The “All people unite to build cultural life” campaign has sparked a strong solidarity among Vietnamese people, giving impetus to ensuring social safety, national security and defence and political stability.

The remark was made by State President Nguyen Minh Triet on August 20 in Ha Noi during a national conference to honour everyday citizens who have done profoundly significant work for the people in their residential areas in the period of 2005-2009.

264 individuals selected from typical families and residential areas all over the country attended the conference. They were praised for their contributions to poverty reduction and economic development.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee launched the campaign in May, 1995. After 14 years, the campaign has empowered families, villages and communes, to become more effective in meeting the practical tasks of developing the economy, the culture, and national security and defence in the country’s industrialisation and modernisation process.

Through the campaign, the VFF has also gradually strengthened its organisation and improved the scope of its activities, which has helped it achieve better access to the people and increase its prestige.

President Nguyen Minh Triet said that the Party and State regard the VFF’s efforts as a shared responsibility they shoulder together, and thus work to create more favourable conditions for it to play its important role in building the nation./.