Vietnam National Defense Academy delegation works with Nghe An province leaders

On behalf of the National Defense Academy and the 96th National Defense and Security Knowledge Training Class, there were comrades: Senior Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Doctor Tran Viet Khoa - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Director of the National Defense Academy, Head of the Delegation; Lieutenant General, Doctor Nguyen Anh Tuan - Deputy Director of the National Defense Academy; Nguyen Van Quyet - Deputy Head of the Central Inspection Committee, Class President and comrades leading the Central, provincial and municipal departments, ministries and branches who are students of the 96th class;...

The leaders of Military Region 4 include: Major General Nguyen Ngoc Ha - Deputy Commander of the Military Region; Major General Phan Van Sy - Deputy Chief of Politics of the Military Region.

Working with the delegation, the provincial leaders included 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; comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee and leaders of a number of departments and branches.

Combining economic development with strengthening and consolidating national defense, security and foreign affairs

The working session is part of the practical program in Nghe An of the 96th National Defense and Security Knowledge Training Course, National Defense Academy, aiming to exchange and grasp information on the socio-economic development situation; the implementation of combining economic development with strengthening and consolidating national defense, security and foreign affairs; maintaining stability of border and island sovereignty and security, order and social safety in the area; building a comprehensive national defense, the all-people national defense posture associated with the people's security posture to meet the requirements of the task of protecting the Fatherland in the new situation in Nghe An.

On behalf of the leaders of Nghe An province, in his welcoming speech to the delegation, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reviewed the highlights of the cultural traditions, history and people of Nghe An; the results of the province's socio-economic development and the concretization of guidelines, policies, mechanisms and policies in the province on ensuring national defense and security.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province emphasized: The 96th course of national defense and security knowledge training, Vietnam National Defense Academy chose Nghe An as a practical destination, to learn, give gifts to policy families, poor households, and support the Scholarship Fund on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day, which is a special concern for the province and a very practical activity.

In the coming time, in addition to the efforts of the political system and people of Nghe An province, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee hopes to receive the attention and support of central departments, ministries, branches and localities nationwide, including the National Defense Academy and students of the 96th course.

Accordingly, with practical experience, comrades will have truly dedicated contributions and suggestions for the development of Nghe An province; at the same time, they will be a bridge to introduce to investors, friends, colleagues and people the potentials, advantages, investment and cooperation opportunities and promote the cultural beauty, traditions, and rich history of Nghe An, the unique features of the homeland of the great President Ho Chi Minh.

At the meeting, there were 6 opinions exchanged by the students, wishing to grasp the practical situation of Nghe An such as: strengths and weaknesses in economic development associated with strengthening national defense and security; building national defense potential, especially political and spiritual potential.

The trainees also asked the province to discuss the content of military recruitment; building defense zones; building combat bases, rear bases, and technical logistics bases at the provincial and district levels; building commune-level military command headquarters and commune-level police headquarters.

Solutions and experiences of Nghe An in arranging redundant staff when rearranging administrative units; implementing ethnic policies, developing community tourism models in the highlands; solutions to "block supply, reduce demand" in the fight against drug crimes in the new situation.

Delegates also asked the province to exchange and share experiences on the 5 "readinesses" in attracting investment, especially experiences in site clearance to create clean land for industrial development; ensuring national defense and security in the process of economic development, especially the marine economy; the issue of teaching foreign languages ​​in mountainous areas...

The working group also shared and exchanged with the province some experiences and solutions such as: paying great attention to personnel work (planning, training, use); researching appropriate mechanisms for coastal plains, midlands, and mountainous areas to ensure compliance with legal regulations and resolve local "bottlenecks"; firmly ensuring national defense and security, avoiding passivity and surprises to create a stable foundation for economic development; paying attention to social security policies.

Based on the delegation's opinions, Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Commander of the Nghe An Provincial Military Command discussed and clarified information of interest to delegates in the military and defense fields.

Highly appreciate Nghe An's experience and approach in building people's hearts and minds

Speaking at the meeting, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy expressed his joy when the delegation of cadres, lecturers and students of the 96th National Defense and Security Knowledge Training Course, Vietnam National Defense Academy, chose to go to Nghe An to learn about the reality and survey the locality, including the extremely difficult Western region; thereby understanding and sharing more with the province.

The head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee highly appreciated the delegation's useful comments and suggestions, thereby contributing to the province's better performance of its tasks; at the same time, he further analyzed the conditions, context, viewpoints, and implementation results in the areas of interest to the delegation.

Particularly mentioning the strengths of economic development associated with strengthening national defense and security of the province, comrade Thai Thanh Quy emphasized that in order to build a solid position of people's hearts, the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee must always maintain and promote the spirit of solidarity and high unity; thereby creating a spread of consensus and support among the people.

In addition, Nghe An has been forming relatively good infrastructure foundations and connections with all types of transportation, thereby opening up development corridors.

Over the years, the province has also pursued consistent development viewpoints: focusing on strong economic development in the East to lead the development of the West of the province; effectively mobilizing resources, especially socialized resources to take care of social security, especially in the West; allocating resources with focus and key points to soon complete and promote effectiveness, avoiding dispersion.

Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy also affirmed that a great advantage of the province is that there is the Military Region 4 Command located in the area, so the province's problems are always participated in, assisted, and resolved very quickly by the Military Region, especially procedures for attracting investment.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy analyzed the difficulties and challenges facing the province in the development process, and clarified other issues of interest to the working delegation.

Concluding the discussion, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Viet Khoa - Director of the National Defense Academy acknowledged and congratulated the results of economic and social development, ensuring national defense and security of Nghe An.

In particular, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Viet Khoa highly appreciated Nghe An's experience and approach in building a national defense posture associated with people's security posture, especially in building a posture of people's hearts; as well as paying attention to allocating investment resources for national defense; complying with regulations on construction of economic and social development projects to ensure national defense and security factors, as well as ensuring progress, time, and efficiency in attracting investment.

The Director of the National Defense Academy also acknowledged the province's achievements in ensuring order, security, borders, social security issues; and foreign affairs, especially with Laos.

To achieve that result, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Viet Khoa said the core reason was that the province had consolidated and effectively promoted the spirit of internal solidarity, building great solidarity among ethnic groups.

Sharing the difficulties and challenges that Nghe An is facing, he hopes that the province will continue to overcome them to rise up, especially to soon exploit the strengths of the border gates and the diverse transportation system most effectively; continue to care for the disadvantaged in society... to promote economic and social development; continue to build a strong position of people's hearts and security; contribute to strengthening the people's trust in the Party in the new situation.

With achievements and results in specific numbers, the Director of the National Defense Academy believes that Nghe An will successfully complete the goals and targets of the Resolution of the Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term; creating a basis and premise to prepare well for the Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term.

On this occasion, the Vietnam National Defense Academy donated 50 million VND to the Nghe An Province Education Promotion Fund. Officers and students of the 96th National Defense and Security Knowledge Training Course donated 150 million VND to the Adoption Program of the Border Guard Stations on the Nghe An border.