The session focused on the deployment and implementation of the province’s “double-digit” Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) growth target during the first six months of 2026.

Attending the working session were provincial Party Committee Member and Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyễn Văn Đoạt, members of the monitoring delegation, and representative leaders of relevant boards, departments, and sectors.

Implementing Resolution No.97 dated May 26, 2026, of the provincial People’s Council Standing Board on establishing the thematic monitoring delegation, the group has recently conducted monitoring via reports and worked directly with the provincial People’s Committee, its specialized agencies, relevant organizations and units, as well as the Điện Biên Phủ ward People’s Committee.

During the working session, delegates listened to the thematic monitoring results report. Accordingly, the economy maintained a fair growth momentum, with the GRDP for the first six months estimated to increase by 8.6% over the same period last year. This performance ranked Điện Biên 5th out of 9 provinces in the Northern Mid-lands and Mountainous region, and 17th out of 34 provinces and cities nationwide. Notably, 6 out of 21 level-I economic sectors exceeded their planned targets, contributing 49.7% of the total product value in the province and adding 4.47 out of 8.67 percentage points to the overall growth.

Agriculture, forestry, and fishery production developed stably, focusing on core crops such as coffee, macadamia, and pineapple, while deploying major schemes and projects alongside agricultural restructuring linked with new rural construction. Industry maintained a fair growth momentum as the industrial production index increased by 16%. Commercial, service, and tourism activities were vibrant, pushing the total retail sales of goods up by 14.8% over the same period last year, while total export turnover rose by 26.6% year-on-year.

The province also successfully organized the 2026 provincial Investment Promotion Conference, signing 22 memoranda of understanding with a total registered investment capital of over VND 209,370 billion, creating a widespread impact and attracting the attention of domestic and foreign enterprises and investors to key local programs and projects. Direction, governance, and organization for executing the public investment plan were drastically implemented, resulting in a public investment capital disbursement rate that reached 50% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, leading the entire country. Job placement, education, and healthcare tasks were firmly guaranteed.

Monitoring delegation members and leaders of several provincial departments and sectors clarified and explained various contents, particularly the unmet targets. Specifically, the GRDP growth did not meet the target set in the proposed scenario, falling 1.79 percentage points short of the plan, while 14 level-I economic sectors failed to achieve their targets. Furthermore, the total social investment capital only reached 34% of the annual plan, and investment preparation, finalization of investment procedures, site clearance, and execution of several projects remained slow.

Nguyễn Văn Đoạt, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, emphasized that the provincial People’s Committee will discuss and absorb the directive contents of the provincial People’s Council Standing Board for implementation. In the coming time, the committee will place a heavy focus on counting and statistics, alongside assigning targets to each sector and domain while linking responsibilities to each individual, agency, and unit for effective execution.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Lê Thành Đô requested the Economic and Budget Committee of the provincial People’s Council to absorb all comments to perfect the report, focusing on clarifying the evaluation of growth targets in the first and second quarters, while elaborating on existing limitations and their root causes, especially subjective ones. Regarding future solutions and recommendations, the province will propose adjustments to the Government concerning the allocation of the medium-term public investment plan and investment capital for national target programs.

For the provincial People’s Committee, he stressed the need to supplement a group of solutions to achieve targets in the agriculture and forestry sector, particularly ensuring production seasons and focusing on cultivating crops like macadamia and coffee. The committee must efficiently utilize career capital sources, bring the coffee and macadamia areas of the year into standard operational exploitation, fulfill targets related to processing and manufacturing industries, disburse public investment capital, and properly allocate fund sources. He also urged untying difficulties and creating favorable conditions for local investors and businesses, concentrating on tourism and urban development projects, and giving absolute priority to agricultural processing projects such as coffee.