Solidarity, initiative, creativity in building and firmly protecting territorial sovereignty and border security

Attending and directing the congress were Major General Tran Van Bung - Deputy Chief of Political Affairs of the Border Guard; Le Van Luong - Member of the Central Committee of the Youth Union, Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union. On the side of the provincial Border Guard, there were Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Commander of the Provincial Border Guard Command; Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of the provincial Border Guard.

Delegates attending the Congress. Photo: Dang Cuong

Many outstanding marks in all aspects of work

Over the past 5 years, the Youth Union and youth movement have always been given attention by the Party Committee and the Command.Nghe An Border Guardand the Party Committees and commanders of the units pay attention to leadership and direction with many contents, forms, and measures that are accurate and suitable to the practical situation. Thanks to that, the youth of the provincial Border Guard are always dynamic, creative, have strong political will, pure morality, healthy lifestyle, spirit, solidarity, attachment to the collective and unit; dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, attached to the border, ethnic people, ready to fight for the cause of protecting the sovereignty and security of the national border.

In carrying out the unit's political tasks, the Border Guard Youth Union is always ready to undertake and complete well the assigned tasks, notably overcoming difficulties, actively participating in patrolling 1,819 times/14,465 people to protect the border, landmarks, and sea areas, contributing to firmly protecting territorial sovereignty. Flexibly applying professional measures to fight against drugs and crimes, thereby participating in detecting, arresting, and handling 1,145 cases/1,602 subjects; seizing 185 heroin cakes, 270,134 synthetic drug pills, 21 kg of opium, 60 guns, 32 kg of explosives and many other exhibits.

Congress delegates offer flowers at Ho Chi Minh Square before the congress begins. Photo: Le Thach

In particular, in the face of the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, 217 youth union members of the Border Guard have participated in performing tasks at Covid-19 prevention and control teams and checkpoints. Youth union members of the local working teams always overcome difficulties, stay close to the people, stay close to the area, advise local Party committees and authorities, coordinate with Youth Union organizations, do a good job of propaganda and mobilizing people to comply with the Party's policies and the State's laws; fight against illegal migration, guide people to apply scientific and technological achievements in animal husbandry and cultivation, implement economic models, help people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; effectively participate in the Border Guard movement to join hands to build new rural areas with 13,006 working days, rebuild and repair 278.7 km of rural roads; 110.4 km of intra-field canals; rebuild and repair 212 houses; help people harvest crops on 312.85 hectares.

One of the performances welcoming the congress. Photo: Le Thach

The Youth Union organizations at the Border Guard Stations also did a good job of advising local Party committees and authorities to effectively carry out the twinning activities of residential clusters (villages, hamlets) on both sides of the border, the twinning program between the Border Guard Stations and the border protection forces of Laos; sponsored 16 Lao students with difficult circumstances to excel in their studies, with a support level of 500,000 VND/student/month.

Border Guard officers and soldiers patrolling to protect the border. Photo: Archive

Promoting the tradition of solidarity and close ties between the Border Guard and the people in the border areas, the Youth Union has always been the core force, actively sticking to the people and the area, doing a good job of mobilizing the masses. In the past 5 years, movements such as: Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, "Warm Winter" Program; "Border Spring - Warming the hearts of the villagers"; "Tet for the poor" Program... associated with the movement "Border Guard Youth join hands for the poor - No one is left behind", have made a clear impression with 500 "Volunteer Saturdays", "Green Sundays", free medical examination and medicine for 1,750 people; giving 1,025 warm clothes to students; giving 3,132 gifts to students and people in difficult circumstances, worth more than 25 billion VND.

Through the implementation of the program "Helping children go to school - Adopted children of the Border Guard Station", 115 disadvantaged children have been sponsored and helped to improve their studies, with a support level of 500,000 VND/child/month until they finish high school. Propaganda and mobilization of more than 411,000 school-age children, 710 students who intended to drop out of school to return to school; donated books, notebooks, and learning tools worth 130 million VND; repaired 106 classrooms/11 schools; opened 15 classes to eradicate illiteracy and prevent re-illiteracy in border areas.

Delegates discuss on the sidelines of the congress. Photo: Dang Cuong

In the past 5 years, 164 young union members have attended political theory training courses to join the Party; 212 outstanding union members have been admitted to the Party. The Provincial Border Guard Youth Union has received Certificates of Merit from the Central Youth Union for 1 collective and 2 individuals; the Executive Committee of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union has awarded Certificates of Merit to 5 collectives and 10 individuals for their outstanding achievements in Youth Union and Youth Union activities. Many new, typical and advanced elements in the Youth Union have been discovered and honored, contributing to creating a beautiful image of "Uncle Ho's Soldiers" in the new period.

Continue to innovate and improve the quality of the Union's activities.

