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Emulation and
reward activities under review
On March 1, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Chairman
of the Central Council for Emulation and Reward chaired the council’s 41st
session to review emulation and reward activities in 2010 and devise tasks and
solutions for 2011.
Last year, emulation movements were
closely attached to the implementation of political tasks which greatly
contributed to stabilising the macroeconomy, maintaining economic growth and
ensuring social welfare. In addition, the campaign for
“Studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example” and
movements to practise thrift and prevent wastefulness were implemented across
the country and achieved practical results. In his speech, PM Dung spoke highly
of opinions given by council members as well as effective contributions from
emulation movements and emphasised that the 2011 emulation movements need to
focus on socio-economic development to stabilise the national economy and ensure
social welfare. Mr Dung also underlined the need to
create specific regulations on emulation and reward activities to develop
exemplary role models for production.
Patriotic campaigns urged to increase practical focus
Patriotic
movements should be practical and fall in line with political tasks as well as
the people’s wishes, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the 41st meeting of
the Central Council for Emulation and Awards in the capital city yesterday,
March 1.
The
meeting’s objectives were to review the emulation movements that took place in
2010 and plan for 2011. Tran Thi
Ha, Vice Minister of Home Affairs and Vice Chairperson of the Council said 2010
was a successful year for the patriotic emulation movements. “Various
emulation movements were launched last year on different occasions, including
the 1000th anniversary celebration of Thang Long-Ha Noi, the campaign to
successfully achieve the 2010 socio-economic targets, the movement to follow
President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example, and the campaign to practice thrift and
against waste. These movements have drawn the participation of a large number of
people from all walks of life across the nation.” In 2010,
President Nguyen Minh Triet signed decisions to award 33 Gold Medals, 46 Ho Chi
Minh Orders, 934 Independent Orders and 7,267 Labour Orders to collectives and
individuals. The
Council also submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister asking the President to
award the title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” to 16 units and the title “Labour
Hero” to 40 units. In their
discussion for the 2011 plan, participants agreed that major themes for the
patriotic movements should focus on inflation control and stabilising the macro
economy, and the development of cultured rural areas.
Addressing the meeting, PM Dung acknowledged the practical contributions of the
movement to the nation’s achievements in 2010.
In
addition to the three main themes already mentioned, Dung asked all ministries,
sectors, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front and localities to exert efforts to ensure
national defence and security for successful National Assembly and local level
People’s Council elections in May. “In the
patriotic emulation movements, it is very important to find role models and
replicate them,” said Dung. “The movements should have strong roots in the
people and reflect their wishes and should be in line with political missions.” The
meeting was chaired by PM Dung who is also the Chairman of the Central Council
for Emulation and Awards.
Lawmakers to boost Cambodian ties
The
National Assemblies of Viet Nam and Cambodia needed to strengthen co-ordination
and create the most favourable legal foundation for increasingly deep and
effective co-operation between the two sides, said the former’s Chairman, Nguyen
Duc Kien. He also
confirmed the Viet Nam Party and Government’s consistent policy to attach
importance to developing relations with Cambodia. He made
the comments during a reception for the Cambodian Assembly’s Commission on
Education, Youth and Sports, Cults, Religious Affairs, Culture and Tourism
chairman Mom Chim Huy in Ha Noi yesterday. Kien
suggested the two assemblies pay attention to popularisation and education work
so that Vietnamese and Cambodian people, especially young generations, would
continuously preserve and promote the fine traditional relationship between the
two countries. Kien
said he wanted ministries, agencies, cities and provinces of the two sides to
strengthen exchanges and further expand multi-faceted co-operation and
relations, especially in economics, trade, investment, culture and education,
based on full exploitation of potential and advantages in each country. He
acknowledged developments in the relationship between the two assemblies in the
past, saying that they helped boost the traditional friendship, neighbourly
relations and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations. He
thanked the Cambodian Assembly for its active support for Viet Nam as the ASEAN
Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Chair during the 2009-2010 term and expressed his
belief that the Cambodian Assembly would fulfil its role as the Chair during the
2010-2011 term and successfully host the 32nd AIPA Assembly in the country this
September. For his
part, Chairman Mom Chim Huy affirmed the Cambodian Assembly’s wish and
determination to consolidate and further strengthen the exchange and
co-operation between the commissions in particular and between the two
legislative bodies of the two countries in general. He
stated that bilateral co-operation between Cambodia and Viet Nam had strongly
developed in all fields, with two-way trade reaching US$1.8 billion last year.
Vietnamese businesses have invested around $2 billion in Cambodia.
HCM City Party
Committee convenes third meeting
The meeting discussed measures to implement six key
breakthrough programmes set by the 9th municipal Party Congress.
The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee
convened its third meeting of the 9th term on March 1 to discuss the
implementation of six key programmes: including improving the quality of human
resources, combining administrative reform with creating a new model for urban
administration, accelerating the economic restructuring, and reducing traffic
jams, floods and environmental pollution. In the previous term, Ho Chi Minh
City made significant progress in training human resources, achieving
administrative reform and economic restructuring, creating fabourable conditions
for building infrastructure, improving the investment environment, and supplying
human resources for economic development and integration. However, some obstacles still
remain, such as cumbersome administrative procedures that cause difficulties for
both businesses and citizens. Measures and policies to support economic
restructuring are not strong enough for breakthroughs in competitiveness and the
quality of growth. Speaking at the meeting, Vice
Secretary of the municipal Party Committee, Nguyen Van Dua, said the 9th Party
Congress set up six key programmes which show the committee’s determination to
address urgent issues related to growth targets and social welfare to achieve
rapid and sustainable development. The meeting aims to devise measures to
implement these programmes successfully. The meeting will end on March 2.
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