meaningful activity that creates a direct and convenient bridge between the people and their elected deputies. As the province implements the two-tier People’s Council model, I hope such meetings will be held more frequently, so that deputies with greater responsibilities, will continue to uphold their sense of duty and fulfil their obligations to voters and the people.”
Implementing the Resolution of the 1st Dong Nai Provincial Party Congress for the 2025–2030 term, the Provincial People’s Council for the 2026–2031 term has set the goal of continuing strong reform and further improving the quality and effectiveness of its operations.
Comrade Tran Van Mi, member of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council, said that: To further improve the quality and effectiveness of the People’s Council’s operation in the coming period, the Provincial People’s Council will continue to implement many key measures in a synchronized manner to meet the increasingly high demands of the new context.
The year 2025 – a pivotal year in the reorganization of provincial-level administrative units, marked an important transition, opening up new development space for Dong Nai province with a larger scale in area, population and economic potential. In that context, the Provincial People’s Council made timely decisions on many important issues, helping the province meet and exceed its main targets set by the Provincial People’s Council. In particular, the province’s GRDP grew by 9.63 per cent, exceeding the target assigned by the Government by 1.13 percentage and placing Dong Nai among localities with the high growths nationwide.
Accordingly, improving the quality of People’s Council deputies in the next term has been identified as a key requirement, through the selection of truly qualified representatives with practical experience, legal knowledge and the capacity to make substantive contributions to the Council’s work. At the same time, the quality of council sessions also needs to be further improved in a more substantive direction, moving beyond merely listening to reports to strengthening discussion and questioning, with a focus on clarifying the key issues of concern to voters and the public.
The Provincial People’s Council will also place greater emphasis on improving the quality of oversight, viewing supervision not only as a means of identifying shortcomings and mistakes, but also as an important channel for proposing recommendations to address difficulties and obstacles in implementing Council resolutions into life, and for timely recommendations on adjustments in line with practical needs.
By Ho Thao, Phuong Tinh – Translated Thu Hien, Thu Ha
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