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 National contributors in a joint photo

Speaking at the meeting, head delegate Truong Thi Hop said that during the national resistance wars, the province’s leadership and people recorded glorious feats of arms, making great contributions to the final victory in the wars of the Vietnamese people. In peacetime, the northern province continued to achieve great economic, social, and cultural development. She added that Lang Son now has more than 33,000 revolution contributors. In recent years, the province’s leadership has issued guidelines and policies to build new-styled rural areas as well as raise the material and spiritual lives of locals, and taken good care of revolution contributors.  

At the meeting, General Dung briefed the delegation on military units’ implementation of policies for troops’ families and their gratitude activities. Since 2011, search and collection teams have repatriated around 10,000 sets of remains of fallen volunteer soldiers and specialists from Laos and Cambodia. Military units have provided monthly allowances to around 10,000 policy beneficiaries and created jobs for more than 300 children of wounded and sick soldiers under treatment at convalescent centers and for around 100 wives and children of fallen soldiers. The whole army has taken care of over 1,700 Vietnamese heroic mothers and built more than 7,000 houses, totaling VND 450 billion. 

These meaningful deeds of troops have greatly contributed to the whole Party’ and people’s efforts to raise the material and spiritual lives of policy beneficiaries and revolution contributors as well as educate troops in particular and young generations about the tradition, “When drinking water, remember its source”, of the Vietnamese people.

Translated by Tran Hoai