Thai Nguyen is proud to be the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association.

When April comes, journalists across the country in general and Thai Nguyen in particular are nostalgic about the birthplace of the Association of Journalists. The stele marking the birthplace of the Association is engraved with the inscription: "Here, on April 21, 1950, the Congress of Vietnamese Journalists (now the Vietnam Journalists Association) took place" and is located among the cool green tea gardens and simple roofs. On August 23, 2004, the Ministry of Culture and Information issued Decision No. 74/2004/QD-BVHTT to rank this place as a National Historical Relic.

Leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Thai Nguyen province and local Journalists Associations visited the exhibition house of the national historical relic, the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association, in Roong Khoa hamlet, Diem Mac commune, Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen.

Right from its inception, the Party has identified the press as a front, an important front in the field of culture and ideology, and each journalist is a soldier. Notably, the outstanding leaders of our Party are all journalists, typically President Ho Chi Minh and comrades such as Truong Chinh, Pham Van Dong, Xuan Thuy, Vo Nguyen Giap, etc. Therefore, the Vietnam Journalists Association is one of the earliest political - social - professional associations. The mission of the Vietnam Journalists Association is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of journalists in their work; foster professional expertise, journalism skills, and professional ethics for members; supervise compliance with laws and regulations on professional ethics of journalists; participate in building and organizing the implementation of mechanisms and policies on information and journalism; carry out foreign affairs activities in accordance with the law.

Every year, Thai Nguyen Journalists Association organizes a trip back to the source to celebrate the founding anniversary of Vietnam Journalists Association on April 21.

Throughout its operation since its establishment, the Vietnam Journalists Association has gathered, united, and motivated journalists nationwide to overcome numerous difficulties, challenges, and hardships, and successfully complete the glorious mission of revolutionary journalism. In recent years, the Vietnam Journalists Association has made many important innovations in many aspects of its activities, carried out political tasks, gathered and united its members - journalists, contributed to creating consensus within the Party and in society; and encouraged journalists to successfully propagate the Party's resolutions and the State's policies. Regarding professional work, the Vietnam Journalists Association has well organized activities such as: the annual National Press Awards, specialized press awards, seriously and effectively implemented the Project to Support the Creation of High-Quality Journalistic Works; increased the quantity and effectiveness of professional training; coordinated and effectively participated in the direction and management of the press, etc.

Thai Nguyen is proud to be the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association, an honor for journalists in the revolutionary homeland. Over the years, with the close attention and direction of Thai Nguyen province, the Central Committee of the Association, the Thai Nguyen Provincial Journalists Association and press agencies, journalists have gradually matured. The Association's activities have been constantly innovated, achieving positive results; doing a good job of disseminating, implementing and propagating to members the directives and resolutions of the Central Committee, the province and the Vietnam Journalists Association such as: Directive No. 37-CT/TW, dated March 18, 2004 of the Secretariat on continuing to enhance the role and quality of activities of the Vietnam Journalists Association in the new period; Directive No. 43-CT/TW, dated April 8, 2020 of the Secretariat of the 12th Party Central Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership over the activities of the Vietnam Journalists Association in the new situation; Press Law, 10 articles regulating the professional ethics of Vietnamese journalists; Rules for using social networks of Vietnamese journalists associated with the implementation of Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the 12th Politburo on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; Responding to the movement to build a cultural environment in press agencies launched by the Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Information and Communications, Vietnam Journalists Association, Nhan Dan Newspaper in 2022...

Members of HNB Ben Tre and HNB Thai Nguyen took souvenir photos next to the National Monument Monument

Thereby, awareness of the role and position of the Journalists Association and the responsibilities of members and journalists have been raised, creating a clear change in the activities and movements of the Association, building the Provincial Journalists Association to develop more and more. Up to now, the Thai Nguyen Provincial Journalists Association has more than 230 members operating in 5 Inter-Associations, Journalists' Associations and 3 press clubs under the Provincial Journalists Association.

Honored to be the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the Thai Nguyen Journalists Association always plays a good role as a bridge, welcoming press agencies, journalists, and members from all over the country to make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association and historical sites in the province. Journalist Le Thi Thanh Nga, Permanent Vice President of the Ben Tre Provincial Journalists Association shared: The first time I visited the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association in Dinh Hoa, I was very moved to witness the spacious construction located in a beautiful campus including the exhibition house, the National Monument Stele of the birthplace of the Vietnam Journalists Association. I was very impressed with the exhibition house, which preserves and introduces many artifacts and images associated with the birth and development of the country's journalism activities, and images of President Ho Chi Minh's journalism activities. These documents and artifacts help today's generations of journalists better understand the previous generation of journalists, their living and working conditions, to reflect, learn, and worthily continue the good and glorious tradition. In the coming time, the Ben Tre Journalists Association will organize a delegation for journalists and members of the province to make a pilgrimage to the source, learn about the history and establishment of the Association to contribute to educating the tradition for generations of journalists and members.

Every year, Thai Nguyen Journalists Association is honored to welcome dozens of delegations of Journalists Associations from provinces, cities, press agencies, branches, and branches to visit the source, organize the admission of new members, and admit journalists and members to the Party right at the site where the Vietnam Journalists Association was founded and the Uncle Ho Memorial House on Deo De Pass, Phu Dinh Commune, Dinh Hoa District. Along with that, on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Journalists Association on April 21, Thai Nguyen Journalists Association also organizes a delegation to visit the place where the Vietnam Journalists Association was founded, offer incense to President Ho Chi Minh at his memorial house.

Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, said: "Organizing the journey to the source is an annual activity of the Vietnam Journalists Association, with many practical meanings, contributing to educating the tradition for the generation of cadres and members of the Vietnam Journalists Association today, thereby striving to excellently complete all assigned tasks, actively contributing to building a Vietnamese revolutionary press rich in combativeness, humanity, professionalism and modernity."

Article and photos: Viet Hoa

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