Vinh City focuses on directing the construction of a strong defense area.

Attending the conference were comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; together with representatives of the Provincial Military Command, the Provincial Border Guard Command, the Provincial Public Security Department and a number of provincial departments and branches. Photo: Mai Hoa

Vinh City has an important strategic position in terms of national defense and security, is the political, economic and cultural center of the province, and is a locality with a long revolutionary tradition; at the same time, with a deep awareness of the importance of the two strategic tasks of building and defending the Fatherland, immediately after Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW was issued, the City Party Committee and People's Committee led the Party committees, authorities and functional agencies at all levels to thoroughly grasp and seriously implement it.

Particularly at the city level, within 10 years, the City Party Committee and People's Committee have issued 2 Resolutions; 8 Directives; more than 30 Plans; 5 Regulations; 5 Programs and many projects on building defense zones.

Accordingly, the leadership of the Party Committee, the administration of the government and the advisory capacity of the military, police and agencies, departments, branches, and organizations as well as the awareness of all levels, branches and people of all walks of life about the task of building defense zones, building and protecting the Fatherland have been raised. The city also focuses on building a strong and comprehensive political foundation as a foundation for building defense zones.

The city's guiding viewpoint is to focus on performing well the national defense and security tasks to create an environment to promote socio-economic development and focus on investment in construction and socio-economic development, creating conditions for building a solid defense zone.

Therefore, in the process of leading economic development, the city always associates it with strengthening national defense and security; associates socio-economic development planning with planning for building regional defense posture and socio-economic development goals, tasks, programs and projects with the task of building, developing and strengthening national defense and security potential.

Comrade Nguyen Canh Thao - Commander of Vinh City Military Command reported on the results of 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW. Photo: Mai Hoa

Over the past 10 years, the city's economy has always developed in parallel with ensuring national defense and security. The average annual GDP growth rate reached 9.77%. The average income per capita reached 77.5 million VND/year (2017), an increase of nearly 3.1 times compared to 2008.

The city also proposed many synchronous solutions to enhance employment, social security and care for social policies and military rear policies.

The city also focuses on building a comprehensively strong political base as a foundation for building a defense area with 96% of bases achieving comprehensive strength and no weak bases in 2017. The city also focuses on building and improving the fighting capacity of the city's armed forces.

Based on practical leadership, direction and experiences drawn from 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW, the city continues to set out its determination to promote the strength of the political system and the solidarity of the people, build a city defense zone that is politically strong, economically rich, and strong in national defense and security; effectively prevent and defeat the plots of "peaceful evolution" and violent overthrow by hostile forces, create a peaceful and favorable environment for socio-economic development, contributing to the successful implementation of the task of building Vinh city into a regional center in over 10 fields in the spirit of Resolution No. 26 of the Politburo on the direction and tasks for the development of Nghe An province by 2020.

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