Ceremony to honor typical cooperatives and award Cooperative Star

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung speaks. Photo: Le Dong/VNA

The ceremony is part of a series of events during the Month of Action for Cooperatives, commemorating Vietnam Cooperative Day on April 11 and the International Year of Cooperatives 2025. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent a congratulatory flower basket. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung attended and presented honorary symbols to outstanding cooperatives.

The ceremony aims to recognize and honor cooperatives and cooperative unions with outstanding achievements in production and business development activities; enhance the role and position of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system in participating in the development of collective economy and cooperatives, promote propaganda, mobilization, guidance and support for members to actively participate in cooperative development. At the same time, support the development of cooperatives that link production and business activities with product value chains, apply science and technology, innovate and digitalize, develop green, organic and circular agriculture.

The organizing committee awarded the "Cooperative Star" award to 100 outstanding cooperatives. Photo: Luong Hieu/VNA

Sharing the joy of attending the Ceremony to honor outstanding cooperatives and award the Cooperative Star Award, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said that this is a meaningful event on the occasion of celebrating the 79th anniversary of the day Uncle Ho wrote a letter calling on Vietnamese landlords and farmers to join agricultural cooperatives (April 11, 1946 - April 11, 2025) and the 14th anniversary of the Prime Minister's recognition of Vietnam Cooperative Day. This is also an opportunity to recognize and honor cooperatives - typical stars who have achieved many achievements in production and business and have made many contributions to the development of the industry and the locality.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that right after the success of the August Revolution, responding to Uncle Ho's call, in 1948 in the Viet Bac War Zone, the first cooperative was established, marking the birth and development of the collective economic sector and cooperatives in Vietnam. After 79 years of development, policies and laws on collective economic and cooperatives have been built and perfected to suit each stage of development. The collective economic sector with the core of cooperatives has had positive changes from changing awareness, thinking, to practical actions and has increasingly developed in scale, quantity, diversified in industries and products, better meeting the needs of the domestic and export markets.

The organizing committee awarded the "Cooperative Star" award to 100 outstanding cooperatives. Photo: Luong Hieu/VNA

By the end of 2024, the country had formed more than 33,000 cooperatives with about 6 million members and 152 cooperative unions. The collective economic sector continues to affirm its role in developing member households' economy, ensuring social security, political stability at the grassroots level and directly contributing to the country's economic growth.

Praising and appreciating the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance for successfully organizing a series of events for the Month of Action for Cooperatives and the second Ceremony to honor outstanding cooperatives in response to the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives with the theme "Cooperatives build a better world", the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW of the 13th Party Central Committee clearly defined the goals, tasks and solutions for continuing to innovate, develop and improve the efficiency of the collective economy in the new period.

In the context of the current complex and unpredictable developments in the world and regional economy, with many new opportunities and challenges intertwined, in order to successfully implement the goals of developing the collective economy and cooperatives in the coming time, the Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, localities and socio-political organizations to continue to thoroughly grasp and closely follow the Party's guiding viewpoints, developing and improving the efficiency of economic activities is the task of the entire political system.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and Chairwoman of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance Cao Xuan Thu Van presented the "Cooperative Star" award to 100 outstanding cooperatives. Photo: Luong Hieu/VNA

Ministries, branches and local authorities at all levels need to grasp the realities, advise on perfecting mechanisms and policies, allocate synchronous resources, promote the collective economic sector and cooperatives to develop to their full potential in the new era; stand side by side and work together to remove difficulties and obstacles for production and business activities of cooperatives; pay attention to training and developing human resources for the collective economic sector, cooperatives and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system to meet the requirements and tasks of collective economic development in the coming time.

Regarding the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system, the Deputy Prime Minister noted the need to focus on improving capacity and operational efficiency, promoting the representative, core role, and supporting cooperatives and cooperative unions as a bridge between the Party and the State and collective economic sectors; actively promoting the position and role of the collective economic sector and cooperatives in the country's socio-economic development, attracting many cooperatives to become members of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system. The Cooperative Alliance system needs to research, promote, criticize policies, and propose to perfect mechanisms and policies to develop the collective economy and cooperatives.

Collective economic organizations and cooperatives must be proactive, self-reliant, and self-reliant in production and business activities, participate in effective and sustainable linkages along the product value chain, and improve their ability to adapt to competition and market fluctuations. Collective economic organizations and cooperatives need to innovate in their thinking and working methods, shift from old thinking to new economic thinking in line with the trend of green economy, circular economy, and adaptation to climate change; improve their capacity in management, operation, and training to improve the quality of human resources of members and participating labor force.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and Chairwoman of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance Cao Xuan Thu Van presented the "Cooperative Star" award to 100 outstanding cooperatives. Photo: Le Dong/VNA

The Deputy Prime Minister also reminded the cooperatives that won the Cooperative Star Award in 2025 to continue to be pioneers in cooperation, association, application of scientific and technological advances, development of products with high added value, high economic efficiency and continue to build and develop brands, enhance competitiveness in domestic and international markets; at the same time, they must be important nuclei in the movement to develop collective economy and cooperatives in Vietnam.

“The Government will continue to accompany collective economic organizations and cooperatives to remove and resolve obstacles and difficulties, creating motivation for the collective economic sector and cooperatives to catch up, progress together and rise up with other economic sectors,” the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.

At the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung, President of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance Cao Xuan Thu Van and delegates launched the Online Product Market for Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas.

According to baotintuc.vn

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