On the evening of May 19, in Hanoi, the People's Army Newspaper (QĐND) in coordination with the Vietnam Journalists Association and the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank organized the summary and award ceremony of the national-scale writing contest on the topic "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation in the new situation" for the 5th time (2025-2026) and launched the 6th writing contest (2026-2027).
Speaking at the closing and award ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Truong Thien To - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Head of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, Head of the Steering Committee of the contest - stated clearly that currently, the world and regional situation continues to develop rapidly, complicatedly, and unpredictably; especially the cyberspace struggle in the ideological and cultural fields is becoming increasingly fierce and direct.
In that context, protecting the Party's ideological foundation is not only a regular task but also a strategically important and vital requirement for the cause of building and firmly protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
Deeply grasping the spirit of the 14th Party Congress Resolution, the task of protecting the Party's ideological foundation today is not only to stop at fighting and refuting wrong and hostile viewpoints, but more importantly, to proactively spread correct values, rich in humanity and revolution; making Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's ideology, the Party's guidelines and viewpoints truly deeply penetrate social life, becoming a solid spiritual foundation of the country.
Before that request, Senior Lieutenant General Truong Thien To requested press agencies inside and outside the army, first of all the entire army's press system, to continue to thoroughly grasp their functions, tasks and political responsibilities on the ideological and cultural front...
Proactively and strongly innovate the content, forms and methods of propaganda towards modernity, professionalism, rich identity and persuasiveness; closely follow the reality of social life, vividly reflect the renovation process, spread good values, new factors, and advanced examples; contributing to consolidating the people's trust in the Party, State, Army and our regime.
It is necessary to focus on improving the quality of political works, strengthening the depth of theory associated with practice and the ability to orient ideology, creating social resistance to toxic and deviant information flows in cyberspace.
In the context of strong digital transformation and multi-platform communication, revolutionary journalism needs to continue to maintain its role in leading information; ensuring sensitivity but tightness, timeliness but correct orientation, attractiveness but standards; harmoniously combining the task of propaganda and education with the task of building Vietnamese culture and people in the new era.
Each press agency, each person doing revolutionary journalism truly "Heart bright, heart pure, pen sharp"; are pioneering soldiers on the ideological and cultural front of the Party.
It is necessary to take the truth as a measure, take national - ethnic interests and people's happiness as the highest goals; strongly promote the Party nature, combativeness, humanistic values and social responsibility of revolutionary journalism to spread the right, protect the truth, consolidate trust, and strengthen social consensus; contributing to maintaining the Party's ideological battlefield, firmly protecting the Party, State, people and socialist regime in the new situation.
Senior Lieutenant General Truong Thien To believes that the writing contest "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation in the new situation" will continue to develop strongly and spread widely; contributing to maintaining the Party's ideological battlefield, consolidating trust, strengthening social consensus, creating great spiritual motivation for the entire Party, people, and army to firmly step forward in the new era of national development.
At the award ceremony, General Phan Van Giang - Member of the Politburo, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense and Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission Trinh Van Quyet awarded prizes to authors and groups of authors who won the A prize.
General Nguyen Trong Nghia - Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Doan Minh Huan - Member of the Politburo, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics awarded prizes to authors and groups of authors who won the B prize.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense and Mr. Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association awarded prizes to authors and groups of authors who won the C prize.
Senior Lieutenant General Do Xuan Tung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army and Senior Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh - Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army awarded Certificates of Merit to 9 collectives with many positive contributions to the contest in the past 5 years.
