PM encourages forces on duty during Tet in Can Tho city

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents Tet gifts to 50 workers who are constructing a 5.16-km Can Tho river embankment. (Photo: VNA)

Can Tho (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presented gifts to encourage the forces who are on duty during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Visiting and delivering his Tet wishes to workers of the Can Tho Urban Joint Stock Company, PM Chinh highly appreciated the spirit of solidarity, hard work, efforts and achievements of more than 450 officials and workers of the company in recent times.

He requested the Party Committee and authorities of Can Tho city and the company to seek ways to improve the material and spiritual lives of its employees, especially families with difficult circumstances, and policy beneficiaries.

The company is working to ensure environmental sanitation in eight out of nine district-level administrative units of the city.

The Government leader also visited and presented Tet gifts to 50 workers who are constructing a 5.16-km Can Tho river embankment.

Stressing the importance of the project, he said that the Mekong Delta in general and Can Tho city in particular are among the places in the world most affected by climate change.

He asked them to speed up construction to complete the project on schedule and ensure quality and environmental protection.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits Can Tho city’s police and military forces. (Photo: VNA)

The PM also paid a pre-Tet visit to the city’s police and military forces, during which he asked their officers and soldiers to always closely follow and firmly grasp the situation, and not be passive or surprised in any circumstance; and be the core in protecting the Fatherland's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity./.

VNA