The press must always affirm itself as a sharp weapon on the ideological and political front.

According to Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Journalists Association Nguyen Tan Phong, journalists in the City named after Uncle Ho always keep in mind that they must be absolutely loyal to the interests of the Fatherland and the people, making important contributions to the cause of national renewal and city development.

Through the vivid reality of social life, revolutionary journalism has continuously grown and matured in all aspects. The city has many types of journalism and a strong team of writers. The city's journalism has made great strides in terms of technology, prestige, and dissemination, to meet the increasing needs of the public, not only in the city but also in the whole country.

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Mr. Tran Trong Dung (left cover), Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, in charge of the southern region, presented the 2023 Excellent Collective Emulation Flag to the Ho Chi Minh City Journalists Association. (Photo: Quoc Thanh)

City journalists constantly improve their professional skills, always demonstrate high responsibility, do not hesitate to face difficulties and hardships to penetrate reality, immerse themselves in the breath of new life to obtain authentic and vivid materials to have many journalistic works with the spirit of innovation, encourage, cheer, and motivate new elements, spread good things and justice in social life, in the simple lives of the people.

The City's press also contributes to fighting and criticizing unhealthy and negative manifestations in social life, and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints.

Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Nguyen Ho Hai, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee affirmed that throughout the process of construction and development, the city has always received attention, comments and sharing from press agencies.

Therefore, the City always acknowledges and appreciates the contributions of press agencies and considers the revolutionary press a very important force, which has accompanied Ho Chi Minh City on many fronts in recent times.

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Comrade Nguyen Ho Hai, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, spoke at the program. (Photo: Quoc Thanh)

Comrade Nguyen Ho Hai suggested that press agencies must always affirm that they are sharp weapons on the ideological and political front; continue to perform well the task of bringing the Party and State's policies into life; focus on improving the quality of information and propaganda work on the City's policies, especially those related to and directly affecting people's lives so that people can clearly understand, share, sympathize, and thereby agree and support the policies; trust in the leadership and management of the City Party Committee and government.

Press agencies focus on political and ideological education; building grassroots Party organizations and developing Party members; paying attention to training and fostering a team of journalists with strong political will, increasingly high professional qualifications, maintaining professional ethics, mastering modern journalism technology, meeting the requirements of digital transformation; aiming to build a "professional, humane and modern" press and media...

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Awarding Encouragement Prizes to authors whose works won prizes.

At the program, the Organizing Committee awarded the 42nd Ho Chi Minh City Press Award to 61 winning works.

According to the Jury, this year's award-winning works have rich and diverse content, truly reflecting outstanding achievements in economic, cultural and social development, Party building and rectification, building a rule-of-law state, highlighting exemplary cultural families and streets, promoting people's mastery through mass mobilization and grassroots democracy.

At the same time, many works have demonstrated the spirit of social criticism, giving advice, proposing effective solutions, condemning bad and unsavory manifestations in society...

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