PANO – Factory A32 under the Technical Department of the Air Defense Air Force Service on June 18th held a solemn ceremony to celebrate its 50th foundation anniversary (June 18th 1966 - June 18th 2016) and receive the third-class Labor Order.

Sr. Lt. Gen. Be Xuan Truong pins the order to the flag of the factory.

Promoting its traditions, over the past 50 years, Factory A32 has successfully completed the task of service, maintenance and repairs for different types of fighters serving training and combat readiness missions of air units in the whole army. The factory has also seen quick development in both facilities and revenue, resulting in high profit increase (from more than VND 4.6 billion  in 2010 to nearly VND 8.5 billion in 2015). The average monthly individual income reached over VND 14 million per person.

Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong hailed the efforts of the factory’s staff in its path of construction and development. Generations of officers, engineers and workers have been promoting the spirit of mastery and creativity and technical innovations at work, actively overcoming hardship to successfully apply modern overhaul lines to repairing more aircraft. General Truong requested that the factory keep abreast of the reality of air force units to enhance its capacity and expertise, contributing to better implementing training and combat readiness missions, improving management, production and business capacity, meeting tasks requirements in the new period.

On behalf of the State President, Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong presented the honorable order to the factory.

Translated by Huu Duong