Building a strong national border defense, firmly protecting border sovereignty and security

Attending the event were Major General Nguyen Van Thien - Deputy Commander of the Border Guard; Major General Le Van Vy - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Military Region 4 Command.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; representatives of leaders of departments, branches, and mass organizations at the provincial level; leaders of districts, cities, communes, and wards along the land and sea borders.

Playmobilize the strength of the great national unity bloc in protecting border security

Nghe An province has a 468.281km long land border adjacent to 3 provinces of Laos (Hua Phan, Xieng Khouang, Bolikhamxay) and 82km of coastline. The area includes 61 communes and wards in 11 border districts and towns.

In the period of 2019-2024, the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee have focused on leading and directing all levels, sectors and forces to seriously, effectively, flexibly and creatively implement the National Border Day in accordance with the specific conditions of each locality.

Many good models and new ways of doing things with rich and vivid contents have been widely replicated such as: Organizing cultural and sports activities; medical examination and treatment, providing free medicine to the poor; donating Great Unity houses, building livelihood models to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty for the people; giving gifts to disadvantaged students in border areas... Thanks to that, March 3rd every year has truly become the National Border Guard Festival.

Over the past 5 years, agencies, organizations, individuals, businesses, and philanthropists have coordinated with the Border Guard force and local Party committees and authorities to build 44 works and projects in border areas; and presented 5,407 gifts to people with a total value of more than 41.2 billion VND. The provincial police have completed the construction of 2,500/2,820 houses for people in 6 districts in border and mainland areas.

In particular, local Party committees and authorities have effectively promoted the role of 328 village elders, hamlet (hamlet) chiefs, and prestigious people in propaganda, mobilization, and gathering the masses to participate in managing and protecting border sovereignty and security.

Thereby, promoting the combined strength of the entire political system in building, managing and protecting the national border, building a people's border defense associated with a solid people's national defense posture and people's security posture; consolidating and strengthening the construction of a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developing border with neighboring countries.



On the side of Nghe An Border Guard, in addition to effectively implementing the management and protection of border and sea sovereignty, the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee has coordinated with localities to regularly maintain 27 Border Guard officers to hold the position of Deputy Party Secretary in communes in the land border area; transferred 80 Party members who are Border Guard officers to work at Party cells in villages, hamlets in key, complicated areas and religious areas, and assigned 522 Party members to be in charge of 2,387 households in the border area.

At the same time, attract resources, effectively implement many programs, projects, plans for investment in socio-economic development in border areas through the movements "Border Guards join hands to build new rural areas"; "Accompanying women in border areas"; "Helping children go to school - Adopted children of Border Guard stations"; "The charity house for those in need to take, those who have to share"; "Accompanying dormitories in border areas"... Thereby, contributing to consolidating the grassroots political system, improving the material and spiritual life of ethnic minorities in border and coastal areas.

However, due to the difficult traffic conditions in the border area, harsh weather and climate; limited awareness of the people, especially ethnic minorities, some customs are still backward; the high rate of poor and near-poor households has affected the implementation of the movements.

The leadership and direction of some Party committees and authorities on the implementation of the 5 contents of "National Border Defense Day" and legal documents related to borders and sea areas are not specific, diverse and rich.

Awareness and responsibility for protecting national sovereignty and border security and implementing the “National Border Guard Day” of a number of cadres and people are not adequate; some places still consider it the task of the Border Guard force. The quality of twinning activities and sponsorship of border guard units and border communes of some units is not high.

Organizing border-oriented activities in some localities is not regular, only focusing on visiting and giving gifts during holidays and Tet...

At the conference, delegates focused on analyzing and clarifying the achieved results and shortcomings and limitations in implementing the National Border Guard Day, period 2019-2024 and proposed policies, tasks and solutions to improve the effectiveness of this activity in the next period.

Building a strong people's border defense and people's security posture

Speaking at the conference, Major General Nguyen Van Thien - Deputy Commander of the Border Guard emphasized that protecting the national border is an important and regular task. Nghe An is a province with an important strategic position in the Central region.

In recent times, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province have directed the implementation of the movement of the entire people participating in protecting territorial sovereignty and border security in the new situation, which has had a widespread impact.

In particular, implementing the National Border Defense Day in a diverse and flexible manner; effectively utilizing resources to build a strong border area; regularly caring for and providing material and spiritual support to the armed forces and people in the border area; implementing many solutions to strengthen the grassroots political system in the border area. Thereby, contributing to building a solid national border defense and people's security.

Major General Nguyen Van Thien - Deputy Commander of the Border Guard also noted that in the coming years, the situation on the border lines will still have many unpredictable complex factors, posing increasingly high and comprehensive requirements for the work of building, managing and protecting the territorial sovereignty, border security, seas and islands of the Fatherland.

Therefore, it is recommended that Nghe An province continue to coordinate with the Border Guard force to promote the border management function of the authorities at all levels; do a good job of propaganda to raise awareness of each cadre and citizen about the position and importance of sovereignty and territory, determine the responsibility of each citizen in the cause of border management and protection, thereby promoting the strength of the entire people in protecting national border security and sovereignty.

Pay attention to improving the quality and effectiveness of the movement of the entire people participating in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security in the new situation" in conjunction with implementing the National Border Defense Day and local revolutionary movements and campaigns.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee thanked the Border Guard Command for its attention to Nghe An province in the past time. At the same time, he requested relevant departments, branches and forces to add the opinions of the Deputy Commander of the Border Guard to the direction and tasks to better implement the work of managing and protecting the national border in the spirit of Resolution 33-NQ/TW, dated September 28, 2018 of the Politburo on "Border protection strategy".

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh also requested that sectors, levels, agencies, units and localities in the province annually develop plans and organize meaningful and effective activities to implement the "National Border Guard Day"; encourage agencies and units at the rear to establish friendship and sponsorship with Border Guard stations and border communes and villages; actively help people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of ethnic minorities in border areas. Relevant departments and sectors continue to research, invest, build and exploit the potential for socio-economic development in border areas. Effectively implement the Provincial People's Committee's Decision on assigning assistance to poor communes in the province.

For the Border Guard force - the core force, specialized in the management and protection of sovereignty and border security - must actively and proactively advise the province as well as localities on policies and solutions to effectively build the border area. At the same time, it must promote responsibility in advising and helping local cadres to effectively organize and implement the policies and guidelines of the Party and State in the locality.

On this occasion, 2 collectives and 6 individuals were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Border Guard Command; 6 collectives and 5 individuals were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Provincial People's Committee for their outstanding achievements in 5 years of implementing the People's Border Guard Day (2019-2024 period).

Khanh Ly