Winners of protecting Party’s ideological foundation contest announced

The winners of the third edition of the “Protecting the Party’s ideological foundation in the new situation” contest were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on April 24.
Winners of protecting Party’s ideological foundation contest announced ảnh 1Politburo member and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang (second, right) and Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Chairman of the Central Theory Council Nguyen Xuan Thang (middle) present the first prizes to award-winning authors (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The winners of the third edition ofthe “Protecting the Party’s ideological foundation in the new situation”contest were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on April 24.

The 38 award-winning works were selected from the nearly 620 entries from more than 50 press agencies across the country.
The organising board presented three first prizes,along with seven second, 13 third, and 15 consolation prizes. Five mediaagencies with the highest number of entries were also honoured.

The first prizes came to authors from the Dang Cong San(Communist Party of Vietnam) online newspaper, Bac Giang newspaper, and Ly luanChinh tri va Truyen thong (Political Theory and Communication) magazine.

Addressing the ceremony, Sent. Lieut. Trinh Van Quyet, member of the Party CentralCommittee, Vice Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the VietnamPeople’s Army and head of the Steering Committee of the contest, said that the contest had a spillover effect in the country’s socio-politicallife, drawing special attention and response from journalists across thecountry.

This year, the organising board received many workswith new approaches, high quality contents and attractive formats, contributingto enhancing readers’ confidence in the Party’s leadership, he said.

The official emphasised that the contest has shown thatprotecting the Party’s ideological foundation not only means protecting the Party'sPlatform, orientations and policies, but also contributes to protecting theregime and the great revolutionary achievements, while identifying and foilingthe plots of hostile and reactionary forces as well as political opportunitiesto sabotage the revolutionary cause of the Party and people, and criticising signsof deterioration in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle as well as"self-evolution", "self-transformation", contributing tobuilding a strong and clean Party and political system.

At the ceremony, the board launched the fourth edition of thecontest in the 2024-2025 period, the details of which available at Quandoi Nhan dan (People’s Army) online newspaper at qdnd.vn./.
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