PANO – Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh started working visits on April 15th to Z121, Z117 and Z176 factories, under the General Department of Defence Industry.

During the visits, the Deputy Defence Minister inspected workshops and the production and business situations of the factories, and listened to reports from leaders of the factories.

He highly appreciated the production and business results and praised the efforts of officers and defence workers to overcome difficulties, actively promote renovation and integrate into the global economy over the past years.

According to the reports, the three factories frequently organized political drives for their officers and workers to study Party resolutions, State policies and decrees from the Defence Ministry. All of them successfully fulfilled their assigned tasks; underlined the development of the defence industry; reasonably combined defence and business production activities; and actively promoted international cooperation in an effort to improve their abilities to produce and repair weapons and equipment for the Army.

At the meetings, the Deputy Defence Minister asked the leadership, officers and defence workers of the three factories to continuously grasp and realize defence directions and policies of the Party and State in their production and business; well combine defence tasks and economic activities; boost scientific research and expand markets; and actively cooperate with international partners to gain good experience, knowledge and technology from them, contributing to developing Vietnam’s defence industry to meet the requirement to protect the Fatherland in the new situation.

Translated by Thu Nguyen