1. Members of Standing Committee of Provincial People’s Committee:

In order to fulfil the objectives and tasks set in 2018, members of the standing committee of the provincial People's Committee with their assigned duties and responsibilities of the leaders, upholding the sense of responsibility for the management of the provincial People's Committee according to the assigned field of work; the decisions and instructions of the Chairman and the Vice Chairmen of the provincial People's Committee should ensure to comply with the provisions of law, the working regulations of the provincial Party Executive Committee (Regulation No. 05- QC/TU dated 12 January 2018 by the Provincial Party Committee), the working regulations of the Party Committee of the provincial People’s Committee, the working regulations of the provincial People's Committee; closely follow the resolutions and working programs issued and managed by the Government, the Resolution issued by the provincial Party Committee, the provincial People's Council and the working program of the provincial People's Committee; organize the periodical meetings and specialized meetings to handle the issues and problems, direct and be responsible for the management of work in accordance with the working regulations so as to produce good results of work settlement and task’s fulfilment.

* Members of the provincial People's Committee are heads of departments and agencies, apart from their roles and responsibilities, in directing and performing the assigned tasks of the provincial People's Committee according to their respective branches and domains,  a number of major tasks assigned to those members by the People's Committee  to be fulfiled in 2018 as follows:

2. Chief of the Office of the Provincial People's Committee:

- Provides the standing committee of the provincial People's Committee with advice and consultancy in directing the administration management of the activities of the authorities at all levels and the provincial departments and agencies on the principles of democratic centralism, synchornized implementation, with a focus in its direction and administration to fulfil the task of socio-economic development in 2018. Strengthens the inspection and strict implementation of the working regulations of the provincial People's Committee to both concentrate the direction and management of the provincial People's Committee and at the same time create the most favourite conditions for the provincial departments, agencies and the localities to keep up their activeness and creation in fulfiling the assigned duties.

- Directs the working group to fully perform their duties in monitoring and urging other agencies to fulfil the tasks assigned by the provincial People’s Committee and Chairman of provincial People’s Committee; receiving the information and supporting enterprises about the administrative procedures in the province.

- Provides the best consultancy in fully following the regulations on responsibilities of the head and his or her local governmental agency in performing their tasks and public duties; the implementation of administrative disciplines, bringing aout the synchronous changes in the entire political system from provincial level to district, city and grassroots units; always keep the high responsibility and discipline in operation and management.

- Maintains the close links and cooperation with the Office of Provincial Party Committee, Office of Provincial People's Council in developing the program and working schedule of provincial leaders to be organized and to avoid overlapping plans or schedule.

- Advises to develop the project for the construction of the provincial administrative service center in quarter II / 2018 for the provincial People's Committee to report to the Provincial Party Committee

- Strengthens the management of administrative procedures, one-stop shop, cutting 30% of time length to complete the administrative procedures that should focus on the fields of land, capital construction and construction license.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to prepare and to formulate contents of the reports of the provincial People's Committee to submit to the regular meetings of provincial People's Councils.

- Timely provides the central and local newspapers with the updated information for weekly news.

3. Director of Department of Planning and Investment:

- Advises on measures to successfully fulfil the targets of socio-economic development plan assigned in 2018 in Decision No.5568/QĐ-UBND dated 12 December 2017; implements the Government's Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated 01 January 2018 on major tasks and solutions to the implementation of the 2011-2020 socio-economic development plan and the State budget Estimate; makes sure that all the assigned duties should be completely fulfilled and be in accordance with the actual situation of the province.

- Continues to advise the provincial People’s Committee to complete the Lao Cai development Project in order to report to the Politburo.

