(HBO) - On February 19, the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee held a meeting with representatives of local press agencies, artists and journalists; and presented the third Golden Hammer and Sickle Press Awards 2018. Attending the event were member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh and permanent Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Tran Dang Ninh.
Photo: Provincial leaders, artists and journalists at the
event
In 2018, local press
agencies properly performed their functions and duties, complied with principles,
purposes and the Press Law, fulfilled political tasks and closely followed local
orientations. They provided timely, truthful and comprehensive information about
political, socio-economic, national defence –security tasks of the country and
the locality. They served as a truly reliable forum of the people and a crucial
mass media for social life, thus making important contributions to successfully
performing political and socio-economic development tasks, ensuring national
defence-security, and serving external affairs of the local Party committee, authorities
and members of ethnic groups.
Cultural and arts
activities were more diverse, contributing to serving political tasks. A number
of achievements were made in regional exhibitions and festivals in almost fields.
Composition camps offered real-life experience to members and vividly reflected
local lives. Several members made their names at domestic cultural-art forums. The
Hoa Binh arts newspaper upheld its role of discovering young talents, serving as
a forum for artists and contributing to promoting the development of
culture-arts in the new period.
On the occasion, the
organising board of the third Golden Hammer and Sickle Press Awards 2018 presented
awards to winning authors and entries.
At the event, member of
the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui
Van Tinh lauded the great contributions of press agencies, journalists and
artists to performing local political tasks. He affirmed that the local Party
units, authorities and people always expect the role and position of press and
culture-arts agencies in reform, national construction and defence. In
particular, many entries with high value in ideology and arts vividly and fully
reflected the performance of the tasks of building the Party and political
system, boosting socio-economic development, ensuring national defence-security
and promoting external relations during renovation and development process./.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.