Vinh Phuc Newspaper 73 years of establishment and growth

At this time, in Vinh Yen province there was a newsletter from the Information and Propaganda Department...

When merging the two provinces of Vinh Yen and Phuc Yen, Vinh Phuc had two newspapers: One for the public, Vinh Phuc Information, and one for the Party, Tin Noi Bo. On August 22, 1951, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department issued Directive No. 14 on "Unifying the two provincial newspapers into one and the task of writing for the provincial newspaper".

August 22, 1951 was the time, the milestone marking the birth of today's Vinh Phuc Newspaper.

Based on the role and position of information and propaganda work in the new revolutionary period and implementing the Party Central Committee's policy, on September 3, 1962, the Standing Committee of Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Committee issued Resolution No. 143-QN/TU on "Establishing and appointing leaders of the provincial Party newspaper agency". In the Resolution, comrade Duong Duc Lam, member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department was assigned to be the Head of the Party Newspaper agency; comrade Nguyen Van Tao, Head of the Provincial Information Department, was in charge of the Editor-in-Chief of the Party Newspaper agency; a number of comrades who were officers of the Provincial Information Department were transferred to work as officers of the Party Newspaper agency. After that, Vinh Phuc Newspaper received a number of comrades to work in the content department and in charge of administrative management.

Vinh Phuc Newspaper has clearly matured. The staff, editors, and reporters are all propaganda officers transferred from other sectors with solid political qualifications and mettle; most of them have studied short-term or long-term journalism courses at the Central Propaganda School. Besides professional journalists, the newspaper's editorial board has done a good job as a collaborator. Hundreds of collaborators regularly send news, articles, photos, pictures, poems, and stories to the newspaper; the number of news and articles from collaborators used in each issue accounts for more than 50% of the newspaper's volume.

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Regarding content, Vinh Phuc Newspaper has done well its assigned tasks, promptly propagating the Party and State's policies and guidelines, and the people's lives. The columns "Agricultural techniques", "From Tam Dao to the Red River", "Good people, good deeds"... have actively contributed to encouraging the movement of the entire people competing in production, building socialism and fighting against the US to save the country; cadres, reporters, editors, and employees of the Editorial Office did not hesitate to stick close to the grassroots day and night, vividly reflecting the movements: Three readiness, Three responsibilities; Competition to be good at irrigation, good at green manure; good at animal husbandry, good at tree planting; improving tools to liberate the shoulders; militia practicing shooting at US aircraft...

In February 1968, Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho provinces were merged into Vinh Phu province. Comrade Nguyen Tao, Editor-in-Chief of Vinh Phuc Newspaper, was appointed to hold the position of Editor-in-Chief of Vinh Phu Newspaper. The team of journalists who had worked for many years together with reporters, printing workers... evacuated to Lap Thach.

On March 1, 1968, Vinh Phu Newspaper printed its first issue, then published twice a week, with a circulation of 4,500 - 5,000 copies/issue.

‏This was also the time when we launched the 1968 Tet Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising, which excited the people and soldiers of the whole country. Vinh Phu Newspaper had many news, articles, and photos to cheer up the resounding victories in all the battlefields of the South. In harmony with the spirit of the whole country, competing in production and supporting the great front line, together with the army and people in the province, the reporters of the editorial office, with the spirit of "Wherever the enemy attacks, we will go" were present in time to report, write articles, and take photos to set an example of the brave spirit of our army and people, steadfastly smashing the plot to turn North Vietnam back to the "Stone Age" of the US Air Force. The pages of the newspaper were boldly printed with the resounding victories of our army and people. ‏

‏With the country unified, welcoming the 2nd and 3rd Provincial Party Congresses and the 4th National Party Congress, Vinh Phu Newspaper has closely followed the political task with the slogan "All for production, all for Socialism". For a long time, the Newspaper has focused on promoting the emulation atmosphere of labor production, typical advanced collectives and individuals with high achievements in agricultural production; the movement to build "Uncle Ho's fish pond" and "Uncle Ho's fruit garden" was launched everywhere. In particular, the Newspaper has had a series of articles reflecting the movement of "greening bare land and bare hills", planting native trees on hills, planting cassava, tea, lacquer... raising livestock and poultry... carried out in production groups and teams in the form of new contracts, in the spirit of Directive 100 of the Central Party Secretariat.

