​The conference implemented the process of introducing new personnel of the provincial party committee for the term 2020-2025. The comrades in the introductory list with sufficient quality, capacity, professional qualifications that have been reviewed, evaluated and carefully considered by the Provincial Human Resources Subcommittee and Provincial Standing Party Committee for each specific case, ensuring personnel orientation in accordance with the leadership requirements to perform political tasks of the province in the coming time.

Members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee and key leaders of the province voted to introduce new session's personnel of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

On this occasion, the Provincial Party Standing Committee also presented flowers to Mr. Mai Van Dung - former Director of the Provincial People's Procuracy and Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai - former Provincial Chief Inspector, who were members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the term 2015-2020 retired.

The Provincial Party Standing Committee presents flowers to the retired members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee for the term 2015-2020 

​Attending the conference were leaders of Party agencies, National Assembly, Ministries, branches and ambassadors, heads of delegations representing for European Union (EU) countries, typical associations and enterprises of Vietnam and the EU. The conference was connected online with 63 local bridge points across the country.

At the Binh Duong bridge point, attending was Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

Delegates attend the conference at Binh Duong bridge point

Speaking to open the conference, the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized that the EU is always a market with strict requirements on quality and high standards for goods and services, where there is no place for enterprises that lack persistence, are not innovative, and have poor quality goods. Therefore, EVFTA opens up opportunities for Vietnam to renew its growth model, motivate Vietnamese enterprises to upgrade themselves, accept new, harder rules to go deeper, and advance to the stages with higher value in the supply chain, distribution chain of the EU and global. With a commitment to opening the market strongly and eliminating import tax up to nearly 100% of the EU tariff schedule, EVFTA is expected to open up opportunities for Vietnamese enterprises, helping to increase exports to the EU by about 42% in 2025 and nearly 45% in 2030 compared with the scenario without agreement and increase FDI attraction to Vietnam.

EVFTA is expected to assist Vietnam and the EU to step up efforts to restore the economy severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic which is still complicated. The Prime Minister suggested Ministries, branches, localities and enterprise community should take specific and practical actions to implement this agreement in the most effective way.

At the conference, the leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Trade presented an overview of the Government's EVFTA Implementation Plan and the issues that Ministries, branches and localities need to pay attention to ensure effective implementation of EVFTA. Accordingly, the Government's EVFTA Implementation Plan focuses on five major groups of work, including: Propaganda and dissemination of information about EVFTA Agreement and markets of the EU countries; legal and institutional development; measures to improve competitiveness and develop human resources; guidelines and policies for the Trade Union and employees' organizations at the enterprises; policy of social security, environmental protection and sustainable development. Representatives of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and localities gave presentations on the preparation for EVFTA implementation.

Also at the conference, representatives of associations and enterprises expressed their opinions as well as proposed related issues, directly affecting the effectiveness of the implementation of the agreement.

In the first months of 2020, although facing many difficulties and challenges, industrial production activities had bright spots, maintaining a fairly good growth rate. The business community, industrial production establishments took the initiative, raised the spirit of overcoming difficulties, tried to adapt to the situation, maintain production and try to stabilize jobs for employees. Many businesses, organizations and individuals are interested in consulting and giving suggestions to all levels and branches with many positive and feasible ideas to restore socio-economic development.

Up to now, the domestic pandemic has basically been controlled, businesses have also started to approach supportive policies, make efforts to restore production and expand consumption markets, so the province's industrial production has gradually recovered and developed. The Index of Industrial Production in the first 6 months of the year was estimated to increase by 6.4% over the same period in 2019. According to Mr. Bui Minh Tri, Head of the Binh Duong Industrial Zones Authority, due to early disease control, sectors of the economy are entering a normal working state again, industrial production has prosperedand gradually regained growth momentum from May 2020. Industrial zone investors and secondary investors have invested in building infrastructure and factories with a total capital of over VND 5.954 billion, subleasing land and factories with a total area of ​​41.6 ha, foreign investment attraction reached USD 673 million. Up to now, the province has 29 industrial zones with an area of ​​12.721 ha, land rental rate is 84.4% and 12 industrial clusters with a total area of ​​790 ha, land rental rate is 67.4%.

