"When you leave, people will miss you. When you stay, people will love you..."

Officers of Ky Son District Military Command help people overcome the consequences of flash floods (June 2011).

Along with the task of training and combat readiness, the armed forces have mobilized thousands of officers and soldiers to participate in forest fire prevention, storms and floods, search and rescue... to protect people's lives and property. During major floods, officers and soldiers of the armed forces, equipped with means, combined with local forces, quickly mobilized to key areas to rescue people and save people's property with the spirit that saving people is the number one task, people's lives and property are the most precious.

Along with field trips, the armed forces organized working teams to strengthen the construction of bases in 29 communes in remote areas, ethnic minority areas, and religious areas... The working teams implemented the 4 together "Eat together, live together, work together and speak the local language together", regularly staying close to the area, grasping the situation, propagating and mobilizing people to comply with the Party's policies and the State's laws. Coordinated with local Party committees and authorities to focus on building and consolidating grassroots political organizations, contributing to gradually making grassroots party organizations and mass organizations operate in a disciplined and effective manner. Many weak and average party committees and branches have risen to become clean and strong.

From 2003 to 2011, the staff working teams consolidated 7 commune party committees and 33 party cells from average to good level to become clean and strong. They discovered, trained and introduced to the party committee 63 new party members who were ethnic minorities. The cadres and team members of the working groups and teams actively stayed close to the grassroots, guided the people in developing the economy, culture and society, and participated in effectively resolving cases related to political security and social order and safety in the working area such as: coordinating to guide and help the people in raising livestock, growing rice, building models of economic, cultural and social development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction in Hanh Lam (Thanh Chuong), Nga My (Tuong Duong), Muong Long (Ky Son); mobilize hundreds of ethnic minority households to move livestock and poultry out from under houses and sanitary works in Nam Giai (Que Phong), Pha Danh (Ky Son), build cultural villages; mobilize people in the Ban Ve Hydropower Reservoir to relocate; help localities consolidate and improve the quality of activities of militia and self-defense forces, reserve mobilization... contributing to maintaining political security and social order and safety.