- Presides with other local departments and sectors to propose measures to mobilize the capital resources to speed up the implementation of the  large projects and to focus the investment in completing the key projects of the province: A national highway that connects Noi Bai - Lao Cai expressway to Sa Pa; Bypass of 4D road to Sa Pa; extended Tran Hung Dao Street; Kim Thanh - Ngoi Phat highway; New administrative area of ​​Sa Pa; Endocrinology Hospital, Traditional Medicine Hospital, Medical School; Investment projects in Sa Pa National Park (Northeast urban area, Muong Hoa cultural park, ...); focuses on investing in the highland and rural areas with a focus on the construction of the rural infrastructure such as roads, electricity supply systems for the villages without electricity, commune health centres, removal of temporary classrooms, etc. (Priority will be given to eight communes striving to reach new rural communes in 2018)

- Provides the provincial People’s Committee with the advice on the synchronous implementation of measures to handle the public debts, to manage the efficient use of the loan capital resources, to manage the debts of capital construction.

- Provides the provincial People’s Committee with the advice on the allocation, management and improvement of the efficiency of the use of public investment capital resources in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Public Investment and the Law on the State Budget; in particular, regulations on the investment policy and decisions of investment and quick disbursement of on-going ODA projects, ensuring the progress under the signed agreements; strengthens the monitoring and the evaluation of the investment activities,  thepost-investment inspection of capital construction’s projects and works.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to implement the solutions to further improve the provincial competitiveness index (PCI); to implement the plan for the implementation of the Government's Resolution No.19-2017/ NQ-CP dated 06 February 2017 on continuing the fulfilment of major tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and enhance the national competitive capacity of enterprises in 2017 with orientation to 2020; Resolution No.35/NQ-CP dated 16 May 2016 by the Government on supporting and developing enterprises by 2020; organizing a meeting to discuss and reward enterprises in the first quarter of 2018.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to facilitate and promote the implementation of the contents signed between Lao Cai province and other provinces and cities in the country and foreign countries, especially Hanoi city, Nouvelle–Aquitaine (France) and Gyeongsan city (South Korea).

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to speed up the transformation of the provincial public non-business units into joint-stock companies in the period of 2016-2020.

4. Director of Department of Finance:

- Advises the provincial People’s Committee to impose the appropriate measures to collect the State budget in the province to ensure the budget allocation in 2018, striving for the minimum revenue increase of 10% compared to the assigned budget; enhances to manage the regular expenditures of the budget economically and efficiently. .

- Advises the provincial People’s Committee to implement properly and efficiently the State Budget Law in 2015, the Law on Charges and Fees and other regulations on state budget, budget revenues and expenditures.

- Coordinates with the provincial Department of Planning and Investment to advise to implement synchronously effective measures to handle the pubilc debts; to allocate the capital sources for concentrated investment of the completion of key projects of the province; to allocate the capital resources for key works or projects of the province.

- Provides the investors with the guidelines to strictly comply with the requirements on settlement of projects, especially those projects which have been completed and put into operation since the previous years but not yet settled; to propose to promptly overcome difficulties in the procedures for payment and settlement of capital resources.

- Provides the provincial People's Committee with the solutions to accelerate the implementation of the roadmap to improve the financial autonomy and the financial mechanism reform for public service delivery agencies in all types of public service delivery agencies.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to expand the scale and enhance the management and effective use of the provincial financial funds, including: Development Investment Fund, Land Development Fund, Forest Protection and Development Fund, Environmental Protection Fund, Road maintenance Fund, provincial tourism development fund,etc ... to increase resources for development investment.

5. Director of Lao Cai provincial Department of Industry and Commerce:

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to resolve difficulties, to speed up the progress so as to put the key industrial projects into operation such as Ta Phoi Copper Factory, Ban Qua Copper Factory, Bao Ha Graphite Factory, Project for manufacture of high-tech wire and cable of Koviet Company, ect.; to accelerate the progress of hydroelectric plants expected to be completed in 2018.

- Speeds up the construction and putting into operation of a number of key markets in Lao Cai city and districts (Pho Moi market, Bac Ha cultural market, Can Cau market, Pho Rang market, etc.).

