At the 9th National Golden Hammer and Sickle Awards, Nghe An Newspaper was honored as an Excellent Collective and an Excellent Special Work.

On the evening of January 20, in Hanoi, the Central Organizing Committee coordinated with Nhan Dan Newspaper, Communist Magazine, Vietnam Television, and Vietnam Journalists Association to organize the 9th National Press Award Ceremony for Party Building (Golden Hammer and Sickle) in 2024, on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2025).

The award ceremony was attended by comrades: To Lam - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam; Nong Duc Manh - former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam; former members of the Politburo, former Chairmen of the National Assembly: Nguyen Sinh Hung, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan; comrades: Tran Cam Tu - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat, Head of the Central Inspection Committee; Tran Quoc Vuong - former member of the Politburo, former Standing member of the Secretariat; Le Minh Hung - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award; comrades: Politburo members, former members of the Politburo, Secretaries of the Party Central Committee; comrades: Vice President; Deputy Prime Minister; Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; comrades: Members of the Party Central Committee; Alternate members of the Party Central Committee; Leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, and mass organizations; leaders of provinces and cities; Leaders of central and local press agencies; authors and groups of authors with award-winning works.

Nghe An delegation attending the award ceremony included comrades: Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Ngo Duc Kien - Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper; Tran Thi Huyen - Deputy Director of Nghe An Radio and Television Station; award-winning author groups of Nghe An province.

The Golden Hammer and Sickle Award is an annual award given to outstanding journalistic works on Party building. This year, the "Golden Hammer and Sickle" Award received 2,544 works, an increase of nearly 15% compared to 2023. Of these, there were 789 print works, 725 electronic works, 576 television works, 329 radio works and 125 photojournalistic works.

From 137 works selected by the Preliminary Council, the Final Council reviewed and selected outstanding works to award 6 A prizes, 12 B prizes, 10 Excellent Special Prizes, 18 C prizes, and 30 Encouragement prizes.

The organizing committee also awarded prizes to 15 press agencies, journalists' associations, propaganda departments, and party committees with outstanding achievements in organizing and participating in the award.

Nghe An Newspaper was honored to receive an excellent thematic award from the Organizing Committee for the work: "Innovation in the Party's leadership method: Lessons from vivid practice" by the group of authors Duc Chuyen, Thanh Duy, Thanh Le, Mai Hoa, Huu Quan. In addition, the work: "Special resolution: "Overcoming the situation of the narrow "mechanism shirt"" by the group of authors: Ngo Duc Chuyen, Nguyen Thanh Duy, Nguyen Mai Hoa entered the final round. Nghe An Newspaper was also honored to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Organizing Committee as a press agency with creative media products on Party building.

According to the Organizing Committee's assessment, the works participating in this year's competition continued to be rich in themes and genres and covered all provinces and cities across the country. Most of the works closely followed hot issues, outstanding events, and key tasks of the political system and the country. Many works deeply reflected the current issues of Party building and rectification work, the situation, and results of the 4 years of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress along with the resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels for the 2020-2025 term and the resolutions of the 13th Central Executive Committee.

The works reflect the active and proactive preparation for Party congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term towards the 14th National Party Congress; new and higher requirements for Party building and rectification and the political system with breakthrough tasks and solutions in socio-economic development, Party building and the political system.

In addition, many works have discovered and pointed out the shortcomings, limitations, and "bottlenecks" in implementing the 10-year socio-economic development plan (2021 - 2030) and in implementing the key tasks of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. Some works address current pressing issues, with high social criticism and combativeness.

In particular, the press works participating in the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award this year have vividly and promptly reflected the events and political activities of the Party such as: the 9th and 10th Central Conferences and the Resolutions of the Central Executive Committee (term XIII); issues such as summarizing the Party building work of the entire term and the implementation of the Party Charter, summarizing Directive No. 35-CT/TW dated May 30, 2019 of the 12th Politburo and implementing Directive No. 35-CT/TW dated June 14, 2024 of the 13th Politburo on Party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress with some new points.

Speaking at the award ceremony, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam acknowledged, commended and highly appreciated the outstanding contributions of journalists nationwide in general, and journalists writing about Party building in particular. General Secretary To Lam congratulated the authors, groups of authors, excellent agencies and units honored at the 9th Golden Hammer and Sickle Award for Journalism on Party Building - 2024. These are the most typical collectives, the most excellent works demonstrating the creative work process, dedication, sharp political thinking, intelligence, understanding, high social responsibility to both newspaper readers and to the country, to the people and to our Party.

Comrade To Lam also praised the Steering Committee of the 9th Press Award on Party Building for working with dedication, science, and professionalism, contributing to the continuous improvement of quality and scale each year. The achievements and results from the "Golden Hammer and Sickle" Award are not only the pride of the Vietnamese press, but also an affirmation of the great role of the press in the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized that today's award-winning works not only mark the personal mark of the journalists, but also contribute to reflecting the sense of responsibility and solidarity of the entire national press team towards the common cause of the nation. The new era of the country is opening up a bright future for the nation, at the same time, it also sets new and higher requirements for revolutionary journalism, requiring the press to develop accordingly, and works worthy of modern professional and humanistic journalism. The public expects more and more truly excellent writers and journalistic works of stature, conveying the great changes of the Party and the nation with high political and ideological values.

2025 is a key year for our country to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, hold Party Congresses at all levels, and move towards the 14th National Party Congress; it is also a year with many major national and ethnic holidays. In that context, the press writing about Party building needs to actively contribute to helping our Party become increasingly clean and strong, on par with its historical tasks and strength, and lead the nation to develop in the new era.

Speaking at the evaluation of the 9 years of organizing the Golden Hammer and Sickle Journalism Award on Party Building, comrade Le Minh Hung - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organizing Committee, Head of the Award Steering Committee emphasized that since the launch of the first Golden Hammer and Sickle Award in 2016, the work of Party building and rectification and the political system has always received the attention of journalists and the public nationwide, and overseas Vietnamese. This is a rich and attractive source of topics for the press to exploit and reflect with a spirit of increasing innovation, creativity, liveliness, appeal, and persuasion.

Through the press, important contents of Party building work are widely disseminated in society, helping cadres, party members and people to have correct awareness and correct actions. Thereby, each person performs well their duties and contributes to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. That demonstrates the persuasiveness, prestige and scale of the national press award on Party building.

On behalf of the Steering Committee, comrade Le Minh Hung - Head of the Central Organizing Committee thanked the active participation of agencies, Party committees, authorities, press agencies at the central and local levels and our people across the country, and overseas Vietnamese who contributed to the success of the tournament.

At the award ceremony, comrade Le Minh Hung - Head of the Central Organizing Committee also launched the 10th National Press Award on Party Building - Golden Hammer and Sickle in 2025. The award aims to raise awareness among cadres, reporters, editors, press agencies and create motivation to promote propaganda on Party building, thereby attracting the attention of the whole society to the work of Party building and rectification and the political system; improve the Party's leadership capacity and fighting strength; commend and encourage new models and creative and effective ways to contribute to building an increasingly clean and strong Party; improve the quality of cadres and Party members; strengthen propaganda and encourage the achievements of the country, the leadership of the Party during the 13th Congress term and more than 40 years of innovation to create a foundation; enhance potential, position and prestige, bringing the country into a new era, an era of striving, developing richly and prosperously for the nation.