6 units received the Excellent Emulation Flag of the Vietnam Veterans Association

On the morning of December 24, the Veterans Association of Nghe An province held a conference to summarize the association's work in 2018 and deploy tasks for 2019.

Awarding the Excellent Emulation Flag of the Vietnam Veterans Association to 6 grassroots associations of the Veterans Association of Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Chung

In 2018, the Veterans Association at all levels from the provincial to the grassroots level had quite comprehensive and even innovation, creativity and development. The Associations at all levels have successfully completed their tasks: Participating in building and protecting the Party, government and regime; coordinating the fight to defeat the "Peaceful Evolution" plot of riotous overthrow by hostile forces; educating the younger generation; gathering veterans; people-to-people diplomacy; implementing regimes and policies for veterans...

The Association has achieved and exceeded 7/8 goals and targets set for the year (except the target of reducing the rate of poor veteran households). Up to now, the rate of well-off and rich veteran households has reached 69.38%, the rate of poor veteran households is 2.67%, down 0.72% compared to 2017.

Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Vietnam Veterans Association to 17 groups. Photo: Thanh Chung

Veterans' associations at all levels have made important contributions to the implementation of political tasks and the development of localities, agencies and units, especially in maintaining security and order, and participating in the construction of new rural areas and civilized urban areas. Classification results in 2018: 100% of grassroots associations achieved Clean and Strong status, of which 24.20% achieved Excellent Clean and Strong status.

In 2019, the Nghe An Provincial Veterans Association focused on 5 main tasks, which are: Building and protecting the Party and government; political and ideological education for cadres and members; improving the quality and efficiency of the association's activities; creating more jobs, increasing income, improving the lives of veterans and their families (Striving to reduce the rate of poor veteran households by 1-1.5%, eliminating over 20% of the remaining temporary houses).

Veterans Associations of districts, cities and towns signed a commitment to compete in 2019. Photo: Thanh Chung

At the conference, the Nghe An Provincial Veterans Association launched a competition to perform well the tasks of 2019 among all levels of the association and carried out the commendation work in 2018. Accordingly, 6 units of the Provincial Association received the excellent emulation flag in 2018, 17 collectives and 9 individuals received Certificates of Merit from the Vietnam Veterans Association; 70 collectives and 197 individuals received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Veterans Association.