The Journalist & Public Opinion Newspaper has 2 works awarded the National Press Award on culture, sports and tourism.

Also attending the ceremony were comrade Pham Tat Thang, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization; comrade Nguyen Van Hung, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association ; comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association...

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 1 — Delegates attending the award ceremony.

There are 1084 works from 156 press agencies participating in the award.

According to the Organizing Committee, this year's entries are not only numerous and diverse in topics, but also of good professional quality, attracting the participation of many central and local press agencies. The works all adhere to major themes, vividly reflecting important events of 2022 - 2023 in the fields of culture, sports , tourism and family. Many elaborate articles exploit thorny topics, issues, and hot news...

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 2 — Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department and Comrade Nguyen Van Hung, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism presented the First Prize to the authors.

Some topics that received the attention of many authors were policies and major issues on cultural revival, national cultural development, and arousing the noble and sacred values of the Vietnamese people; commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Vietnamese Cultural Outline; policies in state work on heritage; issues on preserving, conserving and promoting national cultural heritages and regional cultural heritages.

Information on role models in high-performance sports, mass sports, and sports for people with disabilities; policies to restore and develop tourism in localities after the COVID-19 pandemic; criticism of bad habits, analysis of the negative side of social networks in cultural, family and behavioral issues; pointing out difficulties, obstacles, and inadequacies in all aspects of culture, sports, tourism, and family work, thereby proposing innovative solutions to improve the effectiveness of state management, and calling on the whole society to join hands to solve them.

The National Press Award “For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism” also introduces and promotes the results and achievements of culture, sports, tourism and family work. At the same time, it discovers advanced models in the industry; encourages and motivates the entire industry to join hands and continue to contribute more to the cause of developing culture, sports and tourism.

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, photo 3 — Journalist Ha Van (4th from left, top row) of the Journalist and Public Opinion Newspaper won the B prize of the first National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism".

According to Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy, Head of the Organizing Committee of the first National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism": After one year of launching, there were 1,084 works from 156 central and local press agencies participating, which proves that the National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" although organized for the first time, has attracted the attention of journalists, reporters and press agencies.

It is worth noting that, along with 94 works of authors, groups of authors and 3 collectives honored at today's Award Ceremony, the works participating in the Award were carefully and seriously prepared, reflecting truthfully and comprehensively, conveying many profound and meaningful messages, contributing to affirming the outstanding marks and results of the half-term of the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector in implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

Although the results may not satisfy all of us, there are still things that need to continue to be worked on and tried harder by the organizing agencies and organizations and individuals participating in the Awards. What the entire Culture, Sports and Tourism sector has strived to overcome difficulties with the responsible support of press agencies and journalists has achieved has once again affirmed that the fields of culture, sports and tourism have received great attention from the leaders of the Party, the State, all levels and sectors and have achieved many achievements and positive changes.

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 4 — The authors received the Third Prize of the National Press Award "For the cause of developing culture, sports and tourism".

The industry's outstanding achievements in the past half term are thanks to the close attention and direction of the Party and State leaders; central ministries and branches; the unceasing efforts of the staff working in culture, sports and tourism nationwide; the effective support from press agencies; the enthusiastic and responsible coordination and companionship of reporters and editors.

Perfecting institutions, policies and resources for cultural development

Launching the second National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" in 2023, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy said: To continue to spread the achievements of the industry, recognize and honor the outstanding contributions of collectives and individuals to the cause of developing culture, sports and tourism, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinates with the Vietnam Journalists Association and relevant agencies to organize the second National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" in 2023.

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 5 — Journalist Quang Van Hung (5th from right) won the Encouragement Prize of the First National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism".

Promoting the results achieved in the first season, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism hopes that news agencies, newspapers, reporters and editors will pay attention to, organize production and publish press works focusing on some key contents such as: Implementing the Party's Resolution and the Conclusion of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong into life; the movement of the cultural sector following the direction of the General Secretary in the congratulatory letter on the occasion of the Conference to commend typical advanced models in the national cultural field in 2023.

Reflecting the work of building and perfecting institutions, policies and resources for cultural development; gradually concretizing the role of culture as a "regulatory system" in the movement of all aspects of life.

Approaching and exploiting cultural values in the spirit of "Culture is the result of economy and at the same time the driving force of economic development"; Building a grassroots cultural environment; positioning the position and strengths of Vietnam tourism in the new period on the basis of preserving and promoting the value of natural resources, historical and cultural resources; developing cultural industry, resource policies and solutions for physical training and sports development.

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 6 — Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, awarded certificates of merit to three press agencies that won the Collective Award at the first "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" press award.

At the same time, we hope that the press will also point out difficulties, obstacles and shortcomings, thereby proposing innovative solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in consulting work, state management and organizing activities to develop cultural, sports and tourism careers...

In addition to the successes achieved in the first season, the Organizing Committee seriously received the comments from the Preliminary Council, the Final Council as well as press agencies and journalists, promptly revised and promulgated the Regulations of the National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" for the second time in 2023.

At the Award Ceremony, the Organizing Committee awarded 97 prizes, including 3 Collective Prizes to 3 press agencies with many works participating in the award, achieving high results and 94 individual prizes to authors and groups of authors (including 4 First prizes, 15 Second prizes, 25 Third prizes and 50 Encouragement prizes).

Cong Luan Newspaper has 2 works awarded national journalism prize on culture, sports and tourism, picture 7 — Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy spoke at the ceremony.

In which, the series of articles: "Creating a cultural journalism environment" by journalist Nguyen Thi Van (Ha Van) won the B prize of the first National Journalism Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism"; The 10-photo report "Hanoi: Unique sitting tug-of-war game at Tran Vu Temple Festival" by journalist Quang Van Hung (Quang Hung) won the Encouragement prize.

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