December 09, 2016 | 13:59 (GMT+7)
Ministry organizes meeting for revolution contributors
PANO – The Policy Department of the Ministry of National Defense on December 7th hosted a reception for a delegation of national contributors of Kien Giang province on their visit to Hanoi.
Presenting gifts to the delegation
Addressing the event, Nguyen Hoang Minh, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said that the province has paid attention to realizing policies of the Party and State for those who made valuable contributions to the revolution. In 2016, the province spent VND 149 billion on building and repairing houses for more than 1,400 revolution contributors and its agencies and units have taken good care of 234 heroic Vietnamese mothers. As a result, the living standards of almost all of policy families in the province have dramatically been improved.
More especially, the provincial agencies and units have closely cooperated with martyrs’ remains search and collection teams of the army to collect and hold memorial services for 49 martyrs who had sacrificed serving international obligation in Cambodia.
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Minh further said that officers and soldiers in the whole army have always remembered the contributions of the province’s Party committee, authorities and people during the resistance wars against foreign invaders in the past as well as in army building at present.
He promised that under the leadership of the Party, officers and soldiers of the Vietnam People’s Army will unite, promote glorious revolutionary tradition of the Party, Nation, heroic army, and be ready to sacrifice for the protection of national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Moreover, they will actively assist locals in eliminating hunger, reducing poverty, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters.
Translated by Tran Hoai