Opening of the Spring Newspaper Festival of Nghe An Province 2024

Attending the opening ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee of the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award of Nghe An province; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Major General Phan Van Sy - Deputy Head of Political Department of Military Region 4; Bui Duy Dong - Secretary of Do Luong District Party Committee; Journalist Tran Minh Ngoc - Chairman of Nghe An Journalists Association, Director of the Provincial Radio and Television Station.

Also attending were representatives of leaders of provincial departments, agencies, leaders of press agencies and journalists at the local and central levels located in Nghe An province.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Giap Thin Spring Press Festival 2024, comrade Tran Minh Ngoc - Chairman of Nghe An Journalists Association said: As a spiritual and cultural activity that has become an annual traditional beauty, the Spring Press Festival is an opportunity to continue affirming the achievements of innovation of Nghe An press and the press nationwide. This is also a place for journalists to meet and exchange with the press community, connecting the press with local authorities and businesses, creating conditions for people to enjoy the dedicated, creative and attractive press products of the press team in the past year.

The Chairman of the Nghe An Journalists Association also affirmed: In 2023, Nghe An provincial press achieved many successes in professional activities, and was highly appreciated by the Ministry of Information and Communications for its level of maturity in digital transformation of the press in 2023. Accordingly, Nghe An Newspaper is in the top 2 press agencies leading the local press sector in terms of digital transformation maturity. Nghe An Newspaper is also a unit that has won many national press awards, the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award, the Dien Hong Award and awards from central ministries and branches.

Nghe An Radio and Television Station leads local stations in the production and trading of digital media products. This result shows the determination and determination in the direction and right direction of the two main press agencies of the province.

In addition, 2023 is also a year that recognizes the provincial press agencies and many resident press agencies in the area have devoted a lot of time, written many profound articles and images, contributing to the socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province. The coordination in orientation, direction, and gathering of the press team of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, the Department of Information and Communications, and the Journalists Association is increasingly synchronous and effective.

Press agencies, reporters and journalists in the area also actively contribute to humanitarian charity activities, perform well the role of social supervision and criticism, resolutely fight against corruption, waste and negative acts; discover and encourage new factors, advanced models; refute the wrong views and arguments of hostile forces, contribute to protecting the Party's ideological foundation, strengthen trust in the Party and the government, and create consensus among the people. Many members of the Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association have won high prizes at national press awards, press awards of central ministries, branches and the province.

Comrade Tran Minh Ngoc also expressed his hope that press agencies in the province will make more creative efforts, pioneer in digital transformation, innovate management and production processes, improve the quality of staff in terms of expertise, professionalism and training of political qualities and ethics. The press must continue to affirm its role and position in leading and orienting public opinion, actively promote and encourage new role models, contributing with the Party Committee and people of the whole province to successfully implement Resolution 39 of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Along with that, Party committees and authorities at all levels continue to create favorable conditions for the press to operate, have more resources to support investment in facilities, equipment, program production, and work creation; continue to create more favorable conditions for press operations in accordance with the law, so that the press always maintains the trust of readers.

At the ceremony, delegates conducted the ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the Spring Newspaper Festival, officially opening the exhibition booth and reading the Spring Newspaper of Giap Thin 2024.

On this occasion, the Organizing Committee of the Giap Thin Spring Press Festival 2024 awarded prizes to literary, artistic, and journalistic works promoting the theme "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style" of Nghe An that won prizes at the Central level, period 2021-2023.

The Organizing Committee also presented gifts to disadvantaged families in Do Luong district; handed over Spring newspaper publications to the Management Board of Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho Monument in Vinh city to organize a Tet newspaper display booth to serve the people and tourists./.