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Lt. Gen. Tran Duy Hung speaks at the event.

Addressing the event, Lieutenant General Tran Duy Hung, GDT Secretary and Political Commissar, and head of the steering board of the contest, stressed that the GDT directs the whole military technical sector to perform technical duties, to study the improvement and modernization of weapons an equipment and to implement the campaign “Good, durable, safe, and economical management and exploitation of weapons and equipment and traffic safety,” in order to build a “strong, elite, united, synchronous, effective” military technical sector.

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An overview of the launching ceremony

According to Gen. Hung, the contest aimed to diversify the information dissemination about the role, position, and task performance of the military technical sector. Therefore, he hoped to receive a lot of articles about the sector in the coming time to spread the noble virtues of Uncle Ho’s soldiers, the above-mentioned campaign, the GDT’s traditions of “Pro-active, Creative, Self-reliant,” and encourage the sector’s personnel to overcome difficulties, hardships to complete all assignments to build a comprehensively-strong military technical sector.

In his speech, Major General Doan Xuan Bo, Secretary and Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Army Newspaper, and co-head of the steering board of the contest, expressed his hope to soon receive in-depth and pervasive articles.

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Maj. Gen. Doan Xuan Bo hopes to receive in-depth and pervasive articles soon.

The contest, starting from October 2023 to June 30, 2024, is open for all. Entries should include photos and clips.

Entries should be sent or emailed to the Online Newspaper and Defense-Security Divisions of the People’s Army Newspaper at No.8 Ly Nam De and No.7 Phan Dinh Phung or dientubqd@gmail.com, and quansu.qdnd@gmail.com, respectively. They could be sent to the Information and Training Office of the Department of Political Affairs of the GDT or tuyenhuantckt@gmail.com and newspapers of military regions, Naval, Air Defense - Air Force, Border Guard, and Capital Defense newspapers as well.

Translated by Mai Huong