Entering a new period, starting to implement the 5-year plan (1986 - 1990) with 2 strategic tasks: building and firmly protecting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the urgent task at this time is to focus on improving the management mechanism, eliminating the subsidy bureaucracy, creating new momentum for the country's development. The newspaper has done well the task of "Collective encouragement, collective propaganda" for the entire population to strive to complete the production target of 400,000 tons of food; propagating the implementation of the Central's policy of reform on "Price - Wage - Money". The newspaper opened columns: "People know - People discuss - People do - People inspect"; "Innovating the way of thinking, innovating the way of doing"... The newspaper has a circulation of nearly 7,000 copies/issue.

Entering 1991, the year of the 6th Provincial Party Congress and the 7th National Party Congress (June 1991). The Congress approved the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism; the Strategy for socio-economic stabilization and development until 2000... Vinh Phu Newspaper continued to promote economic management innovation; implementation of Resolution No. 10 in agriculture; cultural and social activities, national security and defense, Party building, government, and organizations... and actively participated in the fight against corruption and social evils. Many articles helped readers gain a new perspective on the innovation in building and protecting the Fatherland during this period.

In July 1992, the newspaper expanded its scope; in August 1994, it was published 3 times a week (Tuesday - Thursday - Saturday); the first Vinh Phu Saturday newspaper was introduced to readers on August 20, 1994, on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2.

During the years from 1993 to 1995, implementing the Resolution of the 7th Party Congress and the Resolution of the 7th Vinh Phu Provincial Party Congress, the newspaper effectively propagated the Party's innovation and the socio-economic development tasks of the locality. In particular, after the 8th National Party Congress (June 1996), the newspaper had many articles summarizing experiences; praising advanced models, farmers getting rich, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty...

‏29 years of merging the two provinces of Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho, the Party Committee's newspaper has maintained its principles and purposes, worthy of being the Party's shock troops, bringing the Party and State's guidelines, policies and laws into life; is the crystallization of the will and strength of the entire people, contributing to the cause of building and protecting the Fatherland, building and protecting the increasingly rich and strong homeland.

In November 1996, implementing the Resolution of the 9th National Assembly, 10th session on the separation of Vinh Phu province, the Editorial Board of Vinh Phu Newspaper urgently prepared conditions in terms of organization, facilities, staff and reporters to re-establish Phu Tho Newspaper and Vinh Phuc Newspaper in early 1997.

From January 1, 1997, along with the re-establishment of Vinh Phuc province, Vinh Phuc Newspaper was re-established. At this time, the editorial office of Vinh Phuc Newspaper had 10 staff, reporters, and editors. Comrade Nguyen Xuan Tuu was assigned to hold the position of Editor-in-Chief.

From 1997 to 2000, Vinh Phuc Newspaper had to work temporarily at the headquarters of Vinh Phuc General Trading Company - Lim Forest, Ngo Quyen Ward, Vinh Yen Town.

‏The facilities and offices of reporters, technicians, and editors were very lacking (only 3 computers, a few filing cabinets, tables and chairs; 2 cameras). In 2000, the newspaper had an official headquarters. In such extremely lacking conditions, the staff and reporters did not fear difficulties, made efforts to overcome difficulties, and performed well the political tasks assigned by the Party, government, and people. The newspaper's editorial board promptly consulted and built a mock-up to urgently proceed with publication. The first issue of Vinh Phuc newspaper after re-establishment was introduced to readers on January 1, 1997, printed in 4 colors on pages 1+8, with a circulation of 1,600 copies/issue.

By the end of 2001, the editorial office had 45 cadres, reporters, and employees. The Party cell had 17 party members, the Editor-in-Chief was the Party cell secretary. The editorial office had 5 departments including: Administrative Affairs; Secretary; Readers; Economics; Internal Affairs - Social and Cultural Affairs - Party Building. In 1997, with 2 issues/week, published on Tuesdays and Fridays, in 1998, it was published 3 issues/week. Journalists and collaborators closely followed the reality of life, promptly propagandized policies, campaigns; emulation movements towards the First Provincial Emulation Congress; All people unite to build a cultural life; rural road construction movement (typically in Yen Lac). Compete in effective production and business... Compete to achieve achievements to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vinh Phuc province's establishment (February 1950 - February 2000). In weekly newspapers, regularly publish a reportage, mentioning, analyzing, and dissecting many social issues of concern.