The business community, industrial production establishments took the initiative, raised the spirit of overcoming difficulties, tried to adapt to the situation

In the spirit of proactive and drastic synchronization, the Department of Industry and Trade has also implemented many activities to restore and promote the development of industry - commerce in the new period. At the same time, the Department also strives to best implement the goals of 2020 and create a good foundation for growth in the coming years. Accordingly, the Department of Industry and Trade has stepped up the reform of administrative procedures, creating favorable conditions for businesses. Specialized departments also communicate phone numbers and e-mail boxes to businesses to regularly receive feedback on problems in the process of implementing relevant laws; at the same time to answer and instruct promptly.

To promote the production development of the remaining quarters of the year, the Department of Industry and Trade is focusing on reviewing and solving difficulties in time for industrial sectors and production projects, especially, manufacturing and manufacturing companies to improve capacity, expand production and business scale. At the same time, coordinating with a number of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), increasing the search for enterprises that produce domestic raw materials and accessories that are capable of producing import substitutes in a short as well as long term. In addition, the Department of Industry and Trade coordinates with other departments and agencies to continue developing industrial parks and industrial clusters to be more proactive in the supply of domestic raw materials; proposing appropriate policy priorities, first of all for the textile, garment and footwear industries and industries heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; have mechanisms to encourage the production of domestic components and intermediate products to replace import substitution etc.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Toan, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, said that in addition to supporting and creating favorable conditions for businesses, the department cooperates with Binh Duong Industrial Zones Authority to promote investment in infrastructure construction, attract more production projects in industrial zones and clusters; Strengthen the state management of land, create favorable conditions, support enterprises to develop production and business etc. Since then, contributing to the production and business activities of the industry, continuing to maintain the growth ratein the first 6 months of 2020, positively contribute to the total Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) of the province, especially creating jobs and stable income for employees.

​Over the past 5 years, the Department of IC has actively responded to the patriotic emulation movement launched by the Provincial People's Committee and the Ministry of IC: "The whole IC branch is united, dynamic and creative in emulation of building and defending the Country". The Department has made efforts to overcome difficulties, successfully complete professional tasks, complete the set targets and plans; has been awarded the Emulation Flag as the leading unit by the Ministry of IC, the Provincial People's Committee for many years. The Party Committee achieved the strong and clean title, the grassroots Trade Union achieved the title of excellent strong Trade Union, the grassroots Youth Union achieved the title of strong grassroots Youth Union. 

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In professional work, the Department of IC has directed and guided the press agencies to well perform the propaganda of political, economic, social, security and defense tasks in the province to ensure timely, in the right direction, contributing to propagation and promotion of Binh Duong's image to the world.

Information technology (IT) technical infrastructure has been modernly invested, meeting basic IT application requirements at agencies; ensuring minimum requirements on information security. Shared applications have many new developments. 04-level linked document management software, together with the provincial email system, has contributed to raising the rate of using electronic documents, increasing work processing efficiency.

The application of IT to serve the people is interested in implementing, contributing to the performance of administrative reform. The province's shared one-stop-shop software is fully implemented at 03 levels, the software has met the needs of management, monitoring the status of documents, improving publicity, transparency and convenience for people when implementing administrative procedures at the one-stop-shop Section. So far, 1,088/1,964 administrative procedures have been provided online at levels 3 and 4, step by step synchronized with the National Public Service Portal. Receiving documents, returning results of administrative procedures through public postal services, from 2015 to now, the provincial Post Office has received 668,315 documents and returned results of 3,059,665 administrative procedure documents to the address at the recipient's request.

In order to create a diversified and unified interaction channel, helping people and enterprises easily access and discuss with the State agencies in the process of carrying out administrative procedures or receiving reflections and proposals, the Department implemented the Pilot Scheme on establishing a Hotline System (1022) to receive, handle and respond to reflections and proposals of people and enterprises in the province in the period of 2018-2020. After 06 months of operation, the Hotline system 1022 has received 3,057 requests, reflections and proposals from individuals and organizations.

Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh - Director of Department of IC presents Certificates of merit of the Ministry of IC to the collectives

Mr. Nguyen Van Khanh - Deputy Director of Department of IC presents Certificates of Merit of the Ministry of IC to individuals

Mr. Le Van Khanh - Deputy Director of Department of IC presents Certificates of merit to the collectives

Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh - Director of Department of IC and Pham Thuy Ngoc Ha - Deputy Director of Department of IC presents Certificates of merit to individuals

On this occasion, 02 collectives and 02 individuals received the Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of IC for their outstanding achievements in the implementation of State management in localities in the field of IC in 2019. In addition, the Director of Department of IC presented Certificates of merit to 03 collectives and 11 advanced typical individuals in the emulation movements of the Department of IC in the period of 2015-2020.

​According to the report, the review Council for recognition of the "Artisan of Binh Duong province" and "Skilled worker of Binh Duong province" titles received a total of 31 profiles (29 profiles in request for recognition of the "Artistan of Binh Duong province" title, 02 profiles in request for recognition of the "Skilled worker of Binh Duong province" title). In which, 07/29 profiles request for recognition of the "Artisan of Binh Duong province" title but are not eligible to participate in contests and exhibitions for certificates of award. These individuals submit applications to the provincial Council to review works of high artistic level in order to be eligible for consideration and recognition of Artistan title. For these cases, the provincial Review Council conducted the voting, as a result, all 07 profiles were recognized works/products of high technical level and eligible for consideration and recognition of Artisan title.

The Council also approved a list of 31 profiles and voted to recognize the titles of "Artisan of Binh Duong province" and "Skilled worker of Binh Duong province". As a result, 26 profiles were recognized as "Artisan of Binh Duong province", 04 profiles were recognized as "Skilled Workers of Binh Duong province".

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​​Accordingly, Di An City commenced construction of Nguyen Thi Khap street (Tan Dong Hiep ward) which is 1km long, 10m wide and 3.5m sidewalks on each side with a total investment of VND 18 billion. The work is done in the form of socialization.

At the same time, Di An City also inaugurated Di An Theater Park and 02 school buildings including: Tan Dong Hiep C Primary School, total investment of VND 84 billion; Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School, total investment of over VND 116 billion.

To welcome the Party Congress of Di An City, all levels and branches of the city have implemented many exciting and practical activities. Particularly, the investment in basic construction is considered by Di An City as one of the important tasks, ensuring the target of urban development in particular and socio-economic development in general.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Standing Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee cuts ribbon to inaugurate Tan Dong Hiep C Primary School

​The High School Graduation Exam 2020 will take place from August 9, 2020 to August 10, 2020.

Department of Education and Training (DET) of Binh Duong province chairs the Exam Group 44 with a total of 11,416 candidates registering for the Exam. In particular, 1,230 candidates registered for consideration of high-school graduation; 9.753 candidates registered for consideration of high-school graduation and entrance exams and 433 candidates registered for only entrance exams.

Binh Duong Department of Education and Training organizes 21 exam locations. In particular, 17 exam locations are located at high schools in districts, towns and cities and 03 exam locations are located in secondary schools and 01 exam location is located in the Vocational Training and Continuing Education Center of Dau Tieng District.

The Department of Education and Training organizes and directs its subordinate units to disseminate the purposes, requirements and guiding the implementation of the Examination Regulations and guidance documents of the Exam in order to raise the awareness of civil servants, employees, students and their parents for ensuring the consistency and consensus of the society. The Department continues to enhance the ideological and ethical education for students and encourage them to be confident and honest in the process of participating in the exam. The Department coordinates closely with the media agency to widely propagate and disseminate contents related to the National High School Exam so that students and their parent get a good understanding.

Department of Education and Training, relevant departments, committees, branches and organizations, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities base on the assigned tasks and powers to develop specific plans; have a plan to promptly solve possible situations; make a budget plan for implementation; issue documents to guide subordinate units to carry out the works; prepare facilities, equipment, and human resources to participate in organizing the Examination Council; organize inspection and examination according to regulations; ensure sufficient power source and have a backup plan to ensure the operation of the Examination Council, especially at the places where the test questions are printed and copied, exam locations and the places where the examination papers are marked; avoid traffic jam; Surround the exam locations by fences; have plans to prevent natural disasters and fires; support accommodation for candidates from remote places, the way to the exam location, exam registration procedures; at the same time, ensure effective measures to prevent and control Covid-19, in accordance with local regulations and practices.

