Summary of 5 years of the Sea and Island Propaganda Coordination Program for the period 2019 - 2024

The conference comprehensively assessed the leadership and direction of the organization and implementation of coordinated propaganda activities on seas and islands between the Party Committee and the Navy Command with the Provincial and Municipal Party Committees directly under the Central Government and central agencies and press agencies nationwide; thereby proposing policies and solutions to continue improving the quality of coordinated propaganda on seas and islands in the current situation.

In the period of 2019 - 2024, Nghe An, together with other provinces and cities across the country, has strongly participated in and synchronously deployed solutions to implement the Party's resolutions and policies, the State's policies and laws on seas and islands; issued many documents to lead and direct the implementation of tasks; established the Steering Committee, the Mobilization Committee of the movement "Fund for Vietnam's seas and islands", "Fund for the homeland's seas and islands - For the frontline of the Fatherland", "Fund for beloved Truong Sa"... Every year, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, with its role and responsibility as a standing agency, actively and proactively advises and helps the Party Committee develop and deploy plans to coordinate with the Navy to carry out specific activities, associated with the local political tasks.

Press agencies and units in the province have coordinated with the Navy to organize propaganda for many events, especially about the struggle to protect sovereignty over seas and islands; typical feats of arms of the Vietnam People's Navy; foreign defense activities, rescue, etc., creating profound social effects among all classes of people and overseas Vietnamese, gaining support from countries and international organizations in the struggle to protect the sovereignty over seas and islands of the Fatherland.

The coordination of propaganda work on seas and islands between the Party Committee, the Navy Command with the Provincial Party Committees, the Municipal Party Committees directly under the Central Government and the Central agencies, and the press agencies has been deployed synchronously and comprehensively in many contents and fields, focusing on coordinating information and propaganda, contributing to raising awareness of all classes of people and overseas Vietnamese about the position and role of seas and islands in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

At the same time, organize delegations to visit and encourage the soldiers and people of Truong Sa and the officers and soldiers of the DK-I platform on the southern continental shelf of the Fatherland; combine propaganda about the sea and islands with promoting propaganda to attract resources and taking care of training, perfecting, practicing, and improving the qualifications and political capacity of reporters at all levels...

At the conference, the Minister of National Defense and the Navy Command awarded Certificates of Merit to 113 collectives and 114 individuals with outstanding achievements in coordinating the organization of propaganda on seas and islands in the period of 2019-2024. Nghe An province had comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Minister of National Defense; the Propaganda - Press - Publishing Department, Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Navy Command.