Hanoi (VNA) – The CentralEmulation and Commendation Council held its second meeting in the 2021 - 2026 tenureunder the chair of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, head of the council, inHanoi on April 14.

The council reported thatlast year, ministries, sectors, central agencies, and localities launched and carriedout emulation campaigns in line with the Government’s 2021 motto of “Solidarity,discipline, reform, creativity, and aspiration for development”.

In particular, the emulation campaign inCOVID-19 prevention and control has encouraged people from all social strataand the entire political system to help realise the twin targets of fighting the pandemic and boosting socio-economic recovery and development, thushelping perform development tasks and guarantee national defence-security.

For 2022, the council willcontinue guiding and promoting emulation movements in socio-economic recovery anddevelopment in a way that suits political tasks of each ministry, sector,locality, and socio-political organisation at central and local levels.

PM Chinh said thanks toefforts by the entire political system, Party, people, and army, as well as assistancefrom international friends, many significant and relatively comprehensive outcomeswere obtained last year. The country’s common successes are partly attributableto emulation and commendation activities.

Under the Party’s leadershipand the State’s management, emulation campaigns have won over widespread publicsupport, thereby bringing into play the great national solidarity in theimplementation of political and development tasks, he noted.

The Government leader heldthat emulation and commendation activities should continue adhering to theParty’s leadership and directions, base on the reality to have appropriateimplementation measures, improve the quality and reform operations of all-levelemulation and commendation councils, further promote specialised agencies’sense of responsibility, and conduct examination and supervision to find out rolemodels as well as problems needing to be addressed.

He demanded thoroughevaluation of campaigns to gain experience and overhauling of relevantmechanisms and policies to facilitate substantive emulation movements.

The PM also underlined thenecessity for emulation and commendation to be carried out in a transparent,democratic, objective, and timely manner./.