NA leader joins great national solidarity festival in Thai Nguyen province
Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue joined residents of northern Thai Nguyen province in the great national solidarity festival on November 16.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (third from left) presents the financial aid for building houses for the poor at the festival on November 16 (Photo: VNA)
Thai Nguyen (VNA) –Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue joined residents of northernThai Nguyen province in the great national solidarity festival on November 16.
The event, held in Quyet Tam hamlet ofDinh Hoa district’s Trung Luong commune, took place in celebration of the 91st founding anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (November 18, 1930 - 2021).
Quyet Tam hamlet is home to 193households with 680 residents belonging to six ethnic groups, namely Kinh, Tay,Nung, Dao, San Chi, and Hoa. About 80 percent of the population works inagriculture.
Expressing his delight at localdevelopment, Chairman Hue congratulated Trung Luong commune on meeting all the19 criteria for a new-style rural area. Meanwhile, Dinh Hoa district is alsostriving to become a new-style rural district in 2022.
He noted despite enormous difficultiesand challenges to national development amid the fourth wave of COVID-19,Vietnam has still managed to sustain positive growth in the first nine monthsof this year, and the economy has begun bouncing back since October.
He attributed the achievement to theregime’s superiority and the strength of the great national solidarity,especially efforts by frontline forces and the people’s consensus, which havehelped Vietnam surmount all difficulties and challenges.
The more difficult it is, the morestrongly the great national solidarity is brought into play, he emphasised.
Agencies of the NA and the Government arepreparing for an additional parliamentary session in late December or earlyJanuary 2022, which is an unprecedented move, so as to soon identify overall financialand monetary solutions for supporting socio-economic recovery and socialsecurity, according to Chairman Hue.
On this occasion, the NA leader,President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee Do Van Chien, and other officialspresented 2.5 billion VND (109,600 USD) sourced from the Fund for the Poor toTrung Luong commune to build houses for low-income earners.
The same day, NA Chairman Vuong DinhHue paid a working visit to the Thai Nguyen General Hospital./.
Vietnam is facing new and greater difficulties and challenges, requiring the country to promote the tradition of great national solidarity to overcome this tough time, stated National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue at the opening of the 15th NA’s second session in Hanoi on October 20.
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NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (third from left) presents the financial aid for building houses for the poor at the festival on November 16 (Photo: VNA) 
