On August 4, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province had a working session with the Department of Construction to review and remove difficulties and obstacles in performing assigned tasks according to the functions and tasks of the sector after operating local governments at 2 levels.
At the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan said that the Department of Construction is the first unit where the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directly worked after 1 month of operating the 2-level local government.
Mr. Vuong Quoc Tuan acknowledged the responsible and serious working spirit of the staff and leaders of the Department, with the function of synthesizing and specializing tasks, a large workload, and in the newly merged conditions, the Department's collective has urgently improved and reorganized the apparatus with the spirit of "running and lining up at the same time", "performing tasks at the same time, stabilizing the line". Thereby, contributing to the good implementation of the province's general political tasks.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province emphasized that the immediate goal of the province is to become a centrally-run city, but the long-term goal is to strive to become a city with an ideal living space with synchronous and modern infrastructure, a leading industrial production center, a center for technology application transfer, urban development, trade services, education, healthcare... so that people can enjoy economic development results, contributing to improving people's lives.
With that goal, the province identifies the tasks of the entire political system as extremely large, including the important task of the Construction sector.

Mr. Vuong Quoc Tuan suggested that the construction industry focus on implementing tasks with the most determination, determination, and creativity to achieve high efficiency, create quality products, thereby contributing to meeting the double-digit growth target and ensuring assigned political tasks.
In particular, research and implement 2 plans in parallel, including: General urban planning and adjusting provincial planning appropriately, in the spirit of creating breakthrough products, making the most of the province's development space to realize the planning, harmoniously between the immediate vision and the long-term vision, with the goal of making Bac Ninh a typical developing urban area, a growth zone of the whole country.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Construction to develop a digital map of the whole province on the planning management platform.
At the same time, review and evaluate the overall criteria of type 1 urban areas, especially for localities planning to upgrade urban areas from communes to wards.
Note the overall assessment of urban and housing development programs based on the province's development planning in the past time; thereby, reshaping urban development space, increasing space for clean industrial production, high-tech industry, avoiding over-crisis in urban development scale.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province also agreed to pilot the investor mechanism of industrial infrastructure areas and urban infrastructure to increase investor responsibility; agreed to the policy of renovating student housing areas to create maximum conditions for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers to travel far away.
Assign the Department of Construction to work with investors in building social housing areas to consider and create conditions for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and people who are eligible to buy social housing, helping to create a stable mentality to "set up a business".
Urgently complete the housing development plan for the 2026 - 2030 period; review the overall to have a plan to handle old apartment buildings in the area, on the basis of socializing investment resources.
Regarding the issue of drainage and wastewater treatment, the Department of Construction is requested to urgently develop a Project on management of drainage systems and smart wastewater treatment in the area.
Regarding construction materials, the Department of Construction coordinates with the Department of Finance to research and implement the establishment of a price index in the area periodically until 2030, avoiding projects being behind schedule due to fluctuations in construction material prices.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also proposed building a transport infrastructure network associated with the provincial planning in a multi-sectoral, modern direction, making the most of the space to develop the non-road transport infrastructure system.
Urgently implement the project to expand National Highway 1 service road, Quang Chau Industrial Park and Van Trung Industrial Park sections according to the policy of separating the site clearance project to immediately implement it, including it in the public investment portfolio for the period 2021 - 2025.

Along with that, advise on the policy to strongly develop a modern and smart logistics system, becoming a breakthrough development strategy of the province, associated with the passenger and cargo transportation service system.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province also emphasized the important task for the Department of Construction in particular and departments, branches, units and localities in the whole province, which is to focus on implementing digitalization and digital transformation in the sector; making it a mandatory task for each cadre, civil servant, public employee and worker. Especially for the staff in the 3 fields of construction, land, and finance.