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to complete the planning of Lao Cai provincial Eletricity development for the period of 2016-2025, with a vision to 2035; the planning of the industrial zone in the West of Lao Cai city; and to speed up the investment in the projects for electricity supply in rural areas.

- Provides the provincial People's Committee with the solutions to promote the support activities and to increase the export and import value of goods in the province (administrative procedures, difficulties, charges, fees, infrastructure of the border gate, etc.).

6. Director of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development:

- Coordinates with districts and cities to provide the guidelines for the agricultural and forestry production seasonally to ensure the plan and the seasonal time frame; monitors and controls the epidemic of diseases on the plants and the animals, to intensify the service and control of the quality of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural production.

- Advises to implement the restructuring of agriculture sector; to speed up the transformation of agricultural and rural economy; to implement the master plan for agricultural development in Lao Cai province up to 2020 with orientation to 2030; to implement the effective cooperation with Lam Dong province on hi-tech agriculture; to effectively exploit and improve the use of agricultural, forestry and aquaculture land.

- Effectively implements the livestock development project in Si Ma Cai according to the Resolution No.22-NQ/TU dated 11 November 2014 by the provincial Party Committee; to widely develop the area of the production forests to create the raw material areas for the enterprises in low-land districts, with focus on cinnamon plants.

- Directs the implementation of the program on new rural development in the province, with the target in 2018 when there are more 08 communes to complete new rural development: Ban Phiet, Ban Cam communes (Bao Thang district); Ban Xeo commune (Bat Xat district); Nam Det commune (Bac Ha district), Tan Duong commune (Bao Yen district); Ban Me commune (Si Ma Cai district); Thanh Binh commune (Muong Khuong district); Lang Giang commune (Van Ban district).

- Reviews the entire system of reservoirs and irrigational dams so as to formulate plans for investment, reinforcing and ensuring the safety in the rainy and flood seasons; monitors and inspects the implementation of the management and protection of water reservoirs; exploitation and synthesis of environmental resources in reservoir areas, hydropower and irrigation in the province.

7. Director of Department of Transport:

- Provides the central ministries and agencies with advice and proposals to allocate the capital and support in speeding up the implementation of key and important projects of the province in terms of transport infrastructure such as: The road that connects the Noi Bai - Lao Cai Expressway to Sa Pa district; Lao Cai Airport; the bypass of 4Dnational highway to Sa Pa, Lao Cai - Yen Bai route (linking Pho Moi railway station and Lam Giang commune, Van Yen district, Yen Bai province and Van Ban district and Phong Dau commune, Van Yen district, Yen Bai province that is in phase 1); the extended Tran Hung Dao Street; Kim Thanh - Ngoi Phat road; to support the construction and upgrading of national highways and provincial roads; to promote the construction of Pho Lu intersection that is connected to Noi Bai - Lao Cai expressway; to complete the construction project of the standard railway linking Pho Moi railway station with the North He Kou railway station (Yunnan province - China).

- Speeds up the equitization of  mnagement boards of Lao Cai province’s bus stations that should be completed in the second quarter of 2018

- Enhances the state management of transport, and raises the quality of training, examination and granting of driving licenses; implements measures to reduce road traffic accidents; intensifies the inspection and control of the load, the conditions for ensuring the safety of passenger and goods vehicles. Enhances the propaganda and education activities for road users in strictly following the regulations on the assurance of traffic order and safety.

8. Director of Department of Construction:

- Reviews, finalizes and then submits to ask for approval of the adjustment of regional planning, general planning, zoning planning, detailed planning, etc. that should focus on Lao Cai city, Sa Pa, Bat Xat and Bao Thang districts after the edition of the administrative boundaries; formulates plans for the implementation of urban planning and planning of residential areas in the province; and the project for upgrading Sa Pa district to become Sa Pa town.

- Enhances the performance of State management function over construction, planning, quality management of works and housing development.

- Coordinates with the Management Board for The border gate economic zone no later than the second quarter to complete and report to the provincial People's Committee for submission to the Ministry of Construction and the Prime Minister for the approval of the general planning of border-gate economic zones (expansion) and detailed plannings of the border gate economic zone.

