Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security attended the opening speech and introduced the workshop.

The workshop is a practical activity to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Uncle Ho's call for patriotic emulation. The workshop attracted the attention of many researchers, leaders, and those working in emulation and reward.

The Organizing Committee received 134 papers with many topics, rich and diverse content, applying Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on patriotic emulation to each unit and locality. The papers focused on researching theoretical issues in President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on patriotic emulation; thoroughly grasping President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on patriotic emulation in the People's Public Security force...

Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security attended the opening speech and introduced the workshop.

The report introducing the workshop emphasized that, during his lifetime, when talking about patriotic emulation, President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: "Only under the people's democracy and socialism regime, under the regime where the working people are the masters of the country, can there be an emulation movement."

He always attached great importance to arousing and launching patriotic emulation movements among cadres, party members and the people. He considered this one of the fundamental measures to successfully organize and implement the Party and State's guidelines, policies and strategies.

He affirmed: “Emulation is a practical and active way of patriotism... Emulation is patriotism, patriotism requires emulation and those who emulate are the most patriotic”. He also affirmed that “emulation is the driving force of development” but on the contrary, according to him, emulation is also very simple, “daily work is the foundation of emulation” and “everyone competes, every household competes, every industry competes”...

With the People's Public Security force, imbued with President Ho Chi Minh's ideology of patriotic emulation, through each period and each revolutionary stage, the entire force has always attached importance to emulation and reward work. Applying his ideology into practice, the Ministry of Public Security has launched many vibrant and widespread emulation movements, taking political tasks as the content of emulation aimed at solving key, urgent tasks, difficult and complicated tasks, contributing to creating great motivation, encouraging and motivating officers and soldiers to overcome all difficulties and hardships, together with the army and people of the whole country to create glorious victories for the nation.

Conference scene.

From emulation movements such as: "For national security, for people's happiness, for national unification"; "For national security, determined to defeat the American invaders"; "Making achievements to protect national security, protect the cause of building socialism, protect the cause of national unification"... have gathered and motivated cadres and soldiers to enthusiastically compete to carry out assigned tasks, both supporting and assisting the frontline and determined to protect security, prevent espionage and ensure confidentiality, bringing high efficiency in work, combat and force building.

Entering the period of innovation, in order to strengthen national security protection, maintain social order and safety, specific revolutionary action programs and patriotic emulation movements in the People's Public Security force have been widely developed.

The emulation movement "For the security of the Fatherland" was deployed throughout, many exciting emulation movements were deployed synchronously, uniformly, comprehensively to the grassroots level, such as the movement: "Studying and implementing the Six teachings of Uncle Ho to the People's Public Security" associated with promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle; the campaign "Building the style of the People's Public Security serving the people"... has aroused the potential and strength of the entire force, contributing to the successful implementation of political tasks, serving the economic and social development and international integration of the country.

Speaking at the workshop, Professor, Dr. Hoang Chi Bao, former member of the Central Theoretical Council, affirmed: President Ho Chi Minh's "Call for Patriotic Emulation" on June 11, 1948 is one of the outstanding political documents, concretizing the Party's and Uncle Ho's guidelines and mottos: "Long-term resistance, certain victory", "Resistance and nation-building at the same time", "All-people resistance", "Comprehensive resistance". The beginning is the "Call", the end is the action "Forward". That is the consistency from the thoughts to the actions of President Ho Chi Minh.

Professor, Dr. Hoang Chi Bao, former member of the Central Theoretical Council, delivered a speech.

According to Professor, Dr. Hoang Chi Bao, 3/4 of a century has passed since Uncle Ho issued the call for "Patriotic Emulation". He not only educated and raised theoretical awareness of emulation for the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army, but he also painstakingly built the movement, selected leaders with thoughtful, practical, and also extremely profound instructions. He sent hundreds, thousands of letters of praise to compatriots and soldiers, from the elderly to children, young men and women, in the plains and mountains, in the countryside and on the front.

In particular, He set an example throughout his life, setting an example for everyone to follow and do. He himself, in the last 10 years of his life (1960 - 1969), made 700 trips to the grassroots, especially to farmers in rural areas; as well as in the last years of his life, he attentively directed the "Good People, Good Deeds" Movement, awarded thousands of badges to typical individuals and groups, leaving behind the famous saying "Each good person, each good deed is a beautiful flower, our whole nation is a beautiful flower forest".

“That is truly the ever-bright flame that lights the way for our “Patriotic Emulation” from yesterday to today and forever, making the Vietnamese people step up to the stage of glory to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great powers of the five continents,” emphasized Professor, Dr. Hoang Chi Bao.

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