Nghe An Propaganda Department: Continuing the mission of going ahead - paving the way, going together - developing

Go first - pave the way

The valuable lessons learned over the past 91 years are the foundation forNghe An Propaganda Departmentcontinue to innovate, expand, and fulfill its mission well on the development path of the province. In recent times, Propaganda has "covered" activities in many different fields, from political theory work, protecting ideological foundations, fighting against false and hostile information and viewpoints, preventing and repelling signs of ideological and moral degradation, self-evolution, self-transformation to propaganda work, press, publishing, culture, arts, grasping public opinion..., contributing to strengthening people's trust in the Party, State and regime, consolidating the great national unity bloc, encouraging the spirit of patriotic emulation, to successfully carry out political tasks in 2021, creating a solid premise for socio-economic development in the 2021 - 2025 term.

Delegates attending the Conference to study, grasp and implement the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the beginning of 2021, the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the right time when a series of important political events of the country and the province took place. It can be said that a campaign of information orientation was systematically deployed by the Propaganda Department, promptly adjusted according to each stage of the epidemic's development, each change in the status of epidemic prevention and control work, especially in the context of simultaneously implementing many important information lines such asElection of XV National Assembly deputies and People's Council deputies at all levels, term 2021 - 2026; organize research, study, grasp and implement the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party into life in the fastest, highest quality and most effective way.

The information lines are deployed in accordance with detailed plans and always include the "COVID-19" factor - the factor that makes the difference in the information orientation and image of these important cyclical events. Thanks to the proactive and carefully prepared "script", the directions of the Propaganda Department have achieved high propaganda effectiveness, creating social stability, contributing to the success of the important events of the province in recent times.

Assessing the success of the recent election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term, it can be affirmed that there was strong and close leadership and direction, synchronous participation and great support and consensus of voters and people, in which propaganda activities were one step ahead; flexible and synchronous on mass media, visual propaganda, including in activities to households, members, union members of political and social organizations to widely disseminate, creating full awareness among the people. The election results demonstrated the Party's leadership role in law enforcement, and at the same time conveyed a message that the Party's will is in line with the people's will in the cause of building and perfecting a socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam of the people, by the people and for the people.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department inspected the election work at constituency No. 8, Hung Nguyen town. Photo: Quang An

Go together - develop

The global “great disaster” called COVID-19 not only affects all aspects of life and society, but also creates a wave of multi-dimensional information disseminated on all platforms. In such a difficult and challenging context, the entire Nghe An Propaganda Department has promoted a sense of responsibility, proactiveness, creativity, and flexibility in innovating methods, adapting to reality, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, to excellently complete its tasks.

The entire industry has proactively grasped the situation, detected, advised the Provincial Party Standing Committee and Party committees at all levels to lead and direct the work of preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic;timely information and propaganda,Comprehensive coverage of major political events of the country, the province, the socio-economic, defense-security, foreign affairs, and sovereignty over the seas and islands of the Fatherland, contributing to promoting political and ideological education, fostering love of country, national pride and self-respect, and consolidating people's trust in the Party.

The most recent highlight is the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, although the COVID-19 epidemic is still complicated and unpredictable, the number of COVID-19 infections in Nghe An up to now has reached more than 200 people. However, in the past few days, there have been no recorded cases of infection in the community, many patients have been cured and discharged from the hospital. This is a great effort of all levels and sectors, the sacrifice of medical staff, doctors, soldiers, police and the efforts of the people.

Nghe An has done a good job in preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. Illustrative photo

The strict compliance with wearing masks, social distancing, not to mention the voluntary contribution of efforts and money to support the prevention and fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by cadres, party members and people in the past time has clearly demonstrated that the Propaganda Department has done a good job of propagating, transmitting and educating the Party and State's guidelines, policies and guidelines, regulations on strict implementation of Directives 15 and 16 of the Prime Minister, "5K" of the Ministry of Health to the masses as quickly as possible, encouraging the masses to actively participate in the prevention and fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with the spirit of "fighting the pandemic like fighting the enemy". To direct the deployment of a series of information lines on the prevention and fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Propaganda Department has mobilized all resources, promoted the propaganda force and the strengths of multimedia press agencies.

As soon as the epidemic broke out in the area,Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Departmenthas issued a series of plans and instructions on information and propaganda on COVID-19 prevention and control to units in the whole industry for synchronous implementation with the provincial press system and central press agencies located in the area. The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department has decided to establish a Propaganda Working Group in the spirit of innovation to participate and grasp the fastest way to grasp the developments of the epidemic to promptly have propaganda orientation.

Useful Zalo news, through Zalo group, members have been continuously updated on the epidemic situation to analyze, assess and have unified and synchronous instructions in the propaganda work of preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic in the fastest and most accurate way under the drastic direction of the province; comprehensively update on the epidemic prevention and control work so that people in the province can correctly understand the nature of the epidemic but also not cause panic and anxiety; at the same time, act as a bridge to encourage and share the difficulties of the forces on the front line; spread the examples and contributions of the business community, organizations and individuals to the epidemic prevention and control work and promptly criticize distorted manifestations and promptly refute false information as well as share and receive feedback from the fields of participating members.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong awarded Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Party Standing Committee to collectives with outstanding achievements in propaganda work for the 19th Provincial Party Congress. Photo: Thu Giang

In the context that all activities are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Propaganda sector always determines that the information and propaganda strategy on disease prevention and control is consistent and unchanged. Depending on each stage of the epidemic, Nghe An Propaganda has promptly made adjustments, focusing information and propaganda on key points to achieve the highest propaganda effectiveness, contributing to the success of the dual goal of both fighting the epidemic and developing the economy.

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is still arduous and unpredictable, creating a wave of multi-dimensional information spreading on all platforms. That also means that propaganda work is facing every second, every minute fierce and increasingly fierce challenges in the ideological field along with the strong impacts of information technology; different, even opposing ideological tendencies easily penetrate, form, and are fighting and struggling every day. Multi-dimensional and contradictory information flows spreading on social networks are affecting people's psychology, emotions, and lifestyles every hour. Hostile forces take this opportunity to attack the Party's ideological foundation with more sophisticated and cunning strategies and tactics than the state of political, moral, and lifestyle degradation, "self-evolution," and "self-transformation" within the Party... putting propaganda work in front of difficulties and challenges. That situation requires protecting the Party's ideological foundation and preserving the national cultural identity as a regular, daily task. This task also requires increasingly high qualities and capacities of the staff working in Propaganda, and at the same time is an environment for the current generation of Nghe An Propaganda to train, affirm and mature to continue to join hands and stand side by side with other forces in the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people, to fulfill the noble task, worthy of the mission of being those who "Go ahead - pave the way, go together - develop".

A corner of Vinh City, Nghe An. Photo: Internet