​Accordingly, 45 administrative procedures were amended and supplemented; 05 administrative procedures were abolished within the management function of the Department of Justice and jurisdiction of the district and commune People's Committees. In particular, the administrative procedures were amended and supplemented in the fields as follows: Nationality (05 administrative procedures), authentication (22 administrative procedures), registration of security measures (18 administrative procedures); the administrative procedures were abolished in the fields as follows: Nationality (01 administrative procedure), legal popularization and education (04 administrative procedures).

Regulations on 50 administrative procedures in the fields of authentication, registration of security measures and nationality were announced by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee in Decision No. 2687/QD-UBND dated September 17, 2019 on the announcement of administrative procedures within the management function of the Department of Justice; jurisdiction of district and commune people's committees and Decision No.1009/QD-UBND dated April 10 2020 on the announcement of administrative procedures amended, supplemented and abolished in the fields of notarization and criminal records, complaints, denunciations, civil status, grassroots conciliation under the management function of the Department of Justice; the jurisdiction of the communal People's Committee was abolished.

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This is the 4^th consecutive year (2017-2020) VNTT has been honored in the field of technology, marking the continuous development of the enterprise.

In 2019, VNTT has completed its plan, continuing to increase revenue by 17% compared to the previous year and maintaining a growth rate of over 15% for 3 consecutive years. In the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic affected the business activities of enterprises in general and of VNTT in particular, VNTT has implemented many positive solutions to adapt to the situation and develop its business as well as continue to focus on diversifying services and improving the quality of services provided to customers.

In particular, VNTT has focused on upgrading and improving the system and infrastructure to create convenience and provide the best quality of service for customers such as: Putting into operation, upgrading the Core Router, Firewall, Server systems, VoIP switchboard, improving infrastructure, developing and expanding transaction offices.

List of Top 10 Prestigious Information Technology - Telecommunications Enterprises in 2020

Along with actively building and completing internal activities, VNTT has also promoted cooperation activities with domestic and foreign partners to grasp the new development trend in Industry 4.0, and continued to work together with the Smart City Project of Binh Duong. Accordingly, VNTT has cooperated with NTT - e Asia (Group of Japan) to invest, build and upgrade telecommunication infrastructure to gradually improve and achieve Japanese quality, cooperated with NTT to invest in Smart City projects and Binh Duong Science and Technology Industrial Park, cooperated with Amazon and Intel to deploy IoT and digital transformation services for Becamex and customers in industrial parks; and cooperated with Microsoft and Citrix to provide virtualization and cloud computing solutions for enterprises, etc.

In the coming time, VNTT will continue to implement strategic steps of financial restructuring, business capital supplement and project investment in order to develop the Company's business activities in the new period.

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​Accordingly, the Department of Construction shall combine with the Department of Information and Communications, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities in propagating and disseminating the contents of the Law in forms suitable to the actual conditions and situation of the locality and each object and area (through integration of thematic issues in conferences, training courses, updating of new legal knowledge according to the plan of legal dissemination and education).

Department of Construction combines with related units to organize the review of legal documents related to the Law on Architecture; propose or request competent agencies to promptly amend, supplement, replace, abolish or promulgate new legal documents to ensure conformity and consistency with the Law on Architecture; simultaneously, develop legal documents detailing the contents assigned in the Law and guiding the implementation of the Law. Summarizing the situation of deploying the assigned tasks, reporting to the Ministry of Construction before July 20, 2020. 

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​​Attending the conference were Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh - Vice Chairwoman of Provincial People's Council, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc - Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee and representatives of departments, committees, agencies, districts, towns and cities.

The National Target Program for sustainable poverty reduction over 4 years of implementation has achieved positive results. Up to now, there are 3,806 poor households under the provincial multi-dimensional standards, accounting for 1.31%. From 2016 to the end of 2019, the province reduced 3,102 poor households under the provincial multi-dimensional standards. It is expected that by the end of 2020, the province will reduce 4,556 poor households, ensuring the reduction of the poverty rate under proposed objectives of the period, basically no poor households under the Central standards and no re-poor households.