The system of categories is built closely, helping the leadership and management sectors: Village stories - city stories; Warmth from VAC; Plant protection for green warmth; Answering and understanding the law, Party building; Good people - Good deeds, This month in history...

During 1999-2000, the newspaper devoted a large amount of time to news, articles, photos, and special pages to propagandize Party Congresses at all levels, and the 13th Provincial Party Congress (term 2001-2005). It strongly propagandized the election of deputies to the 11th National Assembly (2002); there were many articles synthesizing and evaluating quite comprehensively all aspects of socio-economic development, national security and defense, Party and government building work. Especially information about breakthroughs in investment in infrastructure construction of industrial parks, industrial clusters... developing industrial economy, increasing the province's budget revenue in 2001-2002. The newspaper launched the contest “The Land and People of Vinh Phuc”, posting hundreds of photos and articles depicting many aspects of the beauty of history, culture, the spirit of love for work, enthusiasm for production, readiness to fight… for readers to have a beautiful picture of the Land and People of Vinh Phuc at a very special time after the years of re-establishment of the province.

From 1997 to 2001, the Newspaper has ensured good distribution: In 1997, from 2 issues/week; at the end of 1998, it increased to 3 issues/week. The number of publications increased from 1,600 copies/issue (in 1997) to 3,500 copies/issue (in 2001). The New Year and Lunar New Year issues had a circulation of over 5,000 copies. By the beginning of 2002, 90% of the Party branches and Party committees in the province had ordered the Newspaper from the Party Committee, an increase of more than 35% compared to 1997. On average, each year the Newspaper publishes nearly 4,600 news, articles, photos, and illustrations.

The quality of news, articles and photos of the newspaper has improved a lot. The genres are increasingly diverse. In addition to information, updating current events; propagating policies and guidelines for socio-economic development, ensuring security, order and social safety; social security work, good people - good deeds, the newspaper has published many articles with high fighting spirit, many of which are fighting against corruption and social negativity, against crime and social evils.

By March 2006, the newspaper increased its publication frequency from 4 issues/week to 5 issues/week, while restructuring and maintaining the system of columns. At this time, the newspaper had 61 cadres, civil servants, public employees, and reporters, of which 42 were on the State payroll.

In December 2007, Vinh Phuc Electronic Newspaper published, updated quickly, accurately and comprehensively information on all aspects of social life, meeting the needs of readers and the requirements of political tasks. In 2013, to better meet the needs of readers, Vinh Phuc Electronic Newspaper invested in upgrading the interface, adding many utilities such as: Internet TV, radio; English page; reading printed newspapers... is one of the modern electronic pages, with a strong increase in traffic, multi-utility. The Electronic Newspaper currently maintains nearly 40 sections, diverse and rich in information content, meeting the needs of readers, at the same time exchanging and providing information for the websites of many departments, branches, districts, cities and towns in the province.

On May 1, 2010, Vinh Phuc Weekend Newspaper was introduced to readers. Vinh Phuc Weekend Newspaper builds propaganda topics focusing on cultural and social issues. Reflecting deeply and vividly the fields and aspects that readers are interested in, leaving good impressions in the hearts of readers.

On August 1, 2011, the publication of Vinh Phuc Sunday Newspaper with the theme of Urban Economy, along with a system of columns, gave readers a fairly comprehensive picture of the development in many economic fields of the province. The issues that Sunday Newspaper builds and mentions in each issue gradually meet the needs of readers, keeping up with the speed of development of Economy - Urban - Trade - Services in the province in recent times.

Not only investing and developing the scale of publications, every year, on the occasion of traditional anniversaries, the Newspaper publishes special issues to deeply promote the events.

The newspaper has gradually improved the quality of the content of daily issues, Weekend and Sunday publications, starting with innovation in management, meetings, planning, plan assignment, supervision, and inspection of daily and weekly plans, special issues, special issues, etc. Next, arranging and allocating appropriate human resources, promoting the initiative, creativity, and sense of responsibility of assigned positions. Delegating authority and assigning responsibilities along with reasonably resolving the interests of the team of reporters, creating an open, democratic working environment, atmosphere, and conditions, promoting the creativity of the entire agency.

