glorious tradition, proud mark
This morning (September 21), at the National Convention Center (Hanoi), the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Vietnam Journalists Association held a ceremony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 2525 - June 21, 2025).
General Secretary To Lam; former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh attended the ceremony. Also attending were Politburo members: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man. Also attending were Politburo members, Secretariat members, Central Party Executive Committee members, outstanding journalists, leaders of news agencies and newspapers.
Presenting a speech at the Ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Trong Nghia - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission Nguyen Trong Nghia - emphasized that the solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day is an opportunity for all of us to review and multiply our pride, respect and infinite gratitude for President Ho Chi Minh - the talented leader, the great teacher of the Vietnamese revolution, the national liberation hero, the world's cultural hero, the exemplary international communist soldier, the close friend of peace-loving peoples and social progress all over the world. He is the founder, leader, trainer, and great teacher of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press.
According to the Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, touching the 100-year threshold is not only a glorious tradition, a mark of the revolution, a proud story of the past, but also the position and appearance of a press, with nearly 800 press agencies and a team of 41,000 professional journalism experts, strong and steadfast spirit, mastering modern journalism technology, being the national key press agencies, press agencies trusted by the public and reaching the regional and world level.
Stating that our country is standing at the threshold of a new stage of development, with intertwined opportunities and challenges, the Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission emphasized that revolutionary journalism is facing turning points and breakthrough changes. The goals, tasks, and strategic solutions that the entire Party, people, army, and entire political system are determined to implement to bring the country firmly forward in the new era are the topics, goals, and tasks of press agencies and the team of journalists.
That context and goal requires each press agency and journalists nationwide to, first of all, innovate their thinking, awareness and practical actions to make journalism more revolutionary, more professional, more modern, more humane, worthy of the glorious tradition of 100 years of building, fighting, and maturing of the Vietnamese revolutionary press, founded, led, and trained by President Ho Chi Minh; cared for, led, guided, and encouraged by the Party and State; and loved, helped, and accompanied by the people.
Persistence, steadfastness, serving the noble revolutionary cause
Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized that our Party and State always identify: The Vietnamese revolutionary press is a close, inseparable part of all the ideological and cultural work of the Party, of the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. Our press takes the interests of the nation, people, happiness and prosperity of the people as the ultimate goal, all for the rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness and civilization.
Every revolution begins with changing production methods, labor force, productivity, quality and work efficiency. The challenge of digital transformation creates great pressure, even harshness for the press.
The value of traditional journalism still needs to be nurtured, promoted, and fueled alongside modern methods and information transmission platforms. Artificial Intelligence cannot replace the courage, core, soul, and community commitment of the press. Technology brings the press a new breath, a new look, a new way of working, but cannot replace thinking, personalization, styling, for people, for people and the community.
The new era, the new revolutionary period needs new, advanced, and humane methods of information, knowledge, and thinking, which revolutionary journalism must undertake. The press public not only needs to provide sensitive and attractive information but also needs accuracy, humanity, verification, orientation, analysis, comments, and solutions for construction and multi-dimensional forecasting.
The old thinking for press agencies to survive for a long time needs to be changed to create new development momentum. Technology platforms and the digital transformation revolution will fundamentally change the way journalism is done.
Every international movement is organically linked to domestic life, when cyberspace is limitless, the country is connected to the region and the world, in the integration, the identity, the unique, and unique are the necessary values in the human community.
The press informs and propagates policies and guidelines, but also needs to be brave, responsible for criticizing and exchanging to move towards truth and the good cultural values of the nation; towards China, China, and the US; resolutely fighting against bad things, degradation, corruption, waste, and negativity. That vivid reality requires each journalist, each news agency, each local or central association level to change and improve themselves.
"The 100-year journey of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press has marked the efforts, achievements, lessons and challenges, ups and downs, and aspirations to come. In today's solemn ceremony, we, the revolutionary journalists, are honored, proud and can affirm that over the past century, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has always been persistent, steadfast, serving the noble revolutionary cause of the Party, the nation, and the people.
We will enter the next 100-year journey with great aspirations, determination, and efforts to successfully fulfill the role and mission assigned by the Party, State, and People, contributing to bringing the country into a new era, for a Vietnam " peaceful, independent, democratic, rich, prosperous, civilized, happy, firmly moving towards socialism", standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers, as President Ho Chi Minh's wishes and the burning aspirations of the entire nation" - Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission emphasized.
