Promoting the combined strength, acting as the core to build a strong national defense and military force in the Military Region
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of August 7, in Vinh city, the Party Committee of Military Region 4 solemnly held the 10th Party Congress of Military Region 4, term 2015 - 2020.
Attending and directing the Congress, on the side of the Central Committee and the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, there were: Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense attending and directing the Congress; Comrade Phan Dinh Trac, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Central Internal Affairs Commission.
On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Ho Duc Phoc - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Lieutenant General Vo Van Viet, Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of the Military Region; Major General Nguyen Tan Cuong, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Commander of the Military Region. Along with 250 delegates representing nearly 10,000 party members in the Military Region Party Committee; delegates of Party committees, authorities, military and border guard Party Committees of provinces in the Military Region including: Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue.
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The congress solemnly performed the flag-saluting ceremony. |
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Congress scene. |
Before the opening day of the Congress, comrades in the Party Standing Committee and the Military Region Command held a flower offering ceremony to report their achievements to Uncle Ho at Ho Chi Minh Square, Vinh City, Nghe An Province.
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Central leaders and the Central Military Commission Standing Committee attended the Congress. |
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Leaders of provinces in Military Region 4 attended the Congress. |
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Political commissars, commanders of Military Regions, Military Commands, and Border Guard Commands of provinces attended the Congress. |
During the 2010-2015 term, the Party Committee of Military Region 4 led and directed the officers and soldiers of the Military Region's armed forces to successfully implement and complete the goals and tasks set forth in the Resolution of the 9th Military Region Party Congress. Notably, it focused on leading the building of a strong national defense, a solid defense zone, and the overall quality and combat strength of the Military Region's armed forces of all three types of troops were raised, meeting the requirements of the tasks when situations arose.
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The Presidium runs the Congress. |
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Organizations and groups presented flowers to congratulate the Congress. |
In addition, taking care to build the Party Committee of the Military Region to be strong in politics, ideology and organization, leadership capacity and fighting strength were improved; the rate of clean and strong grassroots party organizations exceeded the set target by 6.5%. The leadership well implemented the breakthrough in "Improving the quality of building comprehensively strong communes, wards and towns, safe clusters that are masters and ready to fight" with the rate of communes, wards and towns achieving comprehensive strength increasing by 2.89% compared to the beginning of the term.
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Lieutenant General Vo Van Viet, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of the Military Region, presented the Political Report. |
At the same time, the work of education and training in national defense and security knowledge was carried out actively, systematically and effectively; the Militia and Self-Defense Force was built with reasonable numbers and organization, the percentage of Party members increased by 3.8% compared to the previous term; a breakthrough was made in "Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party cells" with the percentage of Party cells achieving clean and strong status increasing by 0.19%, Party development work exceeded the plan by 5%. The Military Region's armed forces are always steadfast, steadfast, have absolute trust in the Party's leadership, are united, unanimous, ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks.
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Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense, delivered a speech directing the Congress. |
Speaking at the Congress, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister of National Defense, highly appreciated the results achieved by the Party Committee of Military Region 4 during the 2010-2015 term.
In the coming term, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung affirmed: In the 2015-2020 term, the Military Region's armed forces will carry out their tasks in favorable and difficult conditions; military, national defense and homeland protection tasks in the new situation will pose increasingly high demands, requiring the Party Committee and the Military Region's armed forces to focus on leadership, direction and strive for greater efforts...
The Party Committee of Military Region 4 focuses on promoting democracy and intelligence, continuing to innovate strongly and comprehensively "Focusing on improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee; promoting the combined strength, acting as the core in building the all-people national defense, building a strong armed force of the Military Region; successfully carrying out military and national defense tasks, contributing to building and firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam". In particular, focusing on leading, directing and organizing implementation, creating important breakthroughs in force organization, improving the quality of training, building discipline, and improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of grassroots Party committees.
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Comrade Ho Duc Phoc, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, spoke about "Building and operating defense zones in Nghe An" according to Resolution 28 of the 10th Politburo, Directive 17 of the 11th Central Secretariat and Decree 152/2007 of the Government. |
Speaking at the Congress, comrade Ho Duc Phoc, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, affirmed: For generations, Nghe An has been an important focal point for national security and defense, the province with the largest area in the country and complex and rugged terrain. To meet the situation of economic development and national security and defense, the Provincial Party Secretary proposed: The Military Region should survey and specifically identify key locations and key areas that need to be kept to serve national defense work, to protect and deploy defense, and the rest should be focused on economic development. On the other hand, building and organizing strong militia and self-defense training and having a mechanism to flexibly mobilize militia and self-defense forces when situations arise.
At the same time, to ensure solid border security, comrade Ho Duc Phoc suggested that the Military Region direct the company to cooperate in investing in planting rubber and forest trees along the border belt with Laos and advise the government to invest heavily in border communes, build current safe zones, arrange surrounding residents to create a safe belt... Along with that, he suggested that the Military Region pay attention to domestic security, especially reactionary organizations to support local authorities in effectively fighting this type of crime.
Also in the Congress program this morning, delegates focused on discussing and contributing opinions to the documents of the Party Committee of the 9th Military Region.
Phuong Chi