Quang Ninh women confidently step into the new era

Delegates took souvenir photos at the meeting to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Women's Union on October 20 (1930-2025) organized by the Provincial Women's Union.

Firmly asserting position

With nearly 50% of the province's population, Quang Ninh women have been strongly affirming their role as a sustainable support for the family; an important force contributing to the successful implementation of political tasks and socio-economic development of the province. Currently, nearly 40% of enterprises in the province are owned by women, actively contributing to building a green, creative and sustainable startup ecosystem. In agriculture, women account for 43.6% of the workforce, active in transforming production models and building new rural areas. In industrial zones, female workers account for more than 65% of the young workforce, enthusiastically working, contributing significantly to the overall growth of the province.

Quang Ninh women are increasingly asserting their role in building the Party, government and political system. In the 2021-2025 period, the rate of women participating in Party committees reached 27.67%, and female delegates to People's Councils at all levels reached 36.1%. The whole province has 9,568 women admitted to the Party, accounting for 45.7% of the total number of new Party members. The force of female cadres, civil servants and public employees accounts for 75.12%, being the pioneers in administrative reform, technology application and digital transformation. Many female cadres take on leadership roles, participate in policy making, contribute their intelligence, courage and women's voice to the province's sustainable development policies.

The Women's Association of Vang Danh Ward Police in coordination with the Ward Women's Union adopted a child named D.MT (Vang Danh Ward) with difficult circumstances.

In addition, women play a key role in building happy families, educating the younger generation, preserving and promoting traditional cultural values. Women in the education and health sectors make up the majority, pioneering in innovating teaching and learning methods, applying digital transformation and taking care of people's health. In the field of national defense and security, women in all regions actively participate in the movement "All people protect national security".

Quang Ninh women are also at the forefront of community activities. Over the past 5 years, the Women's Union at all levels has maintained 643 "Green, clean, beautiful routes", nearly 2,000 models of women sorting waste, 982 models of "Turning waste into money" earning over 5 billion VND to support disadvantaged women and children. The "Green Sunday" movement has spread strongly, contributing to changing the face of civilized rural and urban areas.

The "Godmother" program has been actively implemented by the Women's Union at all levels, mobilizing and connecting to sponsor 765 orphans in difficult circumstances with a budget of 5 billion VND. The "Accompanying women in the border areas" program has mobilized support resources worth over 15 billion VND for 6 difficult border communes. The Women's Union at all levels has mobilized to build 38 new "Shelters of Love", repaired 34 houses with a total budget of nearly 2.2 billion VND; during the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly 1 billion VND was mobilized to support families in difficulty; after storm No. 3 in 2024, 1.6 billion VND was mobilized to visit and support women's union members to overcome the consequences...

2025 Women's Volleyball Exchange Tournament in Van Don Special Economic Zone.

Along with that, 100% of the Association's facilities maintain and establish new models, sports, cultural and artistic clubs with many types, creating an environment for members and women to exercise, exchange and improve their cultural and spiritual life. The whole province currently has 513 volleyball clubs, 40 women's football clubs, 28 yoga clubs, 31 clubs on preserving national cultural identity, and 1,780 folk dance clubs.

Awakening the aspirations of the new era

The 95th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Women's Union took place in a vibrant atmosphere of emulation. Speaking at the ceremony held in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam affirmed: "The Party and State have always been consistent in promoting substantive gender equality, expanding opportunities for women to participate in leadership, administration, start-ups, science and technology...". The General Secretary proposed launching an emulation movement with the theme "Vietnamese Women: Aspiration - Intelligence - Compassion - Creativity - Sustainability - Happiness", considering this a strategic breakthrough of the Vietnamese women's movement in the period 2025-2035, with a vision to 2045.

Responding to that spirit, Quang Ninh women are materializing it with practical programs and activities. Women's Unions at all levels continue to promote the movements "Building Vietnamese women of the new era", "Building the image of Quang Ninh women of the new era with knowledge, morality, health, dynamism, creativity, civilization, and friendliness". 100% of Women's Unions at all levels have launched emulation movements; propagandized and supported members to improve their qualifications, knowledge, health, and practice the moral qualities of Vietnamese women of the new era, associated with the cultural characteristics and people of Quang Ninh.

Folk dance exchange program organized by Mao Khe Ward Women's Union.

Many exciting and close-knit activities were carried out such as "Ao Dai Week", "Quang Ninh Folk Dance Festival", forums "Quang Ninh Women Today", "Quang Ninh Women Standing Firm in the New Era", or the writing contest "Inspirational Stories in the Godmother Program"... These programs not only create a rich living space, connecting members but also spread humanistic values, adding faith, aspiration and positive energy for Quang Ninh women to be more confident, brave and shine brighter in life.

In particular, the spirit of "digital women" and "green women" emphasized by General Secretary To Lam is being strongly responded to by all levels of the Association. Up to now, the entire Association has built 1 website, 285 fanpages, and more than 1,700 zalo groups to serve propaganda and spread information to members. 100% of provincial-level directive documents are implemented through the interconnection axis; meetings apply QR codes instead of paper documents, contributing to modernizing working methods, saving costs and improving leadership and management efficiency. Hundreds of members are supported to open booths on the e-commerce platforms Postmart and Voso, bringing highland specialties and OCOP products of the province to domestic and foreign consumers.

Bai Chay Ward Women's Union organized a conference to deploy the Plan to popularize community digital technology for members and women in the area.

Entering the 2025-2030 term, the Provincial Women's Union has identified three breakthroughs: Comprehensive digital transformation in the Union organization, accompanying women to improve digital capacity; promoting women to start businesses and innovate; innovating content and methods of operation, improving the quality of the Union's staff to meet the requirements of the new period. The consistent goal is to build Quang Ninh women to develop comprehensively, with knowledge, ethics, health, compassion, responsibility, and confidence in integration, contributing to the province's goal of becoming a centrally-run city before 2030.

Nguyen Hoa

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