165 works entered the final round of the 18th National Press Award 2023

Opening of the Final Round of the 18th National Press Awards 2023.

In his opening speech, comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Final Jury of the 18th National Press Awards - 2023 emphasized: The National Press Awards have entered their 18th season, accompanying the life of journalism, becoming a truly useful professional activity, spreading widely in all levels of the Association, in the press community and increasingly affirming its reputation as the most prestigious professional award for Vietnamese journalists.

According to the report of the Preliminary Council, the number of works submitted to the Award this year is still high. The supporting committees of the Award Council have made efforts to implement the work on schedule, ensuring the requirements of the award organization process.

The 73 members of the Preliminary Council, divided into 11 sub-committees, worked with professionalism and a high sense of responsibility, strictly implementing the Charter, Guidelines and Judging Regulations, conducting appraisal, judging and submitting to the Final Council a list of 165 works in 11 award categories, selected from 1,905 submitted works.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh delivered the opening speech. (Photo: CL)

Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Preliminary Council of the 18th National Press Awards 2023 Nguyen Duc Loi said that the entries closely followed major topics from politics, economics, culture, society, security, defense and aspects of life in 2023.

The press has promptly and vividly reflected major events and important issues of the country with prominent topics such as: Efforts to implement the 2023 socio-economic development plan and the 2020-2030 socio-economic development strategy; Party building and rectification, the fight against corruption and negativity, protecting the Party's ideological foundation; "hot" social issues (the terrorist incident in Dak Lak, fighting corruption in the vehicle inspection industry, cutting down on boarding school meals...); topics on history, commemorating important events of the country...

Members of the Final Jury of the 18th National Press Awards 2023 attended. (Photo: CL)

Many works are carefully invested, with content that discovers new issues, criticizes major policies and guidelines of the Party and State; proposes many creative solutions and good ways of doing things that have a widespread and influential influence in society.

Many works are of good quality, invested seriously and elaborately, have a tight structure, and are presented in a close, lively, and attractive way to readers. The quality gap between central and local press agencies is no longer large.

Members of the Jury vote on the entries in the final round. (Photo: CL)

The 18th National Press Awards 2023 will be presented on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day on June 21, towards the milestone of 100 years of Vietnam Revolutionary Press in 2025.

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