Solemn opening of the 15th Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of Nghe An province, term 2024 - 2029

Comrade Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly sent a flower basket to congratulate the Congress.

Comrade Do Van Chien - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front attended and directed the Congress. Also attending were Comrade Nguyen Huu Dung - Member of the Party Delegation, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and comrades representing the leaders of the Standing Committee and specialized Committees of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Regarding international delegates, there was comrade Bua sy Na Tha Vong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction of Xieng Khouang province, Lao People's Democratic Republic and comrades representing specialized committees.

Leaders of Nghe An province attending the Congress included comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, non-professional Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, term XV, 2024 - 2029; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, and the Provincial National Assembly Delegation.

The leaders of the Nghe An Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, term XV, 2024 - 2029, include comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An Province and 4 full-time Vice Chairmen including comrades: Le Van Ngoc, Nguyen Duc Thanh, Tran Thi Thu Huong, Truong Thiet Hung.

Delegates from the North Central Emulation Cluster's units include representatives from the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the provinces: Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri.

Also attending the Congress were leaders, former leaders of the province, departments, branches, localities, member organizations of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of the province; leaders of the Nghe An Association in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; veteran revolutionaries, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, Heroes of the People's Armed Forces, 353 delegates, representing all walks of life, classes, intellectuals, ethnic groups, religions, the People's Armed Forces and economic sectors.

Continue to promote the strength of national solidarity, join hands and unite to build the homeland and country.

The Congress has the task of comprehensively assessing the situation and results of implementing the Resolution of the 14th Provincial Congress of Vietnam Fatherland Front Delegates, term 2019 - 2024, drawing lessons, proposing directions, goals and practical and effective action programs.

In her opening speech, Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province affirmed: The Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of 460 commune-level units and 21 district-level units was successfully organized, with many exciting emulation movements and concrete actions, many outstanding achievements and 850 works to welcome the Congresses at all levels, towards the 10th Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and has truly become a widespread political activity, raising awareness among all classes of people about the cause of Great National Unity, about the position and role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

This Congress is also an opportunity for the Provincial Front team to once again reflect on what they have done and have not done for the Party, the State, the Front, and their beloved compatriots during the past term; from there, draw profound lessons to self-correct and clearly define strategic goals, key tasks and solutions, and breakthroughs to promote campaigns and patriotic emulation movements, contributing to the successful implementation of the tasks of economic, social, defense, and security development of the province in the new situation.

With the functions, tasks, responsibilities and roles as a "bridge" between the Party, the State and all classes of people, on behalf of the Congress Presidium, comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh respectfully requested delegates to concentrate their intelligence, enhance their responsibility, continue to discuss, give opinions to perfect the Congress documents and propose new solutions and ideas on all programs and areas of operation of the Front.

At the same time, continue to promote the strength of great national unity, join hands and hearts with the Party Committee and the government to maximize internal strength, take advantage of opportunities, overcome difficulties and challenges, and strive to build Nghe An province to develop rapidly and sustainably, worthy of being the homeland of beloved President Ho Chi Minh!

In recent times, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province has regularly received attention and guidance from the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, especially the direct guidance of comrade Do Van Chien - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

In his speech at the Congress, Comrade Do Van Chien - Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee emphasized the position, role and importance of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the current period; at the same time acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of the activities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in Nghe An province in the past term; and oriented 5 key tasks to focus on in the coming term.

During the past term, the work of the Provincial Front has always received direct leadership and attention from the Provincial Party Standing Committee; and coordination and facilitation from the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, giving a speech at the Congress, comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation acknowledged the results of the activities of the Provincial Fatherland Front in the past term; at the same time, pointed out a number of shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy also emphasized and suggested 5 issues to be implemented in the coming term so that the Vietnam Fatherland Front can continue to innovate its content and methods of operation; improve the quality and effectiveness of work in all fields, contributing to building an increasingly strong national solidarity bloc and successfully implementing the political tasks set out by the province.

Building the image of "Frontline cadres in the digital age"

The Congress discussed and objectively assessed the situation of all classes of people and the great national unity bloc; the results of implementing the Resolution for the 2019-2024 term, affirmed the results achieved, good models, new factors; frankly pointed out limitations, shortcomings, causes, and lessons learned.

