Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted received the Second Class Independence Medal.

Comrades: To Lam - General Secretary, President; Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly; Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission; Ho Duc Phoc - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, sent congratulatory flower baskets.

Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Deputy Minister of Education and Training; Truong Thanh Hoai - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade; leaders and former leaders of departments, ministries, branches, central agencies, and Military Region 4.

The leaders of Nghe An province include comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phan Duc Dong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of the Vinh City Party Committee; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee;...

Excellently perform the task of discovering, training and nurturing elite and talented generations.

Implementing Decision No. 198/CP dated September 14, 1965 of the Government, in Nghe An from the 1965 - 1966 school year, the first special Math classes were established, and in the 1969 - 1970 school year, special Literature classes were formed; this was the foundation for Nghe An province to decide to establish a specialized high school.

On October 15, 1974, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee of Nghe An province announced the Decision to establish the Boarding High School for Gifted Students on the basis of merging the high school classes specializing in Literature and Mathematics studying at Do Luong II High School and Thanh Chuong I High School, which was the predecessor of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted.

After 50 years of school establishment, 60 years of specialized system, the scale of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted has been constantly expanding; the school has excellently performed the task of discovering, training, nurturing generations of elite and talented people and is an environment to light the fire of dreams and aspirations, a place where the talents of Nghe An homeland converge. Currently, the school has 45 classes with a scale of more than 1,500 students every year.

Over the past 60 years of development, generations of teachers and students of the school have achieved many outstanding achievements, bringing glory to the school named after patriot Phan Boi Chau, further fostering the tradition of studiousness of the homeland of Nghe An.

In recognition of its outstanding achievements and great contributions, the school has been awarded many noble awards, including: Third-class Labor Medal (1994), Second-class Labor Medal (1999, 2023), First-class Labor Medal (2004), Third-class Independence Medal (2009), the title of Labor Hero (2013), and twice honored in the Vietnam Glory program (2007, 2013),...

In particular, in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school's founding and the 60th anniversary of the specialized system, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted was honored to receive the Second Class Independence Medal.

The goal is to become a specialized high school on par with the region and the world.

Speaking at the Ceremony, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged, warmly congratulated and commended the achievements that generations of teachers and students of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted have strived and achieved in the past time.

Emphasizing that 50 years has closed a journey, but also opened a new period with a new vision, expecting a new position, the Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee suggested that teachers and students need to try and make more efforts, continue to bring the school to a new level of solid development, affirming the stature and position of a heroic unit with a long tradition, suitable for educational requirements in the current period and reaching out to international integration.

To do that, comrade Bui Dinh Long requested that the school's staff, teachers and students need to perform well a number of key tasks.

First of all, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted needs to continue to effectively implement major policies of the Party, State, industry, and province on fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training.

“Focus on “Building Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted into a high-quality key school” with the goal of becoming a leading national high school for the gifted and on par with regional and world high schools”, the Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee emphasized.

At the same time, the school needs to continue to improve the quality of comprehensive education, spearhead education, take innovation as the driving force for development, focus on building a development strategy to integrate with advanced schools in the region and the world.

Along with that is to strengthen cooperation and association with specialized high schools in the country and abroad to expand the scale, improve the capacity and effectiveness of teaching. Build a pedagogical environment of solidarity, friendliness, collaboration, striving for common goals. Further strengthen education in life skills, information technology, foreign languages, prepare the necessary conditions for students to become global citizens.

Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long also noted the need to do better in building a team of cadres and teachers to meet the requirements and tasks in the new period; proactively advise Party committees, authorities, and the education sector to build school facilities according to advanced, synchronous, modern standards, on par with the region and the world, meeting the requirements of training talents and high-quality human resources in the period of international integration.

For the students studying at Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, comrade Bui Dinh Long hopes that they will continue to improve their self-awareness in studying and training, preparing themselves with the best provisions to be independent and start a career tomorrow, daring to take risks and accept challenges, to serve their homeland and country, worthy of the trust of their families, society, and the 50-year tradition of the school.

On this occasion, he also requested that Party committees, authorities, socio-political organizations, departments, branches, and unions at the provincial and Vinh city levels, with their responsibilities, need to have specific plans and measures to continue investing, building facilities, building a healthy educational environment, creating conditions for the school to best fulfill its tasks, upholding its traditions and forever being a bright spot in the educational career in the Red City of the heroic Soviet homeland.