Awards to honour excellent press works on Party building

The fifth National Press Awards on Party Building, called “Bua Liem Vang” (Golden Hammer & Sickle), will be presented at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 13.
Awards to honour excellent press works on Party building ảnh 1Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre), VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh (second, left), and some of the winning VNA reporters at the "Bua Liem Vang" Press Awards presentation ceremony last year (Photo: VNA) 
Hanoi (VNA) - The fifth National Press Awards on Party Building,called “Bua Liem Vang” (Golden Hammer & Sickle), will be presented at aceremony in Hanoi on January 13.

Honouring outstanding press works on Party building, the annual awards areheld by the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission, the Nhan dan(People) newspaper, the Communist Review, Vietnam Television, and the VietnamJournalists’ Association.

Organisers said they received 1,710 entries in various genres that reflected issues ofpublic concern last year, such as preparations for and the organisation ofall-level Party congresses in the run up to the 13th National PartyCongress.

They include a number of high-quality articles on Party building andrectification in terms of politics, ideology, organisation, and morality; theselection of personnel for the 13th National Party Congress; lessonsfrom all-level Party congresses; the reform of cadre evaluation; the control ofpower in personnel affairs and the fight against power lobbying; theencouragement and protection of those who dare to think and act; and measures toselect persons with both talent and morals.

According to organisers, the National Press Awards on Party Building hashad a broad influence on society, as seen not only through the large number ofentries and the engagement of all-level Party committees, journalistassociations, and press agencies nationwide, but also through the effectivenessof entries in covering Party and political system building in 2020./.
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