The Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hoa Binh province on April 19 held a get-together on April 19 for soldiers, youth volunteers, and transporters who directly engaged in the Dien Bien Phu campaign 70 years ago (1954-2024).
Provincial leaders present gifts to Dien Bien veterans, youth
volunteers, and transporters.
The event was attended by Secretary of the provincial Party Committee
Nguyen Phi Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman
of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, and Deputy Secretary of the
Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Van Khanh,
among others.
As many as 22 soldiers, youth volunteers, and
transporters who directly engaged in the Dien Bien Phu campaign gathered at the
event.
In his remarks, Long highlighted their
contributions and sacrifices as well as those by the province’s army and
people.
The locality mobilised 381,292 personnel and 905
bicycles, transported 4,900 tonnes of goods, contributed 170,000 workdays, and
provided 39.5 tonnes of meat for the front. During the campaign, local soldiers
and guerillas also launched many attacks to stretch and drain enemy forces.
Over the past years, local Party organisations,
authorities, army, and people have stay united, taken various harmonious,
flexible and create solutions, and stepped up Party building and rectification.
Hoa Binh has fulfilled many socio-economic
targets, paid more attention to agriculture, culture, social affairs,
education-training, health care and social welfare; and worked to raise
people’s spiritual life.
Notably, it has also given care to national
contributors, creating the best possible conditions for them to access social
welfare policies.
Long urged agencies and localities to continue
effectively implementing social welfare policies, and intensify the
communications work to improve the awareness of the public, especially youths,
of the great sacrifices by previous generations.