Hai Phong city conducts defensive area exercise

PANO - The northern city of Hai Phong on September 26 kick-started the 2016 municipal defensive area exercise under the direction of Major General Vu Hai San, Commander of Military Region 3.

The three-day exercise focused on shifting the locality to the defense posture, practicing mobilizing and receiving the local reserve force, deploying forces for people air defense warfare, transferring civilian assets and efforts to the mission of protecting national sovereignty over seas and islands, and ready to fight  landing enemy from the air.

At the opening ceremony

The exercise aims to examine the city’s leadership and direction as well as local armed forces’ capacities in protecting the defensive area and handling changing and complex situations, including emergences, to firmly protect the city in any contingencies.

The exercise will also test the city protection plans, and the city’s leadership would draw valuable lessons from the exercise and perfect the plans with the aim of building on a firm defensive area, contributing to national defense in the current context.

Addressing the opening ceremony, Mr. Le Van Thanh, Secretary of the city’s Party Committee, Head of the municipal People’s Council and Head of the exercise’s Steering Board, said  that together with socio-economic development, the city always pays due attention to defense, security, external affairs, promoting the building of a position of people’s heart and mind and creating foundation for the firm building of all people’s defense and people’s security.

The city also attaches much importance to building the comprehensive quality of local armed forces, he underscored.

He hoped that the exercise will help improve the strength of the defensive area and operational abilities of the local armed forces, the leadership of local authorities at all levels, the coordination of involved forces and the advisory function of military, public security, border units and the city’s departments.