Proud to be soldiers in green uniforms, each officer and soldier of the Provincial Border Guard (BĐBP) is still working day and night diligent, ready to overcome everything difficulties, challenges, perseverance to stay at the forefront, closely attached to the people. Thereby, determined to excellently complete the task firmly protect national sovereignty and border security, bringing peaceful and happy spring to the people.
Firmly protect border security sovereignty
Quang Ninh has 118.825km of land border, 67.74km of sea border, adjacent to Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China), with a total of 98 border markers and 176 landmarks. The border area includes 81 communes, wards and towns in 10 districts, towns and cities of the province.
Over the past 66 years, the Quang Ninh Border Guard has always affirmed its position as a unit with a long history of achievements, truly a comprehensively strong unit, "exemplary and typical" of the Border Guard force; a shock force, the core in building, managing, protecting territorial sovereignty, national border security in the key areas of national defense and security in the Northeast of the Fatherland. Whether on long border roads or remote islands, the soldiers in green uniforms still silently contribute, their footsteps still leave silent marks day and night on every patrol route to protect each sacred milestone of the Fatherland.
In the cold, rainy weather of the mountainous border area of Binh Lieu in the spring days of late February, officers and soldiers of the Hoanh Mo Border Guard Station still strained themselves to seriously carry out patrolling, guarding and protecting the border, landmarks, strictly controlling the border and border gates; preventing illegal entry and exit activities, effectively fighting against all kinds of crimes, especially when the People's Committee of Binh Lieu district and the People's Government of Fangcheng area (China) have just implemented customs clearance for tourists and border residents through the Hoanh Mo (Vietnam) - Dong Trung (China) border gate pair.
Lieutenant Colonel Vi Tien Nghiep, Deputy Political Commissar of the Hoanh Mo Border Guard Station, said: In the past time, we have synchronously deployed border protection measures, widely launched mass movements to raise vigilance, proactively prevent, actively participate with the Border Guard to promote the fight against all types of crimes, illegal border crossings, especially in the new situation, with new tasks, absolutely not being negligent or subjective. In the past 5 years, the Station has organized 5,671 teams/39,697 officers and soldiers to participate in patrolling, controlling, guarding and protecting border areas, border gates, and areas under the management and responsibility of the unit; regularly and effectively maintained 20 teams/120 members, 240 households, 235 individuals registered to participate in managing and protecting 68 border markers/43.168km of border; Detected, arrested, and handled 93 cases/194 subjects, contributing to maintaining security and order in border areas, border gates, and localities.
Together with the Hoanh Mo Border Guard Station, in order to firmly protect the national border security and sovereignty, the Provincial Border Guard Command has directed units along the land and sea borders to synchronously deploy border management and protection measures. At the same time, proactively coordinate with relevant agencies and units to regularly patrol, control, manage, firmly protect the sovereignty, territory, border security, sea areas, islands, effectively combat special projects, professional plans, and topics with all types of crimes related to drugs, smuggling, trade fraud, illegal entry and exit on the border and sea areas.
In 2024, the Provincial Border Guard successfully organized 2 special projects and 8 operational plans; arrested and handled 249 cases/368 subjects/203 vehicles related to drugs, illegal entry and exit, smuggling, transportation of goods of unknown origin... Criminally handled 26 cases/48 subjects/17 vehicles...
Warm military-civilian relationship
From the perspective of economic development associated with national defense, security, and firmly protecting border sovereignty, Quang Ninh Border Guard has been implementing many programs, movements, models, and practical methods, gradually helping people in border areas improve and enhance their quality of life. Each meaningful project and task of the soldiers in green uniforms has contributed to strengthening the solidarity between the army and the people, building a solid people's position, creating a combined strength to help the Border Guard successfully complete the task of protecting the sacred border sovereignty of the Fatherland.
Colonel Le Xuan Men, Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard, said: Over the past years, the Provincial Border Guard has coordinated with local Party committees and authorities and departments and branches to join hands to eliminate dilapidated houses, build new rural areas, and gradually improve the material life of people in border areas. At the same time, the Provincial Border Guard has proactively joined with local Party committees and authorities to build and consolidate the grassroots political system in border areas through effectively maintaining models of Border Guard cadres participating in Party committees in 5 districts, cities and 24 border and island communes and wards; 95 Border Guard Party members participate in activities at Party cells in border villages and hamlets; 467 Party members are in charge of 1,690 households in border and island areas. Thereby, contributing to building and consolidating clean and strong grassroots Party organizations, concretizing resolutions, directives and plans of Party Committees and People's Committees of border communes into life, promoting local socio-economic development.
In 2024 alone, the Quang Ninh Border Guard coordinated with local Party committees and authorities to support the construction of 4 new "Border Shelter" houses in the border area, with a total cost of 320 million VND; sponsored 111 disadvantaged students in the program "Helping children go to school - Adopted children of border guards"; organized medical examination and treatment programs and provided free medicine for 863 people in border and island localities with a total cost of 193 million VND; organized visits and gave gifts to policy families and disadvantaged families on holidays and Tet with a total cost of 1.3 billion VND.
In particular, the provincial Border Guard units mobilized 1,945 officers and 667 vehicles to coordinate with functional forces to participate in search and rescue, prevention, control and overcoming the consequences of storm No. 3 in the province; the Provincial Border Guard Command called for and supported localities affected by storm No. 3 with an amount of 1.2 billion VND.
On the borderlands of Quang Ninh province, every road bears the footprints of soldiers wearing green uniforms from the years of hardship and deprivation until now. “The post is home, the border is the homeland, the people of all ethnic groups are blood brothers” is not only a thought and truth but also a motivation for each officer and soldier to further foster the tradition of blood ties between the Border Guard and the people to join hands and unite to firmly protect every inch of the homeland.
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