The Organizing Committee received 4,079 entries from 163 press agencies, thereby affirming the attractiveness and appeal of the award. The Judging Council selected 83 outstanding entries to award prizes.

There are 8 A prizes, 15 B prizes, 20 C prizes, 40 Encouragement prizes. In addition, the Organizing Committee selected and awarded certificates of merit from the Head of the National Assembly Office to 20 collectives with outstanding achievements, making important contributions to the success of the Dien Hong Prize.

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National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented awards to authors and groups of authors who won A prizes. Photo: Quang Phuc

The works are carefully invested, of high quality, and represent both content and form; most of which are serial series, using modern propaganda forms.

The content vividly reflects the theme of the Dien Hong Award; many works deeply reflect the results of innovation in the activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils; closely follow the breath of life, reflect the thoughts and aspirations of voters and people, propose and give advice to improve the quality and effectiveness of the activities of elected bodies...

Speaking at the award ceremony, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man assessed that the journalistic works with new, creative, attractive and convincing research were well received by readers and highly appreciated by the Award Judging Council. Many articles highlighted the efforts and determination to innovate and improve the quality of activities, important and quite comprehensive results in all aspects of the National Assembly's work in 2024.

In particular, there are many articles that deeply analyze the innovations in legislative work and decisions on important issues of the country, shifting the thinking of law-making towards both ensuring the requirements of state management and encouraging creativity, liberating all productive forces, and unleashing all resources for development with the spirit of breakthrough, reform, decentralization, radical decentralization, proactive delegation of power, ensuring flexibility in the Government's operations...

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National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks at the award ceremony. Photo: Ly Dao

The National Assembly Chairman believes that journalists will continue to promote their love for the profession with a bright heart, sharp pen, and steadfast mind, accompanying the National Assembly, promptly reporting on the National Assembly's activities in terms of legislation, supreme supervision, and deciding on important issues of the country.

The National Assembly Chairman asked journalists to continue to explore and discover shortcomings and obstacles in the process of law-making and law enforcement; urgent issues of the people and businesses to reflect to the National Assembly and People's Councils, to find solutions and timely solutions. The press also helps the National Assembly and People's Councils to operate more effectively and efficiently, worthy of the trust of voters and people.

The National Assembly Chairman emphasized that the press needs to strongly spread the positive spirit, new aspirations, determination, and new momentum throughout the Party, people, and army, especially the messages of General Secretary To Lam, which are also the Party's leadership policy for the era of national development. According to the National Assembly Chairman, this is like a call to arms, urging the spirit of action, innovation, daring to think, daring to do, and daring to take responsibility.

It is about innovating the overall organizational model of the entire political system with the level and scale of a revolution in the organization of the cadre apparatus; a message about science and technology development, digital transformation with a determination to popularize digital transformation among the entire population; a message about administrative procedure reform, preventing corruption, waste, and negativity...

At the award ceremony, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh launched the fourth Dien Hong Award - 2026 with the theme of 80 years of the National Assembly of Vietnam. The fourth Dien Hong Award - 2026 will be held in early January 2026, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the first General Election to elect the National Assembly of Vietnam.

Streamlining the apparatus and reducing press agencies to improve information quality and efficiency

Streamlining the apparatus and reducing press agencies to improve information quality and efficiency

Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia affirmed that streamlining the apparatus and reducing the number of press agencies will improve the quality of information, so that journalists can be more confident and firmly believe in building a new era of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism.
Press agencies need to improve the mindset of their staff when arranging and streamlining the apparatus.

Press agencies need to improve the mindset of their staff when arranging and streamlining the apparatus.

One of the important tasks in the coming time for press agencies is to do a good job of ideological work for cadres, reporters... regarding innovation and reorganization of the apparatus.