Nghe An spreads emulation movement 'Exemplary Veterans'

The highlight of the emulation movement in the Veterans Association is to preserve and promote the nature and tradition of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", creating a strong driving force to attract and gather generations of veterans into the association, building a strong and comprehensive association.

According to statistics, over the past 5 years, the entire Association of War Veterans in Nghe An province has admitted nearly 13,000 members, with a gathering rate of 98.8%. Currently, the entire association has 172,486 members, with 22 grassroots-level association organizations and 4 affiliated block associations of 487; 542 grassroots levels, 3,793 branches, of which 3,769 branches (blocks, villages, hamlets), 24 branches are administrative and career agencies. The living and studying regime of the association at all levels is increasingly orderly, regularly innovating working methods and styles, and orienting towards the grassroots.

Propaganda and political and ideological education work is carried out in many rich and vivid forms, suitable for generations of war veterans, contributing to raising awareness of the situation and tasks, strengthening the beliefs, stances and viewpoints of cadres and members; actively fighting against wrong viewpoints and "peaceful evolution" plots of hostile forces; corruption and negativity in society. Through annual reviews, 96.5% of association organizations meet the standards of Clean and Strong, 96.1% or more meet the standards of "Exemplary Veterans" and "Cultural Veterans' Families".

Currently, the entire Association of War Veterans of Nghe An province has nearly 12,000 cadres and members working in Party, State, Fatherland Front agencies, socio-political organizations from the province to hamlets, villages, and residential blocks. Many comrades have good capacity, good qualities, and high credibility, holding key leadership positions in the province's political system. This is an important force, directly contributing to leading, directing, and organizing the implementation of socio-economic development tasks, national defense and security, and the work of building and protecting the Party, the government, and the people.

Cadres and members of the Veterans Association, regardless of their positions, always maintain political will, solidarity, discipline, and set good examples in performing assigned tasks; are the core elements helping Party committees and authorities at all levels to thoroughly grasp and implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and local tasks.

Along with that, in the period of 2019 - 2024, the whole association has proactively promoted the emulation movement "Veterans help each other reduce poverty and do good business", promoting the noble values ​​of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", arousing comradely and teammate sentiment, mutual love and affection; the sense of self-reliance, self-improvement and dynamism and creativity of war veterans have developed widely in all regions.

In addition to production and business activities, the whole association has mobilized hundreds of billions of VND to build, repair and upgrade 2,529 temporary and dilapidated houses for war veterans in difficult circumstances. The outstanding features of the movement are the will and determination that have been tempered in the military environment, knowing how to overcome all difficulties, challenges, injuries, health, with strong belief, not accepting poverty, getting rich in the way of Uncle Ho's soldiers. Patriotism and comradeship are based on the harmonious combination of interests, imbued with humanity, bearing the noble humanistic nature of the nation, the army and "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new era.

In the activities of educating the young generation about the tradition of patriotism, revolutionary heroism, and the will to self-reliance, many creative and diverse ways have appeared. Thousands of war veterans have been invited by the Youth Union to be reporters in the traditional education program; hundreds of war veterans' association heads have been honored as "Honorary Youth Union branch secretaries". Many places have well implemented the motto "Where the Youth Union branch is weak, the War Veterans' Association branch there is not recognized as clean and strong" which has contributed to building a strong Youth Union organization. The above movements and creative ways have had a great educational effect and influence, not only among union members and youth, but also among the younger generation and the whole society.

During the past 5 years, the whole association has coordinated to train and introduce 4,335 outstanding members to join the Party; and to consolidate 678 Youth Union organizations and Young Pioneer organizations.

The Associations at all levels also linked the emulation movement "Exemplary Veterans" with movements, campaigns and programs for socio-economic development, security and defense of the locality, such as: Campaign "All people unite to build a cultural life", "Day for the poor", "Vietnamese people prioritize using Vietnamese goods". Movements to repay gratitude and support victims of Agent Orange/dioxin continued to be promoted. Many Associations at all levels and members actively searched for, recovered and gathered hundreds of martyrs' remains to cemeteries.

In particular, the Veterans Association at all levels has actively responded to the movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas", associated with the motto "Veterans contribute ideas and contribute to building the homeland", from which nearly 20,000 families of Veterans Association members donated hundreds of thousands of square meters of land; more than 111,000 members contributed millions of working days and donated other assets worth more than 36 billion VND... to contribute to building new rural areas in localities.

In general, over the past 5 years, the emulation movement "Exemplary Veterans" of the Association of War Veterans of Nghe An province has developed both widely and deeply, with sustainability. The emulation and reward work has been gradually innovated, from content, form, organization measures, to building model points, discovering, fostering and replicating typical examples in accordance with the political tasks of the association and the locality in the new period.

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Currently, the entire Party Committee, government and people of Nghe An province are promoting emulation, determined to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress; in particular, focusing all resources to implement Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW dated July 18, 2023 of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045. To successfully complete the set tasks, it requires the entire political system, each collective and each individual to be highly unified in action, united, have the will to self-reliance, and a strong desire to rise up, in which the important role of the Veterans Association, former soldiers and its members is played.

To promote the results and achievements, successfully complete the goals and tasks of the emulation movement "Exemplary Veterans" for the period 2024 - 2029, make positive, strong and practical contributions to the overall development of the province, the Veterans Association at all levels needs to focus on the following tasks:

1. Strengthen the leadership of the Party Committee, the Standing Committee, the Executive Committee at all levels of the Association, the synchronous coordination of agencies and units in improving the quality and activities of the emulation movement, affirming that emulation and reward work has an important role and position in the construction and development of the Association. This is considered the key, most important solution and is decisive to the effectiveness of the emulation movement "Exemplary Veterans". The heads of the Association at all levels must directly lead, direct and be responsible for the quality and effectiveness of emulation and reward work. Cadres and members need to clearly identify emulation and reward work as an important, regular, daily task, directly contributing to the completion of the Association's tasks.

2. Develop plans and take specific measures to create a strong change in the quality of emulation and reward work. The emulation movement must be truly practical and effective; arouse the spirit of self-awareness, sense of responsibility, political and social activism, will, determination, sentiment and action of cadres and members; create new spiritual motivation in the cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland.

3. Strengthen inspection, evaluation, interim and final reviews, using task performance results as a measure. Pay attention to discovering, nurturing and promoting exemplary collectives and individuals, especially new factors, to encourage, set examples, and replicate them throughout society, creating development momentum and spreading widely throughout the association.

4. Improve the quality of commendation work to ensure accuracy, timeliness, publicity and transparency. Enhance the discovery of collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in emulation movements, and cadres with initiatives in performing their duties, especially cadres and members at the grassroots level. Timely encourage war veterans and former soldiers to unite, maintain their will and belief in competing to successfully carry out the political tasks of the association, locality, agency and unit.

5. Focus on building a strong and comprehensive association; promote the role of the association in implementing local campaigns and emulation movements, associated with promoting "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle". Closely coordinate with the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in building the political system at the grassroots level; maintain the core role in the movement to maintain political security and social order and safety; perform well the functions of social supervision and criticism, contributing worthily to the cause of building and firmly protecting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam./.