Nghe An Newspaper won the C prize of the National Press Award on Party building (the 6th Golden Hammer and Sickle)

Attending the ceremony were: Nong Duc Manh - Former General Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat; Tran Quoc Vuong - Former Politburo member, former Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat; Truong Thi Mai - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award; Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Committee; Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Nguyen Xuan Thang - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; To Huy Rua - former Politburo member, former Head of the Central Organization Committee; Senior Lieutenant General Pham Thanh Ngan - former Politburo member, former Director of the General Department of Politics; Do Van Chien - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee. Members of the Party Central Committee; representatives of leaders and former leaders of central ministries, departments and branches, press agencies and award-winning authors.

Comrade Vo Van Thuong speaks at the award ceremony. Photo: HT

The 6th Golden Hammer and Sickle Award 2021 was launched on January 13, 2021. By the time of closing the submission period, the Award Standing Agency (Party Building Magazine) had received 2,081 entries (an increase of 21.6%) compared to 2020. Of which, there were 843 print works, 449 electronic works, 511 television works, 221 radio works, and 57 photojournalistic works.

This year’s entries are diverse in themes and genres and cover all provinces and cities across the country. In general, the works about the Party and Party building work in all forms of print, electronic, visual, and audio media, etc., closely follow hot, prominent events of the country, industry, and locality.

The new feature this year is that there are many quality works on the struggle to protect the Party's ideological foundation, refuting the distorted arguments of hostile forces, new theoretical and practical issues such as innovation in the Party's leadership methods, evaluation of pilot models of organizational apparatus in the political system, the role of the Party in leading and directing socio-economic development, national defense and security, foreign affairs, preventing and combating corruption, waste, negativity, preserving and promoting the nation's good cultural values, preventing and combating epidemics, etc.

Representative of Nghe An Newspaper's group of authors received the C prize. Photo: Sy Minh

The preliminary jury selected 110 works of various genres for the final round. Thereby, 67 best works were selected to award prizes including 6 A prizes, 12 B prizes, 16 C prizes, 30 Encouragement prizes and 10 thematic prizes. Of which, the work "A strong Party thanks to good Party cells" (4 episodes) by the group of authors from Nghe An Newspaper (Ngo Duc Chuyen, Chu Thi Khanh Ly, Nguyen Hoai Thu, Nguyen Thanh Duy) won the C prize.

On this occasion, the Steering Committee and Organizing Committee of the award also awarded 3 press agencies with creative media products on Party building and 15 units including the Propaganda Department, the Party Committee Organizing Committee and press agencies with outstanding achievements in organizing, propagating and responding to the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award. At the same time, 3 typical characters in the award-winning press works were honored.

The group of authors won the A prize. Photo: KL

Speaking at the award ceremony, Comrade Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat emphasized that the 6th National Press Award on Party Building - Golden Hammer and Sickle - 2021 is a major event to celebrate the Party's Founding Day with many good works about the Party and Party building work. The press agencies have actively participated with a high sense of responsibility, the quality of the works has been increasingly improved, diverse in genres, rich in topics, addressing difficult and new issues that are arising, demonstrating the intelligence and dedication of revolutionary journalists to the Party. Thereby, it shows the consensus of the entire political system, the Party's will, and the people's hearts in the cause of Party building and rectification, and national construction; at the same time, contributing to strengthening the people's trust in the Party and the State.

Representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, leaders of Nghe An Newspaper and the group of authors who won the C prize took a souvenir photo with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. Photo: PV

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper Tran Van Hung and the group of authors won Prize C at the Award Ceremony. Photo: PV

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, comrade Vo Van Thuong acknowledged the contributions of news agencies and journalists to Party building work and the efforts of the steering committee to contribute to the success of the National Press Award on Party building.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper took a souvenir photo with leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, leaders of Nghe An Newspaper and the group of award-winning reporters. Photo: PV

Comrade Vo Van Thuong emphasized that the press plays a very important role in contributing to the success of the Party's rectification and building work and the political system. Therefore, he hoped that revolutionary journalists would promote their spirit and responsibility in protecting the Party's ideological foundation and platform, building a clean and strong Party and political system worthy of the people's trust. Each press work written about Party building, in addition to propaganda, also encourages cadres, party members and people to well implement the Party and State's guidelines, policies and guidelines.