Authorized by the Minister of National Defense and the Chief of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, Major General Doan Quang Hoa, Director of the Department of Social Policy, received the delegation.

At the meeting, on behalf of the delegation, comrade Vo Van Tam, Director of the Department of Home Affairs of Vinh Long province reported on a number of important results in the care and implementation of policies for war invalids, sick soldiers, families of martyrs, people with meritorious services to the revolution and social security policies in the province.

Major General Doan Quang Hoa spoke at the meeting.

Vinh Long province is a province that has just been merged from 3 provinces of Vinh Long, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh, a land rich in revolutionary tradition, resilient in resistance war, dynamic in peacetime; the birthplace of many outstanding children, who have devoted and sacrificed for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.

During the resistance war for national liberation and defense of the Fatherland, under the leadership of the Party, the armed forces and people of Vinh Long, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces always united, promoted the tradition of patriotism, together with the army and people of the whole country, united, joined forces, and made great contributions of human and material resources to the cause of national liberation and national unification, as well as the current cause of building and defending the socialist Fatherland.

Authorized by the Head of the Ministry of National Defense and Head of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, Major General Doan Quang Hoa presented gifts to delegates with meritorious services in Vinh Long province.

Speaking at the meeting, Major General Doan Quang Hoa expressed his deep gratitude for the great contributions and sacrifices of heroic martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers, Vietnamese heroic mothers and individuals and families with meritorious services to the revolution of Vinh Long province in the cause of national liberation, construction and defense of the Fatherland.

Informing the delegation about some policy work contents in the Army, Major General Doan Quang Hoa said that in recent years, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense have regularly paid attention to leading and directing the functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense to actively and proactively follow the situation and tasks, closely coordinate with the central and local departments, ministries, branches to research and propose to the Party and State to amend and promptly issue and supplement many documents regulating the regimes and policies for people with meritorious services to the revolution, especially the Army's rear policy; deploy and organize the timely and thoughtful implementation of regimes and policies, thereby contributing to meeting the requirements and aspirations of policy subjects, increasing trust in the Party, State and Army.

From 2013 to now, the whole country has searched for and collected over 21,000 martyrs' remains (over 10,000 martyrs' remains collected domestically, nearly 11,000 martyrs' remains collected abroad and returned to the motherland); currently, the whole country still has about 170,000 martyrs' remains that have not been searched for and collected and over 300,000 martyrs' remains have been collected in martyrs' cemeteries but their identities have not been determined.

The movements "Repaying gratitude", "Army joins hands to build new countryside", "Army joins hands for the poor - No one is left behind" have been actively deployed by agencies and units throughout the army with many rich and vivid forms of activities, with profound and far-reaching political and social significance.

Major General Doan Quang Hoa affirmed that the above actions of the officers and soldiers of the entire army have contributed, together with the entire Party and people, to increasingly better care for the material and spiritual lives of families with meritorious services to the revolution; at the same time, educating officers and soldiers, especially the young generation in the Army, about the beautiful morality of "When drinking water, remember its source" and "Repaying gratitude" of our nation, thereby spreading to the whole society.

The meeting took place in a warm and solemn atmosphere, demonstrating the special attention of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense to those with meritorious services, contributing to spreading the tradition of patriotism, gratitude and national solidarity. Authorized by the Head of the Ministry of National Defense, Head of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, Major General Doan Quang Hoa presented gifts from the Ministry of National Defense to delegates with meritorious services to the revolution in Vinh Long province.

News and photos: KIM ANH

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/tin-tuc/bo-quoc-phong-gap-mat-doan-dai-bieu-nguoi-co-cong-tinh-vinh-long-1010093