Arrange finance and balance general resources for press activities

The Government Office has just issued Notice No. 274/TB-VPCP dated July 12, 2023, concluding the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's meeting with the Vietnam Journalists Association.

Create consensus and sharing among the people

The conclusion announcement stated: The press is a propaganda tool on the ideological and cultural front of the Party and State, an essential means of information, an indispensable spiritual "food" in social life, contributing to promoting the economic development of the people.

The Vietnam Journalists Association plays an important role in uniting, gathering, enhancing political capacity, fostering professional skills, and training professional ethics of journalists, contributing to creating unity within the Party and consensus in society.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh took a souvenir photo with delegates during the working session with the Vietnam Journalists Association.

During 73 years of establishment and development (April 21, 1950 - April 21, 2023), the Vietnam Journalists Association has continuously developed in terms of organization and strength, matured in all aspects, and made many worthy contributions to the revolutionary cause of the nation; always closely following the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws and the Association's Charter to perform its assigned functions, tasks and powers.

In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the press has played an important role, creating consensus and sharing among the people about anti-epidemic measures and vaccination; empathy, mutual love, mutual assistance, and mutual support during difficult times due to the pandemic.

The press promptly reflects the vivid reality of life, the achievements and efforts of the entire Party, people and army in the spirit of great national unity; bright spots in economic growth and recovery after the pandemic, many major policies of the Party and State coming into life; participating in preventing and combating corruption and negativity, arousing people's trust.

However, press activities still exist and are limited in some press agencies and journalists; there is still a situation of "newspaperization" of magazines and general electronic news sites; there are signs of "privatization of the press"; content is violent, follows the market, lacks orientation, lacks education and humanity; the problem of fake news and untrue news has not decreased...

Building and developing a team of sensitive journalists

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that in the coming time, in order for the Vietnamese press to be truly revolutionary, professional, humane, and modern, the Vietnam Journalists Association needs to continue to promote its important role, together with ministries, branches, and localities, focusing on implementing the following tasks and solutions:

Promote the activities of gathering forces, building a team of journalists, focusing on training, improving, and practicing the political qualities, ideology, capacity, and professional qualifications of members to "serve the Fatherland", "serve the people", "serve the class and humanity" as beloved Uncle Ho once advised.

Join hands and concentrate on building and developing a team of journalists who are politically astute, economically sensitive, knowledgeable about science and technology; correct “deviations” in professional ethics; maintain “a bright mind, a pure heart, a sharp pen”, and promote humanistic values in journalism activities.

Join hands and focus on building and developing a team of journalists who are politically astute, economically sensitive, and knowledgeable about science and technology.

Protect the legitimate and legal rights and interests of members in performing their duties, and strictly handle violations, especially the use of the press to go against the goals and ideals of the Party, the policies and laws of the State, and the interests of the People.

Continue to thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the goal of building a professional, humane and modern press and media according to the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. The press must accompany the nation, perform better the function of ideological orientation, be a sharp weapon to protect the Party's ideological foundation, protect national and ethnic interests. Closely follow the political tasks of the country, agencies, localities and units to reflect, especially the 06 key tasks and 03 strategic breakthroughs.

Press agencies and journalists' associations at all levels need to continue to innovate their content and methods of operation. Strengthen information building and social criticism to put the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws into practice, "bringing the Party's ideas closer to the people". Focus on discovering hot, sensitive, newly emerging issues, bottlenecks, and bottlenecks; orient and suggest solutions to resolve difficult, complicated problems domestically and internationally.

Promote cultural propaganda commensurate with economic, political and social propaganda according to the 6 tasks and 4 groups of solutions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong mentioned at the 2021 National Cultural Conference; improve the quality of press works, ensure high combativeness, profound humanistic values, and strong impact on both the public's reason and emotions; thereby orienting public opinion, creating social consensus, and consolidating the people's firm belief in the Party and the State.

The press must take the lead in discovering and praising new factors, good people, good deeds, good practices, advanced models, using beauty to eliminate ugliness, using positivity to push back negativity, creating motivation, inspiration, and spreading in the community and society. Play a good role in monitoring and criticizing; provide accurate, timely, honest, and transparent information. Strengthen the fight to protect truth, justice, and good people; fight against wrong thoughts and actions, especially the state of degradation in ideology, politics, morality, and lifestyle; actively participate in preventing and combating corruption, negativity, and waste.

Order-oriented financial arrangement

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Information and Communications to propose mobilization mechanisms such as public-private partnership to strengthen facilities for press agencies; mobilize the strength of society; and fight negativity and corruption.

Arrange finances in the direction of ordering, assigning tasks, and balancing general resources for press activities. The Ministry of Information and Communications coordinates with the Ministry of Finance to develop a mechanism to ensure the operations of press agencies are transparent, public, effective, and within the overall framework of agencies in the political system.

Regarding the regime and policies for those working at the Vietnam Journalists Association and Journalists Associations in provinces and centrally-run cities, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information and Communications to study and handle the recommendations of the Vietnam Journalists Association according to their authority and current regulations; in cases beyond their authority, they shall report to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision .

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