PANO – The Department of Planning and Investment of the Ministry of National Defence on March 20th marked its 40th founding anniversary and received the Third-class Military Medal. 

Coming into being in 1975 with the original name of the Department of Materials, the unit had been in charge of procuring and receiving military equipment for the anti-American war for national reunification. In peacetime, it has been working with units inside and outside the army to build up the army and to assist the national development.

 

Attending the ceremony, General Phung Quang Thanh praised the unit’s contributions to the development of the army, and stressed that facing the complicated world situation, new challenges and difficulties and the increasing requirements of the national construction and protection mission in the new context, the department should thoroughly grasp the Party’s Resolutions and guidelines, State’s policies and the Central Military Commission’s Resolutions to work out relevant regulations and policies on investment for the national protection mission.

Translated by Tran Hoai