Strengthening propaganda work, contributing to sustainable development of socio-economic regions

On the afternoon of March 21, at its headquarters at 71 Hang Trong, Nhan Dan Newspaper held a launching ceremony for special page supplements and separate columns on six socio-economic regions on Nhan Dan Newspaper publications, aiming to effectively disseminate and soon bring the Politburo's Resolution into life.

Attending the launching ceremony were Party Central Committee members: Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Nguyen Thi Tuyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee; Nguyen Huu Dong, Secretary of the Son La Provincial Party Committee.

Also attending were comrade Y Vinh Tor, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Ethnic Committee; comrade Nguyen Thanh Lam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications; representatives of leaders of central and local departments, ministries, branches...

The 13th National Congress of the Party has set out the Socio-Economic Development Strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2045, striving to make our country a developing country with modern industry and high middle income by 2030; and a developed country with high income by 2045.

At the same time, the Congress oriented regional development in the following directions:“Better exploit and promote the best advantages of each region in terms of infrastructure, natural conditions, geo-economic-political position, human resources and strengthen intra-regional and inter-regional connectivity to participate in global value chains, creating new development space...”.

Scene of the launching ceremony of special pages and columns on six socio-economic regions in Nhan Dan Newspaper publications. (Photo: THANH DAT)

In 2022, for the first time, the Politburo issued six new Resolutions on socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in six regions to 2030, with a vision to 2045, including:Northern Midlands and Mountains, Mekong Delta, Central Highlands, Southeast, North Central and Central Coast, and Red River Delta.The launching ceremony of the supplement of Nhan Dan Newspaper aims to implement the Party's policy and promptly bring the Resolution into life in a systematic and effective manner.

Disseminate the Party's Resolution on a combined media platform

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper Le Quoc Minh emphasized that the launch of separate supplementary pages and columns on six socio-economic regions is a significant historical milestone of Nhan Dan Newspaper in accordance with the spirit of the Politburo Resolution. This is considered a bold step, clearly demonstrating the leading orientation of the Party's mouthpiece.

Nhan Dan Newspaper, with its role, function and mission, is the first press agency in the country to pioneer in publishing specialized supplements and separate topics on the six socio-economic regions to enhance information and propaganda on the deployment and implementation of the Politburo's Resolution on socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the six regions mentioned above.

Affirming that the launch of these special pages is a great effort of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief Le Quoc Minh said that not only on the printed newspaper, these six special pages have also been developed by Nhan Dan Newspaper on the electronic Nhan Dan Newspaper platform as well as on Nhan Dan Television.

The funding for the project is provided by Nhan Dan Newspaper and local authorities. This is especially significant as press agencies have recently faced many difficulties due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and economic difficulties.

Publishing supplements in Nhan Dan Newspaper every day and opening special pages and columns on the six regions in Nhan Dan Electronic Newspaper and Nhan Dan Television will promote propaganda to exploit and best promote the advantages of each region in terms of infrastructure, natural conditions, geo-economic and political position, human resources and strengthen intra-regional and inter-regional connectivity to participate in global value chains, creating new development space...

According to comrade Le Quoc Minh, combining multiple platforms in propaganda and communication has been the key direction of Nhan Dan Newspaper in recent years, in which propaganda about these six socio-economic regions will also be applied in a combined form.

Scene of the launching ceremony of special pages and columns on six socio-economic regions in Nhan Dan Newspaper publications. (Photo: THANH DAT)

Affirming that the combination of multiple platforms, including social media, is the strength of Nhan Dan Newspaper that few press agencies have, Editor-in-Chief Le Quoc Minh stated that the close connection between Nhan Dan Newspaper and the system of local Party newspapers will help create a continuous flow of information from the Central to the local level, thereby contributing to spreading the policies and guidelines of the Party and State.

In the coming time, the supplements on the six socio-economic regions of Nhan Dan Newspaper will continue to develop in-depth content, pointing out difficulties as well as emphasizing the advantages of the regions and localities with many unique and quality articles, news and photos, contributing to expressing the true spirit of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in key areas as set out in the Politburo Resolution, thereby spreading in the awareness of each citizen and cadre.

