Promoting tradition and sense of responsibility, worthy of the title of Heroic Unit of the People's Armed Forces

Nghe An Newspaper respectfully introduces the full text of the speech of Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee at the Ceremony to receive the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for the second time for the Provincial Armed Forces and meet with retired and retired senior military officers on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army and the 35th anniversary of the National Defense Day on the morning of December 16.

- Dearlike comradeGeneral Nguyen Tan Cuong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense.

- Dear Central Party Committee members, former Central Party Committee members, and leaders,religionMilitary Region Command, leaders of Ho Chi Minh City Command, Xieng Khouang province (Lao PDR).

- Dear Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces; Generals of the Vietnam People's Army.

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Today, in the heroic Soviet homeland - the homeland rich in cultural and revolutionary traditions - the homeland of the great President Ho Chi Minh, Nghe An province solemnly organized the ceremony to receive the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for the second time for the Provincial Armed Forces and met with senior officers in the Army who retired and retired from work in the province on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army and the 35th anniversary of the National Defense Day.

On behalf of the leaders of Nghe An province, I would like to send my best regards and best wishes to the leaders, delegates, heroic Vietnamese mothers, heroes of the People's Armed Forces, generals of the Vietnam People's Army, and all of you.

Dear delegates, dear comrades!

80 years ago, the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army - the predecessor of the Vietnam People's Army - was established. This was a great historical event of the Vietnamese revolution. After 80 years of building, fighting and growing, our Army is truly the heroic Army of a heroic nation; a political force, a vanguard fighting force on all fronts, absolutely loyal and trustworthy to the Party, State and People.

Our Army has fulfilled its functions as a fighting army, a working army, a production labor army and carried out its noble international duties. Generations of Army officers and soldiers, regardless of historical period, have united, unanimously overcome countless difficulties and challenges, achieved glorious achievements and feats, contributed to the successful implementation of the cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, worthy of President Ho Chi Minh's praise for the Vietnam People's Army:“Our army is loyal to the Party, filial to the people, ready to fight and sacrifice for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, for socialism. We will complete every mission, overcome every difficulty, and defeat every enemy.”

35 years ago, the Party and State decided to choose December 22 - the founding day of the Vietnam People's Army as the National Defense Day. Since then, December 22 has truly become a great national festival, aiming to raise awareness and responsibility of the whole society to protect the Fatherland and the combined strength of the national defense - people's security; raise the vigilance of all classes of people against all plots and tricks of hostile forces, sabotage of our country's revolution, encourage young people to actively and enthusiastically participate in military service, be ready to receive and excellently complete assigned tasks, contributing to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

Dear delegates, dear comrades!

The history of the nation has solemnly recorded a Nghe An that "stood up first" to create the heroic Nghe Tinh Soviet, becoming the first general rehearsal, contributing to the success of the August Revolution in 1945, opening a new, brilliant page of history for the nation. An Nghe An that was a great rear base, providing human and material resources with the spirit of "not a pound of rice missing, not a soldier missing", for the Dien Bien Phu victory that was famous in five continents, was "the battlefield that did not spare young lives", "the car had not passed, the house was not spared", for the great victory of the Spring, unifying the country in 1975, was the loyalty and steadfastness when standing side by side with neighboring friends, fighting selflessly for the noble international duty. An indomitable Nghe An frontline of the "fire coordinates" against the American imperialists destroying the North, an Nghe An that together with the people of the whole country created great victories for the nation in the Ho Chi Minh era, becoming a noble symbol of Vietnamese revolutionary heroism.

Throughout that revolutionary journey, the land and people of Nghe An have made worthy contributions with indelible marks, writing the glorious traditions of the homeland. In the long struggles for independence, national unification and the construction of socialism, following the sacred call of the Fatherland, the Party and Uncle Ho, hundreds of thousands of outstanding children of Nghe An have devoted their youth, fought steadfastly, devoted their whole lives to the eternal existence of the Fatherland, for the happiness of the People. The blood of heroic martyrs has reddened the glorious revolutionary flag, so that our country can blossom with independence and bear fruit of freedom.