‏To meet the publishing requirements and on the path to modernizing the editorial office, in addition to investing in facilities, the editorial office headquarters is increasingly spacious and complete, and equipment serving reporters is also invested in: most reporters have modern specialized cameras, laptops, and recording devices for work. Along with that, with the attention of the Provincial Party Committee and the consent of the Provincial People's Committee, in January 2014, Vinh Phuc Newspaper implemented the Electronic Editorial Office Project. By October 2014, the Electronic Editorial Office came into operation, allowing a closed publishing process from sending news, articles, photos, videos, clips, editing (steps), browsing, publishing; allowing management, searching, statistics, reporting on the activities of reporters, editors... according to modern processes, optimizing publishing steps; reliability and accuracy are improved, reducing human resources and materials. Since then, the Electronic Editorial model has been operating and promoting efficiency in publishing all publications, and is one of the modern editorial models in the Northern region.

In November 2015, with the attention and approval of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee, the Newspaper started investing in the construction of Vinh Phuc Newspaper Printing House on a total area of ​​nearly 3,000 square meters. The Printing House has now been completed and is operating effectively.

From 2016 to now, the Vinh Phuc Newspaper Party Committee continues to lead cadres and party members in the agency to well perform the tasks assigned by the Party Committee and people in the province. Closely following the direction and orientation of the Central and the province, the newspaper has built a specific propaganda plan, close to the actual situation. Along with that, the newspaper has strongly innovated its content and form, providing readers with useful and attractive spiritual food. Vinh Phuc Daily Newspaper, Weekend Newspaper, Sunday Newspaper are presented in a more modern and impressive way. The content is increasingly rich. Special pages and columns are clearly defined; the amount of information on Vinh Phuc Daily Newspaper is diverse, informing readers about current events in the province, domestically and internationally; propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's and the province's policies and laws into life; encouraging and motivating people of all walks of life to compete in labor production; strongly fight against wrong and hostile viewpoints, protect the Party's ideological foundation; criticize negative manifestations in society, problems and shortcomings of real life... to help Party committees and authorities lead and direct the successful implementation of assigned political tasks. The Weekend Newspaper and the Sunday Newspaper analyze in depth cultural - social, economic - urban issues, providing readers with a multi-dimensional and deeper view of social life issues. E-newspapers innovate in the way of expression, with concise news articles that go straight to the point; use many photos and clips to increase the attractiveness and persuasiveness of journalistic works. Continuing to implement the goal of the Party Congress Resolution to build e-newspapers into central publications, the newspaper has developed plans and projects to develop e-newspapers, and by September 2019, the Ministry of Information and Communications had allowed it to upgrade from an electronic information page to an electronic newspaper. From there, e-newspapers determined their development direction to keep up with modern journalism. Content innovation, increased interaction, and attracting readers from social networking platforms have been implemented. The number of accesses to e-newspapers from websites, apps, and fanpages has increased sharply. There are news articles accessed by tens of thousands of readers.

Over the past 73 years, the newspaper of the Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Committee has continuously developed in terms of publishing scale, staff and especially in terms of quality of publications. Up to now, the newspaper's publications are published every day of the week, with an output of nearly 11,000 copies/issue. Most branches and Party Committees in the province have the Party Committee's Newspaper every day. The Electronic Newspaper has 12,000-15,000 visitors every day. The team of journalists is increasingly mature in all aspects, meeting the requirements and tasks of innovation, improving the quality of publications, and building a Professional - Modern - Cultural editorial office.

With its achievements over the past 73 years, Vinh Phuc Newspaper has been awarded by the State 1 Second Class Labor Medal, 1 First Class Labor Medal; Emulation Flag, Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister and many Emulation Flags, Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee. In particular, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its founding (August 22, 1951 - August 22, 2021), Vinh Phuc Newspaper was awarded the Third Class Independence Medal by the President. Participating in press awards organized by the province and the Central Government, Vinh Phuc Newspaper won many awards. In 2022, the collective of Vinh Phuc Newspaper received a Certificate of Merit for its outstanding achievements in responding to the 7th Golden Hammer and Sickle Award; in 2023, it received a Certificate of Merit for its outstanding achievements in participating in the 1st Dien Hong Award. Many reporters participated and won awards, including the encouragement prize of the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award in 2021; the special prize of the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award in 2022; Third prize of the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award in 2023; Encouragement prize of the third Political Essay Contest to Protect the Party's Ideological Foundation in 2023...