Delegates attending the Launching Ceremony. (Photo: THANH DAT)

Comrade Le Quoc Minh also emphasized that in order to organize the implementation of these six special pages, in addition to the extremely important direction from the Central Government and the participation of Nhan Dan Newspaper, it is indispensable to have the support of localities and businesses to join hands in coordinating, supporting and providing information in an accurate, timely, fast and diverse manner, along with the participation, promotion and support of businesses to maintain the content about these six socio-economic regions on Nhan Dan Newspaper.

Making regional thinking the leading mindset in socio-economic development

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam congratulated Nhan Dan Newspaper for its determination and great efforts to launch a supplement on six socio-economic regions in the spirit of the Politburo's Resolution.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam speaks. (Photo: THANH DAT)

In the context of general difficulties in publishing printed newspapers, Nhan Dan Newspaper has boldly taken the lead, innovated and created initiatives that are correct and in line with the current atmosphere in the way the Party and State carry out tasks to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

The Deputy Minister said that the six Resolutions of the Politburo on the six socio-economic regions demonstrate the Party's vision, thinking, and new working methods in this term, which is to proactively issue resolutions and proactively have implementation and dissemination programs. Along with these six Resolutions, six national online conferences were held to disseminate the resolutions.

The Government has also adopted a new approach, organizing six major conferences in six socio-economic regions in a 3-in-1 format: announcing the action program, promoting investment, announcing investment commitments and exhibiting photos of socio-economic achievements of each region, thereby spreading the message of the Politburo, the Party and the State on regional development, making regional thinking the leading thinking in socio-economic development.

In those accompanying efforts, the press and media always play an important role, as the Party and State's viewpoint has determined: the media must go first, proactively pave the way to change perceptions and create consensus.

Comrade Nguyen Thanh Lam stated that this is not the first time Nhan Dan Newspaper has demonstrated its leading role in finding new ways of expression and new playgrounds for journalists to develop their intelligence, contributing to promoting the country's development according to the direction set by the Party and State.

The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications expressed his belief that this approach would inspire local party press agencies, injecting new motivation and new ideas into the press. He also said that the launching ceremony of Nhan Dan Newspaper's supplement was held on the same day that the Prime Minister signed and issued Directive No. 07 on strengthening policy communication, which affirmed the important role of the press in policy communication.

From the perspective of state management agencies, the Ministry of Information and Communications hopes that leading press agencies will support state management work in leadership and administration by leading and setting an example.

Son La Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Huu Dong speaks. (Photo: THANH DAT)

Representing the midland and mountainous provinces of the North, Son La Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Huu Dong sent his congratulations to Nhan Dan Newspaper when the Party's mouthpiece took the lead in bringing the Politburo's Resolution into life.

Emphasizing the importance of regional linkages between provinces in the region, he suggested that on a special page on socio-economic regions, Nhan Dan Newspaper should specifically base on the advantages and difficulties of the region to propagate and boldly propose policies and guidelines to the Party, State and Government to have mechanisms and policies for regional development in difficult regions such as the midland and mountainous regions of the North.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, veteran journalist Ha Dang, former Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, emphasized that this is a huge step forward in the career of the Party newspaper and the Vietnamese press in general. Welcoming the bold move of Nhan Dan Newspaper, journalist Ha Dang expressed his hope that the Vietnamese press will continue to develop in a creative and innovative direction.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper Dinh Nhu Hoan expressed that the launch of six regional pages of Nhan Dan Newspaper will be a broad forum, a diverse and substantive information channel for leaders, managers, experts, Party committees and authorities at all levels, ministries, branches and a large number of people to participate in leadership aspects, contribute ideas to build, criticize and perfect regional linkage policies as well as fully and comprehensively reflect the socio-economic development situation, security and defense of the whole region and each locality in the region, as well as experiences, models, initiatives and good lessons learned in each locality and region.

This also demonstrates the Party newspaper's propaganda motto of ensuring both national and regional connectivity across various forms of multimedia journalism.

To effectively implement propaganda, close coordination between press agencies and relevant localities, ministries and sectors as responsible entities is indispensable. Nhan Dan Newspaper sincerely thanks and hopes to continue receiving support from localities, ministries, sectors and businesses nationwide, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dinh Nhu Hoan shared.

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