The signing of the new Coordination Regulation marks an important step in the coordination relationship between the State Audit Office (SAO) and Party committees, People's Councils (PCs), People's Committees (PEs) of localities; expanding the scope, content and responsibility of coordination, towards improving the effectiveness and efficiency of management, use and control of public finances, public assets, and state budget, contributing to improving the quality of local governance.
Attending the Conference, on the local side were members of the Party Central Committee: Trinh Xuan Truong, Secretary of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Hong Thai, Secretary of Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committee; Hau A Lenh, Secretary of Tuyen Quang Provincial Party Committee; along with representatives of leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and departments, agencies, and branches of 4 provinces.
On the side of SAV, there were Comrade Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the National Assembly Party Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee, State Auditor General; Deputy State Auditors General and representatives of leaders of units directly under SAV.
According to Comrade Trinh Xuan Truong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, the new Coordination Regulation will create a basis for SAV and localities to strengthen information exchange, coordination in audit activities, processing and implementing audit conclusions and recommendations; and at the same time jointly research and remove problems arising from practice.
Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Secretary believes that the Regulation will be implemented seriously, synchronously, and substantively, contributing to strengthening financial discipline and order, improving the efficiency of management and use of state resources, preventing and combating waste and negativity, and promoting rapid and sustainable development.
At the Conference, representatives of local leaders highly appreciated the role of SAV as well as the necessity of signing the Coordination Regulation in the new period.
Speaking at the Conference, State Auditor General Nguyen Huu Nghia assessed that the Coordination Regulation is a correct, practical and effective policy, contributing to helping SAV and localities perform well the assigned functions and tasks; improve the quality, discipline, effectiveness and efficiency of auditing activities, enhance transparency and accountability in budget management and administration, mobilization, allocation and use of development resources.
According to the State Auditor General, in the context that the whole country and 4 provinces Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang, Bac Ninh, Cao Bang are drastically implementing rapid and sustainable development goals according to the Resolution of the 14th Party Congress, striving to maintain double-digit economic growth in 2026 and the following years, the requirements for public finance management, public assets and local governance are increasingly high. The issue is not only to mobilize resources, but more importantly to manage, allocate and use resources in accordance with the law, economically and effectively, so that public resources truly promote their role in paving the way, leading and creating motivation for development.
At the same time, the implementation of the 2-level local government model and continued improvement of the policy and legal system raises the requirement to improve implementation capacity, while strictly controlling the risk of violations, corruption, wastefulness, and negativity.
From that requirement, the State Auditor General emphasized that audit activities need to continue to strongly shift from detecting and handling violations to assessing economics, effectiveness, and efficiency; identify bottlenecks and inadequacies from practice and propose to improve mechanisms and policies, contributing to risk prevention from an early stage.
This is also the basis for SAV and localities to strengthen information exchange on potential risk areas, areas, and subjects; proactively limit duplication between auditing and inspection, examination, and supervision; focus resources on issues that may affect the efficiency of management and use of public resources.
From that perspective, the new Coordination Regulation is expected to create an important link in bringing audit results into the decision-making and implementation process in localities. Audit results are not only limited to pointing out errors and handling recommendations, but are gradually transformed into management information, contributing to preventing loss and waste, removing bottlenecks in mechanisms and policies, and improving the efficiency of resource use for rapid and sustainable development.
On this occasion, SAV awarded the Medal "For the Cause of State Audit" to leaders and officials of 4 provinces who have made many contributions to the cause of building and developing SAV.
In order to meet management requirements in the new situation, the Work Coordination Regulations signed this time have breakthrough new points:
Expanding the subjects of participation: Supplementing the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee of 4 provinces to participate in signing with the Standing Committee of the People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee, promoting the comprehensive leadership and supervisory role of Party committees in the management of public finance and public assets.
Raising the scale and content of coordination: Expanding to 10 in-depth coordination contents, clearly defining the responsibilities of each agency in removing mechanism bottlenecks, handling problems and thoroughly implementing audit conclusions and recommendations.
Adapting to the new context: Suitable for the 2-level local government organization model; promoting digital transformation, connecting and sharing digital data between localities and SAV; accompanying and supporting financial management nghiệp vụ training for grassroots officials.
