Major General Cao Xuan Thang, Deputy Director of the Department of Policy and Social Affairs and Director of the Military Social Insurance Agency, hosted the meeting on behalf of the ministry and the General Department of Political Affairs.
On behalf of the delegation, Deputy Director of the Dong Thap provincial Department of Home Affairs Huynh Trung Hieu reported on the province’s work to provide care and benefits to wounded soldiers, sick veterans, families of fallen soldiers and other national contributors.
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Major General Cao Xuan Thang, Deputy Director of the Department of Policy and Social Affairs and Director of the Military Social Insurance Agency, speaks at the meeting. |
Major General Cao Xuan Thang said that, in line with Party and State policy on preferential treatment for national contributors, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense has regularly directed their agencies to work with central and local agencies. Their work included studying and recommending changes, additions and new policies for national contributors and people who took part in national resistance wars, fought to defend the country or carried out international services. The military has supported heroic Vietnamese mothers, visited and presented gifts to wounded soldiers, sick veterans and policy beneficiary families, helped build homes for beneficiaries, restored memorials to fallen soldiers and organized other activities to honor those who served.
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Delegates attend the meeting. |
Major General Cao Xuan Thang also briefed the delegation on the 500-day campaign to accelerate the search for, recovery and identification of fallen soldiers’ remains. As of November 11, 2026, the military has found and recovered the remains of 4,439 fallen soldiers, reaching 63.41 percent of its target. It has directed localities to hold 30 memorial services and bury the remains of 2,157 fallen soldiers. The military has also completed biological sampling for 211,300 graves of fallen soldiers in cemeteries nationwide and has taken samples from nearly 277,000 relatives to help identify the remains.
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Major General Cao Xuan Thang presents gifts from the Ministry of National Defense to national contributors from Dong Thap province. |
Major General Cao Xuan Thang praised Dong Thap’s efforts to honor those who served. He urged delegates to uphold their revolutionary traditions and values, set an example and provide encouragement to younger generations, and help educate them. He also encouraged delegates to contribute to building the Party and local government and strengthening great national unity.
On behalf of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Department of Political Affairs, Major General Cao Xuan Thang presented gifts from the ministry to the Dong Thap delegates.
Translated by Minh Anh