Promoting the achievements in the past 5 years, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An Border Guard identified the direction, goals, tasks and solutions for the 12th Congress (2022 - 2027). That is to continue to thoroughly grasp the Resolution of the Party Congress at all levels, strengthen and innovate the leadership and direction of the Party Committees and unit commanders for the work of the Youth Union and the youth movement. Take care of educating and training the Youth Union members and youth of the Provincial Border Guard to develop comprehensively; be strong in politics and ideology, have absolute trust in the leadership of the Party; have noble ethics and lifestyle; have culture, health, knowledge, professional and military qualifications; have political mettle, a sense of responsibility and high fighting spirit, be attached to the unit and to the ethnic people of the border; be ready to receive and determined to overcome difficulties, successfully complete all assigned tasks.

Focus on effectively promoting revolutionary action movements of young people, being proactive and creative in work, study and combat. Continue to innovate content and form, improve the quality of activities of the Youth Union, build a strong Youth Union organization; actively participate in building a clean and strong Party associated with building VMTD units. Unite and closely coordinate with the local Youth Union, play a core role in the movement of young people in the province to actively participate in protecting the sovereignty, border security and sea areas of the Fatherland.

Attending the congress, the union members also gave many opinions contributing to the building and development of the union work and the youth movement; continuing to affirm the pioneering role of the youth under the leadership of the Party Committee and the Provincial Border Guard Command; demonstrating the determination of the youth in participating in building a comprehensively strong provincial Border Guard, successfully completing the task of managing and protecting national border security and sovereignty in the new situation.

Speaking at the congress, Major General Tran Van Bung - Deputy Chief of Political Affairs of the Border Guard; Le Van Luong - Member of the Central Committee of the Youth Union, Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union congratulated the outstanding results and achievements of the youth union organizations and cadres, union members and youth of the Nghe An Provincial Border Guard over the past 5 years.

Major General Tran Van Bung - Deputy Chief of Political Department of Border Guard spoke at the congress. Photo: Le Thach

At the same time, it is necessary to suggest some additional contents, specifically, it is necessary to continue to attach importance to the work of propagating and educating the Party's guidelines, policies, and resolutions, the State's policies and laws into the practical work and life of the youth, concretizing the action program of the Youth Union to implement the Resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels into life. Well organize the revolutionary action movements of the youth associated with the unit's emulation movement to win, bring the Youth Union into practice, actively complete the tasks excellently in the new period, promote the role of the border youth in the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh.

Comrade Le Van Luong - Member of the Central Committee of the Youth Union, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union discussed and raised issues at the congress. Photo: Dang Cuong

Continue to maintain effective models and methods, such as: "Helping children go to school - Adopted children of Border Guard Station", Border Guard joins hands to build new rural areas... Focus on building a strong Youth Union organization in terms of politics, ideology, ethics and organization. Promote the pioneering and creative role of Youth Union members in combat, work and production; continue to innovate and improve the quality, content and form of activities of the Youth Union; closely coordinate with local Youth Union organizations and youth forces on the two border lines, promote the combined strength in the cause of building and protecting national sovereignty and border security; contribute to the overall success of the Youth Union work and youth movement in the province.

With a spirit of democracy and high responsibility, at the first session, the Congress elected delegates to attend the 18th Congress of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An province, term 2022-2027.

The congress elected delegates to attend the 18th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An province, term 2022-2027. Photo: Le Thach

Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard presented flowers to congratulate delegates attending the 18th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An province, term 2022-2027. Photo: Le Thach

With the theme "Youth of Nghe An Provincial Border Guard unite, innovate, be proactive, and be creative in building and firmly protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security", the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An Provincial Border Guard sets out the following targets to strive for:

- 100% of cadres and youth union members are fully informed and study the Party's Resolutions, policies and guidelines, the laws of the State and at all levels; Resolutions of the Youth Union Congresses, and action programs to implement the Resolutions of the Youth Union Congresses at all levels.

- Strive to reduce the rate of Youth Union members violating common discipline to below 0.2%; no members violate the law and serious discipline, strictly comply with the Traffic Law.

- 100% of union members and youth register to implement the union training program. Strive to have over 85% of union members achieve good and excellent results every year; over 75% of union bases are classified as strong, with no weak union bases; the Provincial Border Guard Youth Union achieves strong results.

- Strive to have 150 - 200 outstanding members admitted to the Party in the period of 2022 - 2027.

- Each youth organization builds and maintains at least 01 youth project or work.

- Every year, 100% of grassroots educational organizations help at least one slow-developing youth in the area to progress.

- 100% of grassroots youth organizations continue to effectively implement movements, programs, models, and campaigns among the provincial Border Guard youth and movements and campaigns launched by the Central Youth Union and the Army's "Determination to Win" emulation movement, contributing to building a strong and comprehensive unit.

- Every year, 100% of youth organizations have a plan to select, train and develop typical young faces of the unit and organize a vote for the most typical young face to report to the Party Committee and unit commander to recommend them to participate in the vote for "Typical Young Face" at the provincial level.

- 100% of grassroots youth organizations carry out youth volunteer activities well such as: Youth Month, Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign; "Let's clean the sea" campaign; "Repaying gratitude" activities, "When drinking water, remember its source"; environmental protection activities.