On the afternoon of June 14, in Hanoi, Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee, Minister of Public Security chaired a meeting with leaders of press management and direction agencies and leaders of press agencies, on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 1925 - June 21, 2024).

Attending the meeting were Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security; representatives of leaders of units under the Ministry of Public Security.

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Minister Luong Tam Quang with delegates attending the meeting.
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Delegates attending the meeting.

On the guest side, there were comrades of the Party Central Committee: Lai Xuan Mon, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department; Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Do Tien Sy, General Director of the Voice of Vietnam; Le Ngoc Quang, General Director of Vietnam Television. Also attending were comrades: Vu Viet Trang, General Director of Vietnam News Agency; Nguyen Thanh Lam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications; Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; representatives of leaders of news agencies inside and outside the People's Public Security Forces...

Orientation of propaganda information, fighting against wrong views

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Minister Luong Tam Quang spoke at the meeting.

Presenting the Summary Report on the results of coordination between the Public Security Forces and the commanding, managing agencies and press agencies, Major General Dang Hong Duc, Chief of Office of the Ministry of Public Security, said that in recent times, the commanding, managing agencies and press agencies have continued to effectively direct and participate in the work of protecting national security and maintaining social order and safety, promptly producing and publishing over 3,300 news and articles on the results of the work of fighting and preventing crime by the Public Security Forces.

In addition, it has directed the regulation and orientation of information and propaganda, especially for events and incidents related to security and order that are of special interest to public opinion, ensuring the source and quantity of information, not allowing hostile, reactionary, opposing forces, and political opportunists to take advantage of propaganda and distortion; typically, news and articles related to the process of arresting and trying subjects involved in the terrorist attack in Dak Lak province; trials of corruption and negative cases... Hundreds of journalists and reporters, regardless of difficulties and dangers, have worked side by side with the police force to promptly detect, report, provide, and recommend handling of many incidents, negative behaviors, types of crimes, and violations of the law.

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Comrade Le Quoc Minh spoke at the meeting.

Press and television agencies continued to make important contributions in propagating and mobilizing the masses to actively participate in the movement of the entire people to protect national security, implement the Party and State's policies and laws on ensuring security and order, produce nearly 4,500 news articles about good people and good deeds, and spread positive information about the People's Public Security Forces and the work of ensuring security and order, "serving the people".

The Ministry of Public Security's Steering Committee 35 actively coordinated with news agencies and press agencies in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, propagating and refuting hostile and erroneous viewpoints and toxic information; many press agencies, such as Vietnam Television, People's Army Newspaper, and People's Public Security Newspaper, etc., opened columns and pages to publish many articles and reports on the plots, methods and tricks of hostile forces and various types of crimes, so that social classes and the masses can identify them and contribute to the successful implementation of the goals and tasks of maintaining political security and socio-economic development.

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Major General Dang Hong Duc presented a report at the meeting.

According to Major General Dang Hong Duc, the functional units of the Ministry of Public Security have recently done a good job of coordinating, advising, and supporting the command and management agencies and the news and press agencies to do a good job of protecting internal political security, protecting state secrets, and ensuring information and communication security. Advise and recommend press management agencies to direct press agencies to orient propaganda, ensure information discipline, especially in the face of "hot", complicated cases that are of public interest, and not allow hostile and reactionary forces to take advantage of propaganda and distortion.

Coordinate with press and television agencies at the central and local levels to create 2,400 news articles, reports, images, 1,721 banners, posters... to orient public opinion and provide positive information to protect the Party's ideological foundation, fight against false and hostile information and viewpoints. Regularly scan and check network security and information system safety of press agencies, promptly detect, verify and handle cases with risks of network security and information safety, coordinate with functional agencies to handle effectively...

The press force coordinates closely and effectively with the police force.

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Delegates attending the meeting.

At the meeting, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper Le Quoc Minh, on behalf of the press force nationwide, congratulated Minister Luong Tam Quang on chairing the press meeting for the first time in his new position and role; and shared about the close and effective coordination between the Ministry of Public Security and the press force, from the perspective of the Vietnam Journalists Association and the main press agency.

"In the coming time, we will continue to coordinate efforts to propagate the activities of the Public Security force. If the Minister allows, next year, we will organize a truly worthy propaganda information route for the 80th anniversary of the Public Security Force's Traditional Day", he informed and respectfully thanked Minister Luong Tam Quang, Deputy Ministers and professional units of the Ministry of Public Security, especially the Department of Internal Political Security, for always accompanying, promptly exchanging, coordinating, guiding, and providing information for press agencies to grasp and propagate. He also thanked the Department of Public Security Communications, which has both the Public Security Newspaper - one of the key, multimedia press agencies of the Party and State, and the Public Security Television, which has actively coordinated in the past time, contributing to the success of 99 years of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press...