- Advises the province to implement programs and projects on urban development in Lao Cai city, Sapa urban town, Bao Ha (Bao Yen district), Pho Lu (Bao Thang district), Bac Ha district, etc.; to implement the Program for Lao Cai provincial urban development as planned.

- Implements the Year of Urban Social Order, focusing on Lao Cai city, Sa Pa and Bac Ha districts.

9. Director of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism:

- Executes the Action Program No.148-CTr/ TU dated 28 July 2017 by the provincial Party's Executive Committee in implementing the Resolution No.08-NQ/TW dated 16 January 2017 by the Politburo on developing tourism to become a spearhead economic sector; plans a project for human resources development in tourism for the period of 2018-2025.

- Implements the Decision No.1927/QĐ-TTg dated 01 December 2017 by the Prime Minister on the recognition of Sa Pa National Tourism Area, Lao Cai Province; and the Decision No.1861/QĐ-TTg dated 23 November 2017 by the Prime Minister on approving the target program for developing the tourism infrastructure in the period of 2016-2020.

- Strengthens the state management of tourism in the key tourist areas of the province (Sa Pa, Bac Ha, Lao Cai city, Bao Yen); promotes promotion activities and tourism promotion with focused activities and contents; develops tourism industry sustainably and professionally in which the quality of tourist products and services should be paid much attention; boosts the sufficiency and effectiveness of the Provincial Tourism Development Assitance Fund.

- Assumes the prime responsibility for, and coordinates with other provincial agencies to develop plans for management and effective exploitation of provincial-level cultural and sport institutions and works (the sports competition of the province; the central cultural centre of the province; the provincial Museum, the out-door exhibition Center, Sports Training Center).

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to impose measures to facilitate the mass sports movement, to build up sport movements at grassroots level; to improve the quality of sports training for significant achievement, to focus on the strong sports of the province; to organize the 2018 National Sports Festival.

10. Director of Department of Education and Training:

- Reviews and adjusts the network of schools and classrooms in the period of 2015-2020, with orientation to 2030; projects for raising the quality of education and training of the education sector.

- Coordinates closely with the propvincial departments, agencies and local governments at all levels, particularly the commune, ward and township administrations, in strengthening the state management of activities of boarding schools, kindergartens (including both private and public schools).

- Promotes the propaganda and education activities to raise the awareness about the vocational guidance, career orientation and the distribution of streams for secondary school graduates to continue studying in high school, vocational training, etc .; orients education activities to meet the labor market requirements in the province.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to carry out the merge of the provincial professional schools into the Thai Nguyen university branch to Lao Cai province according to the roadmap for the establishment of Phan Xi Pang (Fansipan) University.

11. Director of provincial Department ofScience and Technology:

-Provides the provincial People’s Committee with the advices and proposals for enhancing the change of the management mechanism, the promotion of technology research and development, and the transfer of scientific and technological achievements into the socio-economic fields with a focus on hi-tech agriculture.

- Improves the efficiency of standard management and quality measurement; implements properly the State management over intellectual property, initiatives and protection of trademarks in Lao Cai province; strengthens the propaganda and training in intellectual property, consultancy, providing guidelines for organizations and individuals about the administrative procedures to apply for the trademark protection.

 - Advises the provincial People's Committee to access to and to participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution of Lao Cai Province.

12. Director of Department of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs:

- Implements the policies to support job creation, especially for the ethnic minority laborers, laborers working in the planning and site clearance areas; fully supports and carries out well the information provision of labor market.

- Concentrates on raising the quality of vocational training in province, meeting the demand for labor by enterprises and the labor market; enhances to provide the consultancy and guidance for enterprises and production and business establishments who are capable of participating in the profession training of the fields that enterprises need, especially those in the field of tourism and services industries.

