The Youth Union of Nghe An Province's Agencies currently has 1,308 members active in 35 Youth Union bases. Of these, 457 party members are active in the Youth Union. With the characteristic that most of the union members and youth (YVTN) are cadres, civil servants, and public employees working in agencies and units, the Youth Union of Nghe An Province's Agencies is always considered a force with equal qualifications and solid basic political theory. These are the core propagandists in spreading positive information on social networks as well as fighting against bad and toxic information.
Comrade Nguyen Ho Manh - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Agencies' Youth Union said: Since 2022, the Central Youth Union has sent weekly public opinion reports on prominent domestic issues that young people are interested in to have a basis for activities and information orientation at the unit. On that basis, the Youth Union has sent them to its affiliated youth unions to monitor and implement in accordance with the actual conditions at the agencies and units. Since the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, the Youth Union has also built a document synthesis software, helping the process of information storage and propaganda become more and more effective. At the same time, effectively maintaining a number of Facebook pages to promptly post positive images and information in all aspects of life taking place in the area.
In particular, the Youth Union of the Bloc has built a Young Theory Club that gathers many members and young people from agencies and units, especially the internal affairs and press and media sectors, thereby mobilizing intellectual resources to fight against bad and toxic information on social networks. Comrade Nguyen Nhu Y - Secretary of the Youth Union of the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province, one of the core members of the Young Theory Club of the Youth Union of the Provincial Agencies Bloc shared: Currently, the fight on cyberspace is of interest to the Youth Union of the Provincial People's Procuracy. On average, every week, members and young people make 2-3 posts on 2 main Facebook pages, including "Nghe An Procuracy" and "Youth Union of the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province" to propagate and spread positive information. In addition, the Youth Union of the Provincial People's Procuracy also organizes mock trials based on real cases to help young people better understand the nature of the incident and the consequences they have to bear when violating the law.
The Provincial Police Youth Union is also a unit that always affirms its role and responsibility to be the vanguard and take the lead in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints. Captain Nguyen Sy Nguyen - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Police Youth Union said: Following the leadership and direction of the superiors, the unit's Youth Union has issued more than 45 plans and official dispatches on protecting the Party's ideological foundation; propagating and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints deployed throughout the Union. Notable examples include the plan to implement the movement "Each member is a sharp pen protecting the Party"; the model "I am a propagandist"...
In particular, the Provincial Police Youth Union has effectively implemented 12 projects and youth tasks contributing to protecting the Party's ideological foundation. In addition to the titles awarded to collectives, there are individuals who have participated in propagating the Party Congress Resolution; writing essays to protect the Party's ideological foundation and won high prizes. Typically, comrades Nguyen Van Thuc (police officer of Vinh City Police), Nguyen Tien Dung (police officer of Nam Dan District Police) won the third prize in the writing essay contest "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against wrong and hostile views in the new situation" for the second time in 2022; comrade Tran Thi Thanh Huyen won the second prize in the national final round of the competition for excellent reporters and propagandists to propagate the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of Party Congresses at all levels, term 2020 - 2025.
In addition, the Provincial Police Youth Union has also built a model of "Youth shock troops propagating the law" in many forms, with diverse and rich content. Annually, it organizes more than 350 programs to propagate the law for more than 10,000 people, officials, civil servants, students in the province. To promote the role of the Youth Union in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, the Provincial Police Youth Union always researches and selects topics and objects of struggle and rebuttal at appropriate times; at the same time, it pays attention to the qualifications, abilities, knowledge, and areas of expertise of each individual in each unit and department, thereby assigning specific tasks, from "easy to difficult", "promoting strengths" in performing the task of fighting and refuting false and hostile arguments.
On the side of the Provincial Youth Union, the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union is the center of solidarity and gathering of young people and has also carried out many activities to promote the role of young people in protecting the Party's ideological foundation. Typical examples include directing grassroots Youth Union organizations to participate in the Olympic competition of Marxist-Leninist sciences, Ho Chi Minh's ideology "Light of the way"; Forums "Youth with the sea and islands of the homeland", "Cultivating excellent members for the Party - The noble and sacred mission of the Youth Union"...
Comrade Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union shared: In addition to directing the establishment of young theory clubs, provincial-level reporters and affiliated units. Recently, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee has also paid attention to directing functional departments to maintain the column of good news, beautiful stories, and deploy the campaign "One good news every day, one beautiful story every week" on the website of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union. On average, more than 20,000 good news and beautiful stories are posted each year on the web, Facebook, and social networks of Youth Union organizations in the whole province.
