Provincial armed forces continue the stream of gratitude

With the tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source" continued and promoted through each generation, over the years, the Quang Ninh Armed Forces have always paid attention to paying gratitude and repaying the merits of their predecessors, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of those who have contributed to the revolution.

Colonel Khuc Thanh Du, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Commander of the Provincial Military Command, presented gifts to the family of war invalid Nguyen Van Tho (Co To district). *Photo: Van Dam (Provincial Military Command)*

Determined not to let any policy beneficiaries suffer disadvantages in life, in recent years, the Provincial Military Command has focused on implementing well the regime for people with revolutionary contributions. Specifically, the Provincial Military Command has coordinated with departments, branches, and localities to direct and guide agencies and units to well implement all regimes and policies for those who participated in the resistance war against the French, against the Americans to save the country, the war to defend the Fatherland and perform international missions according to decisions No. 290, 142, 62, 49 of the Prime Minister . Organize to review, research, and make a list of beneficiaries in the area to pay regimes to ensure timeliness, fairness, transparency, the right people, the right regime, and not to let policy beneficiaries suffer disadvantages.

The Provincial Military Command also directed and guided agencies and units to implement the Ordinance on preferential treatment for people with revolutionary contributions. In particular, focusing on processing dossiers requesting recognition of martyrs; confirming wounded and sick soldiers according to Decree No. 131 of the Government and Circular No. 55 of the Ministry of National Defense ; looking up and verifying dossiers for enjoying Agent Orange regime; mobilizing, explaining, and revoking certificates of injury, deciding to grant certificates of injury and enjoying war invalid regime for ineligible subjects, creating high consensus of local authorities, as well as subjects that must be revoked. In 2024 alone, the unit completed dossiers to resolve war invalid regimes for 8 cases, corrected information on martyr dossiers for 8 cases, and confirmed information on martyrs for 15 cases.

Along with that, the Provincial Military Command also coordinated and advised the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to allocate local budgets to visit and present gifts to thousands of policy beneficiaries, meritorious people, revolutionary veterans of different periods, and Vietnamese Heroic Mothers... In 2024, the Provincial Military Command and agencies and units allocated funds to visit and present gifts to policy beneficiaries and meritorious people with a total amount of 617 million VND; visited and presented gifts to 147 war invalids, veterans, and former soldiers participating in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign with nearly 780 million VND; visited and presented gifts to 341 policy beneficiaries with more than 270 million VND; transferred 5 gifts from the President, 5 gifts from the Ministry of National Defense, 5 gifts from the Military Region 3 Command and 1 gift from the province to war invalids and children of martyrs working at the Provincial Military Command...

Officers and soldiers of the Logistics - Engineering Department (Provincial Military Command) presented savings books worth 10 million VND to people with revolutionary contributions in Quang Yen town.

The Provincial Military Command also advised and proposed to the Party Committee, the Military Region 3 Command, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee and coordinated with local Party committees and authorities to build gratitude houses and comrade houses; visit and give gifts to policy families, families of officers and soldiers working in Truong Sa archipelago, DK1 platform, difficult areas, nursing centers for wounded and sick soldiers... Thereby contributing to ensuring good social security, serving the socio-economic development in the locality; highly appreciated by local Party committees, authorities and people.

In 2024, the provincial armed forces contributed nearly 460 million VND to the "Repaying gratitude" fund, and submitted it to the superiors in accordance with regulations. At the same time, the provincial armed forces supported the construction of 10 gratitude houses for families with difficult housing conditions, with a total cost of over 800 million VND; donated 9 savings books to policy beneficiaries with a total value of 90 million VND; donated 55 health insurance cards to relatives and caregivers of victims of Agent Orange; provided consultation, medical examination, and free medicine to 556 policy beneficiaries...

Lieutenant Colonel Hoang Van Thuyet, Deputy Political Commissar of the Provincial Military Command, affirmed: The attention and care for the regime and policies for Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, war invalids, sick soldiers, and people with meritorious services to the revolution is a major policy of the Party and State that is regularly implemented by the Provincial Military. The gratitude activities of officers and soldiers of the Provincial Military have partly compensated for the great sacrifices and losses of war invalids, sick soldiers, and families of people with meritorious services; helping them have more motivation to rise up in life. Thereby, the solidarity between the army and the people is increasingly strengthened; contributing to building a more solid people's heart position. In particular, the work of "Repaying gratitude" is also an effective measure to educate and foster the glorious traditions of the nation and the army, so that officers and soldiers can improve their qualities and revolutionary ethics, strengthen their confidence, and strive to complete all assigned tasks well.

Hoang Anh

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