Vinh Phuc province has new chairman

Tran Duy Dong, deputy Party chief of Vinh Phuc and former Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, has been elected chairman of the northern province for the term 2021-2026.

With 100% of votes in favor, Dong was elected at a meeting of Vinh Phuc People’s Council, the provincial legislative body, on Wednesday.

Previously, on Tuesday, Vinh Phuc’s Party Committee announced the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat decision on appointing Tran Duy Dong, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, as provincial deputy Party chief for the 2020-2025 term.

Tran Duy Dong, born in 1979 in Thanh Hoa province, has a doctorate degree in economics and a master’s degree in public policy from Japan.

He spent many years working at the Ministry of Planning and Investment, starting as an official at the Department of Export Processing Zones and Industrial Parks Management, now the Department of Economic Zones Management. In 2014, Dong was appointed director of the department.

In November 2018, Dong became director of the ministry's Department of Regional and Local Economy. In early October 2020, he was appointed by the Prime Minister as Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment.

The Vinh Phuc People's Committee currently has two vice chairpeople, Vu Viet Van and Vu Chi Giang.

The position of Vinh Phuc chairperson had been vacant for five months after the Ministry of Public Security’s investigative agency on March 8 detained then chairman Le Duy Thanh for “accepting bribes” in a case related to Phuc Son Group.

For the same alleged crime in this case, two other key leaders of Vinh Phuc were detained, Party chief Hoang Thi Thuy Lan and standing deputy Party chief Pham Hoang Anh.

On April 23, the investigative agency arrested Nguyen Van Khuoc, vice chairman of Vinh Phuc province cum chairman of the provincial Council of Land Valuation, and many other officials.

A series of department directors and local leaders in Vinh Phuc also received warnings or were reprimanded by the Central Inspection Committee for violations related to projects implemented by AIC Company, FLC Group and Phuc Son Group.

Vinh Phuc province is a manufacturing hub in northern Vietnam, together with Hanoi, Hai Phong, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Thai Nguyen. The province is home to many foreign-invested facilities like those of Toyota, Honda, TOTO and Asahi.