Building a strong and comprehensive Nghe An Border Guard force

PV: Can you tell us about the outstanding results in implementing the "3 breakthroughs" that the Provincial Border Guard has deployed in 2022?

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc:

In 2022, the Provincial Party Committee and Border Guard Command focused on leading, directing, and synchronously and comprehensively deploying working measures to successfully carry out the assigned tasks.

In particular, the task of building agencies and units that are strong in politics, ideology and organization; building and replicating advanced models and examples; and especially promoting emulation to improve the quality and effectiveness of implementing the "3 breakthroughs".

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Commander of the Provincial Border Guard. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The first,Breakthrough in building border areas (KVBG), building a strong people's border defense; focusing on actively innovating, improving the quality and effectiveness of propaganda and mass mobilization work in the direction of "Proactive, sensitive, timely, creative, practical and effective". The unit continues to coordinate with the Provincial People's Committee to implement directives, resolutions, programs and projects on socio-economic development associated with strengthening national defense - security and foreign affairs in border areas.

Promote the role of border guards to strengthen the grassroots; Party members temporarily operate in Party cells in villages, hamlets, key areas, and religious areas; Party members in charge of households in border areas.

Units under the Nghe An Border Guard help people harvest rice, build houses, and build roads. Photo: Le Thach

Specifically, 6 cadres in charge of border posts were introduced to join the Party Executive Committees of border districts. 27 cadres were deployed to strengthen border communes, 73 party members temporarily transferred their Party activities to village and hamlet Party cells; 579 party members were assigned to take charge of households in the border area. In addition, the movement to build new rural areas and the movement of all people participating in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security in the new situation was continued.

Officers of Nhon Mai Border Guard Station (Tuong Duong) talk with people in the border area on patrol. Photo: CSCC

Monday,Breakthrough in grasping and managing internal political situation: Nghe An Border Guard has synchronously and effectively deployed solutions to strengthen the grasping and managing of developments in the ideological situation and relationships of soldiers; maintained serious and orderly implementation of internal political protection work of Party committee members and internal security soldiers at grassroots units; promoted the role of political cadres, 3-person teams, especially the process of "1 grasp, 3 management" to grasp the ideological situation and relationships of cadres and soldiers; proactively did a good job of prevention work associated with regular review of political quality. Departments, offices, and units have well implemented the content on building comprehensively strong agencies and units that are "exemplary and typical".

Leaders of the Provincial Border Guard Command supervise the process of conducting inspections and evaluating the capacity of officers. Photo: Le Thach

Tuesday,Breakthrough in improving the quality of training organization, physical training, and capacity level. Continue to effectively implement the Project "Innovation of political education work at the unit in the new period"; Resolution No. 454-NQ/DU of the Border Guard Party Committee, Resolution No. 710-NQ/DUBP of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee on "Improving the quality of training in the period 2013-2020 and the following years".

Promote the emulation movement "Excellent training" according to the motto "Basic, practical, solid", attach importance to synchronous and in-depth training; exploit and skillfully use weapons and equipment in the establishment; focus on training soldiers' physical strength.

Live-fire test to evaluate staff capacity. Photo: Le Thach

Organize inspection and assessment of training capacity for leaders of grassroots units; assess the capacity of human resources to recommend for appointment to the position of border guard station chief; Border Guard officers to strengthen socio-economic development of border communes in 2022, achieving the set results.

Comrade Le Nhu Cuong - Political Commissar of Nghe An Border Guard awarded prizes to outstanding young faces. Photo: Le Thach

PV: 2022 is also the year that the Provincial Border Guard force will be proactive in natural disaster prevention, search and rescue (PCTT&TKCN) as well as helping people stabilize their lives after natural disasters. How do you evaluate this work?

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc:

Over the past year, the Provincial Border Guard has promoted its role as a core force, proactively coordinating closely with functional forces in performing well the tasks of PCTT & TKCN on the two border lines of the province. Specifically, 99 vehicles/544 officers and soldiers were mobilized to participate in overcoming the consequences of natural disasters. Notably, immediately after the flash flood occurred in Ta Ca commune and Muong Xen town, Ky Son district, Nghe An Border Guard established a command post there. At the same time, 150 officers and soldiers from the Ky Son border posts and reinforcements from the Command were mobilized to help people in the affected areas overcome the consequences of the flood.

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc - Commander of Nghe An Border Guard visited and encouraged households affected by floods in Ta Ca commune, Ky Son district. Photo: Le Thach

From the time the flash flood occurred until the end of the mission, the unit mobilized 2,028 working days to help people dismantle and relocate 26 houses; repaired 97 houses; built 32 temporary houses; cleaned up 38 households; and repaired 3km of inter-village roads. The Provincial Border Guard Command also provided material support worth 115 million VND to the people; mobilized and coordinated with organizations and individuals inside and outside the province to support people with cash and material damage worth more than 6 billion VND.

In other localities, units of the provincial Border Guard coordinated to repair 28 houses damaged by tornadoes, participated in fighting 4 forest fires/15 hectares; coordinated to notify, call and guide 1,378 vehicles/8,986 workers to go ashore to avoid storms at sea...

Nghe An Border Guard helps people affected by flash floods in Ky Son to overcome the consequences. Photo: Le Thach

In addition, the Party Committee - Command of Nghe An Border Guard has directed units to do a good job of propaganda, dissemination, raising awareness and knowledge of natural disaster prevention for officers, soldiers in the unit and the people; coordinate with local authorities to survey and update the local situation to supplement natural disaster prevention plans; proactively coordinate and cooperate with local forces, strictly maintain the regime of command, on-duty, on-duty forces and vehicles, and be ready to participate in handling situations when required.

Reporter: In the coming time, what tasks and solutions will the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee focus on to continue building a strong and comprehensive force, meeting the requirements of managing and protecting national sovereignty and border security in the new situation, comrade?

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc:

In 2023, the Party Committee - Command of Nghe An Border Guard determined: Focus on building comprehensively strong agencies and units that are "exemplary and typical", strong and clean party organizations, and excellent and strong mass organizations; creating a clear change in implementing emulation goals.

Nghe An Border Guard actively practices regulations to build a regular, elite force. Photo: Le Thach

The focus is on building politically strong agencies and units, improving the quality and efficiency of all aspects of work, successfully completing all assigned tasks; contributing to firmly protecting the sovereignty and security of borders and seas; continuing to promote the "3 breakthroughs", overcoming weaknesses, especially in discipline and law enforcement, and ensuring safety in training.

Strengthening education management, training and promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and party members. Improving the quality and effectiveness of inspection, supervision and enforcement of Party discipline.

Oath-taking ceremony for new soldiers. Photo: Le Thach

Do a good job of protecting internal politics, implement democratic regulations at the grassroots level. Strengthen propaganda of good people, good deeds, good experiences, and effective methods to replicate advanced models in units and the entire Border Guard force.

Na Ngoi Border Guard Station patrols to protect the border and landmarks. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Proactively research, evaluate, and accurately forecast the situation, promptly advise the Party Committee, the Border Guard Command, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial People's Committee on policies and measures to effectively handle situations, avoid being passive or surprised; improve combat readiness, firmly protect territorial sovereignty and border security.

PV: Thank you, comrade!