This Nam Can Xuan Border Guard Station...
Visiting Nam Can Border Post (Ky Son) in early Spring, we were not only impressed by the bright-green-clean-beautiful, orderly, and standardized landscape of a typical unit; but also listened to local officials and villagers share about the practical models and work "for the people" of the green-uniformed soldiers here....
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"Bright - green - clean - beautiful"
Passing through the gate of Nam Can Border Post, one can immediately see the system of landscape barracks, combat works; training grounds; signboards, flower gardens, ornamental plants, livestock and farming areas, medicinal herb gardens; large-scale, modern physical training and sports areas (pickleball courts, volleyball courts...); the places where soldiers work, live, and rest are also dressed in new, spacious, and orderly clothes... All of them leave a strong impression.
Lieutenant Colonel Xong Ba Mua - Deputy Political Commissar of Nam Can Border Guard Station, said: As one of the three units selected by the Provincial Border Guard Command to build a model unit, the Party Committee - Command Board of the Station has united, unified, overcome difficulties, and determined to complete the assigned political tasks.
Before October 2024, the unit had completed all the items of building a pilot unit assigned by the Provincial Border Guard Command, including the following contents: Excellent training; strict maintenance of combat readiness regime and discipline; regular construction; discipline management and related works.
In particular, special attention is paid to the environmental landscape to ensure the barracks are bright - green - clean - beautiful. Newly built monolithic national border marker models with surrounding lighting systems ensure aesthetics in harmony with the unit's landscape.
The system of livestock areas, production areas, gardens, ponds, barns, and racks were expanded and newly built according to a unified plan. The unit invested, planned, and maintained the raising of 30 pigs and 120 chickens, meeting about 50-60% of the soldiers' meals.
The garden is growing vegetables and fruits; squash and pumpkins are bearing fruit. The medicinal herb garden has all kinds of common medicinal plants.
Vegetable garden with an area of about 2000 m2also planned to concentrate in one area, build dike, draw furrows, improve soil with nearly 800 m2The land assigned to the departments is increased with many types of green vegetables and tubers all year round, meeting about 50 - 60% of the daily needs of the unit.
Along with the construction and completion of works according to the criteria of "bright - green - clean - beautiful",In order to build a disciplined, disciplined unit, Nam Can Border Guard Station has implemented many solutions. In particular, it focuses on promoting the emulation movement "Excellent training", attaching importance to practical training, applying information technology to training work...
Along with that, focus on doing well the political and ideological education work to raise awareness for cadres and soldiers. Build strong Party organizations at stations and Party committees of subordinate Party cells; improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party committees and Party cells, promote the pioneering and exemplary spirit of cadres and Party members; the role and responsibility of Party committees and commanders at all levels in leading, directing and organizing the implementation of border management and protection tasks, handling and resolving border incidents and events and preventing and combating crimes in border areas.
In the period of 2019-2024, Nam Can Border Guard Station presided over and coordinated with other forces to detect and arrest 46 cases, 55 subjects violating the law and administrative violations. Of which, 12 cases, 16 subjects were involved in illegal trading, storing and transporting of drugs; seized evidence included 12 heroin cakes, more than 100,000 synthetic drug pills, 1 kg of crystal meth; arrested and handled 34 cases of administrative violations, with 39 subjects, and fined more than 35 million VND.
In 2024 alone, Nam Can Border Guard Station successfully coordinated with Project NA1123 to arrest 2 Lao subjects for illegal drug trafficking, seized 36,000 synthetic drug pills and some related exhibits; co-chaired the arrest of 1 case/1 subject for possessing 6 synthetic drug pills and 1.25 grams of heroin; discovered and handled 5 subjects violating border regulations.
In addition, to do a good job of propaganda and mobilizing people to reduce child marriage, prevent illegal migration, human trafficking, and violations of border regulations, etc., Nam Can Border Guard Station has organized many Mong language classes for officers and soldiers so that when they go to the grassroots, they can understand what people say, speak to people, and grasp people's thoughts and aspirations.
Coordinate well with local authorities, village elders, village chiefs, and prestigious people in the villages to quickly grasp information; actively disseminate and educate the law and raise awareness among the people. During the year, the Station mobilized people, mainly Mong people, to hand over 18 homemade guns of various types... contributing to ensuring security at the grassroots level.
The process of building and becoming a key unit in 2024 will not only contribute to improving material and spiritual life but also help officers and soldiers of Nam Can Border Guard Station feel secure in their work, attached to the unit, improve training level and quality, combat readiness, and determined to build a strong and comprehensive unit.
The efforts to build a model unit of Nam Can Border Guard Station were recognized and highly appreciated by the Nghe An Border Guard Command. At the end of 2024, the Border Guard Command organized for all units in the force to visit and learn from experiences to replicate at Nam Can Border Guard Station.