Through the resistance wars, Nghe An had more than 590,000 people participating in the army, over 45,000 youth volunteers; over 167,000 people participating in the frontline labor force, militia and guerrillas; more than 45,000 people recognized as martyrs; over 56,000 wounded and sick soldiers; 20,000 people participating in the resistance war; 930 revolutionary cadres were imprisoned by the enemy; 2,825 mothers were awarded and posthumously awarded the State honorary title "Heroic Vietnamese Mother"; more than 500,000 families and individuals were awarded resistance medals and orders; 75 comrades were honored to be awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces. Those numbers not only demonstrate the great contributions and sacrifices of the army and people in the revolutions, for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland, but also clearly demonstrate the heroism and resilience of the People's Army and the armed forces of Nghe An province.

Dear delegates, dear comrades!

Promoting the glorious and precious tradition of the heroic Soviet homeland, in recent years, all levels, sectors, cadres, party members and people of all ethnic groups in the province have united, joined hands, made efforts and achieved important and comprehensive achievements in all fields, creating many outstanding marks and highlights. In 2024, the growth rate of gross regional domestic product (GRDP) in 2024 is estimated at 9.01%, ranking 13th in the country; State budget revenue reached nearly 24,000 billion VND, surpassing the 20,000 billion VND mark for the third year; Investment attraction achieved positive results, especially foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction for 3 consecutive years in the top 10 provinces and cities in the country, with a total newly registered and adjusted capital reaching nearly 1.7 billion USD.

The fields of Health, Education - Training, Finance - Banking have gradually become the center of the North Central region. People's lives, especially in mountainous areas, have gradually improved significantly. Social security has been actively taken care of, people's health care and poverty reduction have been focused on; traditional cultural and historical values ​​have been preserved and promoted; national defense and security have been strengthened; Party building and the political system have achieved many important results.

It can be affirmed that the achievements have had a great and very important contribution from the province's armed forces. Over 80 years of construction, fighting and growing, the province's armed forces have continuously grown, regardless of any circumstances, on the arduous and fierce fighting journey or in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland, the province's armed forces have always been absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland and the People, achieved many glorious feats, excellently completed all assigned tasks, truly being the core force, the reliable support of Party committees at all levels, the Government and the people of all ethnic groups in the province.

In particular, in recent years, under the leadership and direction of the Party Committee, the Military Region 4 Command, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee, the provincial armed forces have proactively overcome difficulties, strived, raised the spirit of revolutionary vigilance, prevented, combated, and effectively fought against all plots and activities of "Peaceful evolution" and "Violent overthrow" by hostile forces, and sabotage activities of bad elements; proactively and actively advised Party committees and authorities at all levels to build a national defense foundation associated with the people's security posture and build increasingly solid defense zones, contributing to maintaining local stability and creating a favorable environment for local socio-economic development.

Over the past 80 years, the provincial armed forces have been honored to receive many noble awards from the Party and the State. In particular, on October 10, 2024, for the second time, the Nghe An Provincial Armed Forces were honored to receive the title "Heroic Unit of the People's Armed Forces" from the Party and the State for their outstanding achievements in combat and combat service, contributing to the cause of building socialism and defending the Fatherland.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, I would like to respectfully acknowledge, thank and warmly commend the important contributions and great sacrifices of generations of cadres and soldiers of the provincial armed forces in the past period.

Dear delegates, dear comrades!

In the coming time, the political and economic situation in the world, the region and the country is forecast to continue to have rapid changes, complex and unpredictable developments; along with that, hostile forces, reactionaries, and bad elements continue to increase their sabotage activities. The country is entering a new historical period, a new era - the era of national development, deep international integration, bringing many opportunities for development, while also posing many risks and challenges to the work of ensuring national defense and security.

