Summary and award ceremony of the Writing Contest "Social Policy Credit - Party's Will, People's Heart"

On December 26, at the headquarters of the State Bank of Vietnam, Banking Times in collaboration with the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) organized the Closing Ceremony of the Writing Contest “Social Policy Credit – Party's Will, People's Heart”.

The writing contest “Social Policy Credit – Party’s Will, People’s Heart” was launched in August 2024, as one of the activities to summarize 10 years of implementing Directive No. 40-CT/TW dated November 22, 2014 of the Central Party Secretariat on strengthening the Party’s leadership over social policy credit. The contest not only honors advanced examples, good practices, and effective models in the management and use of preferential loans; but also aims to encourage and motivate credit institutions in general, and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) in particular, in providing credit capital to support the poor and policy beneficiaries to overcome difficulties and rise up.

Ms. Hoang Thanh Nhan - Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee of the contest and Mr. Huynh Van Thuan - Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, Deputy Head of the Organizing Committee of the contest awarded the Special Prize to the group of authors Le Hoa - Anh Nguyet - Van Bau.

After more than 3 months of launching (from August 15 to November 30, 2024), the contest has received the response and participation of many journalists and reporters from central and local press agencies. In addition, there is also the participation of "non-professional writers" who are officers of the Social Policy Bank, officers of associations and organizations, and even borrowers. The Organizing Committee has received over 1,200 press entries in many genres such as reflection, reportage, memoir, notes, and photo reportage.

Ms. Hoang Thanh Nhan, Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times, Deputy Head of the Standing Steering Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee of the competition, assessed that each work is a vivid picture of examples of overcoming difficulties to escape poverty thanks to the humane capital of the Party and the State; or stories about the silent but proud sacrifices of the VBSP officials, the "pink lotus soldiers" on the front of hunger eradication and poverty reduction. Many works were invested in elaborately, printed in color, and carefully bound; some were even handwritten, many authors had 2-3 works in the competition... showing the authors' dedication to policy credit programs and the hunger eradication and poverty reduction in our country.

Ms. Hoang Thanh Nhan, Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times, spoke at the Closing Ceremony.

Mr. Huynh Van Thuan, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, affirmed at the ceremony that Directive No. 40 of the Party Central Committee Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership over social policy credit is extremely correct and in line with the people's wishes. Thanks to that, policy credit has entered people's lives faster, achieved more positive results, in line with the Party and State's policies and guidelines in implementing the goal of rapid and sustainable poverty reduction, building new rural areas, ensuring social security, national defense and security, taking care of vulnerable groups, leaving no one behind, and narrowing the gap between rich and poor regions across the country.

The leaders of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies said that up to now, the total source of social policy credit has reached VND 377,540 billion, the total outstanding policy credit has reached VND 365,779 billion, an increase of VND 236,322 billion compared to before Directive No. 40-CT/TW, with more than 6.8 million poor households and policy beneficiaries still having outstanding loans. It is estimated that by December 31, 2024, the total outstanding policy credit will reach VND 367,600 billion, of which the outstanding credit programs according to the plan assigned by the Prime Minister each year will reach VND 269,370 billion, completing 100% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.

Mr. Huynh Van Thuan, Deputy General Director of the Bank for Social Policies at the Closing Ceremony

In addition, after 10 years of implementing Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the Central Party Secretariat, with the attention and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Councils, People's Committees of provinces and cities, the VBSP has received a lot of support in terms of facilities, locations, equipment, and working means to improve the operational capacity of the VBSP, especially, allocating resources from the local budget to the VBSP to supplement capital for lending to poor households and other policy beneficiaries in the area. Up to now, the local capital entrusted to the VBSP has increased by VND 46,213 billion compared to before the Directive, bringing the total local capital entrusted to more than VND 50,000 billion. Currently, 100% of provincial and district-level units have balanced and entrusted local budget capital to the VBSP to supplement capital for lending.

Over the past 10 years, policy credit capital has supported more than 3.1 million households to overcome the poverty threshold, created jobs for more than 4.2 million workers (of which more than 51,000 workers went to work abroad for a limited period), supported more than 610,000 students to borrow money to study, built more than nearly 13.3 million clean water and rural environmental sanitation works, more than 189,000 houses for the poor and social housing,...

The Organizing Committee awarded the first prize to the winning author.

Sharing at the Award Ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Viet Hai, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation and Communications Department of the Social Policy Bank, Deputy Head of the Jury, said: “The Organizing Committee is very proud of the quality works. Many reporters and authors have gone to remote areas to record reality, reflect, exploit stories and have very unique and special photos and documents”. On behalf of the Jury, Mr. Hai expressed his gratitude to the journalists and authors who sent more than 1,200 works. The Organizing Committee determined that every work has value, every work reflects the humanity of a policy that is very popular with the people and the Party.

The results of the contest will be a great source of motivation to contribute to consolidating trust, enhancing solidarity and unity in the political system and social consensus so that the entire Party and people can continue to thoroughly grasp and effectively implement Directive No. 39-CT/TW dated October 30, 2024 of the Secretariat on improving the effectiveness of social policy credit in the new period.

Overview of the ceremony

After the Preliminary Round, the Jury selected 100 works for the Final Round. The works that made it to the Final Round were all carefully invested works, demonstrated through reporters going to the local area, especially the border areas, remote islands, and difficult areas. On that basis, the Jury selected 17 excellent works to award prizes at the Closing Ceremony. Specifically as follows:

Special Prize: Work "Social policy credit - A pillar that supports "Party's will, people's heart" by authors Le Hoa - Anh Nguyet - Van Bau.

First Prize: Work "Sweet capital in the middle of the Bach Long Vi sea" by author Vo Ta Huong Giang.

02 Second Prizes:

- The work "Directive No. 40-CT/TW: A correct, accurate, and popular policy" by author Tran Giap.

- Work "Directive 40-CT/TW: Bright Party love, warm people's hearts" by author Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc.

03 Third Prizes:

- The work "When the Party's Directive is supported by the people" by authors Le Thi Hao - Duong Quoc Hung.

- Work "Directive 40: The Power of the Party's Will, the People's Heart" by author Vu Thi Quynh Trang.

- The work "Social policy credit - An effective tool to ensure social security and maintain socialist orientation in the market economy in Vietnam" by authors Hoang Thi Phuong Lien - Tran Hong Quynh.

10 Encouragement Prizes:

- The work "Loan capital - Kind support for the poor" by author Vu Toan.

- The work "Directive 40-CT/TW highlights the humanity of the capital of affection" by author Thanh Duyen.

- The work "Policy capital, the "support" of the poor" by author Ngo Hong Van.

- The work "Policy credit - "bright spot", "pillar" in the system of social security policies" by authors Luong Khanh Phuong - Phan Thi Phi Nga.

- The work "Breath" of Directive 40 seen from a livable city" by author Cong Thai.

- The work "Policy credit - A major policy to help people "chase" poverty" by authors Nong Thi Thuy - Nguyen Thanh Thuy.

- The work "Policy credit - Humanitarian policy awakens the vitality of the rocky plateau" by author Ha An.

- Work "Policy credit: Power from the people to sustainable development" author Hong Phuong - Viet My.

- The work "Policy credit: "Launch pad" for comprehensive development of Khmer ethnic minority region in Tra Vinh" by author Pham Truong On.

- The work "On the movement to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty" by author Thanh Binh.

Some pictures at the award ceremony:

The authors received second prize of the contest

The group of authors won third prize in the competition.

Authors whose works won the Encouragement Prize

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