People's Army Publishing House received the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal

On the morning of July 11, in Hanoi, the People's Army Publishing House solemnly held a ceremony to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the unit's traditional day.

Representatives of the People's Army Publishing House were honored to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal.

Attending the ceremony to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Military Publishing House's tradition were comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Education Commission, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association ; comrade Le Hai Binh, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Senior Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army.

Since the period of fighting for national independence, our Party has paid great attention to publishing activities and considered it an important field, a sharp weapon on the Party's cultural and ideological front. After the success of the August Revolution, in order to meet the requirements of building a revolutionary army in the new situation, since 1946, the Ministry of National Defense and other agencies have carried out military book publishing activities, then the National Defense Publishing House (in 1947) and the Guerrilla Publishing House (in 1948) were established.

Senior Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, spoke at the ceremony.

On July 11, 1950, President Ho Chi Minh signed and issued Decree No. 121/SL on the organization of the General Command of the Vietnam National Army and Militia. Article 3 of the Decree identified the National Defense Publishing House as one of the first five agencies in the organizational formation of the General Political Department, on the basis of merging the National Defense Publishing House and the Guerrilla Publishing House.

In response to the wishes of generations of cadres and employees of the People's Army Publishing House, on September 18, 1999, the Director of the General Department of Politics issued Decision No. 580/QD-CT recognizing July 11, 1950 as the Traditional Day of the People's Army Publishing House.

In his speech at the ceremony, Colonel Pham Van Truong, Director-Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Publishing House, emphasized: "The history of the Publishing House since its inception has always been closely linked to the process of building, developing, fighting and maturing of our people's armed forces, under the leadership of the Party. Throughout its operation, the Publishing House has always closely followed and effectively served the political and military tasks of the Party according to each stage of development of the revolution and the army."

Delegates attended the ceremony to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the People's Army Publishing House's tradition day.

During the resistance war against French colonialism, despite operating under numerous difficulties, the Publishing House published nearly 300 books, mostly thin books, with rudimentary printing methods, black cardboard, and rustic forms. However, these were considered the most important works and documents of our army at that time, contributing to political and ideological education and combat training for soldiers.

During the resistance war against the US to save the country, the number and quality of published books increased rapidly, including many great works by President Ho Chi Minh, comrades Le Duan, Truong Chinh, Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap, Nguyen Chi Thanh, etc., contributing to disseminating and thoroughly guiding the actions of the army and people nationwide to successfully implement the Party's political and military guidelines.

Practical content and forms suitable for soldiers' combat activities such as publishing small-sized books, building mobile bookshelves in backpacks, books followed soldiers to all battlefields.

Special art program.

Since the country was completely liberated, especially in nearly 40 years of renovation, the People's Army Publishing House has firmly grasped and focused highly on military topics, publishing a large number of valuable works such as war summaries, military history, memoirs, theses of generals and scientists; at the same time, coordinating with agencies and units throughout the army to successfully produce book series serving the cause of consolidating the national defense, building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and gradually modernized people's army in the new period.

Many valuable works and book series were carefully edited and published on the occasion of the major anniversaries of the Party, State and Army. Many books and book series of the Publishing House have won high prizes at the National and International Book Awards, the Vietnam Writers Association Awards and the awards of the sectors, localities and the Ministry of National Defense.

Many authors whose books were published at the Publishing House have received the Ho Chi Minh Prize, the State Prize for Literature and Arts...

Colonel Pham Van Truong, Director - Editor-in-Chief of People's Army Publishing House spoke at the ceremony.

During that glorious journey, the cadres, editors, employees and soldiers of the Publishing House have devoted their intelligence, capacity, and perseverance to overcome all difficulties and challenges to excellently fulfill their duties and functions, contributing worthily to the victory of our army and people in the wars of liberation and the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

Up to now, the unit has published more than 20 thousand titles with nearly 70 million copies and more than 6.5 billion printed pages. These figures demonstrate the long tradition of the Publishing House through the historical periods of the Vietnam People's Army in particular and the Vietnamese revolution in general.

The ceremony to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal took place in a solemn atmosphere.

In recognition of its positive contributions to the cause of national liberation, construction and protection of the Fatherland, the People's Army Publishing House was honored to receive many noble awards from the Party and State: First-class Military Exploit Medal (1969), First-class Military Exploit Medal (1982), 2 Third-class Independence Medals (1997, 2007), Third-class Labor Medal (2015), Second-class Fatherland Protection Medal (2020)... and many other noble awards.

With outstanding achievements in the period from 2020 to present, on May 23, 2025, the People's Army Publishing House was honored to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal signed by the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

In recognition of its positive contributions to the cause of national liberation, construction and protection of the Fatherland, the People's Army Publishing House was honored to receive many noble awards from the Party and State:

First Class Medal of Military Exploit (1969)

First Class Military Merit Medal (1982)

2 Third Class Independence Medals (1997, 2007)

Third Class Labor Medal (2015)

Second Class Fatherland Protection Medal (2020)...

This is a source of pride and great encouragement for the staff, editors, employees and soldiers of the Publishing House to continue to strive, rise up and continue writing heroic pages of history in the new era.

MAI LU

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