Launching the Political Contest on Protecting the Party's Ideological Foundation in 2025

At Nghe An province, comrades: Vuong Quang Minh - Principal of the Provincial Political School; Pham Ngoc Canh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and representatives of departments and faculties of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and the Provincial Political School attended the conference.

According to the rules, the entries focus on three main groups of topics: Protecting, applying and developing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought in the current context; protecting and disseminating theories on the country's renovation path. Protecting and disseminating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, the renovation cause, building socialism in Vietnam, Vietnam's achievements over 40 years of renovation; Party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Congress of the Party; strategic decisions and revolutionary transformations to bring the country into a new era; identifying and fighting against and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints against the Party, the State and the regime. Practice and experience in organizing the protection of the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints in the new situation.

Contestants are Vietnamese people living in and outside the country, and foreigners whose political works meet the contest criteria. Contest entries must be political works in Vietnamese (or ethnic minority languages ​​translated into Vietnamese, foreign languages ​​translated into Vietnamese), belonging to one of five categories: Magazine (print or electronic), newspaper (print or electronic), radio, television, video clip.

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At the 4th Political Contest to Protect the Party's Ideological Foundation in 2024, Nghe An province responded to the Contest with quality and effectiveness with a total of 5,650 entries at the district and sector levels (Typical entries include: Provincial Police, Provincial Political School, Vinh University, Provincial Military Command, Provincial Border Guard, Department of Education and Training, Party Committee of provincial agencies, Vinh city, Provincial Veterans Association; districts: Thanh Chuong, Nam Dan, Do Luong, Quy Hop, Tan Ky, Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Nghi Loc, Nghia Dan); localities and units selected 280 good quality articles to send to the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department for preliminary marking. After conducting the preliminary marking at the provincial level, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department selected 103 articles to send to the Central level contest. As a result, Nghe An province was honored to receive the Excellent Collective Award (the third consecutive year of receiving this award, from 2022 - 2024); 02 authors and groups of authors won the B Prize; 01 group of authors won the C Prize.

Speaking at the press conference, comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang emphasized: The 5th political contest on protecting the Party's ideological foundation aims to continue affirming the country's achievements under the Party's leadership; providing arguments, models, and good practices to spread the Party's important policies and decisions, contributing to preparing the conditions and foundations for the country to enter the era of national development.

Along with continuing to promote the active and proactive role of core forces, mobilizing the participation of a large number of cadres, party members, civil servants, armed forces, and people of all walks of life, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp and organize the participation of teachers, education managers in general schools, union members, youth, lecturers, students of universities and colleges, intellectuals, and artists in the contest in a proactive, positive, and quality manner.

Focus on improving the quality of the products on the principle of combining theory and practice, "building" and "fighting". The content of the work needs to vividly reflect reality, have tight arguments, sharp reasoning, clear points and evidence, and convincing evidence. At the same time, it is necessary to pay due attention to the form and method of presentation and expression to maximize the advantages of each type of press and media, ensuring liveliness, modernity, persuasion and high spread.