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Minister Luong Tam Quang awarded Certificates of Merit to collectives with outstanding achievements.

"Our press is quite old, 99 years old and is heading towards the hundred-year milestone, but we have never seen such a strong and healthy force as now, despite the challenges of society, technology, and many other issues, we have strived to overcome and seize opportunities so that in the coming time we can truly be a force serving the Fatherland and the people; the voice of the Party, the State and the people", the President of the Vietnam Journalists Association humorously shared and expressed his wish to continue to receive the attention and direction of the Minister, the attention, companionship, close coordination, and warm affection on the occasion of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day from the Public Security Forces, especially when the press forces are preparing to enter "a year of journalism" (June 21, 2024 - June 21, 2025) with many meaningful activities.

Realizing the goal of building a professional, humane and modern press

In a friendly atmosphere, Minister Luong Tam Quang happily sent to the representatives of the leadership of the steering agencies, press management agencies, press agencies and journalists across the country his best wishes for many successes in work and life.

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Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung awarded Certificates of Merit to individuals with outstanding achievements.

The Minister said that the meeting to congratulate on the anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day is an annual activity, solemnly organized by the Ministry of Public Security for many years, to deeply express gratitude to the press leadership agency, press management agency and the team of journalists, for their important contributions to the cause of protecting national security, ensuring social order and safety and building the People's Public Security force.

"Over the past year, under the leadership of the Party and the State, the close coordination of ministries, sectors, localities, the help and support of the people, including the support, companionship, and close coordination of the directing and management agencies, press agencies, journalists, and the police force, we have excellently completed the task of protecting security and order, maintaining a secure and safe environment, effectively serving the task of socio-economic development and international integration," the Minister stated.

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Delegates speaking at the meeting.

Along with that, the strategic policies of the Party, the State, the Central Public Security Party Committee, the Ministry of Public Security on ensuring security and order; practical work, combat and building the Public Security force; examples of good people and good deeds are all reflected promptly and vividly by the press. The press also actively propagates, encourages and motivates people of all walks of life to effectively implement the policies and laws of the Party and the State on ensuring security and order, actively fights against wrong and hostile viewpoints, and malicious information; promptly reflects many negative behaviors and violations of the law; accompanies the completion of the law on security and order, especially promptly conveys it to contribute to creating high consensus among social strata.

"Many articles and reports about outstanding achievements and images of brave police officers fighting and sacrificing while performing their duties, sacrificing themselves to save people in fires, natural disasters, storms and floods; advanced models and examples... have contributed to strengthening the people's trust, support and assistance, mobilizing the combined strength of the entire political system in the work of ensuring security and order. Many works written about the work of ensuring security and order, police officers by press agencies are of high quality, not only winning prestigious press awards; but more importantly, have constantly fostered love for the homeland and country, national pride and self-esteem, strongly urging the desire to contribute to the cause of protecting national security, leaving deep feelings in the hearts of the people and police officers...", Minister Luong Tam Quang commented.

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Minister Luong Tam Quang with delegates attending the meeting.

On behalf of the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security, Minister Luong Tam Quang acknowledged, highly appreciated, commended and sincerely thanked the directing and management agencies, press agencies and journalists for always coordinating, supporting and accompanying the Public Security force in ensuring security and order.

Minister Luong Tam Quang said that the task of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety is having very basic advantages, but also facing many difficulties and challenges. Therefore, the Minister hopes that press agencies, press management agencies and journalists nationwide will continue to accompany and closely coordinate in information and propaganda work, national security protection work, ensuring social order and safety, especially when next year, 2025, is the occasion to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the People's Public Security Forces' Traditional Day and the 100th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day; propagating strategic policies such as: building a truly clean, strong, disciplined, elite and modern People's Public Security Forces; building, perfecting and implementing laws on ensuring security and order, first of all the Law on Forces Participating in Protecting Security and Order at the Grassroots Level, which on July 1, the Ministry of Public Security will organize a launching ceremony for this force nationwide; National population data applications serving digital transformation - is an inevitable trend, very effective application...

"The Public Security force will continue to coordinate and support the commanding agencies, management agencies, and press agencies to do a good job of ensuring internal political security, protecting state secrets, ensuring information and communication security, etc., contributing to creating a truly secure and safe environment to realize the goal of building a modern, professional, humane press and the strategy of "Digital transformation of journalism by 2025, with a vision to 2030", meeting the requirements of tasks in the new situation", Minister Luong Tam Quang emphasized.

On this occasion, the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security awarded Certificates of Merit to 5 collectives and 5 individuals with outstanding achievements in coordinating propaganda on the task of protecting national security, ensuring social order and safety; awarded Certificates of Merit to 5 individuals with outstanding and outstanding achievements in their work, contributing to protecting national security, ensuring social order and safety...

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