Lê Văn Lương, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, and Lò Văn Cương, Member of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee and Permanent Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, co-chaired the conference. Attending the meeting at the provincial venue were leaders of provincial departments, boards, sectors, and units.

According to a report by the Department of Finance, total GRDP in July was lower than the monthly average target required under the growth scenario. Among 20 monitored economic sectors, 12 sectors met or fundamentally achieved their targets, while 8 sectors fell short. The growth deficit was primarily concentrated in four sectors: education and training; real estate business; activities of the Party, socio-political organizations, state management, national defense, security, and compulsory social security; and accommodation and catering services.

With little time remaining in the third quarter, provincial departments, sectors, localities, and units are required to engage decisively and concentrate maximum efforts on growth targets for the third quarter and the entirety of 2026. The provincial People’s Committee demanded the synchronous rollout of set tasks and solutions, tying the responsibility of unit heads to the growth performance of each sector, domain, project, and assigned growth driver.

Accordingly, during August and September, sectors and units must identify specific shortfalls in workload, converting them into concrete deliverables, revenues, and economic activities; designate lead agencies, coordinating bodies, and implementation localities; and monitor weekly and monthly progress via input indicators rather than relying solely on added-value assessments. For growth drivers at risk of underperformance, agencies must proactively pinpoint shortfalls and devise substitution options instead of waiting until the end of the quarter. The focus lies on assigning specific, realistic tasks to the four lagging sectors, while encouraging sectors that met or exceeded schedules to build on their achievements, maximize available room for growth, and drive expansion to the highest degree to offset shortfalls and raise the province’s overall growth rate.

At the conference, delegates focused on analyzing causes, discussing, and agreeing upon solutions to compensate for growth deficits, striving to fulfill third-quarter targets and establish a solid foundation for achieving growth goals in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2026.

Concluding the conference, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Lê Văn Lương requested departments, sectors, localities, and units to continue reviewing and concretizing each task and solution, focusing on making up for growth deficits and striving to fulfill targets for the third quarter and 2026.

For commune and ward People’s Committees, the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee required establishing steering committees and working teams to determine specific solutions, tasks, and growth targets aligned with assigned goals. Focus must be placed on expanding production scales, seeking and attracting investors, developing cooperative groups, and promoting joint ventures and linkages; growth plans for the remaining months of the third quarter must be submitted to the Department of Finance no later than August 21.

For departments, sectors, units, and project developers, it is essential to re-examine all growth solutions, clearly identifying unfulfilled indicators, underlying causes, and offsetting plans. For targets that prove difficult to meet, units must proactively explore and tap extra potential from other fields and sectors to make up for shortfalls, ensuring growth scenario targets are reached. Assignments must follow the “six clears” principle: clear personnel, clear duties, clear timelines, clear responsibilities, clear authority, and clear deliverables. Departments and sectors must finalize growth plans and submit them to the Department of Finance no later than the afternoon of August 19.

The Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee assigned the Department of Finance to lead advisory efforts on growth-boosting measures for lagging sectors. Emphasis should be placed on urging the disbursement of public investment capital and non-budget investment funds, particularly among units and developers with low disbursement rates. Concurrently, solutions must be devised to foster growth in education and training, alongside reviewing and accelerating expenditure and activity plans of the Party, socio-political organizations, state management, national defense, security, and compulsory social security.

The Department of Finance is tasked with setting up a working team to advise on growth solutions for the third quarter, tracking assigned goals and targets closely, and promptly urging and guiding departments, sectors, communes, wards, and units to adjust tasks and solutions when necessary, ensuring progress and striving to fulfill the province’s overall growth objectives.