General Luong Cuong, Chief of the General Department of Political Affairs (GDP), attended and spoke at the event to congratulate the artists on the honor. 

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Gen. Cuong congratulates military artists on being presented with the titles of People’s Artist and Meritorious Artist.

The titles of People’s Artist and Meritorious Artist are the noble rewards of the Party and State given to individuals with outstanding contribution to the field of culture and art.

Since the first recognition event held in 1984, the whole military has had 72 artists presented with the title of People’s Artist, 319 others honored with the title of Meritorious Artist. At the 10th edition, 22 military artists were honored. 

Speaking at the event, Gen. Cuong congratulated the artists on the honor. The GDP’s Chief highlighted the role of military artists in the culture and art field as well as their contribution to building the good virtues of Uncle Ho’s soldiers and enriching the special values of the Vietnamese military culture in particular and Vietnam’s culture and art in general.

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Gen. Cuong and leaders of agencies and units congratulate freshly-recognized People’s Artists and Meritorious Artists.

The GDP’s leader asked party committees and chains-of-command at all levels to thoroughly grasp the Party’s guidelines and State’s policies on culture and art development; strictly carry out the CMC’s conclusion on enhancing leadership and direction of culture, literature, and art work in the new period; ignite potentials and creativeness of artists, thus having more good works to encourage troops to successfully fulfil training, combat readiness, combat, studying, and production missions; pay attention to building contingents of artists with firm political stance, good competence, high responsibility, and commitment to culture and art. 

Gen. Cuong requested functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense to continue to study and propose mechanisms and policies to strengthen culture and art human force in accordance with reality.

At the event, Gen. Cuong handed over gifts to encourage freshly-recognized military People’s Artists and Meritorious Artists.

Translated by Tran Hoai