Nghe An Newspaper organizes a conference for cadres, civil servants and public employees and launches an emulation movement in 2023

Imprint of emulation movement

Looking back at a year of operation, comparing with the 18 targets set out in the Resolution of the 2022 Conference of cadres, civil servants and public employees, the collectiveNghe An Newspaperunited, joined forces, and were creative, overcoming a special year with many difficulties to achieve remarkable results, exceeding many targets.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

In the third year, Nghe An Newspaper has been 100% self-sufficient in regular expenditures, facing many difficulties such as the impact of the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, insufficient revenue for expenditures, etc. However, patriotic emulation movements have been fully implemented by cadres, reporters, and employees, creating clear changes. In the context of improving quality, innovating, and upgrading the website to Nghe An Electronic Newspaper but not increasing staff, Nghe An Newspaper still excellently performs its political tasks.

In its professional tasks, the Newspaper has published 356 daily issues; 52 weekend issues, 4 special issues, ensuring the required goal of "Fast, accurate, correct, good"; On average, 38.96 news and articles are published per day on the electronic newspaper, an increase of 0.14 news and articles per day compared to 2021. With rich, friendly, convenient content, many sections, topics, and video clips with high social impact, Nghe An electronic newspaper has an average of more than 200,000 visits per day from 85 countries, with some days reaching more than 1 million visits...

Leaders perform the launching ceremony of the new interface of Nghe An Electronic Newspaper in May 2022. Photo: Duc Anh

In 2022, Nghe An Newspaper YouTube channel was honored to receive the Silver Button. At the same time, the newspaper also ranked in the Top 10 electronic newspapers with the largest number of YouTube channel subscribers in the country, the only local Party newspaper in this Top; ranked in the Top 5 electronic newspapers in Vietnam in terms of number of viewers; ranked 9th in terms of average views per video. As of early December 2022, the channel's revenue reached more than $54,000.

In addition, the Podcast section continues to develop in the right direction with nearly 100 audio files, with the participation and connection of many famous artists, receiving many positive responses from audiences and listeners. The official fanpage named Nghe An Newspaper has achieved a blue tick with 43,000 subscribers; more than 82,000 followers; Nghe An Newspaper's TikTok social network has 12,000 followers, nearly 110,000 likes and is rapidly increasing the number of subscriptions and interactions.

Representatives of the Nghe An Newspaper group received the Third Prize of the National Press Award "For the cause of Vietnamese Education". Photo: GD&TD Newspaper

Propaganda activities in all areas are closely related to reality, bringing the breath of life with many unique articles. In 2022, the entire agency won 61 Central, industry and Nghe An province press awards, of which 10 awards were organized by the Ministry and Central industry.

In addition to professional duties, national defense and security work, Party building, mass organizations and charity work,social activitiesalso reaped many positive marks, receiving recognition from superior agencies. Collectively, Nghe An Newspaper was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee for its outstanding achievements in responding to the Golden Hammer and Sickle Press Award - Nghe An in 2022; Certificate of Merit from the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province for its outstanding achievements in the movement of the People's Solidarity to prevent and fight the Covid-19 epidemic; Emulation Flag of the Provincial People's Committee for the collective of the News - Politics Department for its outstanding achievements in its tasks, leading the patriotic emulation movement in 2021 of Nghe An province; Certificate of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee for the collective of the Literature and Society Department for its outstanding achievements in the Nghe An Province Defense Zone exercise in 2022.

Comrade Dau Van Thanh - Chief of Office of Nghe An Newspaper reported on the implementation results of the Resolution of the 2022 Conference of cadres, civil servants and public employees. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

On an individual basis, 2 comrades were awarded the title of "Provincial Emulation Fighter" (2nd time) for their outstanding achievements in the period 2019 - 2021; 13 authors and groups of authors received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee.

Continue to assert yourself in difficult times

The conference also listened to public reports on financial performance, emulation work, people's inspection work and synthesized comments on amending the regulations.

At the conference, comrade Ngo Duc Kien acknowledged the efforts of the collective of cadres, reporters and employees of Nghe An Newspaper to overcome difficulties and find solutions in the past year and their frank and quality comments on the agency's operating regulations. He also directly discussed and responded to the recommendations in a democratic and objective manner. With a 100% approval rate, the conference voted to approve the amendment of the operating regulations.

Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Police Director to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in implementing the Coordination Regulations between the Provincial Police and Nghe An Newspaper in propaganda work, ensuring security and order in the area. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

On this occasion, the conference commended and awarded Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Civil Servants' Union to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the Excellent Labor Emulation movement and contributions to the union organization in 2022; commended the group of authors with outstanding achievements in propagating the National Traffic Safety Journalism Award, the National Journalism Award "For the cause of Vietnamese education"; awarded Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Police Director to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in implementing the Coordination Regulations between the Provincial Police and Nghe An Newspaper in propaganda work, ensuring security and order in the area and commended collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in publishing work.Tet Newspaper 2023.

Rewarding collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in producing Tet newspapers. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

With the spirit of taking pressure and difficulties as opportunities to assert itself, Nghe An Newspaper launched an emulation movement, signed a commitment to compete in 2023 and approved 25 contents of the Resolution of the Conference of cadres, civil servants and public employees in 2023.

Concluding the conference, comrade Ngo Duc Kien requested the drafting department to synthesize the opinions that were voted on and the departments to proactively study the proposed opinions to include in the content of the regulations. On behalf of the Party Committee of the Editorial Board, he expressed his thanks to the collective of cadres, reporters and employees of Nghe An Newspaper for a year full of efforts and many proud achievements.

Representatives of the Editorial Board and leaders of specialized departments signed a commitment to compete in 2023. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

In the coming year, the Editor-in-Chief suggested continuing to promote the implementation of the Nghe An Newspaper development project and expanding connections, enhancing learning; continuing to renovate and upgrade facilities and making efforts to increase circulation as well as increase spread on social platforms.

Comrade Ngo Duc Kien concluded at the conference. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

Comrade Ngo Duc Kien believes that in 2023, with new challenges and policies creating maximum conditions, Nghe An Newspaper in general and each individual in particular will have the opportunity to develop more significantly and improve.

Diep Thanh