Hoa Binh province improves quality of local newspapers

6/14/2017 - 8:50:13 AM

(HBO) –Improving quality of local newspapers for the development of the province was the main content of the working session on June 8 between Mr. Bui Van Tinh, Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, and Hoa Binh Newspaper.

In the first six months of 2017, the Party Committee and the Editorial Board of the newspaper continued to focus their leadership and instruction on implementing the assigned political tasks. All of the issues were published on schedule, with high quality in both form and content.

The print and online versions of the newspaper cover all fields of news, including current affairs, politics, economy, culture, social affairs, national defence and security serving the work of the province’s leaders, contributing to the socio-economic development and security of the province.

The Hoa Binh Newspaper is published six times a week, with 156 issues in the first six months of the year. The number of pages of the newspaper’s Sunday edition has been increased from 8 to 12 since January 1, 2017.

Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh speaks in conclusion of the working session.

In April 2017, the Ministry of Information and Communications granted the Hoa Binh Newspaper a licence to open an online version. The new version of Hoa Binh Online Newspaper is in progress. Besides the main page in Vietnamese, it will offer five special features: one English version, one in the Muong language of the Muong ethnic minority group, online television, and the mobile and print versions.

The new version is expected to open on the occasion of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Journalism Day (June 21).

Hoa Binh Online Newspaper currently has over 107 million of frequent visitors from 176 countries and territories.

Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh examines the English and Muong versions of Hoa Binh Online Newspaper.

The newspaper has devised 11 main tasks for the remaining six months of the year and submitted several proposals to the provincial Party Committee and provincial Party Committee’s standing board for instruction.

Concluding the working session, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh said in the past years, the Hoa Binh newspaper has fulfilled its missions, following the guidelines and objectives of a press agency of the local Party organisation.

On the orientation for the time ahead, the Secretary stressed that the newspaper should continue to perform its functions and assigned tasks. The newspaper should keep to directives and resolutions of the Party, the Government, and the Prime Minister, particularly the resolutions of the 12th National Party Congress and the 16th Provincial Party Congress as well as action programmes to implement resolutions of the 12th Party Central Committee’s 4th and 5th plenums.

He required the newspaper to pay attention to news for foreign services, open new columns, participate in the "Gold Hammer and Sickle” press contest by the Party, and launch writing competitions on start-ups and innovative start-ups, in order to contribute to successfully implementing of the resolution of the 16th Provincial Party Congress and promoting effectiveness of local enterprises and cooperatives.

The newspaper should consider collaboration with central press agencies to better cover the situation in the province and guide local opinions, while expanding coverage of the online version to promote the province’s image, helping attract investment and develop tourism, he added.

The provincial Party leader also told the newspaper to fight against "peaceful evolution” schemes and activities by hostile forces.

He also underscored the importance of increasing reporters’ income and implementing good royalty conditions and paper distribution.

Secretary Tinh asked the newspaper to draft a plan on the establishment of a printing factory. He instructed the provincial Party Committee’s Information and Education Commission to set up a mechanism to buy the Party newspaper, and to hold an annual press gathering on June 21 starting this year.

The official said he agreed with proposals by the newspaper and assigned relevant agencies to work on these issues as soon as possible.

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