At the ceremony, the Ministry of Industry and Trade organized the launching ceremony of the 2nd Writing Contest on Environmental Protection of the Industry and Trade Sector in 2023.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said that the Political Writing Contest on "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation, refuting wrong and hostile views in the new situation" is an annual contest launched by the Central Steering Committee 35 and has received the attention of the Party Committee and the Ministry's Party Committee. The leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Trade as well as cadres, party members and workers in the industry and trade sector have actively participated and responded, achieving very encouraging results.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien spoke at the award ceremony of the Political Contest on Protecting the Party's Ideological Foundation, Fighting Against Wrong and Hostile Views in the New Situation in 2023.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien emphasized that the results of the contest do not stop at the awards but more importantly, the value of propaganda, education and profound political significance, contributing to protecting the Party's ideological foundation, consolidating political belief, raising awareness and responsibility of Party organizations, unions and cadres, Party members, workers, especially heads of agencies and units in the process of performing assigned duties and tasks.

In the summary report of the Political Contest on Protecting the Party's Ideological Foundation, Fighting Against Wrong and Hostile Views in the New Situation in 2023, the Organizing Committee said that after more than 2 months of launching (from March 29 to May 30, 2023), the Organizing Committee received 467 entries from a large number of cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees and workers working in party organizations, agencies, units, socio-political organizations in the Ministry of Industry and Trade and readers nationwide, including the participation of many professors, doctors, and leading economic experts.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien presented the Special Prize of the contest to Colonel, journalist Do Phu Tho - Steering Committee 35 of the Central Military Commission.

The entries focus on the following contents: Protecting the achievements of the innovation process in the field of Industry and Trade, contributing to protecting national interests, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for national development in the context of integration; affirming the leadership and direction role of the Party, State, Ministry of Industry and Trade, and affiliated Party organizations in the development process of the Industry and Trade sector in many different fields and aspects.

In particular, the works focused on criticizing incorrect viewpoints and perceptions about the industry and trade sector; fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints; and defeating all plots and tricks of peaceful evolution on the economic front in general, and for the industry and trade sector in particular.

The Organizing Committee has selected 24 outstanding works to award prizes, including: 1 Special Prize; 1 First Prize; 5 thematic prizes; 3 Second Prizes; 6 Third Prizes; 8 Encouragement Prizes; and selected 5 units with positive responses to the contest to award Certificates of Merit.

Colonel, journalist Do Phu Tho - Central Military Commission's Steering Committee 35 won the Special Prize of the Contest with the work: Preventing and combating "peaceful evolution" in the field of Industry and Trade with 5 articles; Colonel Nguyen Xuan Hoa (pen name Hoa Huyen), Deputy Head of the Editorial Department of the Electronic Newspaper (People's Army Newspaper) won the Second Prize of the Contest with the work: Mastering the defense industry early to protect the Fatherland from afar with 5 articles.

The authors won second prize in the contest.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Colonel, Journalist Do Phu Tho - Steering Committee 35 of the Central Military Commission, the author who was honored to win the Special Prize of the contest, expressed: "As a journalist who has followed the Industry and Trade sector for more than 30 years, I am very proud that the Industry and Trade sector is increasingly developing, contributing more than 80% to GDP and more than 70% to the state budget. The Industry and Trade sector is a key sector, contributing to stabilizing the macro economy, ensuring social security for our country's economy. However, this is also a key sector of sabotage by hostile forces.

Regarding the 2023 Environmental Protection Writing Contest for the Industry and Trade Sector, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the contest aims to summarize the achieved results, disseminate and honor good experiences and models; reflect on difficulties and limitations; clearly identify the causes in order to propose practical and effective solutions to raise the sense of responsibility of the social community in environmental protection work in the Industry and Trade sector through press and media works.

In terms of content, the contest focuses on propagating and organizing the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on environmental protection in general and of the Industry and Trade sector in particular; praising organizations and individuals who have done well; reflecting and criticizing bad phenomena and proposing effective solutions to protect the environment, especially in conjunction with emission reduction, circular economy and meeting environmental protection requirements in free trade agreements and international commitments.

Works in all types of press expressed in Vietnamese, published on mass media licensed by the State management agency. Time from January 1, 2022 to August 30, 2023. The summary and award ceremony is expected to be held in October 2023.

Works sent to the contest's Standing Agency are Industry and Trade Newspaper - 10th-11th Floor, Ministry of Industry and Trade Building, 655 Pham Van Dong, Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi.

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