Celebrating the 99th Anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 1925 - June 21, 2024): Engrave Uncle Ho's Teachings: Steadfastly "Bright eyes, pure heart, sharp pen"

As the founder and teacher of Vietnam's revolutionary journalism, President Ho Chi Minh taught: "The mission of a journalist is important and glorious. To fulfill that mission, one must strive to study politics , improve one's ideology, stand firmly on the proletarian class's position, improve one's cultural level, and delve deeply into one's profession." Realizing Uncle Ho's teachings, every journalist today always keeps "bright eyes, pure heart, sharp pen"; constantly cultivates political mettle, trains moral qualities, professionalism, and carries out and promotes the noble mission of a journalist in the 4.0 era.

"Serve the interests of the Party, the Fatherland, and the people"

During his life of revolutionary activities, President Ho Chi Minh wrote and published over 2,000 articles in many languages, many genres, and many pen names. He considered writing and journalism as “revolutionary work” to “serve the Fatherland”, “serve the people”, “serve the class and humanity”.

On July 20, 1961, Song Dao Newspaper officially released issue 1.

By June 1963, Song Dao Newspaper published 203 issues.

Song Dao Newspaper - Organ of the Vietnam Labor Party Committee , Nam Dinh province.

President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: “The press is a front”, “The pen is a sharp weapon, the article is a revolutionary proclamation”. Therefore, “press cadres are also revolutionary soldiers. The pen and the paper are their sharp weapons”. He required the team of journalists “to have a firm political stance. Politics must be the master. If the political line is correct, then other things will be correct. Therefore, our press agencies must have a correct political line”. He advised journalists to ask themselves the questions before picking up the pen: “What is the purpose of writing?”, “What to write? For whom? How to write?”.

Nam Dinh Newspaper No. 1 published on June 21, 1963.

Nam Dinh Newspaper Last issue published on May 14, 1965.

Deeply aware of the role, function and mission of the revolutionary press in social life, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: "The communist press has the task of making our soldiers understand the colonial issue, awakening the sympathy and support of the working masses in colonial countries, and enlisting them to participate in the cause of communism". The revolutionary press has no other interests, no other purpose than to serve the interests of the Party, the Fatherland and the people. Our revolutionary press is the press of the working class and the masses of working people. Therefore, he advised: "Our press must serve the working people, serve socialism, serve the struggle to unify the country, and for world peace".

Nam Ha Newspaper No. 1, published on May 19, 1965.

President Ho Chi Minh instructed: "Journalists are also revolutionary soldiers. The pen and the paper are their sharp weapons"; "For us journalists, the pen is a sharp weapon, the article is a revolutionary proclamation to mobilize the masses to unite and fight against old and new colonialism, against imperialism..., for national independence, social progress and world peace". President Ho advised journalists: "If you write articles that the masses understand, the masses love to read, the masses praise, then you are making progress. On the contrary, you are not successful". He emphasized: "Write to highlight the good things of our people, our soldiers, our cadres, our friends. At the same time, to criticize our shortcomings, the cadres, the people, the soldiers". The form of expression, the method of presentation, the structure of journalistic works must be clear, easy to understand and avoid being fussy. He advised: "Write simply, easily understood, and practically. So that every compatriot and soldier can read, understand, remember, and do."

Nam Dinh Newspaper - 63 years of construction and development

Nam Dinh Newspaper - The mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Nam Dinh province; the voice of the Party, government and people of Nam Dinh province. Over time, the newspaper's name has changed, but its "principle and purpose" have been consistent with President Ho Chi Minh's instructions: "... writing and doing journalism is "revolutionary work" to "serve the Fatherland", "serve the people", "serve the class and humanity".

Ha Nam Ninh Newspaper published 1,670 issues; the last issue was published on March 31, 1992.

On May 12, 1961, the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party of Nam Dinh Province issued Resolution No. 09/TU on publishing a local newspaper. Accordingly, the local newspaper was named "Song Dao", the organ of the Vietnam Workers' Party of Nam Dinh Province. Song Dao Newspaper had the following tasks: Propagating and explaining the Party and Government's guidelines and policies...; propagating and educating the ideology of farmers, workers and other working classes in the emulation to implement the local State plan...; reflecting the implementation of the local central work, and at the same time reflecting the situation of all-round movements in the locality; disseminating advanced experiences in production, practical and specific work experiences in the province. Comrade Phan Dien, Acting Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, was the Editor-in-Chief of Song Dao Newspaper; the newspaper was published twice a week, 4 pages, size 32cm x 50cm.

Nam Ha Newspaper published No. 1, April 3, 1992.

