The 7^th session of the 8^th Da Nang People’s Council (PC) for the 2011 - 2016 term closed on Thursday morning under the chairmanship of the municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary, Mr Tran Tho.

Addressing the event, the People’s Committee Chairman, Mr Van Huu Chien, presented solutions for ensuring sustainable collections for the city budget, expediting the progress of local FDI projects, speeding up administrative reform, and dealing with overdue dossiers and slow urban planning projects.  He also pointed out ways to enhance the management of construction investments and ensure the progress and quality of local construction work, as well as ways to avoid the problem of projects’ real costs considerably exceeding their estimates.

The participants passing the session’s major resolutions

As for the city’s key tasks for the remaining months of this year, special focus will be paid on promoting local production and trading activities, developing  manufacturing industries and services, fufilling the year’s socio-economic growth target, and attracting more domestic and foreign direct investments to the city as well as expediting their capital disbursements.  In addition, top priority will be given to tightening the management of construction investments, ensuring sufficient investment capital for local construction projects, and expediting the allocation of capital for local State-funded projects.

Local authorities will also attach great importance to enhancing urban management and environmental protection, implementing the regulations about collections and spending, and using the city budget effectively.

Special attention will be paid to ensuring social welfare, improving the living conditions of local residents, enhancing the efficiency of administrative reform and government building work, dealing with any complaints and denunciations, and ensuring social order, security and traffic safety.