Accordingly, in the past term, the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels in the province continued to innovate the content and methods of operation, with many efforts to deploy groups of digital transformation solutions in the work of the Front, contributing to the successful implementation of the resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels and the Resolution of the 9th National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front - a term with 10 outstanding marks; affirming the "core" position and role of the Front in gathering and promoting the strength of great national unity.

Campaigns and emulation movements have been widely deployed, arousing the spirit of solidarity and creativity of the people to join hands in socio-economic development, strengthen national defense and security, and successfully implement the National Target Program on building new rural areas and civilized urban areas.

The work of social supervision and criticism, participation in Party building and government building has had positive changes, and dialogue activities between the people and leaders of grassroots Party committees and authorities have been deployed synchronously and effectively.

The people's foreign affairs work of the Front and its member organizations has been expanded, flexible and creative. The operation methods of the Front system have been constantly innovated, and the quality and effectiveness of the activities of the Fatherland Front at all levels have been increasingly improved.

The great national unity bloc of the province continues to be promoted, and the people's trust in the Party and government is increasingly consolidated.

These results have great significance and important contributions to the Party Committee, government and people of the province in successfully implementing the tasks of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province.

The Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee has been continuously evaluated by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the Provincial Emulation and Reward Council for many years as having excellently completed and well completed its tasks. It was awarded the Emulation Leading Flag in 2019 and the Excellent Emulation Flag in 2022 by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; the Provincial People's Committee awarded the Emulation Leading Flag in 2023 by the Provincial People's Committee and received many certificates of merit from the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, ministries, branches, the Provincial Party Executive Committee, and the Provincial People's Committee.

With a very high consensus, the Congress passed the Resolution of the 15th Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of Nghe An province, term 2024 - 2029, to continue to concretize the Party's guidelines and policies on building the great national unity bloc and Front work.

Accordingly, the general goal is: "With the goal of building the image of "Front cadres in the digital age" strong enough, on par with the requirements of the task, always accompanying and keeping up with the movement of the times; The Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee determined that digital transformation is a "breakthrough" solution to continue to innovate the content, methods and comprehensively improve the quality of the Front's activities in an effective and practical direction; clearly forming a "two-way" information channel in propaganda, mobilization, gathering and receiving, listening and responding to opinions and recommendations of all classes of people; focusing on building a "Self-governed, united, prosperous and happy" residential area associated with the Community Digital Technology Team built by the government; promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc; promoting campaigns and patriotic emulation movements; performing well the task of representing and protecting the legitimate and legitimate rights and interests of the people; promoting democracy, implementing social supervision and criticism association, anti-corruption, anti-waste, negative activities, participating in Party building, building a clean and strong government, contributing to Nghe An becoming a fairly developed province of the country by 2030, with fast and sustainable economic development, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An.

The Congress passed 15 specific targets, associated with 6 Action Programs including: Strengthening propaganda, mobilization, gathering people of all walks of life, strengthening social consensus, promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc. Improving the quality and effectiveness of social supervision and criticism, implementing democracy, participating in Party and government building. Encouraging people of all walks of life to compete, be creative, effectively carry out campaigns and patriotic emulation movements. Improving the effectiveness of people's foreign affairs and work with overseas Vietnamese. Continuing to innovate the organizational structure, content and methods of operation; improving the capacity of the Front's staff at all levels. Building self-governing, united, prosperous and happy residential areas.

On this occasion, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien presented Certificates of Merit to 1 collective and 2 individuals; Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province presented Certificates of Merit to 10 collectives and 10 individuals. The Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province presented souvenirs to those who did not participate in the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province, term XV, 2024 - 2029.

In her closing speech, Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, on behalf of the Congress, called on the Front at all levels to promote the tradition in the heroic Soviet homeland, unite and join hands with the Party and State to maximize internal strength, take advantage of opportunities, overcome difficulties and challenges, determined to strive to successfully implement the goals and targets of the Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term and Resolution No. 39 of the Politburo for Nghe An, and carry out the advice of the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong "Must step strongly, go far, Nghe An like that, is Nghe An", so that Nghe An is worthy of the title of red Nghe Tinh, worthy of being the homeland of beloved President Ho Chi Minh.

Thanh Duy - Mai Hoa