PM asks Can Tho to ensure all people enjoy happy Tet

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked authorities of Can Tho city to review the list of families who are sick or live in difficult circumstances in order to offer assistance and ensure that all people can celebrate a joyful, healthy, safe and meaningful Lunar New Year Festival, and not to leave anyone without Tet.
PM asks Can Tho to ensure all people enjoy happy Tet ảnh 1PM Pham Minh Chinh visits Can Tho city on February 4. (Photo: VNA)
Can Tho (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hasasked  authorities of Can Tho city toreview the list of families who are sick or live in difficult circumstances inorder to offer assistance and ensure that all people can celebrate a joyful,healthy, safe and meaningful Lunar New Year Festival, and not to leave anyonewithout Tet.

The PM visited the Mekong Delta city on February 4 and presentedTet (Lunar New Year) gifts to 650 policy beneficiary families, poor people,labourers, homeless old people and children living in disadvantagedcircumstances.

According to local authorities, by the end of January, the cityhanded over 73,902 gifts with a total value of over 74 billion VND (over 3 million USD) to workersand poor families.

Praising Can Tho for its socio-economic development and welltaking care of local people during the Lunar New Year, PM Chinh said the wholepolitical system, including Party committees at all levels and other localauthorities, has joined hands to pay attention to Tet care activities, especially in remote areas,borders and islands, for policy beneficiary families, poor households, workers,homeless elderly people, and children in difficult circumstances throughout thecountry.

Sending New Year wishes to local authorities of Can Tho City, hehoped that the Party Organisation, administration, Fatherland Front Committee,socio-political organisations and Can Tho City's political system will continueto well implement policies and laws of the Party and State, in which economicdevelopment is the centre, Party building is the key, and cultural developmentis the spiritual foundation.

Local authorities were asked to consider national defence andsecurity as an important and regular task, as well as to perform better inensuring social security, improving people's material and psychologicalwell-being.

The PM requested the city mobilise response forces to ensuresecurity and safety during the Lunar New Year holiday, while well managingtraffic, cracking down on alcohol consumption, gambling and other social evils.

Local authorities were told to provide timely medical examinationand treatment for people in sickness.

On this occasion, the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group awarded 10 billionVND to 200 households in Can Tho  city toreplace temporary and dilapidated houses.

The same day, PM Chinh visited and handed gifts to the families ofpre-uprising soldier Le Văn Lai (Ba Buong), 105 years old, in Bui Huu Nghia ward,and severely-wounded veteran Lam Thi Muoi, 88 years old, in Binh Thuy ward.

Showing deep gratitude to the veterans, the government leaderaffirmed that the Party, State and people always remember the sacrifices andgreat contributions of those who took part in the revolution for nationalliberation, construction and protection./.

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