Last year, military press and media agencies ran articles disseminating the Party’s guidelines and the State’s laws, and defense agencies’ and military units’ military-defense task performances and defense diplomacy.
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General Nghia speaks at the event. |
Attentively, they always took the lead in covering news on COVID-19 prevention and control efforts, natural disaster prevention, and search and rescue missions. They also actively studied theories, summed up their real practices, fought slanderous allegations by hostile forces, and protected the Party’s ideological foundation.
Furthermore, a number of the published articles refuting wrongful and reactionary viewpoints have drawn much attention from both domestic and international readers and received high praise from the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, and Information and Communications.
Additionally, press publications helped promote the good tradition of “Uncle Ho’s soldiers”, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Party and political work, and build a politically, ideologically, and organizationally-strong military. They also contributed to orienting public opinion and raising the public’s awareness of national building and defense in the current period. Notably, a lot of articles were awarded high prizes by central and local-level agencies.
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Handing over certificates of merit to outstanding individuals |
Numerous publications were released to celebrate big events of the Party, the State, and military, meeting demands of readers and improving the spiritual and cultural lives of troops.
In his concluding speech, General Nghia applauded all military press and publishing agencies for their achievements in 2020.
He noted that this year, they should continue to uphold the revolutionary spirit, improve professionalism and modernity, forecasting situational developments, and be active in disseminating information about big political events of the nation, military and localities.
Other requirements included renovation in information dissemination and further combat wrongful and distorted viewpoints by hostile forces and reactionaries. They should also increase information dissemination on the 13th National Party Congress, the realization of the resolutions adopted at the 13th National Party Congress and the 11th Military Party Congress.
On this occasion, the Defense Minister presented certificates of merit to 13 groups and the Director of the General Department of Politics also presented merit certificates to 21 groups and 21 individuals, including two from the People’s Army Newspaper, in recognition of their outstanding achievements in directing, managing, disseminating information about military-defense missions and defense diplomacy in 2020.
Translated by Mai Huong