Organizing the 2nd scientific essay writing contest on 'Protecting the Party's ideological foundation'

The meeting was held online. Photo: Sy Thanh

On the morning of March 1, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, in coordination with the Central Propaganda Department, Nhan Dan Newspaper, Communist Magazine, Central Theoretical Council, and Vietnam Journalists Association, held a press conference to organize the second online scientific essay writing contest on "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation".

At the Hanoi bridge, the press conference was chaired by Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang - Member of the Politburo, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, together with representatives of relevant departments, ministries, branches and representatives of central and local press agencies. At the Nghe An bridge, Comrade Le Thi Hoai Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Principal of the Provincial Political School and Comrade Pham Ngoc Canh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department chaired.

The purpose of the contest is to continue affirming the role and importance of protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints in the new situation; contributing to propagating, affirming and protecting the Party's viewpoints, guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and the 13th National Party Congress Documents; raising awareness, responsibility and training theoretical thinking capacity, the ability to identify and fight against erroneous and hostile viewpoints in the fields of ideology, theory, literature, art and cyberspace for cadres and party members.

The contest continues to discover, train, foster, and train forces participating in the fight against erroneous viewpoints, providing scientific arguments and forming a rich and quality source of articles, directly serving the propaganda work to protect the Party's ideological foundation...

The Organizing Committee stipulates that the contestants are Vietnamese people living in and outside the country, foreigners, whose political articles meet the criteria of the contest. Each author or group of authors can submit a maximum of 2 articles: one magazine article and one newspaper article. The works must be original creations, not duplicates of published works.

Comrades attending the meeting at Nghe An bridge. Photo: Sy Thanh

The article focuses on fundamental and core issues on protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against current erroneous and hostile views such as: the scientific, revolutionary and contemporary values ​​of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought and proposals for supplementation and development; socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam today; current topical issues such as the work of preventing and combating corruption and waste, the work of preventing and combating the Covid-19 pandemic, the work of protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland, the foreign policy of the Party and State, etc.

The Organizing Committee will accept entries from the launch date until July 30, 2022, based on the postmark. The announcement and award ceremony will be held in October 2022. The contest will award prizes in two categories of entries: magazines and newspapers. Each category includes 1 Special Prize, 5 A Prizes, 8 B Prizes, 15 C Prizes, and 20 Encouragement Prizes. At the same time, the Organizing Committee will award 15 outstanding collective prizes to agencies, organizations, and localities.

In the first contest, the Organizing Committee recorded an unexpected success with more than 8,000 entries. The second contest took place in the context of many highlights in 2022. Specifically, this is the second year of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; implementing the Resolution on promoting the building and rectification of the Party and the political system, resolutely preventing, repelling, and strictly handling cadres and party members who have degraded in ideology, politics, ethics, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party and the new Regulations on what party members are not allowed to do.

In particular, on February 3, on the occasion of the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Truth National Political Publishing House published the book "Some theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam" by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. The contest is an opportunity to spread the content of the book.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang requested localities and units to organize a contest with quality, practical effectiveness, and widespread influence among cadres, party members and all classes of people.