Nghe An province launched the fourth political contest on protecting the Party's ideological foundation.

According to the content of the above Official Dispatch, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department requested localities and units in the whole province to closely follow Plan No. 2858-KH/HVCTQG, dated January 22, 2024 of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, carefully study the Contest rules and orient the themes of the entries to direct the implementation in localities and units to ensure content, quality, effectiveness, and on time as prescribed.

At the same time, regularly promote and urge the implementation of the Contest on mass media, social networks and through meetings and thematic activities so that cadres, party members, people of all walks of life, especially union members and youth, respond and participate actively.

Propagating and widely disseminating the meaning and content of the Contest at all levels, sectors, localities and units; disseminating quality entries, contributing to the effective implementation of Resolution No. 35-NQ/TW, dated October 22, 2018 of the Politburo on strengthening the protection of the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile views in the new situation.

The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department also requested each locality and unit to select at least 15 quality works to submit to the contest. For units: Provincial Police, Provincial Military Command, Provincial Youth Union, Department of Education and Training, Vinh University, Provincial Political School, Nghe An Newspaper, Nghe An Radio and Television, Provincial Literature and Arts Association direct and mobilize cadres, soldiers, union members, association members, teachers, and reporters to invest in creating specialized, quality works to participate in the Contest. At the same time, organize the collection and appraisal of works according to the Rules and prepare contest dossiers to send to the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department before June 20, 2024 for evaluation, preliminary scoring, and synthesis to send to the Contest Organizing Committee.

According to the Contest Rules, for written works, each author/group of authors can submit a maximum of 2 entries, including: 1 editorial article in Magazine format (Printed Magazine or Electronic Magazine) and 1 editorial article in Newspaper format (Printed Newspaper or Electronic Newspaper). Each entry must include a printed copy (A4 size) and a soft copy (Microsoft Word format).

For audio and visual works, each author/group of authors can submit a maximum of 3 works: 1 radio work, 1 television work, 1 video clip work. Each entry includes an audio file (mp3 format) or image (mp4 format) and a printed copy of the literary script (Microsoft Word format).

The Central Competition Steering Committee will award prizes according to 5 categories of entries: Magazine, Newspaper, Radio, Television, Video clip. Each category of newspaper/magazine work is expected to award 3 A prizes, 6 B prizes, 10 C prizes, 20 Encouragement prizes. Each category of radio/television work is expected to award 2 A prizes, 4 B prizes, 6 C prizes, 10 Encouragement prizes; the Video clip category is expected to award 1 A prize, 2 B prizes, 3 C prizes, 6 Encouragement prizes. At the same time, the Central Competition Steering Committee plans to select and award 1 Special prize for works of all categories.

The Central Steering Committee of the Competition will also award 15 Outstanding Collective Awards to agencies, units and localities that organize the Competition in their agencies, units and localities in a broad and creative manner; have many good quality entries to the Central Competition, of which at least 01 entry wins a B prize or higher.

In addition to the official prize, the Central Steering Committee of the Competition awarded 20 Promising prizes to the entries of authors/author groups who are union members, youths, and students that entered the Final Round with the highest scores among the entries of union members, youths, and students; and awarded prizes to the oldest and youngest authors/author groups.

Previously, in two consecutive years 2022 and 2023, Nghe An province was honored to win the prize as 1/15 of the best collectives nationwide. In 2023 alone, the whole province had more than 4,600 entries and 4 individuals won prizes, including 2 B prizes, 1 C prize and 1 Encouragement prize.