The total budget to implement the National Target Program for poverty reduction in Binh Duong province in the period of 2016-2020 is more than VND 1,286 billion. The province has implemented many effective solutions through poverty reduction support policies such as: Preferential credit, medical assistance, housing assistance, educational support; vocational training, job creation, production development, etc. Specifically, from 2016 to the present, the functional departments have advised nearly 30,000 employees, introduced jobs for more than 12,000 employees; disbursed VND 4,449 billion to poor households, pupils and students, etc. to borrow capital; reduced tuition fees for over 54,000 pupils and students who are children of poor households; supported for building and repairing 537 houses for poor households; opened 114 vocational classes for more than 2,200 students to participate, etc.

In the period of 2021-2025, the province strives for the end of 2025 that the rate of poor households under the poverty reduction target will be below 2.5% according to the new multi-dimensional standards of the province in the period of 2021-2025. To accomplish that target, the province has proposed solutions: Supporting production development, raising income; improving accessibility and enjoyment of basic social services; supporting education and renewing vocational training forms for the poor and near poor, etc.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that Binh Duong is now one of 06 localities of the country with income poverty line higher than the national poverty line (1.7 times). The province also revised the multi-dimensional poverty measurement toolkit to be more specific, more consistent, reflecting the real situation and living standards of residents and households according to local characteristics. It can be said that this is a very positive result in the last period. Poverty reduction always receives the attention of the executive committee, authorities and province that always pay attention to allocating and devoting adequate resources for poverty reduction.

The Vice Chairman emphasized that in order to well implement the National Target Program for Poverty Reduction for the period of 2021-2025, agencies, levels and political organizations in the province are recommended to focus on the basic issues. In which, it is necessary to renovate the awareness and how to flexibly apply policies in poverty reduction. Simultaneously, focusing on reviewing the effective livelihood models, deploying replication and transferring to poor and near poor households; promoting socialization in the implementation of poverty reduction target, etc.

On this occasion, the provincial People's Committee presented Certificates of Merit to 12 collectives and 22 individuals who made positive contributions to poverty reduction in the period of 2016-2020 and presented 90 gifts to poor households.

Mrs. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh (5^th from the left) - Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council and Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc (3^rd from the right) - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee present Certificates of Merit of the Provincial People's Committee to collectives for making positive contributions to poverty reduction in the period of 2016-2020

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh (5^th from the left) - Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council and Mr. Nguyen Thanh Truc (5^th from the right) - Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee present gifts to the poor households

​Attending were representatives of leaders of committees, agencies, unions and the Fatherland Front Committees of districts, towns and cities.

In the last years, implementing the Campaign "All people unite to build new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas", the Fatherland Front Committees at all levels and their member organizations have focused on guiding residential areas to build self-governance models with many solutions such as programs to coordinate and mobilize all people to participate in crimes, drugs, prostitution prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and social evils prevention and control; to ensure traffic safety and order; to protect the environment, etc. According to the survey, the province now has 733 different self-governance models, including 68 pilot models "Self-governance team for protecting environment" with 10,200 members; 174 self-governance teams for ensuring traffic order and safety, etc. In particular, in crimes and social evils prevention and control, the Fatherland Front presided over the construction of 10 models of "Fatherland Front participating in crime prevention and control", 09 models of "Fatherland Front participating in drugs prevention and control" and 16 models of "HIV/AIDS prevention and control in the community".

The self-governance models have contributed to promoting the spirit of solidarity in the community, contributing to the construction of new-style rural areas, maintaining political security, social order and safety, creating landscapes of civilized and clean environment.

At the conference, the delegates shared experiences of operating self-governance models in the community around self-governance issues of traffic safety, quarters without rubbish, propaganda and mobilizing people to implement the models, etc. The delegates also discussed the plan to further promote the self-governance role in the community.

Delegates share their experiences of operating self-governance models

​Participants included Mr. Tran Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the provincial National Assembly Delegation; Mr. Nguyen Dinh Trung – Chief Procurator of the Superior People's Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City and representatives of some departments, agencies, leaders and cadres of the People's Procuracy sector in Binh Duong Province over periods.

