Tan Uyen, journey to become a city

With a breakthrough solution: "Strong investment in developing synchronous infrastructure in association with the development of industrial-urban areas, services, ensuring urban economy with stable, sustainable and effective development; improving the people's intellectual level and the quality of human resources at the requirements of urban construction and management", on April 25, delegates of provincial People's Council voted to approve a policy of establishing Tan Uyen city under the province. This will create favorable conditions for Tan Uyen urban area to develop properly, upholding its potential to achieve many achievements in all fields.

Consensus

In the 2020-2025 tenure, Tan Uyen town’s Party Committee has set a goal of striving to reach criteria of a first-class city by 2025. After the congress, this goal has been promoted by the town's Party Committee. The local great advantage in the development of the second-class city is to receive the consensus, response and active participation of the local people and the business community.

The establishment of Tan Uyen city is a condition to raise the quality of second-class urban area before 2025 under the Resolution of the town’s Party Congress for the 2020-2025 tenure

Each step of Tan Uyen town has the consensus and cultivation of people from all strata. For example, the effective organization and implementation of the campaign "Building a cultural and civilized urban lifestyle" has been well responded by people. The town focused on effectively implementing the collection, transportation, treatment of waste and domestic wastewater; ensuring the beauty, safety and construction - urban order; building civilized urban streets. The town also diversified methods and models of attracting the participation of people to participate, implementing urban rejuvenation under the motto of "The State and people work together"; setting up and well implementing community conventions and self-managing groups on environment, security and order in quarters. Especially, the socialization work received a very high response from people and businesses in participating in the construction of traffic works, investment in water drainage and lighting systems.

Doan Hong Tuoi, Chairman of Tan Uyen town’s People's Committee said that the establishment of Tan Uyen city will create a strong impetus for the locality to increase investment attraction and promote socio-economic development, thereby contributing to speeding up the urban development of the whole province and improving people's quality of life, meeting the thoughts and aspirations of the Party Committee, government, people of Binh Duong province in general and people of Tan Uyen town in particular.

Implementing the Resolution of the local Party Congress, the People's Committee of Tan Uyen town has set up a scheme on the establishment of Tan Uyen city under Binh Duong province on the basis of transforming the natural area, administrative boundaries, population and 12 commune-level administrative units of the town. According to the scheme, Tan Uyen city will be established on the basis of maintaining the current urban status of the town, without increasing administrative units, organizing the apparatus and staff with important significance in politics in line with the aspirations of the people, contributing to raising the local position, creating opportunities for Tan Uyen to uphold its potential to achieve many achievements in various fields.

The project of establishing Tan Uyen city has received high consensus from the local people. Specifically, 86,734 out of 86,836 voters agreed with the project in the poll, accounting for 99.88% of total. At the opinion polls, the majority of voters said that the establishment of Tan Uyen city is a driving force for the overall development of Binh Duong province. Therefore, the People's Committee of Tan Uyen town needs to continue giving drastic directions and having synchronous solutions in order to strive to develop Tan Uyen urban area into a second-class city by 2025. Nguyen Van Hai, a resident of Uyen Hung ward shared: “When hearing that Tan Uyen town is going to be the city, people are very happy because the local infrastructure and many other things will receive more investment. The material and spiritual lives of the local people will be also raised to a new level.”

Building a contingent of worthy cadres

According to Mr. Tuoi, the building of the organizational apparatus, worthy cadres and civil servants plays an important role when the locality is developed into city. Therefore, the Party Committee of Tan Uyen town has further propagandized and raised the awareness and responsibility of Party committees, authorities, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in the implementation of the Resolution No. 18 -NQ/TW of the 12^th Party Central Committee and Plan No. 43-KH/TU of provincial Party Standing Committee; raised political awareness, brought into play the role and responsibility of the heads of the Party Committees, agencies, units and organizations in leading, directing and reorganizing the apparatus, streamlining staff and restructuring the contingent of cadres, civil servants, and public employees. The town has also arranged the organizational apparatus, streamlining civil servants and public employees under provincial Party Standing Committee’s Plan No. 43-KH/TU dated February 12, 2018; the scheme on streamlining the organizational apparatus of Binh Duong province's political system for effective and efficient operation issued together with the Decision No. 711-QD/TU dated May 11, 2018; provincial Party Standing’s Decision No. 930-QD/TU dated December 28, 2018 on approving the Scheme on the organizational arrangement of the political system of Tan Uyen town. The town has also arranged cadres, civil servants and part-time workers for second, third-class communes and wards under the Government’s Decree No. 34/2019/ND-CP and provincial People's Council’s Resolution No. 21/2019/NQ-HDND; seriously and effectively implemented the selection, training, development of human resources and improvement of staff quality; encouraged cadres and Party members to improve their professional qualifications at task requirements. The town has stepped up administrative reform in association with consolidating the apparatus, reducing focal points and streamlining staff at agencies and units; strengthened the application of science and technology, especially information technology; improved service quality for people, businesses...

Reported by Thu Thao-Translated by Kim Tin