The press strongly arouses the will and aspiration for a Nghe An to develop rapidly and sustainably.

Provincial leaders, the Provincial Journalists Association, press agencies, journalists, reporters, editors... attended the meeting program to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and award the Nghe An Press Award 2021. Photo: Duc Anh

Dear Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council!

Dear comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee, leaders of departments, branches, and local leaders!

Dear comrades representing the leadership of press agencies, journalists, reporters, and editors.

Dear delegates!

Today, the Provincial People's Committee organized a meeting to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and award the Nghe An Press Award 2021. On behalf of the Provincial People's Committee, I would like to send my most respectful greetings and wish all delegates, journalists, reporters, editors, officers and workers working in press agencies good health, happiness and success.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee delivered a congratulatory speech on the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and presented the Nghe An Press Award 2021. Photo: Duc Anh

Dear delegates!

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Press is the voice of the Party and State, a trusted forum for the People; at the same time, it is a sharp weapon against hostile forces of the revolution, fighting against negativity to protect the interests of the People.

Over the past 97 years, since the first issue of Thanh Nien newspaper (June 21, 1925), Vietnamese press has continuously developed, improved the quality of content, enriched and diversified in form, contributing greatly to the country's revolutionary cause. Continuing the tradition of the previous generation, the team of journalists in Nghe An is increasingly growing and developing in both quantity and quality, and professional level. Nghe An currently has 3 local press agencies, 33 representative offices and 35 resident reporters, with more than 300 reporters and journalists.

Over the past years, the press agencies in the province have actively accompanied the Party committees, authorities, and organizations at all levels of the province, bringing the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws into life; mobilizing all levels, sectors, and people of all walks of life to compete in labor production, successfully completing the province's socio-economic development tasks, and performing well the role of a bridge between the government and the people.

Leaders of press agencies, journalists, departments and branches attended the program to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and present the Nghe An Press Award 2021. Photo: Duc Anh

Press agencies have closely followed the province's principles, goals and propaganda orientation; regularly updated and innovated methods, approaches, and strictly managed the activities of reporters and collaborators; regularly organized training courses to both improve knowledge and expertise for reporters and update documents guiding the implementation of the Press Law.

Many "hot" issues and incidents arising from the grassroots have been mentioned and reported by the press, listened to by provincial leaders, and promptly resolved, welcomed by public opinion, contributing to creating consensus and stability in society.

From the perspective of reporters, many socio-economic development policies of the province have been discovered, proposed, built and perfected.

Many reporters have had to overcome pressure and danger to write articles to fight against the distorted and erroneous arguments of reactionary forces, against corruption, waste, negativity, and the negative aspects of society, contributing to building a better society.

In particular, in the past 2 years, when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out, press agencies, journalists, and reporters took the lead in providing timely information on the Covid-19 epidemic situation, along with the Party, State, and province's leadership and guidelines in implementing the "dual goal": both effectively preventing the epidemic and stabilizing production development, ensuring social security and people's lives. Information about the sacrifices and tireless contributions of the medical force and the people during more than 2 years of the epidemic.

Press agencies and journalists attend the program to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and award the Nghe An Press Awards 2021. Photo: Duc Anh

On behalf of the provincial leaders, I highly appreciate, acknowledge, warmly commend and congratulate the efforts and achievements of the press agencies and journalists in Nghe An province in the past time.

Dear delegates!

Proud of the tradition and identity of 97 years of Vietnamese Revolutionary Journalism, in the coming time, besides the basic advantages, we still have to face many difficulties and challenges.

The world and regional situation is going through a period of strong, rapid, complex and unpredictable changes in political, economic and social security; the unprecedented impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have caused the world economy to fall into crisis, strongly affecting our country and our province.

Scientific and technological achievements have made the press develop by leaps and bounds, but also had a significant impact and influence on the activities of traditional press.

The above context poses for our press heavy, but also very glorious tasks. The Provincial People's Committee requests and hopes that the Central and Provincial press agencies:

The first:With a strong force, continue to promote the role of an important channel to continue to promote the vanguard role on the front to protect the ideological foundation, guidelines and policies of the Party, policies and laws of the State; fight against erroneous and hostile viewpoints, especially erroneous information on the internet and social networks; promptly discover and encourage typical examples of good collectives and individuals, good deeds, contributing to building, consolidating and cultivating the mettle, intelligence, culture, ethics, spirit, mettle and belief of our Nghe An people.

Innovate, improve professionalism, modernity, increase attractiveness and persuasiveness, meet the increasingly high demands of readers, compete more and more with modern media information, contribute to improving the effectiveness of propaganda and promoting patriotic emulation movements among the people;

Strengthening the promotion of the province's image and innovation achievements to domestic and international friends; propagating policies, potentials, and strengths to attract investment in the area, especially key projects that contribute to promoting rapid and sustainable economic development.

Continue to closely coordinate with all levels and sectors in the province to receive, handle, and reflect fully and objectively in a constructive, sharing and highly responsible spirit on issues and incidents that the public is interested in, and issues arising at the grassroots level to coordinate timely and satisfactory resolution.

Monday:Regarding press agencies and journalists, the Provincial People's Committee hopes that press agencies will continue to invest in and improve the quality of their team of journalists. Journalists must constantly study, research, and improve their professional qualifications and skills, especially in the context of the constant development of science and technology, and strictly implement the regulations on professional ethics of journalists; the code of conduct and use of social networks of Vietnamese journalists. Timely correct and overcome situations of reflecting information that lacks objectivity, honesty, and professional ethics among a group of journalists. Although science and technology have developed and created favorable conditions for journalists to work, they cannot replace the hearts, minds, will, courage, and humanity of journalists.

The Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Fatherland Front Committee and authorities at all levels always listen to, share difficulties and create favorable conditions for the activities of press agencies and journalists, ensuring compliance with legal regulations.

At the same time, it is requested that the Party Committee, government, agencies and units in the province provide the press with complete, timely, honest and objective information on the Party's guidelines, the State's policies and laws, the socio-economic development situation of the province and the locality, especially good models, new ways of doing things, advanced examples, good people and good deeds in the emulation and patriotic movements, strongly arousing the will and aspiration for a Nghe An to develop rapidly and sustainably.

Journalists attend the program to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and award the Nghe An Press Award 2021. Photo: Duc Anh

Dear comrades, journalists and friends!

On the occasion of the 97th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day, I would like to congratulate the collectives and individuals with 31 works winning the Nghe An Press Award 2021 that will be awarded today and believe that, promoting the glorious 97-year tradition of revolutionary journalism, our team of journalists today, with their affection, conscience, responsibility for the revolutionary journalism career, civic duty and social responsibility, will continue to follow the tradition of previous generations, making an important contribution to the development of the homeland and the country.

Once again, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Fatherland Front Committee, I would like to send my best wishes for health and luck to all comrades and delegates. Through the comrades present here today, I respectfully send my deepest gratitude and best wishes to the team of journalists who have been working in Nghe An province.

Thank you very much!

(Title by Nghe An Newspaper)