On July 20, 1961, Song Dao Newspaper officially published issue 1. By June 1963, Song Dao Newspaper had published 203 issues. Through these issues, many efforts and positive contributions were made to help the Provincial Party Committee direct the movement, propagate and mobilize, disseminate and guide all levels, sectors and people in the province to implement the Party's policies, directives and resolutions of the Provincial Party Committee. Especially the task of consolidating cooperatives and developing agricultural production, actively contributing to educating and improving the political and ideological level of cadres, party members and people in the province. Song Dao Newspaper made many efforts "in the struggle to criticize trends and phenomena that are not in accordance with the policies and guidelines of the Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee". In particular, Song Dao Newspaper opened a column "fighting to expose the plot to sabotage the revolution of reactionaries disguised as religions" and achieved good results.

On May 21, 1963, the 5th Congress of the Nam Dinh Provincial Party Committee issued a Resolution on improving the content, form and renaming the provincial Party newspaper. Accordingly, the “Song Dao” Newspaper was renamed “Nam Dinh” Newspaper.

Nam Dinh Spring Newspaper 1997.

The Resolution clearly states: The provincial Party newspaper is called “Nam Dinh”, published three times a week, and the Provincial Party Executive Committee is assigned to directly direct the improvement of content and form to enhance the ideological, mass, combative and truthful nature of the Party newspaper. Further promote the struggle for criticism and self-criticism in the provincial Party newspaper. All levels, sectors, and cadres in the Party and outside the Party need to clearly recognize the practical benefits of the people's criticism in the newspaper, which is to strengthen solidarity and unanimity within the Party and the people, tighten the relationship between the Party and the masses, and have the right attitude, welcome that criticism, and must not have incorrect thoughts and actions towards the critic. The criticized individuals and agencies must publicly express their sincere attitude of accepting criticism and the results of correction in the newspaper; if the criticism content has any aspects and details that need to be presented further, they must openly and honestly state them in the newspaper. On the other hand, we must further strengthen the struggle on the public opinion front against the enemy's anti-propaganda arguments, plots and sabotage activities against the revolution, in accordance with the functions of the proletarian press.

Strengthen the improvement of the distribution and promote the organization of reading the provincial Party newspaper, ensuring that all cadres, party members of cooperatives, enterprises, production teams and groups and people of all walks of life in the province regularly buy and read the newspaper to find the Party's necessary instructions for their work. At the same time, be responsible for contributing constructive opinions to the provincial Party newspaper to improve its content and form so that the newspaper can increasingly progress and effectively serve the implementation of revolutionary tasks in the province.

After changing its name to Nam Dinh Newspaper in 1963 according to the Resolution of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Nam Dinh Newspaper changed its name many times according to the mergers and separations of the province. Since 1997, Nam Dinh province was re-established, the Newspaper returned to the name Nam Dinh; published 3 times/week, then increased to 4 times/week. Since September 2019, Nam Dinh Newspaper has published 6 times/week, daily from Monday to Friday and the Weekend issue. Currently, Nam Dinh Newspaper is distributed to village and hamlet Party cells and given to Party members aged 55 and over with a circulation of more than 14,000 copies/issue. In addition to the printed newspaper, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 2010), Nam Dinh Electronic Newspaper was officially launched, marking a new development step of the Provincial Party Newspaper, in line with the development trend of digital technology.

"Solidarity - Discipline - Innovation - Creativity - Development"

Comrade Pham Gia Tuc, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, spoke at the meeting with representatives of central press agencies stationed in the area on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day.

Attending and delivering a speech at the 10th Congress of the Vietnam Journalists Association, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong highlighted: “The Vietnamese revolutionary press, founded and led by President Ho Chi Minh, has always accompanied the steadfast struggles of our Party and people for national independence and socialism. During the heroic resistance wars against invaders and to protect the Fatherland, our country's press has become an important arm on the ideological front; many press works have truly been "revolutionary proclamations", "calls to the country" urging the people of the whole country to join the battle."

Nam Dinh Newspaper reporters working during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

The General Secretary affirmed: “Our Party, State and people always appreciate the important role of the press in the revolutionary cause; always care about, support and create conditions for the press to develop”. The General Secretary requested: “... journalists need to thoroughly and more deeply grasp the view that the press is a sharp weapon, an effective tool of the Party on the ideological front. Each journalist is a revolutionary soldier. The Party absolutely and comprehensively leads press activities; the State manages the press by law. Journalism is a noble and sacred profession. Revolutionary journalists must have a revolutionary spirit, that is the spirit of attack, fighting to eliminate the wrong and the bad, protecting the right and the good, for the common cause of the country and the people”.

