(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./.
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