Faced with that requirement and situation, to ensure economic development associated with firmly ensuring national defense, security and sovereignty over borders, islands, maintaining political security, social order and safety in the spirit of 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, I propose that the armed forces of the province promote the tradition of being awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces twice, continue to unite, unite, join hands, make the most of opportunities and advantages, overcome difficulties and challenges, push back risks, promote the core role, maintain political stability, create a favorable environment for socio-economic development, in which it is necessary to pay attention to implementing well a number of the following key tasks:

The first:Continue to thoroughly grasp and flexibly and creatively apply the Resolution of the 8th Central Committee (13th tenure) on the Strategy for protecting the Fatherland in the new situation into practice to build the armed forces of Nghe An province to be increasingly strong in all aspects, with a high spirit of revolutionary vigilance, steadfast political will, ready to fight, not to be passive or surprised in any situation; always be the core force in building the all-people national defense; maintain political security and social order and safety in the area.

Monday:Continue to effectively implement the Provincial Party Committee's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 28 of the Politburo on continuing to build provinces and centrally-run cities into strong defense zones in the new situation, linking economic, cultural and social development with strengthening national defense and security, building a national defense posture associated with people's security posture, people's hearts posture; building a strong national defense, promoting the responsibility of Party committees, authorities, cadres, party members and people of all walks of life in performing the task of building and defending the Fatherland.

Tuesday:Continuously improve the quality and comprehensive combat strength of the armed forces; build a standing force."Smooth, compact, strong"militia and reserve forces“Strong, widespread, and steadfast”,have reasonable quantity and high quality. Innovate and improve the quality of training and exercises close to the actual situation to increase combat capability and fighting strength. Strengthen political and ideological education, build, train and coach officers and soldiers with strong political will, strictly abide by military discipline, maintain the qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", ready to receive and excellently complete assigned tasks.

Wednesday:Continue to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization, the quality of cadres and Party members in the provincial armed forces to meet the requirements of the task; do a good job of training and developing Party members in the entire force; innovate and improve the quality of activities of Party committees and organizations. The provincial armed forces must always be exemplary and take the lead in implementing the Resolution of the 4th Central Committee (12th tenure) on strengthening Party building and rectification; prevent and repel degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, manifestations of "Self-evolution" and "Self-transformation" within the Party in conjunction with implementing Directive No. 05 dated May 15, 2016 of the 12th Politburo "On promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics and lifestyle".

Thursday:Regularly pay attention to, consolidate, and build forces, ensure policies for officers and soldiers; all levels and sectors continue to well implement the Army's rear policy, take care of the material and spiritual life of war invalids, martyrs' families, and families with meritorious services to the revolution. Ensure logistics - technical and financial work to promptly serve the activities of the provincial armed forces, meeting the requirements of military and defense tasks in the new situation.

Dear delegates, dear comrades!

On this occasion, on behalf of the leaders of Nghe An province, I would like to express my sincere thanks for the attention and regular support in all aspects of the Central Military Commission - Ministry of National Defense; the Party Committee - Command and agencies of Military Region 4; and the generals and senior officers of the Army for the development of Nghe An province in general and military and defense work in particular. Nghe An province hopes to continue to receive the attention, support and assistance of comrades in the coming time.

We would like to send our warmest regards and sincere gratitude to the families of martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers, families with meritorious services to the revolution, families of military personnel and all officers and soldiers of the province's armed forces. We always respect and remember the merits and pay tribute to the sacrifices of previous generations and generations of officers and soldiers who are day and night protecting the peace of the Fatherland.

I believe that, with the heroic Soviet tradition, the tradition of determination to fight and win of the Vietnam People's Army, the officers and soldiers of the province's armed forces will continue to promote the spirit of responsibility, complete every task, overcome every difficulty, defeat every enemy, worthy of the title of Heroic Unit of the People's Armed Forces, worthy of the trust of the Party Committee, Government and people of all ethnic groups in the province, further embellishing the glorious tradition of the heroic Vietnam People's Army, contributing to the successful implementation of the country's renovation, successfully building and firmly defending the Fatherland in the homeland of beloved Uncle Ho.

Finally, I would like to wish the leaders, distinguished delegates, heroic Vietnamese mothers, heroes of the People's Armed Forces, generals of the Vietnam People's Army, officers and soldiers of the provincial Armed Forces good health, happiness and many victories!

Thank you very much!