The War Veterans' Association of Hoa Binh province held the 7th "Exemplary war veterans" patriotic emulation congress, the 2024 - 2029 period, on October 16. The event was attended by Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Khuat Viet Dung, Vice President of the Vietnam War Veterans’ Association; Bui Duc Hinh, Standing Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council; other leaders of the provincial People’s Council and People’s Committee, representatives of departments, sectors, organisations, and localities; along with 225 exemplary delegates representing the more than 54,000 members of the association across the province.
Standing Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh and Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Dinh Cong Su present congratulation flowers to the congress.
Over the past years, the "Exemplary war veterans" patriotic emulation movement of the provincial War Veterans’ Association has developed in both depth and width, creating a strong ripple effect. It has encouraged association cadres and members to emulate to fulfil all assigned tasks while inspiring comradeship and solidarity among them to assist one another to develop livelihoods and reduce poverty. Many families of war veterans and companies run by war veterans have expanded production and business activities to make prosperity.
Currently, the association gathers 103 enterprises employing 3,895 workers, 27 cooperatives with over 920, 22 cooperative groups with 415, 1,692 farms with 5,984, and 2,164 business households with 4,964, all of which are led by war veterans.
During the 2019 - 2024 period, the association’s chapters at all levels have supported the construction of 112 houses for members, worth over 1.5 billion VND (59,347 USD), funded by the compassion fund for war veterans. A fund was set up for veterans to help one another to reduce poverty and develop livelihoods, with a total capital of 30.1 billion VND. Under the new multi-dimensional poverty standards, the rate of poor households among war veterans is expected to fall to 4.67% this year, from 6.23% in 2019.
Addressing the congress, Vice President of the Vietnam War Veterans’ Association Khuat Viet Dung applauded the achievements of the "Exemplary war veterans" patriotic emulation movement in Hoa Binh.
In the time ahead, he requested, cadres and members of the association should uphold their sense of responsibility and take the lead in implementing local emulation campaigns, increase capacity building for cadres and members, comprehensively reform activities, align emulation campaigns with local political tasks, and detect and expand role models.
Meanwhile, Bui Duc Hinh, Standing Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, asked all-level chapters of the association to promote cadres and members’ role in preserving and bringing into play the virtues of "Uncle Ho’s soldiers” in the new period, further enhance war veterans’ solidarity to help one another to develop livelihoods and improve the life quality, and properly implement gratitude expressing and charitable activities.
It is important to discover new role models to nurture and develop them into movements, thus creating a ripple effect across the association and society. The chapters also need to reinforce coordination to educate the young on patriotism and the revolutionary tradition while building a strong association in terms of politics, thought, and organisation, he added.
The congress elected seven official and one alternate delegate who will represent Hoa Binh at the higher-level congress.
On this occasion, the Vietnam War Veterans’ Association Central Committee presented a tapestry recognising the provincial association’s emulation achievements, and certificates of merit to the war veterans’ associations of Mai Chau and Yen Thuy districts.
The provincial People’s Committee also presented certificates of merit to five collectives and 10 individuals while the provincial War Veterans’ Association did the same to 34 collectives and 40 individuals with outstanding attainments in the "Exemplary war veterans" patriotic emulation in the 2019 - 2024 period.
Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and a working delegation on October 18 visited and presented gifts to policy beneficiaries in Vinh Dong commune, Kim Boi district. Joining the delegation were Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Bui Duc Hinh, Standing Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People's Council; and Bui Van Khanh, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.
The provincial Women's Union on October 16 held a meeting with female members of the standing board and provincial Party Committee for the 17th tenure, and female leaders from local departments and mass organisations, on the occasion of the 94th founding anniversary of the Vietnam Women's Union and Vietnamese Women's Day (October 20). Attending the event were Permanent Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh, and others.
Implementing the "Exemplary war veterans" emulation movement over the past five years, chapters of the Hoa Binh provincial War Veterans' Association at all levels have focused on building a strong organisation in terms of politics and thought to serve as a stepping stone for successfully completing all tasks, Chairman of the provincial association Nguyen Van Hung has said.
Currently, Kim Boi district's Party Organisation has 66 grassroots Party organisations and Party cells, with 283 subordinate party cells and 6,806 party members. To address the limitations in the activities of party cells in recent times, the district's Party Organisation is taking the lead in the province in implementing model party cells.
Huynh Thanh Dat, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Minister of Science and Technology, on October 8 chaired a teleconference with Hoa Binh and Son La provinces on the socio-economic situations during January – September.
On the afternoon of October 11th, the Provincial Fatherland Front held a conference to discuss the design plan for the ancient stilt house architecture of Muong people and the stilt house model using the suitable alternative materials for current actual conditions.
