(HBO) – On the occasion of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Solidarity Year 2017, Hoa Binh Online has an interview with Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee and President of the Hoa Binh chapter of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations.
Reporter: What are the
contributions that Hoa Binh has made to the development of the special
friendship and comprehensive cooperation between
Vietnamand
Laos?
Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong: The Party
Organization and local people of Hoa Binh have worked to reinforce the special,
faithful and pure friendship between
Vietnamand
Laos.
During the resistance war against the French colonists, Hoa Binh people
provided food for soldiers, while accommodating and taking care of wounded and
sick soldiers. The province also sent hundreds of youngsters to the troops
designated to
Laosto coordinate with the Lao army and people to fight the French colonists,
contributing to the Muong Lap victory in October 1946, liberating Sam Nua town.
When the Western armed forces were formed, Mai Chau was chosen as its base to
help
Laostake over the construction of the government in the newly liberated area.
During the period of building socialism and combating the
US (1954-1975), the Party Organization and
people of Hoa Binh always remembered President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching: "It
is a must to consider the revolutionary cause of the Party and the people of
Laos as our
own."
Ảnh: Nguyen Van Chuong - Vice Chairman of
the provincial People's Committee, President of the Hoa Binh chapter of the
Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations presents a photo featuring President
Ho Chi Minh’s Monument in Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant to representatives of Xieng
Khouang province of Laos.
In the socio-political and economic field, under the direct guidance of the
Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, from 1965 to 1975, the provincial
Party Committee and the Administrative Commission of Hoa Binh province sent
dozens of Party, Government and economic management officials to the Lao
provinces of Udomxay and Luang Prabang to help the Lao side take over the newly
liberated area, build the government system and develop the economy and culture.
Hoa Binh set up twin relations with Luang Prabang province and launched many
effective coordination activities.
From 1980 to 1989, dozens of technicians and management officials engaging in
various fields from Hoa Binh were dispatched to Luang Prabang to guide and
assist localities in
Laosto build and promote socio-economic development. The War Veterans’ Association
of Hoa Binh has supported Lao veterans with dozens of millions of Vietnamese
dong.
Hoa Binh province and Houaphanh
province of
Laos have established
twin relations and jointly held many meaningful activities. Their economic,
cultural and social cooperation has been expanded and developed strongly.
Reporter: Hoa Binh province is home
to a national historical relic site attached with
Laos’s revolution. Would you share
more information about the site?
Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong: The conference hall of Hoa Binh in Cham Mat area
(which is now the provincial Military Headquarters), hosted a preparatory
meeting of the second Congress of the Lao People's Party, which is now the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) in the end of December 1971.
This is a special historical event of the LPRP in Hoa Binh, which has been
written down in history of the Party Organisation of Hoa Binh in the past more
than half a century.
The site has been recognised as a national historical revolutionary relic site.
Many Lao delegations in general and those from Luang Prabang and Houaphanh
provinces in particular have visited and conducted meaningful activities in
order to spread widely among the community in the two countries the historical
significance of this important site.
Reporter: Over the past years, what activities did the Hoa Binh chapter of the
Vietnam
Unionof Friendship Organisations take to strengthen the special sentiments between
the two countries and how did they work? In 2017, what have Hoa Binh and the
Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association done to respond to the "Vietnam-Laos
Friendship and Solidarity Year"?
Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong: The friendship organisations have launched many
effective activities as part of the province’s sentiments and responsibility
towards
Laosin general and its twin provinces in particular, for many years.
The provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 15/QD-UBND on January 7,
2015, on the establishment of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association of Hoa
Binh, which was developed from the Liaison Committee of Volunteer Soldiers in
Laos.
Over the past years, local social associations have been working hard to
popularise and encourage their members to disseminate the sentiments between
the two nations. Currently, the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association has 100
members in eight sub-associations.
In response to the "Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Solidarity Year", the
provincial Party Committee and the provincial People's Committee have directed
the implementation of communications activities in the mass media.
The province has set up the organising board for the contest on studying the
history of the Vietnam-Laos relations" in 2017 at provincial level. The
provincial Party Committee’s Commission for Information and Education and its
members will continue to popularise the competition with a hope to attract a
large number of participants. With the strongest efforts, Hoa Binh is striving
to contribute to the success of the "
Vietnam - Laos Friendship and
Solidarity Year of 2017".
Bui Huy
After three years of implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW on continuing performing Directive 05-CT/TW on enhancing the learning and studying of President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, moral example and lifestyle, Lac Thuy district of Hoa Binh province has discovered many effective models and practices, creating a spillover effect in the local community, helping to develop a clean and strong Party Organisation meeting the requirements in the new situation.
The Hoa Binh Elderly Association and the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on May 7 held a working session with a visiting delegation from the Japanese Embassy and sponsors of a local project on reducing senior citizens’ income and health vulnerabilities in Vietnam (VIE071).
Seventy years have passed, but the memories of the Dien Bien Phu campaign in 1954 have never faded in the mind of veteran Ly Van Ngoan from Dong Tien hamlet, Phu Thanh commune, Lac Thuy district.
Over recent times, in Mai Chau district, there have been many typical examples of studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics, and lifestyle in all aspects of the social life, contributing to successfully implementing the tasks of socio-economic development, and ensuring social welfare and defence and security in the locality.
Officials of Hoa Binh province led by Bui Van Khanh, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, along with others from the provinces also taking part in a programme on promoting Vietnamese localities in the US and Canada, visited and had a working session with the Consulate General of Vietnam in Houston on April 24 (local time). The delegation was welcomed by Hoang Thuy Duong, Consul General of Vietnam in the city, and staff members of the consulate.
Officials of Hoa Binh province joining in a programme on promoting Vietnamese localities in the US and Canada began working sessions in New York on April 22. Other provinces participating in this programme, held by the Department for Local Diplomacy Facilitation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, include Yen Bai, Ha Nam, Ha Tinh, Thua Thien - Hue, and Gia Lai.