On April 25, Kien Giang province solemnly held a ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).
At the ceremony, Kien Giang Provincial Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Tien Hai revised the historical tradition and resilient fighting, with the will "nothing more precious than independence and freedom" of the army - people of Kien Giang province, contributing to the whole country to make a great victory in the spring history in 1975, liberate the South and unify the country.
In the spring of 1975 historic, responding to the general attack, the provincial Party Committee led the entire army and the entire people in the province to strongly rise with the spirit of initiative, self -reliance, speed of victory, proceeding to completely liberate Kien Giang province from the mainland to the island on April 30, 1975.
Kien Giang Provincial Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Tien Hai emphasized that there is peace, independence, freedom, peaceful life today, Kien Giang people have to go through great sacrifices of loss of pain. Through the two terms of the nation and the war to protect the southwest border, Kien Giang province has over 13,000 officials, soldiers and over 100,000 people who have permanently lying down because of the independence and freedom of the Fatherland and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers and sick soldiers. In particular, the enemy built in Phu Quoc a large prison in the South, sometimes imprisoned and tortured over 40,000 cadres, soldiers, and eliminating more than 5,000 people, of which more than 4,000 people have not found the remains.
With the glorious and glorious history, Kien Giang has 57 collectives, 28 individuals were awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State, 461 mothers were awarded and awarded the title of Vietnamese Heroic Mother, more than 22,000 collectives and individuals were awarded 38,000 medals and medals of all kinds; The province has more than 30,000 families with meritorious services to the revolution. Those are symbols of revolutionary heroism, which are the expressions of the stubborn, indomitable tradition of the Party Committee, people and army of Kien Giang heroic province.
After 50 years of liberation, Kien Giang has risen to become one of the provinces with the top economic scale in the Mekong Delta. In 2024, GRDP per capita will reach more than 80 million VND; rice output will be 4.7 million tons, leading the country; seafood output will be more than 800,000 tons, an increase of more than 4.5 times compared to the first years of release; tourism will develop strongly to become a spearhead economic sector of the province, attracting more than 9.8 million visitors, including nearly 1 million international visitors.
In addition, the socio-economic infrastructure, rural and urban appearance of the province have changed positively, 8/15 districts and cities meet standards/complete the task of building new rural areas; 100% of communes meet new rural standards, 40 advanced new rural communes and 5 model new rural communes; the urbanization rate accounts for over 36%, including 2 type I urban areas, Rach Gia City and Phu Quoc.
The province pays special attention to focusing on leading and directing the effective implementation of policies to repay meritorious services to people with meritorious services. Currently, there are over 8,300 beneficiaries of the subsidy, with an amount of over 23 billion VND/month. The province has built many historical and cultural works to express gratitude and commemorate the merits of President Ho Chi Minh and generations of ancestors.
Currently, Kien Giang province is accelerating to accomplish the goals and tasks of the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress, creating a solid premise and the whole country entering the new era, the era of stretching, developing rich, civilized and prosperous of the Vietnamese people. Facing new requirements, the provincial Party Committee determined the key tasks to be done in the coming time.
The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Tien Hai also called on all the people, officials and soldiers in the province to continue promoting the patriotic tradition, revolutionary spirit, strengthening the great unity bloc of the entire nation, upholding the will to self -reliant, trying to emulate labor, production, socio -economic development, cultural construction, Party building, successfully implementing the task of building and defending the country in the new period. Contribute to creating a solid premise for the whole country to enter the new era - the era of the nation.
At the ceremony, Kien Giang also announced the completion of the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for poor and near-poor households. Accordingly, the province has completed the construction and repair of 3,618 houses, with a total value of about 229 billion VND.
