Some key Youth Union officials and reporters attending the 2024 reporters' festival looked together at the responsibilities and roles of young people in the new era - the era of striving to develop the nation's prosperity and strength as General Secretary To Lam said.

Reach out in every little thing

Master Nguyen Linh Phong (Ho Chi Minh City University of Education) said that the country or each individual will always have changes and transformations. But to have the remarkable development that the General Secretary called "the era of rising up", there must be historical changes, creating strong highlights in the future. According to Mr. Phong, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union needs to shape the pillars, provide a capacity framework to specify the criteria, tasks, and target orientations in the era of rising up of the nation for students and young people. "If we want the nation to rise up, each individual must make more efforts, have enough strength, power and intelligence to integrate into the new era. It is not necessary that the tasks are too big, each person just needs to make efforts to complete the development goals in studying, training, and working and contributing", Mr. Phong shared. Deputy Secretary of Thu Duc City Youth Union Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh said that young people in the new era need to clearly demonstrate an active role in digital transformation. Because perhaps no one has access to and is more familiar with technology and digital transformation than young people. "Young people will be the solid foundation to build a strong digital transformation community, directly participating in the fourth orientation that the General Secretary mentioned in the seven strategic orientations to bring the country into the era of national development," said Ms. Ngoc Anh. Ms. Ngoc Anh said that young people need to take action, spreading the spirit of pioneering in environmental protection. Not only through regular garbage collection campaigns, but also starting to build a community with a sense of responsibility for the environment, a green lifestyle and absolutely limiting plastic waste, loving forests and knowing how to plant trees, using clean energy.

Promote identity, create impressive cultural values

Permanent Deputy Secretary of District 10 Youth Union Tran Thi Thanh Tam emphasized that generations of Vietnamese people from the past to the present have built a national identity, and young people have the responsibility to preserve, conserve and promote those identities. Ms. Tam said that the music shows Anh trai duong ngan cong gai, Anh trai say hi not only attract a large number of young people because of their new and modern organization, but also contribute to spreading patriotism, love for the nation, and cultural values ​​of national identity through the way they build performances. In addition to hoping for more programs and actions related to culture, prioritizing "integration but not dissolution", Mr. Minh Quang (Ly Tu Trong Youth Union School) said that it is necessary to add a general information channel about anecdotes, achievements, and outstanding historical relics of Ho Chi Minh City as well as the country. This will be a "red address" for young people to read, watch and understand by applying information technology, artificial intelligence, 3D, 4D digitalization and multidimensional digital space. Mr. Minh Quang also believes that we should innovate the method of teaching and propagating history to young people with a more direct approach, and we can also let students transform into characters to help them understand and grasp knowledge better. "We need to be open, strongly support and accompany media projects and games related to history made by young people because this is also a trend that many young people are interested in," said Mr. Quang. From his perspective, Mr. Nguyen Chi Nguyen (Youth Union of Saigon Transport Mechanical Corporation - LLC) said that in order to be qualified to contribute to the nation's rise, young people must accumulate understanding, knowledge and skills. Mr. Nguyen said that the Youth Union needs to help young union members understand the era of the nation's rise in a clear, specific, focused way and take advantage of cyberspace to do this. He believes that the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union has left many impressions by always creating good trends that have a spreading power, so it needs to take the lead in creating the trend of the rise era. "The most important thing is to let young people understand that these are not big tasks, but that each person must make a little more effort, strive a little more in their daily work and tasks," Mr. Nguyen shared.