Join hands for a warm village, happy home
Managing a border section of more than 23.2 km and the border commune of Nam Can - one of the difficult areas in the remote and isolated areas of District 30a, the highlands of Ky Son, where the Mong people mainly live - along with the task of building a strong and comprehensive key unit, protecting national border security, Nam Can Border Guard Station also focuses on building and consolidating the grassroots political system; supporting people in socio-economic development, hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and new rural construction.
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In the drizzling spring rain, we followed the mass mobilization officers of Nam Can Border Guard Station to visit the VACR farm model of Mr. Va Chu Rua (born in 1974) in Nam Can village (Ky Son). This is one of the households selected by the Border Guard Station to "hold hands and guide" in developing the economic model. "Thanks to the Border Guard's enthusiastic guidance on science, technology and support for seeds, crops and livestock have grown well with few diseases. This year's Tet, our family is warm and full again!", Lieutenant Colonel Vu Ba Mua - Deputy Political Commissar of Nam Can Border Guard Station happily said.
A few years ago, Mr. Va Chu Rua's family only knew how to grow rice and ginger, poverty was a vicious cycle. However, everything changed when his family received support from the Nam Can Border Guard Station.
Along with propaganda to change awareness, the Station has invested in fish breeds, chicken breeds, fruit trees, fertilizers and hundreds of working days to help Mr. Va Chu Rua's family grow crops, raise livestock, dig 2 ponds to raise grass carp and common carp; consult on buying mini plows, improve water sources, expand the rice growing area to more than 10,000 m2. Taking short-term to sustain long-term, up to now, Mr. Va Chu Rua's family has become a well-off household in the village with hundreds of chickens, ducks, 6 buffaloes and cows...", Lieutenant Colonel Ngu Quang Hung - Mass Mobilization Team (Nam Can Border Guard Station) said.
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In production area C5, we also met Ms. Va Y Ry, from Huoi Nhao village, harvesting cassava, surrounded by about 30 large bags of cassava tubers, all neatly tied, waiting for people to come and buy them.
“This year, we have a good cassava harvest, so we are more excited. The Border Guards have helped people a lot from choosing seeds, providing technical guidance to harvesting the crop. Poor households have received more attention. My son Va Ba Tu is an adopted son of a border guard. He is currently studying at the Central College of Transport,” Ms. Va Y Ry said excitedly.
Not only the family of Va Chu Rua or Va Y Ry but also many Mong households in Nam Can have changed their thinking and working habits in production and animal husbandry thanks to the propaganda, mobilization, and "hand-holding and instruction" of border guards.
In addition to promoting the role and responsibility of border guards who are reinforced in the commune, 3 party members temporarily participating in Party activities in difficult hamlet party cells and 21 party members in charge of 85 households in the border area, Nam Can Border Guard Station also coordinates with charitable organizations and individuals to build community service models. Typical examples include the "Border Medicine Cabinet" model associated with free medical examination and treatment for people; the "Border Light" model installs 30 solar-powered lamp posts along the commune's roads to facilitate people's travel, children have a safe place to play at night and create a new look for the Mong ethnic minority villages.
Teacher Xong Ba Tua - teacher at Nam Can Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities shared: "Before there was no solar lighting system, the roads were very dark. Now at night, people can travel on the roads conveniently without having to use flashlights anymore. Children also have a safe place to play. People are very excited...".
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In addition to the solar lighting system, according to Lieutenant Colonel Xong Ba Mua - Deputy Political Commissar of Nam Can Border Guard Station, one of the highlights in 2024 that the unit will deploy is the Charity House complex "Whoever needs it, come and take it, whoever has it, share it", which opens once a week to distribute necessities, food, clothes, shoes, sandals... for free to people in the area.
Including bookshelves for teenagers and young people, and a computer system for officials and people who need to look up documents on the internet.
During the days before Tet, the Station's Charity House opens more often for disadvantaged households to choose warm clothes, shoes, sandals and necessities such as rice, instant noodles, porridge, milk... for their children. "Thanks to the Border Guard and the local Party Committee and government's attention, the Mong people in Nam Can have a warmer Spring. The villagers are excited and very grateful!", Mr. Song Chong Thong, Secretary of the Huoi Nhao Village Party Cell, shared.
With the motto "The station is home, the border is homeland, the people of all ethnic groups are blood brothers", officers and soldiers of Nam Can Border Guard Station always accompany and stand side by side with local Party committees, authorities and villages in preventing, combating and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, storms and floods, and building new rural areas. In 2022 alone, the station mobilized forces for 136 working days to repair and rebuild 0.5 km of rural roads; supported people in villages and hamlets to repair and rebuild many houses...
Before Tet, the people of Lien Son village "bragged" to us that the officers and soldiers of Nam Can Border Guard Station had supported the construction of inter-village rural roads in time for the Spring and Tet celebrations, making everyone excited. Many people expressed, "Having the Border Guards back makes the village warm and the family happy!"...
The practical projects and models that Nam Can Border Guard Station - a key unit of the border guard force in 2024 - has been implementing have contributed to strengthening the bond between the army and the people; encouraging ethnic minorities in the area to actively participate in the movement to firmly protect territorial sovereignty and national border security.