Factory X51 (business name is Hai Minh Shipbuilding and Repairing One Member Limited Liability Company) was established after the victory of the anti-American, national salvation cause, on the basis of taking over a US-puppet military logistics support base, later changed to Nha Be Naval Factory.

On October 26, 1975, Nha Be Naval Factory was called Factory 51 - the predecessor of today's Factory X51, with the task of repairing and ensuring technical support for ships, boats and floating vehicles of Naval Region 4.

The Party Executive Committee of Factory X51 for the 2025-2030 term and delegates attending the 14th Congress of Ba Son Corporation made their debut at the Congress. Photo: KIEU OANH

Since its inception, the Factory has been one of seven units responsible for ensuring technical safety of ships and boats for the Navy. During the years of fighting and serving in combat, hundreds of officers and employees of the Factory have not been afraid of hardship and sacrifice, directly repairing and ensuring the survival of the majority of ships on the southwestern border battlefield.

Despite the urgent and heavy work, the Factory still fulfilled its international mission to help Laos and Cambodia, contributing to the victory of the revolutions of the two countries. The achievements of the Factory were recognized by the Party and the State and awarded the First Class Military Exploit Medal, along with many other noble awards.

Entering the period of innovation, the cadres, soldiers, workers and employees of the Factory were promptly present in Cam Ranh and Truong Sa ( Khanh Hoa ), overcoming all difficulties and dangers to excellently complete the task of ensuring technical support for ships and boats performing tasks at sea in Truong Sa archipelago, and were awarded the First Class Military Exploit Medal for the second time by the Chairman of the State Council (now the President).

Promoting the tradition in ensuring military ship technology, the Factory has actively and proactively researched, repaired, and successfully built many types of modern military ships with high technical requirements and long-term operations at sea. The unit is capable of major repairs of modern military ship classes (including weapons and technical equipment), typically: anti-submarine frigates (HQ11, 15, 13, 07...), gunboats, minesweepers, large-sized landing transport ships...

Construction of new fisheries inspection vessel at the factory. Photo: KIEU OANH

In addition to the national defense mission, the Factory has promoted its technological capabilities, promoted cooperation, joint ventures, and partnerships, and built many new water transport and floating vehicles with a capacity of up to 6,500 tons. Typical examples include the successful construction of the five largest ocean tuna fishing vessels in Southeast Asia and the modern cruise ship Aqua Nera serving the Amazon River route in South America; multi-purpose ships responding to oil spills at sea; and oil tankers up to 3,000 tons. In addition, the Factory also provides steel structure processing and assembly services, contributing to ensuring jobs and stable income for officers, employees and workers.

In parallel with the production task, the Factory has proactively absorbed and applied science and technology, invested in equipment, promoted initiatives, improved techniques to improve the quality of new construction, repair, and technical assurance for all types of ships. Currently, X51 is one of the leading units in the technical assurance of Navy, Coast Guard, and Self-Defense Force ships in the Southern region. Many capacity-enhancing projects have been implemented such as: 5,000-ton dry dock, 10,000-ton wharf, 2,270T ship lift...

To meet the increasingly high demands of the renovation period, the Factory regularly pays attention to training and improving the qualifications of its staff, workers and employees, through many creative forms: Organizing professional training classes, improving skills; linking with vocational schools for new training and retraining; sending staff and workers to training schools inside and outside the Army, training to receive technology transfer at home and abroad; organizing competitions and sports events associated with the emulation movement "practice skills - compete for good workers"... Up to now, the average worker level of the Factory is 5/7, high-level workers account for 51.6%; there are 35 welders with international certificates (Lloyds, BV).

The results in implementing key political tasks are always closely linked to Party and political activities. Accordingly, the Party Committee and the Factory's commanders always pay attention to building clean and strong Party organizations at all levels, associated with building a comprehensively strong "exemplary and typical" unit, creating a high level of unity in awareness, ideology and action in performing assigned tasks.

With its outstanding and comprehensive achievements in all aspects of work, Factory X51 was honored to receive many noble awards from the Party and State: the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces, 4 First-class Military Exploit Medals, Second-class Military Exploit Medals, Third-class Fatherland Protection Medals, Third-class Labor Medals. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its tradition (October 26, 1975 / October 26, 2025), the Factory was honored to receive the Third-class Fatherland Protection Medal from the President.

In the coming time, with the motto "Solidarity, coordination, dynamism and creativity, overcoming difficulties, completing tasks well", Factory X51 will continue to focus on researching, designing and proposing to build new modern military ships, meeting the requirements of protecting sea and island sovereignty in the new situation. At the same time, promote international cooperation, participate in building new economic ships to serve the domestic and export markets. Organize a streamlined, efficient, effective and efficient apparatus; do a good job of political and ideological education, effectively organize emulation movements; promote the role of mass organizations in carrying out the unit's political tasks. Pay attention to ensuring jobs, income, implementing regimes and policies for workers.

After 50 years of construction and development, Factory X51 has become one of the units with a long tradition in the Vietnamese military shipbuilding and repair industry. With a solid foundation from the achievements, today's generation of "soldiers" of Heroic Factory X51 is determined to continue writing the "epic" about the spirit of autonomy, self-reliance, self-strengthening, contributing to building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, modern People's Army, firmly protecting the sacred sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/xay-dung-quan-doi/nha-may-x51-nua-the-ky-xay-dung-va-phat-trien-899587