Ho Chi Minh City summarizes military service work in 2025

On May 22, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee held a conference to summarize the work of selecting and calling citizens to join the army in 2025. In 2025, the Government assigned Ho Chi Minh City the target of selecting and calling citizens to perform military service and public security service: 4,987 male citizens (police: 987; military: 4,000). Military Region 7 assigned Ho Chi Minh City to select 3 female citizens.

Ho Chi Minh City is the locality with the highest military recruitment target in the country, with a military recruitment rate of 100%. During the 2025 military recruitment process, military agencies of districts and Thu Duc City have closely coordinated with police forces at the same level, effectively applying the national population database to closely manage citizens of military age.

Thanks to that, the rate of absent citizens in the locality decreased by 1.95% compared to 2024, contributing to ensuring a source of citizens ready to join the army.

The quality of military recruitment in 2025 is higher than in 2024. Criteria such as the number of party members joining the army; new recruits with intermediate, college, and university education; new recruits with health type 1 and type 2 joining the army all exceeded the set target.

Lieutenant General Le Hong Nam, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, awarded certificates of merit to groups with outstanding achievements in the work of selecting and calling citizens to join the army in 2025.

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In addition, Ho Chi Minh City has done a good job of taking care of the military's rear policies for young people joining the army with a total amount of over 25 billion VND. On average, each citizen joining the army in 2025 will receive a gift worth over 6.4 million VND.

Ho Chi Minh City also promptly supports families of citizens who are in difficulty when joining the army through programs such as setting up savings books, giving gifts to citizens who pass the army, and supporting families so that citizens can feel secure and enthusiastic about joining the army.

As soon as they received the soldiers, units such as Gia Dinh Regiment quickly stabilized and arranged their staff and coordinated with Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital to organize health checks for new soldiers to ensure they met the prescribed time.

The organization of receiving and training new soldiers is carefully prepared in all aspects, organizing the training framework from squad to battalion. The facilities ensure good service for the spiritual life of new soldiers and the logistics and technical work are in accordance with the instructions of Military Region 7 and Ho Chi Minh City.

Major General Vu Van Dien, Commander of Ho Chi Minh City Command, awarded certificates of merit to families with outstanding achievements in the work of selecting and calling citizens to join the army in 2025.

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However, the process of selecting citizens to join the army also has some limitations such as some localities do not know about absent citizens, the review and public election work is still limited, receiving and resolving complaints is not reasonable, leading to people's complaints being sent to all levels...

At the conference, Major General Le Ngoc Hai, Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Region 7, commented: "The quality of the selection of highly qualified young men for military service is a long-term strategic task for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland in general. In addition, this is also a politically strong team trained in the military environment, a source of additional cadres for the locality. And this is also a source of disciplined and high-quality labor in the construction of Ho Chi Minh City after citizens complete their service and return to their localities."

In the coming time, the whole country will abolish the district level. The representative of the leadership of Military Region 7 hopes to soon have instructions to hand over the records to the wards and communes and have directions to continue implementing the selection process, calling citizens to perform military service in 2026.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tphcm-tong-ket-cong-tac-nghia-vu-quan-su-2025-185250522181959805.htm