Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Phan Ngoc Tho emphasized that building village geography and history requires determination.

Also working was member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh. According to the report at the working session, up to now, 9/9 localities have issued documents directing the implementation of Conclusion Notice 552-TB/TU.

Phong Dien and Phu Vang districts have issued an Implementation Plan for 2024. In particular, Phong Dien district plans to compile for 20 villages in the district and has allocated more than 800 million VND to support the compilation of village geography.

The representative of the Provincial Historical Science Association said that after asking for comments from the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee on the framework outline, the compilation of the framework outline has been completed and announced, and has now been sent to the village chiefs at the meeting of village chiefs across the province on January 10, 2024.

The representative of the Department of Culture and Sports said that currently, the villages are preserving many important ancient documents, Han documents, royal decrees, which have been collected and digitized to form books on village culture. This is an important source of documents for the villages to refer to in writing their village history.

At the meeting, representatives of local leaders shared the difficulties in determining the size of villages.

At the meeting, representatives of local leaders shared the difficulties in determining the village scale, current status, and available documents; experiences, implementation methods; and mobilizing social resources in building village maps.

In his concluding remarks, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Phan Ngoc Tho emphasized that building village maps and histories requires determination. This is a big task that will take a long time, with resources coming from socialization and mobilizing villages to be proactive.

Fully exploiting the massive data values ​​available is an important basis for writing village history. With existing difficulties, overcome them step by step, closely follow the outline; select and prioritize villages with documents and funding to do it first...

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