Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Manh Cuong and the Editorial Board of Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper performed the launching ceremony of the data journalism project.

Attending the ceremony were comrade Nguyen Manh Cuong, member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.

Portraying 50 years of development of Ho Chi Minh City through the flow of current events

The project has systematized information from the first publications of SGGP Newspaper - published on May 5, 1975 - depicting the proud marks of Ho Chi Minh City in the reconstruction, construction and development over the past 50 years, with a dynamic, innovative and creative spirit, affirming the pioneering role of the city for the whole country, with the whole country.

Born right after the day the South was completely liberated, with the advantage of being the only daily newspaper published in Ho Chi Minh City at that time and for decades after, SGGP Newspaper - the mouthpiece of the Party Committee, government and people of Ho Chi Minh City - has become the "secretary of the times", vividly reflecting all aspects of political, economic, cultural and social life of Ho Chi Minh City over the past half century.

With this data project, readers can clearly imagine the excitement and joy of the people of Saigon in the first days of liberation; the difficulties, challenges and great efforts of the Saigon - Gia Dinh Military Management Committee in maintaining security and order, reviving the life of a chaotic urban area after the war, while also being the headquarters of the old government, leaving behind many consequences and heavy ruins.

Through this elaborate data project, readers can review the developments and proud marks of 11 Congresses of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee with major decisions, drastic activities and key projects that have contributed to changing the face of the city.

The project also demonstrates the responsibility of SGGP Newspaper in the era of national development, towards the goal of Vietnam becoming a developed, high-income country by 2045.

As the agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, the voice of the Party, government and people of Ho Chi Minh City, SGGP Newspaper is committed to continuing its pioneering mission in propaganda, aiming to arouse the spirit of creativity, accompanying the construction of Ho Chi Minh City into an attractive global destination with unique and sustainable economic, cultural and social development, high quality of life, and deep economic integration.

At the launch, Deputy Editor-in-Chief in charge of SGGP Newspaper Nguyen Khac Van said that SGGP Newspaper Agency has an extremely valuable treasure, which is the content of about 17,000 printed issues of SGGP published over the past 50 years, recreating the journey of reconstruction, construction and development of Ho Chi Minh City after the liberation day.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SGGP Newspaper Nguyen Khac Van introduces data journalism project

In this work, SGGP Newspaper strongly uses AI tools, with integrated AI assistant groups including: integrating text-to-sound conversion applications; recovering lost/damaged files or pages; automatically extracting image features (face recognition, general scene features, people features, vehicle features, etc.); extremely fast search according to requested content.

The project gathers many valuable documents.

Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Nguyen Manh Cuong commented that the data journalism project “Ho Chi Minh City 50 years: Proud imprints through the pages of Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper” has gathered many valuable documents archived by SGGP Newspaper from the first issues until now, creating a valuable publication not only for a wide readership but also effectively serving the research and synthesis work of advisory agencies.

Comrade Nguyen Manh Cuong commented that the project has gathered many valuable documents that SGGP Newspaper has accumulated and stored from the first issues until now, creating a publication that not only serves readers but is also a valuable source of documents and data, effectively serving research and synthesis work.

The project is even more meaningful when it is completed and launched on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day, and at the same time towards the 50th anniversary of the first issue of SGGP Newspaper (May 5, 1975 - May 5, 2025).

From this result, SGGP Newspaper needs to continue to promote and focus on accessing, processing, restoring and digitizing data, along with clearly defining production and operational methods that apply artificial intelligence (AI), in order to further promote the development of SGGP Newspaper in the coming time.

He also commented that the work demonstrates in-depth and practical analysis and assessment, contributing to enriching the comments and conclusions of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee. This is an important source of information serving the theoretical summary and direction of the city's political tasks in the coming time.

Comrade Nguyen Manh Cuong hopes that SGGP Newspaper will continue to make stronger strides in the digital transformation roadmap of journalism.

The sources of documents from this project meet the requirements of summarizing and concluding theoretically to serve the general political tasks of the City. Thereby, supporting the advisory and support agencies of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee to perform well the advisory task for the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee in leading and directing the political tasks of the city.

He hoped that, from the concrete and meaningful results of the project, SGGP Newspaper would continue to make stronger strides in the digital transformation of journalism. Through its massive archive of documents and scientific approaches, the Newspaper would also need to continue reviewing and synthesizing to exploit more rich materials, better serving the leadership and direction of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.

The Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee also affirmed that he will always accompany and create favorable conditions for SGGP Newspaper to continue to develop, meeting the requirements and expectations set by the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.

Presented in multimedia formats such as longform, infographic, and video, the project is not only intuitive and vivid, but also helps readers easily follow, experience, and look up information. Through that, SGGP Newspaper hopes to bring readers unforgettable, proud historical memories of the Party Committee, government, and people of the city named after Uncle Ho over the past half century.

The project was launched on SGGP Online Newspaper from April 23, 2025. SGGP Newspaper will continue to exploit the valuable data warehouse of 50 years of journalism to bring readers a comprehensive view of the innovation and development journey of Ho Chi Minh City in particular and the whole country in general.


According to SGGP

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