Young people launch day for border areas
The central committee of the Ho Chi
Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) and the northern mountainous
province of Ha Giang launched a day for border areas in Lung Cu
commune, Dong Van district on Jan. 7.
Addressing the ceremony,
Secretary of the HCMCYU’s central committee Phan Van Mai stressed that
the day is one of the five major activities during the starting week of
the Year of Youth 2011.
The event aims to give
encouragement to soldiers and local residents at border areas and get
young people involve more in the protection of the national border.
Nearly
1,000 provincial young people attended the event and joined activities
such as giving medical check-up and medicines free of charge for 1,000
local people, presenting 300 gifts, worth 300,000 VND each to people in
Lung Cu commune as well as computer sets and scarves for guards in Lung
Cu and Dong Van border stations.
On the occasion, leaders of
the HCMCYU’s Ha Giang chapter and the provincial command of border
guards signed a cooperative programme to promote young people’s role in
border protection and socio-economic development in border areas./.