Strong army-civilian bond in the borderlands

In 2025, the province's socio-economic situation has seen positive achievements. Social welfare has been ensured and the people-based national defence and security has been consolidated, ensuring peaceful and happy lives for the people.

These results are testament to the spirit of effort, overcoming difficulties, and determination to successfully accomplish assigned tasks by Lang Son Province's military forces.

Elite and ready-to-fight force

The Provincial Party Committee and Military High Command of Lang Son Province always identify local military and national defence work, along with combat readiness tasks, as the top priority.

Accordingly, the entire provincial military force has strictly implemented resolutions and directives from the Central Military Commission, Ministry of National Defence, Military Region 1, and the Provincial Party Committee, thereby synchronously deploying numerous specific measures closely aligned with the situation of the border province.

According to Colonel Mai Xuan Phong, member of the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Board and Commander of the Military High Command of Lang Son Province, the unit strictly maintains command duty, operations duty, air defence duty, and search-and-rescue duty regimes, thus ensuring combat readiness.

Every year, the provincial Military High Command organises exercises and communal-level defensive combat exercises to ensure that all officers and soldiers can manoeuvre quickly and handle situations correctly as per regulations, without passivity or surprises.

Soldiers of Uncle Ho in the modern era

To proactively counter natural disasters, the provincial Military High Command has developed and reviewed civil defence plans; prepared sufficient forces, means, equipment, and reserve materials well in advance.

Whenever disasters strike, units organise strict 24/7 command duty, operations duty, and combat readiness, constantly grasping the local situation, proactively reporting and providing consultancy for the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee for round-the-clock direction and actions.

For us, this is not just a task but a command from the soldier's heart to the people. - Colonel Nguyen Cong Khue

According to Colonel Nguyen Cong Khue, Political Commissar of the Lang Son Provincial Military High Command, the provincial military forces mobilised over 5,000 officers and soldiers from regular forces and militia-self-defence forces in response to the recent major floods, ensuring rapid mobility to help people evacuate dangerous areas as well as to organise searches for missing persons.

Many officers and soldiers have braved difficulties to access isolated areas, delivering food, essentials, and medicines to the people.

The local military units maximised available means such as motorboats, specialised vehicles, tents, and rescue equipment to support isolated regions; and closely coordinated with police and other forces to act quickly in line with the “four on-the-spot” motto.

After the storms, the entire force continues to maintain personnel to help people with environmental sanitation, rebuild homes, and restore schools and public works, while supporting people in stabilising their lives and resuming production.

“For us, this is not just a task but a command from the soldier's heart to the people,” Colonel Nguyen Cong Khue affirmed.

The Provincial Party Committee and Military High Command have always viewed mass mobilisation work as a key political task which is implemented regularly and comprehensively.

Colonel Luong Dinh Nhac, Deputy Political Commissar of the Provincial Military High Command reported that numerous models, initiatives, and effective practices to help border region people develop their socio-economy have been implemented by the provincial military forces, yielding clear results.

Notable examples include models on eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses, building border marker patrol roads, protecting the borderline, and assisting locals in furthering economic development.

Military units organise visits and gift-giving to policy beneficiary families, poor households, and those in especially difficult circumstances during holidays and Tet (Lunar New Year) festival; and provide free medical check-ups and medicines to ethnic minority people in remote, and border communes.

Through mass mobilisation work, Lang Son Province's military soldiers have gained the appreciation and trust of the people, contributing to consolidating the close military-civilian relationship and creating a solid foundation for the forces to excellently accomplish all assigned tasks.

The practical actions, effective models, and practices of the provincial military forces have further enriched the military-civilian bond, contributing to building a solid people-based national defence and security in the Fatherland's border area.