Speaking at the meeting, the State official stressed that the Party and State always identify the care for national revolutionary contributors as an important political task, and have adopted many preferential policies on national contributors.
She noted with pleasure that many social movements have been implemented successfully across the country, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of people with meritorious services to the national revolution.
While congratulating the achievements that Can Tho city’s authorities and people have gained over the past years, she asked the city’s leaders to keep up to date on the living status of national contributors in the city in order to promptly develop plans on caring for this targeted group.
She urged the local authorities to push forward with the search for and collection of fallen soldier remains as well as the upgrading of historical revolutionary sites and martyrs’ cemeteries.
She also asked for more favourable policies to support children of national contributors in the city.
She expressed her hope that the national contributors will continue to set themselves as shining examples for younger generations to follow.
Can Tho City is home to 38,450 families of policy beneficiaries, 186 families of revolutionary veterans, and 862 women who have been awarded the ‘Vietnamese Heroic Mother’ title.
