Nghe An: Highlights on July 9

*Hunion activitiesneed to be more flexible and sharp. That was one of the comments of comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council at the seminar on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Nghe An Civil Servants' Trade Union, which took place on the morning of July 9.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council awarded the Certificate of Merit of the Provincial People's Committee to the Nghe An Civil Servants' Trade Union. Photo: Mai Hoa

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son suggested that Nghe An Civil Servants' Trade Union continue to attach importance to and promote the work of propaganda, political and ideological education among cadres, civil servants, public employees, workers and union members; strongly innovate the content and methods of organizing patriotic emulation movements, making the movements more qualitative and practical; arouse the spirit of creativity and enthusiasm for work of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers.

*UNghe An Provincial People's Committeepress conference on socio-economic situationFirst 6 months of 2020. Information at the meeting held on the morning of July 9 said: In the first 6 months of 2020, despite many difficulties due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many socio-economic development indicators in Nghe An province still had bright colors, demonstrating the correctness and effectiveness of solutions to both fight the pandemic and restore economic development of the province.

Scene of the press conference. Photo: Pham Bang

At the meeting, many issues were reported by press agencies to the Provincial People's Committee regarding solutions to remove difficulties caused by enterprises; investment attraction situation; clean water prices; resolving the situation of illegal land sales in the province; the Socio-Economic Development Project of the O Du ethnic group; supporting people affected by the Covid-19 epidemic... Representatives of the Provincial Ethnic Committee and the Provincial People's Committee explained and clarified the issues.

*TOn the morning of July 9, the Provincial People's Committee organized an award ceremony for the works.press writes about traffic safety order2019 in Nghe An.

Nghe An Province Traffic Safety Journalism Award is a specialized journalism award organized annually by the Provincial People's Committee. The selected works have good propaganda content, high discovery, creativity, ensuring authenticity, humanity and popularity, contributing to raising people's awareness in ensuring traffic safety and order in the province.

Delegates attending. Photo: Pham Bang

After many rounds of judging and discussion, the Jury unanimously presented to the Provincial People's Committee 18 winning works, including 2 Second prizes (no First prize), 7 Third prizes, 9 Encouragement prizes. The Nghe An Newspaper reporter group won Third prize with the series of articles "The persistent, painful problem of illegal taxis".

*CAlso on the morning of July 9, Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association coordinatedaward ceremonyNghe An Journalism Competition with “Prevention and control of Covid-19”. The competition aims to encourage and honor journalists and reporters in the work of propagating the prevention and control of Covid-19.

The Organizing Committee has considered and awarded 38 prizes to authors and groups of authors. Of these, there are 7 Second prizes, 11 Third prizes, 20 Encouragement prizes (no First prize).

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended the ceremony and awarded the Second Prize to the authors. Photo: Pham Bang

*LRegarding the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic, on July 8 and 9, the Ministry of National DefenseCheck the work of preventing and fighting Covid-19 epidemicon the border of Nghe An.

In the coming time, Major General Nguyen Van Luong requested: Although our country has initially achieved important results, the epidemic is forecasted to continue to develop complicatedly, so the unit's Command Board needs to continue to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the direction of the Government, the Ministry of National Defense, the Border Guard Command and local authorities in implementing epidemic prevention and control measures. In the process of performing tasks, it is necessary to pay attention to ensuring absolute safety and taking care of the lives of officers and soldiers performing their tasks...

Major General Le Van Luong visits and encourages officers on duty at the anti-epidemic checkpoint. Photo: Hai Thuong

*Nmany hydraulic worksnot guaranteedagainst floods and storms. That was the assessment of Major General Tran Van Nam - Deputy Commander of the Coast Guard Command after inspecting a number of important irrigation works in flood and storm prevention and control in Nghe An province on the morning of July 9.

Faced with that reality, Major General Tran Van Nam requested the Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue of Nghe An province to have a plan to direct and coordinate with relevant sectors and localities to quickly overcome weak points; develop specific rescue plans when there are storms and floods; absolutely must not be subjective, underestimate the unusual developments of the weather.

The working group inspected the flood and storm prevention situation at Ba Khe dam (Nam Dan). Photo: Phu Huong

*SJuly 9, at Vinh University, Ministry of Education and Trainingorganize training conferenceKey staff in inspection and examination of the 2020 High School Graduation Exam.

Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the final exam for 12th graders has many new features, changing from the National High School Exam to the High School Graduation Exam and assigning full responsibility to localities to implement.

To ensure the exam takes place seriously and objectively, the Ministry of Education and Training will strengthen its responsibility in inspection and examination work with the participation of the Ministry's inspection force, universities, the State Inspectorate and inspection forces of provinces, cities and towns.

Candidates taking the National High School Exam. Illustration photo: My Ha

On the same day, a working delegation of the Ministry of Education and Training led by Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong had a working session with Nghe An province on education work.Preparing for the 2020 High School Graduation Examand check the conditions for implementing the new General Education Program for grade 1, school year 2020 - 2021.

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