The event was chaired by Chief of the General Department of Politics and Vice Chairman of the Steering Council of the National Defense Journal General Luong Cuong.

Reports delivered at the event affirmed that last year, the National Defense Journal actively covered all activities of military and defense units in line with directives of the steering council and higher levels’ guidelines. Particularly, the unit published 575 items of news, articles, and photo series in Vietnamese, English, and Chinese on its printed and online versions. Apart from news and articles written by its staff, the journal also updated hundreds of news articles related to the activities of leaders of the Party, State, and the Ministry of National Defense from other press agencies.

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An overview of the conference 

Over the past time, the unit has remained in close cooperation with other military and civilian press agencies to cover all domestic and international defense and military activities while paying attention to renewing its form and contents to attract more readers. The journal had quality articles to combat the wrongful allegations of hostile and reactionary forces concerning ideological and political issues. In 2020, three brilliant articles published in the journal were honored with National Press Awards, and various articles were presented with press prizes held by military units. Its articles on the online journal have increasingly attracted the attention of a large number of readers.

Speaking at the event, General Luong Cuong praised the journal for its achievements in disseminating the outcomes of defense and military activities and in combating the "Peaceful evolution" plot of hostile forces and preventing the phenomena of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation.”

General Cuong asked the unit to closely follow domestic, regional, and international situations, military and defense activities, as well as national protection and military building developments, so as to meet the demand for information of readers. In addition, the journal should renew its form and contents, raise the quality of articles about military building in the new period and Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s thought, actively combat erroneous allegations of hostile forces, and prevent the phenomena of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation.”

Translated by Tran Hoai