The 3-part series “Party development in religious areas - “sifting sand… to find the source” (Author group Nguyen Hoa Xuan – Nguyen Van Huynh) won the Encouragement Prize of the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award

Promoting the achievements of previous generations, closely following the purpose and objectives of the Party's mouthpiece, Nam Dinh Newspaper continues to perform well the task of informing and propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's and the province's policies and laws; providing full and timely information on the domestic and international situation; reflecting all aspects of social life; promoting good values, new factors, effective models, good practices; praising good people and good deeds; refuting distorted, wrong, and negative arguments, actively contributing to the fight against corruption and waste; fighting and criticizing signs of moral and lifestyle degradation. Actively promoting policy communication; timely information to guide the implementation of major projects in the area, thereby creating consensus and unity in the entire political system and all classes of people, contributing significantly to the successful implementation of political tasks, socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security of the province.

Along with innovating content and form in print newspapers, Nam Dinh Electronic Newspaper actively innovates the interface in an attractive and friendly way for readers; promotes the use of digital technology application platforms to develop modern, in-depth press products, integrate multimedia to improve the quality of propaganda, increase reader appeal and increase access, spread information such as: E-magazine, Infographic, Check-in, podcast, social networking platforms Facebook, Zalo, TikTok ..., contributing to diversifying forms of accessing information in a rich, vivid, intuitive way, attracting readers.

Nam Dinh Newspaper won: 1 A Prize, 1 B Prize, 3 C Prizes of the 5th Nam Dinh Provincial Journalists Association Press Award.

The Editorial Board, staff and reporters of Nam Dinh Newspaper have quickly approached and implemented the requirements for innovation in content and form of Nam Dinh Newspaper in print, online, propaganda methods, topics, and the use of modern multimedia journalism genres. The innovation in propaganda in content and form has been recognized, trusted and highly appreciated by provincial leaders and readers. Especially the articles and press topics written on the topic of Party building; Directive No. 05-CT/TW and Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW of the Politburo on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle in conjunction with Resolution No. 4 of the Central Committee (term XII, term XIII) on Party building and rectification; protecting the Party's ideological foundation; fighting against corruption and waste; foreign information..., many works are of high quality and have won high prizes.

From 2018 to present, Nam Dinh Newspaper has won 2 Encouragement Prizes and 1 Special Prize of the National Press Award on Party building (Golden Hammer and Sickle Award), such as: 4-part series: Implementing Regulation 15 "On Party members doing private business" - Results and issues raised (Viet Thang); 3-part series: Developing the Party in religious areas - "sifting sand... finding sources" (Nguyen Hoa Xuan - Nguyen Van Huynh); 5-part series: Nam Dinh - turning nothing into something, turning difficult into easy (Van Anh - Thanh Thuy). 1 B prize "Press writing contest on new rural areas associated with restructuring the agricultural sector" for the period 2017-2020 organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with the Ministry of Information and Communications, Vietnam Journalists Association; 1 B prize in the Contest for press works on poverty reduction in the period 2016-2020 organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs in coordination with the Vietnam Journalists Association; 1 Encouragement Prize in the 7th National External Information Press Award...

The 5-part series "Nam Dinh - turning nothing into something, turning difficult into easy" (Author group Van Anh - Thanh Thuy) won the Golden Hammer and Sickle Award.

In the coming time, in order to achieve the goal of building Nam Dinh Newspaper to be increasingly formal, modern, and convenient, meeting the diverse information needs of the people, contributing to the common development of the province, Nam Dinh Newspaper continues to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the regulations of the Party and the State's laws on press activities; 10 articles of the Code of Professional Ethics for Vietnamese Journalists; Code of Conduct on Social Networks for Journalists; and carry out the emulation movement to build a cultural environment in press agencies.

Nam Dinh Newspaper carries out the process of producing and publishing press products on the press management software (CMS).

Closely follow the orientation, leadership, direction and facilitation of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and People's Committee; closely coordinate with departments, branches and localities in the province to well perform political tasks, focusing on promoting information and propaganda to serve the leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities. Information and propaganda strengthen trust and social consensus in performing political tasks and developing the province's socio-economy. Actively fight against erroneous viewpoints.

Promote digital transformation of the press, regularly innovate and improve the quality of print press operations; continue to innovate and develop the Electronic Editorial Office, towards building a convergent Editorial Office. Focus on promoting advanced models, expanding patriotic emulation movements associated with studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style with the motto "taking the beautiful, eliminating the ugly", "taking the positive to push back the negative" to spread good values, create trust, spiritual motivation to promote development, contributing to building Nam Dinh to soon complete the goal of being a fairly developed province in the country. Focus on promoting the preparation and organization of Party congresses at all levels towards the 21st Provincial Party Congress and the 14th National Party Congress./.

Viet Thang

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