NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue attendedand delivered remarks at the event.
Nguyen Thi Thanh, head of theStanding Committee’s Board for Deputy Affairs, said the NA Standing Committeewould have held a conference reviewing the 2016 - 2021 performance of thePeople’s Councils last year, but instead, it sent a review report to localitiesdue to the complex COVID-19 situation.
In the new tenure, the NAStanding Committee decided to organise the conference annually, and meetingswill take place in the northern, central, and southern regions separately in2022 in adaptation to the pandemic, she noted.
In the elections of deputiesto the 15th NA and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021 - 2026 tenure,3,721 deputies were elected to provincial-level People’s Councils, 22,550 to district-level councils, and 239,788 others to councils at the communallevel.
In 2021, despite the pandemic’scontinued impact, the Vietnamese economy still posted stable development and kept its attractiveness to foreign investors, which was partly attributed to efforts byall-level People’s Councils - the local organ of the State power and therepresentative of the people’s will, aspirations, and right to mastery thatmade important decisions to implement the Party’s guidelines and policies andthe State’s laws, according to a report delivered at the conference.
At the event, permanentmembers of the People’s Councils from some localities reported on theircouncils’ performance outcomes and experience in 2021, which showed many new and positive points in their organisation and working method. They also proposed severaltasks and solutions for this year./.