Head of Central Propaganda Department: Urgently and strictly implement press planning

On the morning of December 28, in Hai Phong City, the Central Propaganda Department chaired and coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Vietnam Journalists Association to organize a national press conference to summarize the work of 2019 and deploy tasks for 2020.

Attending the conference were comrade Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department and comrades: Vu Duc Dam - Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister; Thuan Huu - Party Central Committee member, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; and more than 600 delegates representing leaders of many agencies of the Party, State, press management and direction agencies, governing agencies and press agencies.

The value of Vietnamese journalism is orthodox, revolutionary journalism.

Attending the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam delivered a speech sharing some of the outstanding and clear results of our country in 2019 in terms of socio-economics, in which the particularly encouraging thing is the increased trust, excitement, and pride of the Vietnamese people. To achieve these results, the role of the press is truly not only the voice of the Party and State, but also the voice of the people.

“The contributions of press agencies are always important, but this year they are especially important. The Government and the Prime Minister commend and thank the extremely valuable contributions of press agencies nationwide,” - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam conveyed the Prime Minister's message to the conference.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Comrade Vu Duc Dam said that the Government shares the challenges that the press is facing such as: providing official and oriented information but also ensuring speed and meeting the demands of the people; many press agencies are partly and completely responsible for their operating costs; the rearrangement is in accordance with regulations, in the direction of streamlining the focal points but the requirements are to be stronger, information is spread, but the orientation and officiality do not decrease but require higher requirements.

Therefore, the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed that the Government will continue to take concrete actions to promote and further promote the role of the press; press management agencies, mostly government agencies, will pay attention not only to leadership and time but also to resources for the press.

The Government also determined that the best thing for the press to develop is for agencies to be exemplary in providing accurate and timely information to press agencies, creating favorable conditions for reporters and journalists to operate.

Delegates discuss on the sidelines of the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Deputy Prime Minister affirmed the role of the press in continuing to promote faster and more stable economic and social development; maintaining national sovereignty; and in the fight against negativity, corruption, bureaucracy, and in the work of building the Party and government apparatus, as well as orienting and gathering the aspirations of the Vietnamese people...

“No one, no organization, not even any nation can protect their own interests by giving up their own values. The value of the Vietnamese press is orthodox, revolutionary press,” the Deputy Prime Minister said at the end of his speech.

Strengthening the lines of protecting the Party's ideological foundation

Concluding the conference, comrade Vo Van Thuong - Head of the Central Propaganda Department assessed that 2019 was a year with many events, but with a proactive spirit, the contents were fully and comprehensively reported in the press; press planning work was strengthened, ensuring quality, substance, not formality; State management work and association work were innovated.

2020 is a year with many important events of the country, the context poses many opportunities and advantages but also poses many difficulties and challenges with increasing scale and nature, requiring journalists to continue to improve their political capacity, sense of civic responsibility and mission as journalists to contribute to building solidarity, creating consensus in society, strengthening people's trust in the leadership of the Party and the development of the country.

Comrade Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department delivered a speech directing and concluding the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Therefore, comrade Vo Van Thuong emphasized: Persistently implement instructions and information orientation according to the motto of being proactive, timely, and effective; maintain discipline and order in implementing instructions, in the right direction on complex, important, and sensitive issues; ensure strict implementation of the principle of one focal point in information orientation and direction.

Strengthening information and propaganda on major events and important issues of the country, highlighting achievements in politics, economy, culture - society, national defense, security, foreign affairs, Party building and rectification during the 12th Party Congress term, building a healthy and progressive information environment with the mainstream being positive information contributing to creating an atmosphere of trust, excitement, and efforts to successfully complete the resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels in this term and successfully organize Party Congresses at all levels in the new term; strengthening the lines of articles to protect the Party's ideological foundation; fighting and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints in a sharp and convincing manner;...

Leaders of the Central Propaganda Department awarded Certificates of Merit to agencies and units with outstanding achievements in journalism work in 2019. Photo: Thanh Duy

Improve the capacity and effectiveness of State management of the press; urgently and strictly implement the press planning until 2025; actively review, revise and supplement legal documents on the press that are no longer suitable to reality, especially develop regulations to distinguish between electronic newspapers and electronic magazines to overcome the situation of newspaper-magazine transformation;...

Strengthening Party building work in press agencies; correctly identifying and assessing and taking measures to overcome manifestations of press privatization; improving the quality and efficiency of the activities of the Vietnam Journalists Association and its levels; enhancing the provision of information by Party and State agencies and the accountability of press agencies...

At the conference, the Central Propaganda Department awarded Certificates of Merit to agencies and units with outstanding achievements in journalism work in 2019.

The country has 18 fewer press agencies compared to 2018.

(Baonghean.vn) - Implementing the press planning, in the first 11 months of 2019, the country reduced 18 press agencies compared to 2018.