Attending the conference on the side of Army Corps 1 were: Major General Truong Manh Dung, Commander of Army Corps 1; Major General Nguyen Duc Hung, Political Commissar of Army Corps 1.

On behalf of the People's Army Newspaper and the Army Radio and Television Center, there were: Major General Nguyen Kim Ton, Director of the Army Radio and Television Center; Colonel Le Ngoc Long, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper; Colonel Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper.

Conference scene to exchange experiences in coordinating propaganda activities between 3 units.

Over the past years, promoting the spirit of initiative, creativity, solidarity, cooperation and development, the Party Committee and Command of the 1st Corps; the Party Committee and Editorial Board of the People's Army Newspaper and the Party Committee and Board of Directors of the Army Radio and Television Center have focused on leading, directing, and determining the contents of regular and phased activities, in conjunction with political events and assigned political tasks, ensuring maximum effectiveness of coordination of activities. The three units have held conferences to exchange experiences in coordination of activities 5 times.

Along with that, the 1st Army Corps and the two units have actively and proactively contacted, coordinated, unified and implemented propaganda activities with good results and widespread influence. The staff, reporters and editors of the People's Army Newspaper and the Army Radio and Television Center have promoted their roles and responsibilities to proactively follow the activities of the 1st Army Corps in training, combat readiness and building a regular unit. Agencies, units and schools in the Army Corps have done a good job of providing information, creating favorable conditions for the staff of reporters and editors of the People's Army Newspaper and the Army Radio and Television Center to learn about the reality in order to promptly report news, articles and reports on propaganda activities of the units with high quality.

Major General Truong Manh Dung, Commander of the 1st Corps; Major General Nguyen Duc Hung, Political Commissar of the 1st Corps.

Evaluating the results of coordination over the past 5 years, the 1st Corps and the People's Army Newspaper have coordinated to disseminate nearly 1,500 news, articles, photos, video clips... on the Newspaper's publications about the activities of the Party Committee, the 1st Corps Command and its affiliated agencies and units. The Army Radio and Television Center and the 1st Corps have coordinated to produce and broadcast more than 600 reports, news, articles, and propaganda topics on all aspects of the Corps' activities.

The press works of the People's Army Newspaper and the Army Radio and Television Center have focused on propagating the results of the implementation of political tasks and the traditions of the 1st Corps, making officers and soldiers deeply aware of the revolutionary traditions of the Party, the nation, the Army and the tradition of "Lightning Speed ​​- Determination to Win", the glorious feats and achievements of the Corps over 50 years of construction, fighting and growth; fostering political mettle, patriotism, revolutionary nature, enhancing pride and sense of responsibility for officers and soldiers determined to excellently complete all assigned tasks.

Those press works have spread the good image of the 1st Corps to all classes of people, thereby helping officers and soldiers of units in the Corps strive to complete their assigned tasks excellently, the quality of preparation and practice training, combat readiness and other aspects of the Corps' work are increasingly improved, going into depth and effectiveness, meeting the requirements of tasks in the new situation.

Leaders and commanders of the 1st Corps, People's Army Newspaper and the Army Radio and Television Center took a souvenir photo.

In addition to the task of coordinating propaganda, in 2019, the People's Army Newspaper and the Corps coordinated to support the construction and award of "Comrades' Houses" to 2 soldiers of the Corps with difficult housing circumstances. In 2020, the People's Army Newspaper supported the construction and award of "Gratitude Houses" to Mr. Bui Van Quyen - a 61% disabled soldier in Thuong hamlet, Lac Thinh commune, Lac Thuy district, Hoa Binh province.

In 2021, the People's Army Newspaper supported 150 million VND to build a "House of Gratitude" for a wounded soldier in Trieu Phong district, Quang Tri province. The Military Radio and Television Center supported the construction of a "House of Gratitude for Comrades" for Mr. Pham Ngoc Binh - a demobilized soldier with a particularly difficult family situation in village 6, Dong Son commune, Tam Diep city, Ninh Binh province.

The above activities have left good impressions and feelings for the attention and implementation of the morality of "When drinking water, remember its source", showing gratitude to families with meritorious services to the revolution of the Army Corps, the People's Army and the Army Radio and Television Center. Therefore, policy work and gratitude activities are identified as one of the key tasks, with practical significance in performing the functions of the Army, enhancing the qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers.

Major General Nguyen Kim Ton, Director of the Military Radio and Television Center, spoke at the conference.

At the conference, delegates emphasized the results in coordinating propaganda activities, and proposed many solutions to improve propaganda work to have many good news and articles about the 1st Corps. Along with that, many opinions agreed to propose not only good coordination in information and propaganda, but also that the parties continue to coordinate to further promote mass mobilization work, military policy work, military rear... News and articles are highly topical, in line with the Party's viewpoint, timely informing and orienting the thoughts of soldiers and people, widely spreading the results of performing tasks and the good image of the 1st Corps officers and soldiers to readers and people.

Colonel Le Ngoc Long, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper, gave a speech at the conference.

In order to meet and improve the quality of propaganda coordination in the coming time, Colonel Le Ngoc Long said that the two sides must have closer coordination such as clearly defining upcoming propaganda contents, having specific plans for the contents. In particular, the upcoming propaganda tasks need to promote propaganda to carry out military - defense tasks; propaganda for officers, soldiers, and people to understand and implement Resolution No. 05-NQ/TW and Resolution No. 230-NQ/QUTW in adjusting the organization of forces. Along with that, closely coordinate to promote propaganda activities towards celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Corps, especially the talk show program between the Corps and the People's Army Newspaper, series of articles, reports reporting on the Corps' anniversary activities.

Speaking at the conference, Major General Truong Manh Dung thanked the leaders and commanders of the People's Army Newspaper Editorial Board and the Military Radio and Television Center for always standing side by side with the agencies and units of the 1st Corps, promptly reflecting truthfully, objectively and vividly the results, achievements, exploits and all activities of the troops; promptly propagating and reporting on the results of implementing political tasks, typical advanced examples, new models, and creative ways of doing things of agencies and units; especially, the results of training and combat readiness; building regularity and discipline; military foreign affairs activities; helping people overcome the consequences of natural disasters, preventing epidemics and policy work, military rear areas...

Leaders and commanders of Army Corps 1 present gifts to People's Army Newspaper.

Leaders and commanders of the 1st Corps presented gifts to the Military Radio and Television Center.

To continue organizing coordinated activities between the three units to bring about practical results, contributing to the successful implementation of political tasks, Major General Truong Manh Dung said that the Party Committees and commanders of the three units must regularly lead and closely direct the activities; direct the functional agencies in advising, proposing, and coordinating the development of action programs; regularly exchange to improve the effectiveness of coordinated activities; actively promote gratitude activities, well implement policies towards the Army and the army's rear; create more favorable conditions, promptly reflect and widely propagate typical advanced examples, typical models, good and creative practices of the Corps, propaganda activities towards celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Corps' founding, thereby creating a wide spread throughout the army; contribute to encouraging and motivating the Corps' officers and soldiers to strive to fulfill all assigned tasks.

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