Press urged to bring 12th Party Resolution into life
The press are responsible for disseminating the Resolution adopted at the 12th National Party Congress to bring it into life, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 22.
HCM City (VNA) ꧒– The press are responsible for disseminating the Resolution adopted at the 12th National Party Congress to bring it into life, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 22.
Present at the event were head of the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission Vo Van Thuong, Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Dinh La Thang, Minister of Information and Communication Truong Minh Tuan, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan dan (People) Newspaper Thuan Huu, and Director General of the Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi.
Thuong said the national press conference 2016 underlines the key task of popularising the 12th Party Resolution and action programmes to realise the Resolution, Thuong said.
He hailed the significant outcomes that the Vietnam Journalists Association (VJA) achieved in 2015, especially in external affairs, press agencies’ activities and charitable events.
The successful organisation of the 10th Congress of the VJA holds significant meaning in the association’s performance in the 2016-2020 tenure, he said.
He noted that the VJA’s activities must ensure solidarity and legitimate rights and interests of its members, adding that the association should focus on training and building staff with firm political will to serve the Party, State and people.
The development of technology, particularly information-technology, creates both challenges and opportunities for the press to grow stronger, he said.
He urged the VJA to actively get involved in the implementation of the national press development plan till 2025 and the revised Law on Journalism recently adopted by the National Assembly.
In 2016, the VJA defines its action theme as realising effectively the Resolution passed at its 10th Congress while continuously building the association’s organisation and increasing the ethics of journalists to meet requirements in the new period.-VNA
More than 500 delegates representing more than 22,000 members of the Vietnam Journalists Association (VJA) gathered together for the VJA’s 10th Congress, which officially opened in Hanoi on August 7.
The press must become a bridge linking the Party and State with people and an open forum to promote democracy, advanced cultural values and social feedback, the Party General Secretary said.
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In Vietnam’s case, she said, President Ho Chi Minh demonstrated his strategic vision by founding the revolutionary press a century ago. The late leader understood the press's role not only as a means to reflect the country’s realities but also as a powerful tool to strengthen national unity and inspire the resistance wars and national construction process.
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The strategic product, managed and operated by the Vietnam News Agency Digital Media Centre (VNA Media), is an official channel for popularising the Party and State’s information and documents as well as delivering mainstream and trustworthy news to both domestic and international audiences through various kinds of multimedia formats.
Since President Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper in 1925, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has become the voice of the people. During the resistance war against the colonialists, journalists took great personal risks to inspire patriotism and the will of rising up against foreign invaders.
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Throughout its 80-year history, the VNA has remained at the forefront of information dissemination. It has consistently delivered timely, accurate, and objective reports on both domestic and international events, serving the Party’s leadership, the State’s management, and the public’s demand for official news.
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Throughout its resistance against colonialists and imperialists, Vietnam developed a revolutionary press that has served as a benchmark for just and legitimate causes worldwide.
Participants at the event (Photo: VNA)
