The event was also attended by Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan; and Secretaries of the Party Central Committee: President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Tran Thanh Man, and Chairman of the Vietnamese Party Central Committee's Theoretical Council and Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Nguyen Xuan Thang.
On behalf of Party and State leaders, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan presented the Independence Medal, first class, to the authorities and people of Phu Yen province.
Speaking at the ceremony, the NA Chairwoman praised and congratulated the important achievements of the Provincial Party Committee, government and people over the past 30 years. She emphasised that, although having faced many difficulties, but the Phu Yen Provincial Party, the government and the people have constantly made efforts to strive to rise above, overcoming difficulties and challenges, and gaining many important, outstanding and comprehensive achievements across all fields, as well as gradually raising the position of the province in the region and the country.
NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan urged Phu Yen province to focus on leading and directing the implementation of the Party's guidelines and the State’s policies and laws on social-economic development. It is necessary to improve the leadership capacity and fighting power of the party committees, party organisations and party members; actively implement the planning, training, retraining and building of a contingent of qualified and capable officials; and creating a high consensus for the implementation of local political tasks. She also asked the province to continue to renovate and organise the apparatus of the streamlined and effective political system, renew the organization and management system, and improve the quality and operational efficiency of public non-business units. Meanwhile, it is necessary to drastically implement economic restructuring and ensure the improvement of growth quality, with a focus on restructuring the agricultural sector and the national target program on new rural construction to ensure substantive quality, aiming to increase income and improve people's lives.
On the same day, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim visited and presented gifts to Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and two policy families in Tuy Hoa City and planted souvenir trees at Phu Yen Provincial Party Committee Headquarters.