PANO - The General Department of Defense Industry on August 11 honored young skillful workers in 2016 in the presence of Secretary of Party Committee and Political Commissar of the defense industry sector Lieutenant General Khuat Viet Dung.

The honored are 80 young talented workers selected from the department’s Youth Union members from the emulation movement to promote initiatives and technical innovation.

Commanders of the general department (3rd from left) handing over the awards to skillful workers.

Since early last year, the general department’s young skillful workers have applied over 8,200 initiatives and innovative technical solutions in production and management. This has enabled units affiliated to the General Department of Defense Industry in successfully fulfilling their political tasks raising productivity and quality of products to serve national defense. Those applications have helped the general department save dozens of billions of Vietnamese dongs.

The honoring ceremony aimed to encourage the general department’s Youth Union members to further study and to improve their expertise, contributing to building high-quality young human resources to better serve the defense industry sector and development cause and to meet the requirements of the general department’s missions in the new context.

Also at the honoring ceremony, the General Department of Defense Industry organized a talk themed “Lighting up young workers’ dreams”.

Translated by Mai Huong