- Continues effectively implementing the poverty reduction policies under the Decision No.1722/ QĐ-TTg dated 2 September 2004 by the Prime Minister approving the national target program on sustainable poverty alleviation in the period of 2016-2020;  develops A Plan for poverty reduction in communes with a poverty rate of over 50%.

- Fully and promptly implements the regimes and policies for policy beneficiary families, people with meritorious services and other social beneficiaries, with priority given to poor districts, communes of special difficulties and poor people, people who are affected by natural disasters, displaced households due to site clearance, resettlement households; handles with long-term complaints about policies for people who are affected by toxic chemicals.

13. Director of Department of Health:

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to formulate and implement the Action Program for the implementation of the Resolution No.20-NQ /TW and 21-NQ / TW dated 25 October 2017 by the 12^th Party Central Committee about enhancing the protection, healh care of the people and population work in the comtempory.

- Completes the reorganization of centers and units who are in charge of performing the provincial-level preventive healthcare duties; reviews to reorganize 32 regional general clinics.

- Promotes the implementation of measures to ensure food hygiene and safety, to prevent food poisoning, not to let the serious food poisoning cases for people or crowd be happened. .

- Develops non-public medical examination and treatment establishments, units supplying medicines and medical supplies; develops and implements the family doctor model.

- Strictly controls the quality and the observance of law in medical examination and treatment, management of medicine market; inspects and supervises to ensure the quality of medical services in all the medical examination and treatment establishments and clinics.

- Actively advises the provincial People's Committee to impose measures to enhance training and supplement the contingent of doctors for hospitals and medical establishments.

14. Director of Department of Natural Resources and Environment:

- Strictly manages the land area under planning and post-land inventory; completes the review of planning adjustment, land use’s plans up to 2020 by the province and districts (as approved); proposes to the provincial People’s Committee a plan for reviewing and inspecting use of land in the province.

- Enhances the management of the exploitation and use of natural resources and minerals in a safe, thrifty and efficient manner; closely controls the licensing of deep-sea-related processing activities; fully implements the protection of untapped mineral resources.

- Strengthens the management and protection of the environment; strictly controls and adopts effective solutions to sources that cause pollution, especially in industrial parks and complexes (especially Tang Loong industrial park), establishments engaged in mineral exploitation and processing, and other production facilities which are at risk of pollution; enhances the management and effective handling of domestic garbage, waste water and medical wastes; promotes the socialization of environmental protection activities.

15. Director of Department of Home Affairs:

- Fully Implements the Workforce Reduction Scheme of Lao Cai province in the period of 2016-2021 that should ensure the spirit of Resolution No.39-NQ/TW dated 17 April 2015 by the Politburo and the Decree No.108/2014./NĐ-CP dated 20 November, 2014 by the Government.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to formulate plans for the implementation of the sixth Plenum Resolutions on the innovation and the reorganization of the apparatus of the political system in a streamlined, effective and efficient manner; to strengthen the decentralization for the grassroots levels, clearly defining responsibilities for decentralized duties; to promote the merging of residential groups, hamlets and villages.

- Strengthens the effective implementation of the Directive No.6/CT-UBND dated 06 April 2015 on enhancing the management of cadres, public officials, civil servants, and regulating the public morals and ethics; the Directive No.14/CT-UBND dated 30 September 2016 on accelerating the state administrative reform in Lao Cai province.

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to adopt the effective solutions: to ensure the maintenance and good management of religious and belief activities in the province in order to contribute to consolidating the national unity bloc to meet the spiritual needs of the people; to create a stable environment for the cause of socio-economic and cultural development of the province; to restrict illegal activities or activity of taking advantage of religions to cause the insecurity and social disorder.

16. Director of Department of Foreign Affairs:

- Advises the provincial People's Committee to fully implement the foreign affairs establising close and effective external relations with international organizations, donors, localities, regions and territories, especially maintaining and strengthening relations with Yunnan province, China.

