PANO – The Department of Finance under the Ministry of National Defence on March 21st marked its 70th anniversary of the traditional day of the military financial sector, in the presence of Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh.

Over the past 70 years, the sector has helped units in the whole army fulfill their military, defence and training missions by efficiently providing finance for production activities and purchasing equipment. It also offered recommendations to the Ministry of National Defence on policies to improve troops’ living standards, as well as made contributions to the fight against corruption and wastefulness.

General Phung Quang Thanh addressing the ceremony

For its achievement, the military finance service was honoured with noble awards by the Party, State, and Ministry of National Defence.

Addressing the celebration, General Thanh praised the sector’s achievements over the past years and stressed that they should continue grasping the Party’s guidelines and military and defence missions to give recommendations on finance management work to the Central Military Commission and the Defence Ministry.

It was also asked to promote inspection to deal with problems in a timely manner, strengthen unity and boost criticism and self-criticism to build a comprehensively strong unit, to further contribute to the army building cause in the coming time.

Translated by Tran Hoai