64th anniversary of the National Day, September 2 and the 40th anniversary of “Follow Uncle Ho’s Testament” Day

The whole view of the ceremony

    At the ceremony, Mr. Le Hong Phuong, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Standing Party Committee delivered a speech on the occasion of the National Day, September 2 and the 40th anniversary of “Follow Uncle Ho’s Testament” Day. Through 64 years of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) and 40 years of following Uncle Ho’s Testament, Dong Nai Party, Army and People have made an enormous contribution to the victory of the national revolution and followed his immortal testament. Dong Nai didn’t have a chance to receive Uncle Ho's visit but its Party, Army and People always keep his image close to them, promote the arduous but heroic tradition of the Eastern Vietnam and go through hardships in wartime as well as in peacetime – a time to build the country. Dong Nai Party and People can be proud of their remarkable achievements. What is notable is that the economy maintains a continued high and steady growth,   that there is a close connection between economic growth and social justice, that defense and security are beefed up and that the power of people’s solidarity bloc is developed. Those are prerequisites for Dong Nai to accelerate its socio-economic development and strive to become a modern industrial province.

    Currently, all the Party and people are continuing the campaign “Study and Follow President Ho Chi Minh’s Ethical Example”. Dramatic changes in the awareness of each staff and each member of the Party have been made and many good methods of following Uncle Ho’s example have been devised for over two years. Addressing the ceremony, Mr. Le Hong Phuong stressed that Dong Nai Party and People would continue their focus on the encouragement to learn President Ho Chi Minh’s qualities, ethics and styles and on the campaign “Study and Follow President Ho Chi Minh’s Ethical Example. Particularly, it is necessary to focus on “Follow” and “Set A Good Example” for greater changes in building the Party, follow the teachings of Uncle Ho about training the next revolutionary generations, timely provide support for the beneficiaries of government policies and for the poor, strengthen poverty reduction program, improve people’s material and spiritual life, continue pursuing the government line on foreign policies, independence, sovereignty, peace, cooperation and development with the whole country.

Dong Nai leadership awards the certificates of merit to exemplary individuals who follow Uncle Ho’s example

    On this occasion, Dong Nai leadership commended 28 collectives and 39 exemplary individuals who follow President Ho Chi Minh’s ethical example and who are chosen from 16 Party Committees of Dong Nai.

    On this occasion, a special music show called “Dong Nai People Love Uncle Ho with All Their Heart” to express the faithfulness of the Southern people in general and that of Dong Nai people in particular was referred to.

    * On the morning of September 1, the leadership of Dong Nai Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Fatherland Front Committee, departments, sectors, armed forces heroes, heroic Vietnamese mothers and a lot of people visited the provincial Martyrs’ Cemetery in commemoration of heroic martyrs who fell in the national guard war.

    * Also on the morning of September 1, Nhon Trach celebrated the 64th anniversary of the National Day – September 2, the 40th anniversary of “Follow Uncle Ho’s Testament” Day and its 15th anniversary of Establishment Day and made a two-year pre-summation of the campaign “Study and Follow President Ho Chi Minh’s Ethical Example”

Nhon Trach 2 Power Plant’s construction starts

    From 1995 to the present, all the staff and people of Nhon Trach have united and joined hands in making a purely agricultural Nhon Trach an industrial district. Particularly, Nhon Trach’s industries, services and agriculture make up over 55%, over 33% and approximately 12% respectively. In addition, its income per capita increases from VND2 million in 1995 to VND15 million in 2008. Nhon Trach has six industrial parks and one industrial cluster with a total area of 3,600 hectares. These industrial areas have attracted nearly 330 investment projects with a total capital of US$6.44 billion. Currently, more than 200 projects have come into operation and provided employment for over 50,000 laborers. Educationally, Nhon Trach has completed the first stage of building concrete-made schools and ceased the operation of shanty schools and classes which are held in three shifts due to a shortage of classrooms. Teachers of all school levels have been standardized and 100% of medical stations are built to the standards of the Ministry of Health and they all have doctors to serve people‘s medical examination and treatment. The work of hunger elimination and poverty reduction has shown positive changes. Poor households decline from 23.5% in 1995 to 5.74% in 2009.

(Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh)