Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee meets with press agencies on the occasion of Spring Canh Ty 2020

On the afternoon of February 18, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee held a meeting with press agencies on the occasion of the Spring of Canh Ty 2020. Attending the meeting was comrade Ho Quang Loi - Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, a number of departments, branches, the Provincial Journalists Association;... Photo: Thanh Duy

STANDING PROVINCIAL PARTY COMMITTEE DIRECTS TO HANDLING 164 ISSUES RAISED BY THE PRESS

In 2019, the direction and orientation of press information continued to be strongly innovated, ensuring the principle of a single focal point in directing and orienting information proactively and promptly; increasingly closely following the reality of social life; ensuring objectivity, accuracy, focus and key points.

In 2019, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department compiled 277 issues raised by the press. The Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee directed the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department to issue 119 documents directing the handling of 164 issues raised by the press, of which 143/164 contents were handled.

In addition, in general, press agencies have strictly followed the propaganda direction of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; actively and proactively informed and reflected promptly and comprehensively important developments in the province's political, economic and social life; actively propagated good values, new factors, praised good people and good deeds; increasingly effectively performed the function of social supervision and criticism, resolutely fighting against corruption, waste and negative acts...

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, spoke to announce the reason for the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

2019 also witnessed a clear change in press agencies in proactively participating in the fight to protect the Party's ideological foundation, refuting the wrong views of hostile forces, with many rich forms of information.

However, press activities still have some limitations such as: information reflecting incorrect purposes and targets, not serving the right subjects as specified in the license; the situation of reporting news and articles that are not cautious, politically sensitive; providing too much information related to negative issues, the dark side... still occurs...

Nghe An currently has 7 provincial press agencies and 3 electronic news sites. In addition, there are hundreds of newsletters, internal information and websites of units, sectors and localities in the province.

There are 35 representative offices and 27 resident reporters licensed to operate in the area. In addition, there are a number of press agencies with reporters operating in the area but have not registered representative offices or resident reporters.

Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department

Leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association of Nghe An province, press agencies and journalists attended the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, representatives of central, local and industry press agencies also gave comments and suggestions to provincial leaders regarding press activities, economic development, culture and society;...

Speaking at the meeting, journalist Ho Quang Loi - Permanent Vice President said: The leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association highly appreciate the positive contributions of press agencies and journalists in Nghe An to help build the Nghe An Journalists Association into one of the strongest associations in the country.

In 2020, comrade Ho Quang Loi respectfully requested the leaders of Nghe An province to continue to pay attention to, support and assist the press, in which the greatest assistance is to establish a mechanism to provide the most appropriate and timely information so that the press can access accurate, timely and responsible information.

Journalist Ho Quang Loi - Permanent Vice President of Vietnam Journalists Association speaking at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

He also requested press agencies and journalists in Nghe An to closely follow the key and urgent political tasks and the leadership and management of Nghe An leaders to reflect truthfully and accurately so that the image of Nghe An province can develop strongly.

The Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association also requested the Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association and journalists in Nghe An to actively participate in major activities of the Vietnam Journalists Association in 2020; Nghe An provincial authorities coordinate well in implementing press planning work;...

WISHING THE PRESS TO CONTINUE TO ACCOMPANY, SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE, AND SHARE

Speaking at the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province Thai Thanh Quy respectfully thanked and acknowledged, highly appreciated the contributions of press agencies, journalists in the province and the Central region located in the province to the development of the province.

In the coming time, especially in 2020, there will be many important events for the country and homeland, as well as the goal of breakthrough and stronger development in 2020 and the next term, which has set very high requirements for Nghe An province. The Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee hopes that in that process, they will continue to receive the companionship, support, encouragement, sharing and solidarity of the press.

Sharing many things that he really wanted the press to participate with the province, comrade Thai Thanh Quy emphasized some key contents: together with the province, continue to well implement the regulations of the Press Law; Regulations on professional ethics of Vietnamese journalists; Rules for using social networks of Vietnamese journalists.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

He also hopes that press agencies and journalists will pay more attention to improving the quality of press statements; be more incisive and persuasive in commenting, analyzing, assessing, and orienting public opinion towards events in general, especially events taking place in the province.

Actively promote good people and good deeds, following the viewpoint of "filtering the muddy and bringing out the clear", harmoniously combining "building" and "fighting", in which, determining to use "building" to "fight" and taking "building" as the main thing, to bring healthy, positive information, preserve and promote the orthodox values ​​of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 5 collectives with many achievements in journalism activities in Nghe An province in 2019. Photo: Thanh Duy

On the province side, the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed that they will continue to strive to create the most favorable environment for the press to work; direct the handling and supervision of the handling of issues raised by the press; at the same time, listen, be open-minded, not avoid; determine to provide the fastest information to the press; determine that press information is the basis to contribute to the province's better management and leadership.

The opinions of leaders of press agencies and journalists were discussed by the Provincial Party Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Regarding the transmission of messages, orientations, goals, targets and major tasks in the coming time, he said that the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department would discuss and organize to collect opinions from journalists to contribute to the Documents of the 19th Provincial Party Congress.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council awarded Certificates of Merit to journalists with many achievements in journalism activities in Nghe An province in 2019. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, 5 groups and 10 individuals received Certificates of Merit from the Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee for their achievements in journalism activities in Nghe An province in 2019, contributing to the socio-economic development of Nghe An province; including Nghe An Newspaper and reporter Ngo Nhat Lan (Nghe An Newspaper).