Attending the seminar were Mr. Le Xuan Dung, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of TN&MT Newspaper, Secretary of TN&MT Newspaper Association; Ms. Ly Thi Hong Diep, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of TN&MT Newspaper; Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Son La province; Mr. Vu Thanh Hai, Vice Chairman of Van Ho District People's Committee; Mr. Ha Van Ung, Vice Chairman of Chieng Khoa Commune People's Committee, Van Ho District; Village Elder Dinh Cong Nguyen, Chieng Le village, former Chairman of Chieng Khoa Commune People's Committee, Van Ho District; representatives of 15 village elders, Village Chiefs from 7 villages of Chieng Khoa commune and all reporters, editors, and artists of TN&MT Newspaper Association.
Efforts to bring environmental policies closer to local realities
Speaking at the Seminar, Mr. Le Xuan Dung, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of TN&MT Newspaper, Secretary of TN&MT Newspaper Association, said that the press is an important and indispensable part of communication work. The press provides information, promotes social communication, and creates equal forums for different subjects in society. Through press works in various genres, good models and practices on environmental protection and climate change adaptation have been widely spread to all regions. Along with that, condemning and criticizing acts that have negative impacts and pollute the environment, evoking the participation of all people and local authorities at all levels in environmental protection work, towards developing a green and sustainable economy .
Therefore, when coming to the ethnic people of Chieng Khoa commune, the reporters and editors of TN&MT Newspaper hope to listen to the information needs and communication methods from State management agencies to the people, as well as the information, wishes, and concerns that people want to hear, see, and need specific guidance. From there, create an effective bridge to promote communication work on environmental protection, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development, helping press agencies in general and TN&MT Newspaper in particular to get "closer to the people".
Mr. Le Xuan Dung said that as one of the press agencies assigned by the Government through the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, through the Ethnic Committee, through the Ministry of Information and Communications to promote and order information on ethnic minority and mountainous areas for many years, TN&MT Newspaper always focuses on and fully conveys the Party's guidelines, directives, and resolutions, the State's policies and laws on environmental protection, exploitation, and rational use of natural resources, and adaptation to climate change. In addition, TN&MT Newspaper promotes the commendation and honor of typical advanced examples, good models, creative ways, and valuable initiatives in natural resources and environmental management.
In order to have press works that provide quick information, accurately and truthfully reflect environmental protection and sustainable development in mountainous areas, TN&MT Newspaper has a team of reporters stationed in the region, closely following the area, opening topics, implementing many special topics, reports, TV talks, modern press works such as long-form, emagazine to reflect the breath of life, being an effective bridge in communication work on environmental protection, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.
Sharing about the information and propaganda work on environmental protection and climate change adaptation in Son La province in recent times, Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Son La province, said that the propaganda and legal education work on environmental protection has always been identified by Son La province as one of the key tasks, regularly innovating and diversifying propaganda methods and contents, according to each target group, aiming to change the behavior and conduct of organizations, individuals, production, business and service establishments in environmental protection.
In particular, as a mountainous province with over 83% of the population being ethnic minorities, changing people's awareness is a long-term process. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Son La province has developed a plan, roadmap, and specific implementation time. First of all, it is necessary to change people's awareness, gradually change behavior, eliminate old and backward habits, guide people to a new way of life, improve the quality of life, and proactively participate in environmental protection activities.
Along with that, the propaganda content must be specific, clear, simple, easy to understand, but still ensure the full transmission of the Party's guidelines, directives, Resolutions, policies, and laws of the State on environmental protection, exploitation, rational use of natural resources, and adaptation to climate change. The forms of propaganda are diverse and flexible, associated with each content and movement at each time, including: Propaganda in conferences, seminars, specialized training sessions, knowledge competitions. Propaganda on mass media, editing, translating into Thai, Mong languages, etc. to broadcast to people. Propaganda is carried out in cultural, artistic, and dramatic forms; hanging banners, slogans, billboards, posters, leaflets, etc.
Thanks to that, according to Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang, in recent years, the good news is that the awareness and sense of law compliance of businesses and people in Son La province have had many positive changes, helping people understand their rights and responsibilities in resource management and environmental protection.
TN&MT Newspaper is a reliable companion
Assessing the coordination between the TN&MT Newspaper and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Son La province in disseminating information on policies of the TN&MT sector in general and environmental protection work in particular to ethnic people in Son La province, Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang said that since 2015, the TN&MT Newspaper has coordinated with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to disseminate laws on environmental protection and climate change adaptation, creating an official and important information channel that contributes to comprehensively and promptly reflecting the current state of the environment and state management activities on environmental protection in the province, arousing and orienting public opinion on environmental issues, discovering, spreading and replicating typical models and examples of doing a good job of environmental protection.
“We always identify the press as a reliable companion. Press information channels have helped state management agencies at all levels promptly grasp and implement activities to improve the effectiveness of state management on environmental protection. Therefore, from the viewpoint of always publicizing and transparent information, environmental protection inspections chaired by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment always have the participation of a team of reporters and journalists to promptly provide information to media agencies to disseminate information to people across the province,” Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang emphasized.
In order for the propaganda work to continue to be more effective, in the coming time, Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang said that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has been developing projects and propaganda tasks with specific topics, objects, and goals that are fundamental and long-term. In that journey, the cooperation of press agencies, especially the staff and reporters of the TN&MT newspaper, is very much needed. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment will continue to implement the Regulations on speaking and providing information to the press.
Sharing the secret to preserving the environmental landscape, as well as implementing environmental protection and climate change adaptation in Van Ho district, Mr. Vu Thanh Hai, Vice Chairman of Van Ho district People's Committee, said that recently, the leaders of the district People's Committee have advised the district Party Executive Committee to issue action programs, including the development of green tourism, associated with natural landscapes; at the same time, throughout the process of leading and directing the implementation, the leaders of Van Ho district have also done a good job of planning and planning management, absolutely not affecting the natural landscape. In particular, with investors, the leaders of Van Ho district are very interested in and prioritize investors with potential and strengths but must properly fulfill their environmental commitments.
In addition, the leaders of the District People's Committee also integrated capital sources, especially implementing well the contents of the national target program to gradually improve people's lives; thereby creating conditions for people to access the best social services, contributing to raising awareness of environmental protection from their own families, residential areas, and villages where people live.
Appreciating the role of the media in environmental protection, on the occasion of this Seminar, Mr. Vu Thanh Hai also hoped that news agencies and newspapers, especially the TN&MT Newspaper, would continue to pay attention; promote and introduce the image of the land and people of Van Ho in particular and Son La in general; have truthful and objective reflections, thereby inviting investors to the district, joining hands with the district in socio-economic development; improving people's lives; improving the quality of the living environment as well as promoting the value of the land and people here.
At the Seminar, delegates also listened to the sharing of leaders of the People's Committee of Chieng Khoa commune, the prestigious village elder of Chieng Le commune Dinh Cong Nguyen, Chairman of the Women's Union of Chieng Khoa commune, about experiences in environmental protection in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; models and good practices to protect the environment and adapt to climate change that have been successfully implemented in the locality; experiences in conducting propaganda on environmental protection by resident reporters in mountainous provinces;...
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