Nghe An organizes the 2019 Military Transfer Conference

Attending the conference were Colonel Dang Sy Loc - Deputy Chief of Political Affairs of Military Region 4; representatives of departments, localities in the province and military units receiving soldiers.

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Ha - Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff of the Provincial Military Command co-chaired the conference.

At the conference, delegates discussed and analyzed the advantages, as well as the limitations and shortcomings in the selection of citizens for military service in 2018 and the implementation of tasks in 2019 of Nghe An province.

Colonel Tran Van Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Commander of the Provincial Military Command, inspected the 2019 military service health examination in Nghi Loc district. Photo: Phong Quang

In 2018, Nghe An province directed and led localities and units to focus on implementing well the stages and steps of military recruitment such as registering the source of soldiers ready to join the army; conducting initial health examinations; entering the military number and issuing the call-up order; and conducting the military handover ceremony.

Nghe An province has selected 193 citizens for units of the Ministry of Public Security; selected 3,104 young people to perform military service, including 3,100 male citizens and 4 female citizens, reaching 100% of the assigned target, and handed over to 7 military receiving units of the Ministry of National Defense and 9 military receiving units of Military Region 4 to ensure quantity and quality in terms of politics, health, and culture.

Of the 3,104 young men who performed military service, 192 had graduated from universities and colleges (6.2%); 715 were children of ethnic minorities in the area (23%); 175 were children of religious families (5.6%); 3 were party members (0.1%). Localities organized Party sympathy training classes for 1,267 young men before they left for military service; 24 young men were married before joining the army...

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee delivered a concluding speech at the conference. Photo: Phong Quang

In 2018, 496 candidates passed the entrance exams to Military Officer Schools. Localities in the province organized receptions, meetings, and presented gifts to 2,934 soldiers who had completed their military service and returned to their localities, promptly supplementing the province's reserve force.

In 2019, the Government and the Ministry of National Defense assigned the target of recruiting 3,200 citizens to perform military service, an increase of nearly 100 citizens compared to 2018. The Ministry of Public Security assigned the task of recruiting 189 citizens to perform police service.

Delegates attending the conference emphasized the difficulties in the work of recruiting citizens in Nghe An province such as high assigned quotas, large and complicated province, high differences in culture and life among young people from different regions; large number of young people working far away in the southern provinces and exporting labor; the work of managing temporary residence and temporary absence is not yet strict, causing difficulties in managing the source of military recruitment...

Military units of the Ministry of National Defense and Military Region 4 signed the 2019 military transfer contract with Nghe An province. Photo: Trong Kien

Based on those advantages and difficulties, the Conference deployed contents and measures to strive to fulfill the targets assigned by superiors. Nghe An province organized the signing of the 2019 military transfer contract with the military receiving units of the Ministry of National Defense and Military Region 4./.