In particular, in 2023, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union launched the "Young Reporters" Club with 22 members who are officials, union members, reporters, and collaborators from press agencies in the province and those residing in the province. This is the core force, the "extended arm" in the propaganda work of the Youth Union, an information channel to help grasp public opinion, forecast the situation, and provide timely ideological orientation for union members and young people.
Nghe An Provincial Youth Union currently manages nearly 150,000 union members, operating at 946 Youth Union bases, including 312 grassroots Youth Union branches and 634 grassroots Youth Unions. In order to effectively protect the Party's ideological foundation, in addition to issuing documents guiding Youth Union chapters at all levels to diversify forms of political theory education, propagate Party directives and resolutions, State policies and laws for young union members. Recently, the Provincial Youth Union Executive Committee has directed its affiliated Youth Union bases to increase the dissemination of positive information, typical good people, good deeds on cyberspace with the motto "Using beauty to eliminate ugliness" through the campaign "One good news every day, one beautiful story every week", "Building model values of Vietnamese youth in the new era".
Typically, at Vinh University Youth Union, the application of 4.0 technology in propaganda activities has brought many benefits such as: helping to quickly connect union members and youth, creating a wide spread, etc. Through official fanpages, grassroots Youth Union organizations quickly grasp information, absorb a lot of knowledge and good models introduced by the Youth Union. "The Youth Union has established a 4.0 group with many people with high qualifications in information technology, design, graphics, etc., specializing in implementing online propaganda tools such as: infographics; mini clips; propaganda and agitation mockups...", comrade Nguyen Thai Dung - Secretary of Vinh University Youth Union shared.
In Nam Dan, the District Youth Union has built its own website, 100% of the Commune Youth Unions have fanpages to share and spread positive information, many articles have left a deep impression on social network users, attracting a lot of shares and accesses. Comrade Dang Van Trung - Secretary of the Nam Dan District Youth Union shared: After building the website, the Standing Committee of the District Youth Union directed the editorial team to prepare daily news and propaganda articles. At the same time, share political, economic and social information in the district, as well as propaganda information from the Provincial Youth Union, to help the team of union members and youth promptly grasp the policies and good stories every day. Currently, the website attracts more than 2,000 visits per day. Since its operation, there have been more than 2.3 million visits.
Some Youth Union bases in mountainous areas such as Que Phong District Youth Union have coordinated with Thong Thu Border Guard Station to organize "March Border Month" activities, mobilize labor to clean the border belt road or hold a flag-raising ceremony at the border marker between Vietnam and Laos, so that the young generation has the opportunity to learn and listen to the history of the formation and significance of the sovereignty marker, thereby spreading patriotism and national pride. Many Youth Union bases have also coordinated with border guards stationed in the area to deploy the "Border Lesson" model, thereby helping union members and young people become active propagandists in their families and communities, building a sense of self-awareness and joining hands to protect the territorial sovereignty and border security of the Fatherland.
In particular, recently, on social networking platforms, the story of young men from the group "TeamLee" who volunteered to spend their time and effort restoring photos of heroes and martyrs across the country has spread rapidly. The story has caused a strong stir in cyberspace. The leader of this group is Le Quyet Thang (born in 1991), from Hung Dao commune, Hung Nguyen district (Nghe An)... In particular, in August 2022, Le Quyet Thang's group restored and donated 10 photos of TNXP martyrs at Dong Loc T-junction (Ha Tinh) and in October 2022, successfully restored a photo of 13 TNXP martyrs who sacrificed their lives at Truong Bon (Do Luong); restored the image of Ms. Tran Thi Thong, a living witness of the suicide squad of Company 317 - Team 65 - General Youth Volunteers against the US, saving the country of Nghe An province on duty at Truong Bon.
Le Quyet Thang shared that although the work requires technique, meticulousness and takes a lot of time, seeing the emotional eyes of relatives when receiving photos of martyrs makes the brothers in the group more determined. In just about 1 year, the young people have successfully restored and presented more than 300 photos to families of martyrs across the country. Behind each photo is a heroic story, which is widely spread, actively contributing to reviving history and arousing national pride in today's young generation.
Many other exciting movements and activities of the youth in the whole province such as: Youth movement to protect the Fatherland; Youth volunteer movement; traditional exchange activities, meetings with historical witnesses, storytelling, dialogue with young people; "Journey to red addresses"; competitions to learn about historical events; programs "I love my Fatherland", "Light candles to pay tribute to heroic martyrs", "Giving national flags to offshore fishermen" ... have also created positive social effects, attracting a large number of young people to participate. Through those healthy and meaningful models and activities, we have contributed to "multiplying the good, eliminating the bad" and gradually defeating the plots and tricks of hostile forces targeting young people.
