Nghe An: Highlights on December 17
(Baonghean.vn) - The President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front congratulated Christmas at the Vinh Diocese Bishop's Palace; The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council exchanged operational experiences with the Standing Committee of the District People's Council; More than 100 cases of alcohol and drug violations were discovered... are some of the notable contents on December 17.
*On the morning of December 17, comrade Do Van Chien - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front visitedvisit, Merry Christmas2022 at Vinh Diocese Bishop's Palace.
Also attending were leaders of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs and a number of central agencies. On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; Le Hong Vinh - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and leaders of a number of departments, agencies and branches of the province.
The delegation was received by Bishop Alphonsus Nguyen Huu Long - Bishop of Vinh Diocese; Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Vien - Auxiliary Bishop of Vinh Diocese and priests and religious.
In a very friendly and warm atmosphere, preparing to welcome Christmas 2022 and New Year 2023, on behalf of the leaders of the Party, State, and Vietnam Fatherland Front, comrade Do Van Chien respectfully sent to Bishop Alphonsus Nguyen Huu Long - Bishop of Vinh Diocese; Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Vien - Auxiliary Bishop of Vinh Diocese and priests, religious, and Catholics of Vinh Diocese wishes for a warm and peaceful Christmas, a new year of good health, joy, and many new achievements.
Bishop Alphonsus Nguyen Huu Long sincerely thanked the very deep and warm feelings of the Party Central Committee Secretary, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien and the leaders of the Central Committee and Nghe An province; thanked the attention of the Central Committee as well as Nghe An province for the practical needs of Catholics, and of the Vinh Diocese Bishop's Office.
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Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien and the working delegation presented flowers to celebrate Christmas 2022 at the Vinh Diocese Bishop's House. Photo: Thanh Duy |
*Morning of December 17,The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council held a conference to exchange experiences with the Standing Committee of the District People's Council.belonging to cluster 1 (2nd time) including: Vinh city, Cua Lo town and districts: Nghi Loc, Hung Nguyen, Nam Dan, Thanh Chuong, Do Luong, Anh Son, Con Cuong, Tuong Duong, Ky Son.
On the basis of innovation and improvement of the Provincial People's Council, at the conference and discussion, the Standing Committee of the District People's Council affirmed that from the activities, experiences and practices of the Provincial People's Council, localities have learned and applied, thereby innovating, being flexible, improving the quality of People's Council activities, the quality of People's Council delegates, increasingly better meeting the functions of deciding important issues in the locality; ensuring the implementation of regulations and decisions of superior state agencies in the locality; supervising the implementation of laws in the locality, supervising the activities of state agencies at the same level and lower levels.
Speaking at the conference, informing about some socio-economic situations of the province in 2022 with many outstanding results, such as budget collection, investment attraction, new rural construction...; Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council emphasized: 2023 is the third year of implementing the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party and the 5-year socio-economic development plan, period 2021 - 2025, this is also the year to summarize Resolution 26 of the Politburo on Nghe An; implementing district planning, district planning, land planning, construction planning, zoning planning... after the provincial planning for the period 2021 - 2030 was approved by the Government...
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Delegates exchanged on the sidelines of the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa |
*On the morning of December 17, in Hoang Mai town, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union coordinated with the Central Business Bloc Youth Union to organizeactivities in response to "Youth Action Day"Welcome the success of the 12th National Youth Union Congress, term 2022 - 2027".
Immediately after the launching ceremony, 100% of the Youth Union chapters in the province simultaneously launched projects and youth tasks, including: organizing the inauguration of the "Solidarity Bridge" and handing over charity houses; supporting people in the process of issuing identification codes, citizen identification cards and passports, giving social security bags to people in difficult circumstances; visiting and giving gifts to the parish on Christmas; giving out medical examinations and medicine, running to raise funds in response to the program "Millions of green trees - For a green Vietnam"; giving national flags to young people and fishermen going offshore; handing over youth volleyball courts; organizing the "Forum on Aspiration to Contribute - Youth's Way of Life".
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The Youth Union of various units presented more than 600 national flags to fishermen at Quynh Phuong fishing port (Hoang Mai town). Photo: CSCC |
*National Defense and Security Education Sports Festival for High School StudentsThe third national sports festival in 2022, hosted by Can Tho city, took place from December 12 to 17. There were 54 delegations participating, including 53 delegations from the Department of Education and Training and 1 high school.
The sports festival attracted 633 high school athletes to participate in 9 competitions including: Some general knowledge about national defense and security; squad team; individual team; disassembling and assembling AK submachine guns; throwing grenades at long distances; shooting AK submachine guns; movement positions on the battlefield; 800m armed run and first aid bandaging and transfer of wounded.
Participating in this year's sports festival, the student delegation of Nghe An province has 12 members and all are students of the provincial Ethnic Minority High School. After 8 competitions, the student delegation of Nghe An ranked second overall.
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Nghe An students participate in competitions. Photo: NTCC |
*After nearly 2 months of active repair, the only road from Muong Xen town to Tay Son commune (Ky Son) was severely damaged by flash floods. Up to now, cars have been temporarily allowed to enter the commune center.
JobThe road from Muong Xen town to Tay Son commune is open to traffic.It is extremely important, helping people stabilize their lives, facilitating trade, bringing essential goods to serve people in the villages. Supporting localities in transporting construction materials for social welfare projects...
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The landslides on the negative slope on the road to Tay Son commune have been fixed. Photo: Van Truong |
*With the goal of reducing traffic accidents, in recent times, Road Traffic Police Team No. 1 - Traffic Police Department (Nghe An Provincial Police) has always maintained regularalcohol and drug testingfor drivers, thereby promptly detecting many violations.
From November 15, 2022 to now, the Team has detected and handled 105 cases of alcohol concentration violations, 6 cases of drugs in the body. Among them, there was a case of causing an accident to escape, the force quickly tracked down and determined that there were drugs and alcohol in the body.
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Checking the driver's documents. Photo: Dinh Tuyen |