Nghe An press promptly and vividly reflects all aspects of the province's life.

On the morning of December 5, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department coordinated with the Department of Information and Communications and the Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association to organize a regular press conference in December 2019. Attending the meeting were comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Information closely follows the orientation, ensuring humanity

According to the report at the conference, in November 2019, press and media agencies promptly and vividly reported and reflected key events in all fields of current affairs, politics, economics and society.

Many news, articles and reports have actively updated information about the 8th session of the 14th National Assembly; activities of contacting voters and supervision of provincial People's Council delegates at the grassroots level. The spirit of the National Great Unity Day was strongly propagated.

Issues such as: Traffic safety situation, firecracker trading and transportation at the end of the year; incidents related to security, order, and law violations in the area... have provided important information for the relevant authorities to investigate and handle.

Comrades: Kha Van Tam - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Nguyen Ba Hao - Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications; Tran Duy Ngoan - Chairman of the Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association co-chaired the meeting. Photo: Thanh Quynh

In particular, regarding the case of 39 Vietnamese victims who died in the UK, press agencies in Nghe An reported the case in the right direction, ensuring compliance with the law, promoting humanity and not affecting the country's diplomatic activities...

Focus on disseminating the results of implementing socio-economic goals

At the conference, representatives of press agencies focused on discussing with 12 comments, mainly focusing on issues related to the unreasonable revenue and expenditure of the Education sector; Draft resolution on land price list in the province, period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2024 developed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Press planning plan of Nghe An province until 2025...

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper Tran Huu Nghia speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Quynh

In response to reporters' comments about the situation of some agencies and units in the province not strictly implementing regulations on speaking and providing information to the press, comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department requested that press agencies need to have specific written explanations. On that basis, relevant departments, branches and sectors will be responsible for handling thoroughly.

Regarding the merger of administrative units at all levels in Nghe An, comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong requested press agencies to focus on propaganda in the spirit of Resolution No. 37 of the Politburo and the Government on the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels. Thereby raising awareness and creating consensus among cadres, party members and all classes of people.

Regarding the Nghe An province press planning plan until 2025, comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong emphasized that the implementation of this policy is an objective and inevitable requirement, consistent with the Central press planning project. And the implementation of the Nghe An province press planning must ensure the essential factor of maintaining effective communication channels, ensuring the lives of cadres, reporters and employees.

Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Nguyen Thi Thu Huong delivered a concluding speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Orienting the propaganda work in the coming time, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Nguyen Thi Thu Huong reminded the press agencies of the key contents that need to be focused on propagating. One of them is the results of the 8th session of the 14th National Assembly; the contents of the 12th session of the 17th Nghe An Provincial People's Council for the 2016-2021 term.

At the same time, it is necessary to fully inform about the implementation of Directive 35-CT/TW dated May 30, 2019 of the Politburo on "Party Congresses at all levels towards the 13th National Congress of the Party". During the month, it is necessary to build news lines and propaganda articles to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam and major national holidays.

The press needs to inform readers about the results of the implementation of the socio-economic tasks in 2019, the direction and tasks in 2020 of the country and Nghe An province. From there, it reflects the positive points in innovation, reform as well as implementing solutions to promote production, business, and attract investment in Nghe An. It is necessary to promote the potential and advantages of the province, activities to celebrate the Party and celebrate Spring before the New Year.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department