April 15, 2017 | 20:46 (GMT+7)
MND meets with Hau Giang’s national contributors
PANO - Hau Giang is one of the localities known for its rich revolutionary tradition. Thousands of soldiers and people heroically sacrificed themselves for the national independence and reunification. The province’s contributions to the national liberation cause are its invaluable assets and have been acknowledged by the Party and State.
Gifts presented to national contributors
Senior Colonel Nguyen Xuan Yem, Deputy Director of the Policy Department under the General Department of Politics, highlighted the great victory of Hau Giang troops and people in wartime at a meeting with national contributors from Hau Giang province on April 13 on the occasion of their visit to the capital city.
Sen. Col. Yem added that those contributions have been promoted in the nation’s renewal process, national construction and defense cause, and international integration.
Over the past years, the provincial Party Committee, authorities, troops, and people obtained remarkable achievements in different fields, especially in socio-economic development. As a result, people’s living standards have been dramatically improved.
At the meeting, the province’s national contributors expressed their gratitude to the whole army for their great care for national contributors across the country, including those in Hau Giang province. Since 2011, military units’ martyrs' remains search and collection teams have collected around 10,000 sets of remains of martyrs, built more than 7,000 houses of gratitude, contributed VND 200 billion to the “Gratitude Fund”, taken care of around 1,800 Vietnamese heroic mothers, and presented a good deal of medical equipment to convalescence centers where wounded soldiers and national contributors are cared for.
On the occasion, Senior Colonel Nguyen Xuan Yem handed over the Ministry of National Defense’s gifts to the delegates.
Translated by Tran Hoai