- Coordinates with related departments and agencies to advise the provincial People's Committee to implement properly the agreement signed with Nouvelle – Aquitaine (France); to promote cooperation with Gyeongsan city, South Korea

17. Director of Department of Justice:

- Strengthens the inspection and the guidance for the departments, agencies, units and localities in the observance of the Law on the promulgation of the legal documents and the related regulations by the provincial People's Committees; take the initiative in coordinating with other departments, relevant agencies and the localities to put forward the enforcement activities of law taken into effect in 2018 in order to monitor the observance of laws.

- Directs the evaluation of legal documents promulgated by the provincial People's Council and the provincial People's Committee in accordance with the law quickly and conveniently that should meet the provincial management and development requirements.

18. Director of Department of Informationa and Communication:

- Fully carries out the information and communication work/activities, ensuring the security and information safety; promotes informationa and communication activities and closely follows up the political tasks of the province, effectively contributing to the dissemination and education of the guidelines, policies and laws of the Party and the State/Government to the people of all classes, that shall effectively serve for the socio-economic development of the province.

- Advises to implement the Resolution No.36a/NQ-CP dated 14 October 2015 on e-Government; to build the architecture of local e-government of Lao Cai province; to set up a Project for smart urban development in Lao Cai province in the period of 2018-2025 with a vision to 2030

- Takes the initiative in coordinating with other local governmental agencies and administrations of all levels to provide the information to news and press agencies on the province's socio-economic situation; guidelines, mechanisms and policies by the province and the central government regarding the activities carried out in the province and the information and issues of public concern.

19. Chief Inspector of the Provincial Inspectorate

- Advises to implement appropriate measures to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of anti-corruption activities at various levels and local agencies in socio-economic management, concentrating on the domain of land management, the use of state budget, capital construction, site clearance and the following of administrative procedures, etc. 

- Improves the effectiveness of the settlement of complaints and denunciations; advises the provincial People's Committee: to impose measures to enhance the responsibility of leaders and local administrations; to handle the incident right from the base, not to generate a hot spot cases; to concentrate on resolving outstanding, complicated and prolonged cases in some localities (such as: Sa Pa, Bat Xat, Lao Cai city).

20. Head of the Provincial Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs.

- Continues to consult the provincial People’s Committee: to implement effectively the policies of ethnic minorities in the central and provincial levels; to execute the programs and plans for the implementation of the Strategy for the ethnic minorities affairs in the period of 2016-2020; to implement the Prime Minister's Decision No.498/QĐ-TTg on minimizing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in the period of 2016-2020; Program 135; Decision 755/QĐ-TTg and some other ethnic minorities’s policies

- Focuses on providing the provincial People's Committee with the best consultancy; actively coordinates with related departments to review and evaluate the effectiveness of ethnic minorities policies, contritbuting to creating a clear change and breakthrough for the socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas in the province.

- In 2017, the dissemination of information  was enhanced so that ethnic minorities could unite and support one another; encourages and timely assist the local minorities groups so that they can get rid of poverty.

21. Commander of the Provincial Military Command

- Advises the provincial People’s Committee to fully perform the military-defense tasks in the province. Directs the recruitment of 2018 troops/military forces to meet the targets of quantity and quality requirements.
- Advises the provincial People’s Committee to promote the close integration between economic development and defense consolidation; pays attention to consolidate and to build the border communes and wards to have developed economy and strong defence, ensuring the national sovereignty that would continue to consolidate and maintain the stable border security  

- Advises to properly hold the rehearsal of the defensive areas in Muong Khuong and Bao Yen districts in 2018.

22. Director of Department of Public Security

- Implements the solutions to ensure the security, social order and safety; provides the advices on the regular and effective development and implement of the movement for the whole population to protect the national security.

- Presides and coordinates with other local sectors, agencies and localities to fight against and to reduce the drug-related-cases, theft cases, women leaving the province for unknown reasons, etc; carries many rush attacks to crack the crimes in the area, striving to reduce the number of cases compared to 2017.