Armed forces need to support people in building long-term livelihood models

On the morning of May 22, the Provincial Party Committee held a conference to review the mass mobilization work of agencies and armed forces units stationed in the area during the 2013-2018 period and sign a coordination agreement for the 2019-2024 period.Photo: Thanh Le

Attending the conference were comrades: Colonel Pham Kim Son - Deputy Director of the Department of Mass Mobilization, General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; Major General Tran Vo Dung - Party Committee Secretary, Political Commissar of Military Region IV; Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Cao Thi Hien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Tran Van Hung - Commander of the Provincial Military Command and comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

Strengthening military-civilian ties

After 5 years of implementation, leaders and commanders of agencies and units have identified mass mobilization work to help local people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, develop the economy, culture, society, and build new rural areas; especially identifying helping people in special communes, remote and poor communes of the province as one of the key tasks.

Standing Deputy Secretary Nguyen Xuan Son speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

Officers and soldiers of the armed forces stationed in the area have promoted the traditional nature of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", joining hands with Party committees, authorities, political and social organizations, businesses, and philanthropists to contribute to raising awareness and responsibility for Party committees, local authorities, and people in eliminating backward customs, eliminating opium cultivation, responsibility for denouncing and preventing crimes and social evils, the task of building and protecting the Fatherland, and local military and defense tasks.

Thereby, consolidating, strengthening, and beautifying the blood relationship between the army and the people, uniting the entire people, contributing to consolidating and building the grassroots political system, the national defense associated with the increasingly solid "people's hearts and minds position".

Major General Tran Vo Dung - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Military Region IV spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

At the same time, creating positive changes in infrastructure, improving the lives, increasing the income of the poor, creating conditions for people to access basic social services, improving the appearance of rural and mountainous areas, developing socio-economy; ensuring basic social security, promoting the effective implementation of the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction.

Nghe An soldiers help people with irrigation. Photo: Archive

From 2013 to 2018, agencies and units of armed forces stationed in the province mobilized hundreds of thousands of working days and nearly 3,000 vehicles to support poor communes with an amount of over 185 billion VND; propagated and mobilized 17,604 young people to join the army; the police achieved 100% of the target.

Through mass mobilization activities, agencies and units have coordinated to advise, consolidate, improve and improve the quality of activities of 649 grassroots Party organizations and unions; discovered and trained 2,946 outstanding people to join the Party.

Survey, select content to help

At the conference, agencies and units of the armed forces discussed and shared experiences and good practices, as well as difficulties and obstacles in mass mobilization work; at the same time, proposed solutions to overcome limitations, so that mass mobilization work in the armed forces becomes increasingly more effective and practical.

Speaking at the meeting, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son acknowledged and highly appreciated the mass mobilization work in the armed forces in the province, which further enhanced the military-civilian relationship, maintained national defense and security, and contributed to the socio-economic development of the province.

On this occasion, the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 12 collectives with outstanding achievements in mass mobilization work in the armed forces. Photo: Thanh Le

In the coming time, to continue to improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work, the armed forces need to promote the role of Party committees, heads of agencies, units and local government Party committees; must consider mass mobilization work as a political task and work of agencies and units; and as the responsibility of each officer and soldier.

For localities, communes need to be proactive, seek help, use resources reasonably, and raise awareness of self-improvement.

Signing a program of coordination in implementing mass mobilization work for the period 2019-2024. Photo: Thanh Le

At the same time, agencies, units and localities receiving assistance need to conduct surveys and coordinate more closely, select practical assistance content, focus on essential needs, and build long-term livelihood models.

Along with supporting economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, agencies and units need to increase twinning activities to support, assist and consolidate the political system; pay attention to training and developing party members, creating a source of cadres and skilled workers for the locality.