First Nguyen Duc Canh Awards held in Hanoi

The Awards was established under a decision signed by the chairman of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour on August 1, 2007 with the aim of celebrating the 100^th birthday of the late Nguyen Duc Canh, one of the outstanding leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Vietnamese working class and the Vietnamese Trade Union.

Canh was also one of the founders of the Vietnamese Trade Union.

The awards ceremony recognizes Canh’s great patriotism and strong revolutionary spirit.

The Awards will be held every five years.

Speaking at the ceremony, President Triet commended workers and public servants throughout the country for their patriotic achievements.

He specially congratulated the 100 members of the Vietnam Labour Confederation who were conferred with the first Nguyen Duc Canh Awards.

The Award winners are those who have set a shining example of creative labour for other people, he said.

They have promoted more than 600 initiatives that have generated huge profits worth several hundreds of billions of dong.

Mr. Triet stressed the importance of emulation movements in terms of solidarity, patriotic spirit, indomitable will and national pride. However, he said, there are some areas where such nice features have not been brought into full play.

He asked trade unions to closely co-ordinate with different levels of management to encourage emulative behaviour. He added that it was necessary to control the implementation of regulations concerning worker rewards and punishments.

Mr. Triet urged workers to demonstrate their political will, their sense of citizenship, solidarity and devotion to the process of national industrialization and modernization.