Over 24 years of construction and development, the People's Procuracy at the 2 levels of Binh Duong Province has achieved many achievements in controlling law compliance, exercising the right to prosecute and controlling judicial activities. Accordingly, the Procuracy sector in Binh Duong has solved tens of thousands of criminal cases, hundreds of thousands of civil cases, supervised and advised the committees and authorities to handle many long-term urgent cases and complaints, etc., contributing to the fight against crime, local law violations and enhancing socio-economic development of the province.

Speaking at the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam highly appreciated the efforts and contributions of the Provincial People's Procuracy sector in the past 24 years; at the same time, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also emphasized that in order to carry out its functions and tasks well, the Provincial People's Procuracy sector must innovate more strongly and comprehensively, continue to make important contributions to the fight against crime, maintain political security, social order and safety and create favorable conditions for the socio-economic development of the province.

On this occasion, 10 individuals and 03 collectives with outstanding achievements in the emulation movement of the Procuracy sector in the 2015-2020 period received the Certificate of Merit from the Chief Procurator of the Provincial People's Procuracy.

Mr. Tran Van Nam (right) - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation awards Certificate of Merit from the Chief Procurator of the Provincial People's Procuracy to collectives 

​Active search and repatriation for martyrs' remains

In the two resistances against French colonialism and American imperialism, Binh Duong had 16,560 martyrs who sacrificed; 4,939 veterans, 1,049 sick soldiers, tens of thousands of compatriots were killed, arrested, imprisoned, tortured, etc.

Although the war has passed for nearly half a century, the pains and losses remain. Every day, the information on the search for martyrs' remains lost in the war has been always delivered on the media. The remains of heroic soldiers who sacrificed for the Fatherland are still somewhere in the heart of the river, among the deep forests, etc. It is an inconsolable grief for the martyrs' families and also the torment and responsibility of today's generation.

Over the past years, Binh Duong has always made great efforts in search and repatriation for martyrs' remains and considered it as a major task in the work of gratitude, contributing to ease the pain for families and relatives of martyrs. From 2015 to the present, the province has gathered 308 martyrs' remains and held a memorial and burial ceremony for martyrs at local cemeteries in the province.

Binh Duong organizes a memorial and burial ceremony for martyrs who sacrificed in Village 10 - Dau Tieng, now Dong Trai hamlet, Dinh Hiep commune, Dau Tieng district, Dau Tieng Martyrs Cemetery

Forever gratitude

In every war, there are losses and sacrifices. In the nation's happiness on a victorious day, there are mothers and wives quietly wiping their tears when their husbands and their children are on the battlefield forever. 2.136 of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers of Binh Duong Province is a symbol of the indomitable, brave, and loyal spirit of Binh Duong land and people. History always records the merits of mothers who dedicate to the Fatherland the brave children for lasting national independence. Great merits, losses and sacrifices for the Fatherland of the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers will be irreparable. However, with deep affection and gratitude, the Party committees, authorities and people always pay attention to the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers through practical activities in material and spiritual life.

The Provincial Youth Union visits and gives gifts to Vietnamese Heroic Mothers Pham Thi Truu, Thuan An City

In addition to the preferential regimes of the State, there are many gratitude activities for the Mothers such as assigning agencies and units to give life-long care and support to the Mothers who are still alive, frequent visit and console them in the holidays, New Year or during illness.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Tran Van Nam visits and presents gifts to Mrs. Vo Thi Uoc, martyr's daughter in Chanh My ward, Thu Dau Mot City

Binh Duong province determines that the work of gratitude not only demonstrates the good morality of our nation but also contributes to healing the wounds of war, cultivating and promoting the patriotic tradition and directing towards the roots for generations. According to specific data, Binh Duong Province has made remarkable efforts in the work of gratitude based on a combination of three resources: State, community and policy beneficiaries making great efforts. Accordingly, the material and spiritual life of policy beneficiaries has been increasingly improved. The good news is that, up to now, 99.92% of the people with merits to the revolution in the province have a living standard equal to or higher than the average living standard of people living in the same residence. According to the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Binh Duong is one of the first two provinces to reach the target that 100% of communes, wards and towns are recognized by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to "well perform the gratitude work for veterans, martyrs and people with meritorious services" and this title has been maintained up to now. Binh Duong province has so far established records and settled policies for over 64,000 people with meritorious services. Specifically, the monthly preferential benefits are paid for 7,900 subjects, with the amount of over VND 14.1 billion/ month. In addition, Binh Duong is one of the localities that well perform the activities of building houses, supporting relatives, children of war invalids, martyrs, sponsoring poor households and policy beneficiaries. From 1997 up to now, the localities in the province have built and repaired over 6,600 gratitude houses for people with meritorious services to the revolution, with a total budget of over VND 148 billion.

Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs co-ordinates with the Lottery Company Limited donating the gratitude houses to policy beneficiaries

Along with the leading role of the State, a great deal of resources in the community has been mobilized for the work of caring for war invalids, martyrs and people with meritorious services, creating a wide spread. In 2019, the whole province mobilized a contribution of over VND 5.4 billion to the "Gratitude" Fund. Especially, on the occasion of the 73^rd anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs' Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2020), it is expected that the budget for the subjects will be over VND 17 billion (about VND 3.7 billion from Central Government and about VND 14 billion from the province).

Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc Hang - Deputy Director of Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said: "The anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs- July 27 is an opportunity for the whole Party and people, our military to promote tradition and morality: "When drinking water, remember who dug the well" to continue promoting care and gratitude towards the people with meritorious services to the revolution. The Department advised the Provincial People's Committee to organize the provincial leadership delegation to visit and present gifts to people with meritorious services to the revolution. At the same time, the Department should coordinate with departments and branches to organize a ceremony to visit the provincial Martyrs' Cemetery and coordinate with the Provincial Youth Union to light candles to express gratitude to heroic martyrs at the graves in Binh Duong Province's cemeteries and organize the construction and handover of gratitude houses to people with meritorious services to the revolution".

In addition, the Department also organized checking and evaluating the situation of implementing policies for people with meritorious services to the revolution in localities, especially the work of improving the lives of policy beneficiaries in order to maintain the title "Communes and wards well perform the gratitude work to war invalids, martyrs and people with meritorious services", ensuring that 100% of communes, wards and townships will reach this title.  The Department instructs localities to consider the typical war invalids and martyrs' families to propose People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to recognize the "Model Citizens" and "Exemplary Revolutionary Family" titles; and praise the units and individuals who have made a lot of contributions to the "Gratitude" movement.

Practical activities to take care of the material and spiritual life of policy beneficiaries in Binh Duong helped to heal the pain after the war and educate young generation towards the nation's roots.

​Over the past 6 months, the whole provincial Party Committee has focused on drastically implementing the guidance of the Central Government, the Resolution of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Council on the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security in 2020. The branches and levels have well implemented the Plan of the Provincial Party Committee to implement Directive 35-CT/TW dated May 30, 2019 of the Politburo on organizing the Party Congress at all levels, towards the 8^th National Party Delegation Congress; advised the Provincial Party Standing Committee to perform the preparatory work for the Party Congress at all levels; Reviewed, adjusted and supplemented the key cadre planning for the 2020-2025 term, etc.

At the conference, leaders of the Party Construction Committees under the Party Committees of the Province, District, Town and City gave their opinions focusing on the organization of building the Party.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee delivers a speech at the conference

Addressing the conference, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao said that, up to now, in the whole provincial Party Committee, 9 out of 14 Party Committees at higher level than grassroots-level successfully organized the Party Congress. The Party Committee which has completed the organization of the Congress should quickly implement the action program to bring the Resolution to life. The Party Committees which have not organized the Party Congress at higher level than grassroots-level should drastically focus on successfully organizing the Party Congress in the spirit of the Politburo's Directive 35. At the same time, the Party Committees at all levels are required to mobilize solidarity in the organization of building the Party in the last 6 months of 2020.

On this occasion, Mr. Nguyen Phuoc Hiep - Deputy Head of Organizing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee was honored to receive the Third-class Labor Medal awarded by the President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam for outstanding achievements in the work from 2014 to 2018.

Assigned by the President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee awards the Third-lass Labor Medal to Mr. Nguyen Phuoc Hiep - Deputy Head of Organizing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee